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bbblackwell (53)in #communication • 5 years ago
Everything We Say Only Means One Thing…
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” – Eckhart Tolle The brain is much like a computer: It…
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bbblackwell (53)in #life • 6 years ago
Meaningful Insights in Unlikely Places
“If the Pokemon I liked were there, I’d go anywhere. That’s what a real trainer does.” - Ace Trainer Emma (Pokemon Gold/Silver) In furtherance of the ideas presented in…
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bbblackwell (53)in #life • 6 years ago
A Holistic Approach to Social Issues
”That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.” - Leonard Nimoy The public discourse…
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bbblackwell (53)in #philosophy • 6 years ago
Morality - Subjective or Objective?
”A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.” - Thomas Jefferson Morality is a controversial topic, with…
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bbblackwell (53)in #politics • 6 years ago
The Conspiracy Theory of "Social Engineering"
“It must be remembered that the first job of any conspiracy, whether it be in politics, crime or within a business office, is to convince everyone else that no conspiracy…
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bbblackwell (53)in #anarchy • 6 years ago
A Message To Anarchists
Ok people, so here's where I vent some steam that's been held back in dealing with statists; and in the process, risk losing half the audience amidst cries of "Now he's gone…
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bbblackwell (53)in #informationwar • 6 years ago
The Cat in the Hat has a hand up his Back?
Hey kids, is your mind clogged with thoughts of your own? Don’t worry, we’ll help, you needn’t go it alone! We’ll clean up that grease and that grime, and that soot, With…
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bbblackwell (53)in #life • 6 years ago
Flu Shots, Grape Soda, and Self-Respect
“You're turning over your whole life to him… And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't…
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bbblackwell (53)in #life • 6 years ago
Let Go of Your Dreams – It’s the Right Thing to Do
“Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.” ― C. JoyBell C. We’ve all got things we want out of life – hopes, dreams, bucket lists, etc. – and it’s generally…
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bbblackwell (53)in #life • 6 years ago
The Jack of All Trades is Master of One
"The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety." - W. Somerset Maugham It’s no secret that society has increasingly moved toward specialization over time. The exponential…
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bbblackwell (53)in #motivation • 6 years ago
“Other as Self” Morality
“Human beings, by nature, want happiness and do not want suffering... from the viewpoint of real human value, we are all the same.” - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama A…
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bbblackwell (53)in #politics • 6 years ago
What’s With This Flag???
”Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.” - Joyce Carol Oates I started seeing…
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thepholosopher (69)in #meme • 7 years ago
Making your highest duty to "obey the law" is exactly how we get mass genocide as people sit by idly "just following orders."
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bbblackwell (53)in #psychology • 7 years ago
Reward and Punishment
”Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats.” - Tom…
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bbblackwell (53)in #fitness • 7 years ago
Building a Better Body (Part 8): How We Learn
In the previous installment of this series, we spoke about how fitness myths get started and come to be accepted. This may seem to imply that people naively believe anything…
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bbblackwell (53)in #life • 7 years ago
Playing the Game of Culture
“Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and…
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bbblackwell (53)in #politics • 7 years ago
Should Imprisoned Drug Offenders Be Released Upon Legalization?
With the recent trend toward legalization of marijuana in many areas, the question has been raised, ”Should those imprisoned on marijuana-related drug charges be released?”…
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bbblackwell (53)in #writing • 7 years ago
Lamentations of Lethargy - A Fictional Fireside Monologue
Being both a man of reason and of limited energetic capacity, it would be unfitting to suppose me mad or morose when I reveal that I'd rather be struck dead this very instant…
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bbblackwell (53)in #fitness • 7 years ago
Building a Better Body (Part 7): Common Knowledge
The last two articles in this series explored the role of science in our effort to build a better body; but even if we accept that science is capable of providing a reasonably…
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bbblackwell (53)in #life • 7 years ago
The Nature of Needs
“The art of our necessities is strange, that can make vile things precious.” -William Shakespeare The concept of need gets beat up pretty badly. It’s stretched and…
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