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The Story that Didn’t End
I hold the view that one’s life is best understood as a True Story with many chapters, the story-line running through one after the other, chronologically and continuously. In the narrative of my life, there was a recent chapter that … Continue reading →
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Tagged a true story reopened, abuse of trust, academic support for Hamas, an unfinished story, animal intuition, barrel racing, brute power vs functional power, campus antisemitism, competitive equestrian events, competitive riding events, concern for Israel, conflict of duties, Country riding, Darwinism, English vs Western riding, escapism, expecting a response, facing the truth, fate in novels, female cattiness, female competitiveness, from the horse's mouth, horse intuitions, horse sense, horse whisperer and rider, horse-whisperer, horses' understanding of people, inadmissable truth, Israel and American Jews, living one’s story, made up stories, Maine, mean girls, misaddressed letter, misreported stories, missing information, moral contradictions, moral dilemma, moral holiday, moral rank-pulling, narrative view, novelists who rely on fate, Oct 7 2023 on my mind, open-minded to a fault, open-mindedness, pedagogic responsibilities, people who know horses, power games, professional horse riding, reaching out for closure, repairing a wrong, riding competitions, riding in Maine, riding instructor, rodeo competitions, sexual competition, silence as a response, status competition, story that needs an ending, survival of the fittest, teaching philosophy, Thomas Hardy effect, Thomas Hardy's novels, Thomas Hardy's use of fate, trivial accidents and important consequences, trivial causes with serious consequences, true story, unacknowledged prejudice, unhappy endings, waiting for closure, Western Pleasure, Western riding, what the horse knows
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Thoughts About and Beyond Boundaries
I’ve just finished reading consecutively a book that previously, from time to time over the years, I’ve only browsed through. The very title, The Afterdeath Journal of An American Philosopher: The Worldview of Williams James, might scare off any readers … Continue reading →
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Tagged 19th-century philosophy, academic feminism, after death communications, alternate healers, alternative medicine, American philosopher, background assumptions in feminism, background assumptions in science, background assumptions in scientific investigation, beyond boundaries, beyond limits, competitve struggle as masculine, conventional cancer treatment, cooperation as feminine, cooperation in evolution, cooperation in population dynamics, creativity and self-doubt, creativity linked to neurosis, creativity vs reductionism, cultural and personal dichotomies, cultural boundaries of experience, cultural history and personal history, current philosophic fashions, Darwin and Freud in culture, Darwinian determinism, different life problematics, ecology, false gods, Freudian determinism, genetics, Henry James, life stories, limitations as opportunities, limits of alternative medicine, limits of modern psychology, Making Sense of My Life: A Memoir by Evelyn Fox Keller, medical humiliation Catholic Jewish and Protestant, merits of William James, metaphoric interpretations of evolution, neurotic affectations, novelistic characters, novelistic life stories, novelistic stories, open-mindedness, population dynamics, psychic communications, psychic healers, reductionism of Darwin, reductionism of Freud, reductionist psychologies, resource scarcity, science and epistemology, search and destroy cancer treatments, search for truth, self-determination undermined, self-trust, self-trust undermined, sociology of medicine, The Afterdeath Journal of An American Philosopher: The Worldview of Williams James by Jane Roberts, three sectarian branches of medical humiliation, William James, William James from the afterlife
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