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The Other Culture War
The Other Culture War People live and die by ideas. That’s not the only thing we live and die by, but ideas are big in the lives of all of us. For the last 100 years or so, trend-setting thinkers … Continue reading →
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Tagged animal communication, anomalies, anti-teleology, competing world views, cosmic mind, cultural power, culture war, cynicism, David Lorimer, denying evidence, despair, discredited paradigm, emotional wisdom, enforcing opinions, establishment power plays, good and evil, groupthink, horse psychic, idealism v materialism, ideas as causal, ideas in culture, inconsistent data, intellectual trends, laws of nature, loss of reputation, love as real, materialist paradigm, mechanistic universe, metaphysical idealism, metaphysical materialism, minds and brains, monistic idealism, NDE, near death experience, new realism, opinion shapers, paradigm change, paranormal phenomena, precognition, precognitive dreams, professional threats, reality check, reality of individuals, reasons v causes, refutation by refusing to look, scientific establishment, scientific method, scientific progress, scientific revolution, search for truth, skepticism v dogmatism, social pressure, The Galileo Commission, unconscious projections, Victor Zammit’s Friday Afterlife Report, women's wisdom
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A Woman Friend
A Woman Friend To most women, our female friends are of great importance in our lives. If my mother was right when she said, “A friend is a witness to one’s life,” we call in our female friends to witness … Continue reading →
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Tagged a woman’s anger, a woman’s world, Abigail L. Rosenthal’s Confessions of a Young Philosopher, allowing rescue, brutal marriage, childhood trauma, complexity and nuance of woman, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, coquetry, cruel mothers, desirability, diplomacy between women, dismissing religion, early disappointments, emotional wisdom, epicurean lifestyle, erotic happiness, feeling abandoned, female friends, feminine abyss, fragility of friendship, friend as witness, friendship, friendship breakup, go with the flow, ideal justice, incoherent narratives, injuries to self-image, insulting self-image, invisible realities, life struggles, living a true story, made up stories, male ambivalence, marital compatibility, marital partnership, men friends, men friends v women friends, Mr Wrong, personal life solutions, practical wisdom, problematic of justice, realm of thought, resumed friendship, self-protection, sounding board, spoiling others' stories, spoiling the story, supportive friendships, tact between women, thinking women, transcendence for women, travel, true story, woman confidantes, woman’s aims, woman’s self-image, women friends, women rescuing each other, women’s idealism
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