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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

- Aeschylus

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Thinking

Thinking consists in being conscious that one thinks.

John Locke

Learning without thinking is labor lost; thinking without learning is dangerous.

Chinese Proverb

You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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A Clock Stopped: Timeless Moments...

The Empire of Time — A Philosophical Angle - The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy. It is derived, no doubt, from love of home and desire ...
AgogMagog: Magog Got Agog, As Agog As Gog, All Agog To Go, Ages Ago

The Doctrine of Extermination by Bertrand Russell - An impartial examination of the conditions of international conduct today allows no other conclusion but that the standards of behavior which were held by ...
Big Split: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Abstract Notions - *Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that ...
Black Naught: The Vast Void, the Dark and Infinite Nothingness, of Outer Space

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Blah Spa: Come, Come, Bathe in the Blather of the Insanitorium

Lunatic Christian Ethics - The Christian emphasis on the individual soul has had a profound influence upon the ethics of Christian communities. It is a doctrine fundamentally akin ...
Blast Splash: An Explosive Tidal Wave to End the World?

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Blob Gob: A Gob of Matter is a Blob of Nothingness

Alan Watts on the Nature of Reality - III - I was discussing an alternative myth to the Ceramic and Fully Automatic models of the universe, I'll call the Dramatic Myth. The idea that life as we exper...
Block Slot: Block into the Slot

The Origins of Coal (an account by Jules Verne) - The better to understand this narrative, it will be as well to hear a few words on the origin of coal. During the geological epoch, when the terrestrial sp...
Blood Spurt: There Will Be Blood

An Approach to the Greek Genius - Two opposite attitudes towards the Greeks are common at the present day. One, which was practically universal from the Renaissance until very recent times...
Blot Out: Annihilation

Ideas That Have Helped Mankind by Bertrand Russell - Before we can discuss this subject we must form some conception as to the kind of effect that we consider a help to mankind. Are mankind helped when they b...
Blow Top: Truth Uncovered

An Individual Conscious of Himself - When Philip ceased to believe in Christianity he felt that a great weight was taken from his shoulders; casting off the responsibility which weighed down e...
Bob Glost: Bob Glost Got Lost

The Alien Universe - What is the life that brings us here? How is stray energy of the cosmos snared in tissues and personalities? By what agency do entities, awake and aware, e...
Bog Glob: The Glob Thing in the Bog

Horrors of the Deep - It is difficult for me to determine what was the real time, but I should suppose, by after calculation, that it must have been ten at night. I lay in a s...
Bold Sort: Bold and Adveturous and Thrilled

In the search for Nordenskiold: A Bold Rescue Mission - Night was closing in when Erik summoned his three friends and counselors to hold a serious consultation. “I have reflected a great deal,” he said to them, ...
Borg Onslaught: Invasion of the Borg

From Castaways to Colonists - A half hour later they walked back to the camp. The engineer contented himself with saying to his comrades that the country was an island, and that to-morr...
Bug Swat: Swat the Stupid Bug

Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell - As your Chairman has told you, the subject about which I am going to speak to you tonight is "Why I Am Not a Christian." Perhaps it would be as well, fir...
Clog Snot: Mucus Misery

Compassion: Buddha vs. Nietzsche - Sympathy, in the sense of being made unhappy by the sufferings of others, is to some extent natural to human beings; young children are troubled when they ...
Dogged Lock: No Exit, No Escape

A Tropical Thunderstorm - The eastern horizon was gradually assuming a most stormy aspect. A thick dark bar of cloud was rising higher and higher, and by degrees extinguishing the s...
Flow Thot: Flow, Brief Thought, Flow

Good Counsel - Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. - Aeschylus
Globe Pot: The Earthenware Earth

The Basic-Needs Problem and Technology - Basic needs have been defined in different ways. Frances Stewart sees the best approach to basic needs as *one which gives priority to meeting the basic...
Glow Dot: Superhot Singularity

A Theologian's Nightmare by Bertrand Russell - The eminent theologian Dr. Thaddeus dreamt that he died and pursued his course toward heaven. His studies had prepared him and he had no difficulty in fi...
Gober Gas

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Got Glue, Yeah Baby!

Common and Hazardous Air Pollutants - *America's Children and the Environment: Measures of Contaminants, Body Burdens, and Illnesses * *— U.S. Environmental Protection Agency— * *(Pa...
I, Blogov Spotsky, Believe in Revolution

Copernican Revolution, Quantum Revolution and Beyond - The modern scientific age began in the sixteenth century when Nicholas Copernicus suggested that the motion of the stars and planets in the sky could be de...
Know Squat: To Know Squat About Squat

Official Investigations into the UFO Phenomenon - The United States Air Force had a problem. Its top brass did not consider it a defense or a national security problem. It was a public relations problem...
League Sport: United We Stand, and Rise!

In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell - Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: 'Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do.' Being a highly virtuous child, I believed ...
Log Plot: Countdown to Singularity

Discerning the Divine Plan - In the land lit by that neighbouring star, whose blaze is the broad daylight, there are many and very various things, motionless and moving. There moves am...
Odd Spock: The Very Logical Mr. Spock and the Wholly Logicless Human Stock

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Plog Pop: Plop-Frog, Pond-Plop

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Slob God: God Behind the Slob

Mysticism, Religion and Science - The warfare between science and theology has been of a peculiar sort. At all times and places — except late eighteenth-century France and Soviet Russia -...
Slog Not: Don't Plod Your Way Through Life, Dance Along!

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Slug Shot: Bite the Bullet

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The Flog Lot: Flog, Whip, Beat, Drive

Hippocrates and the Seat of Consciousness - The advances in neuroscience in the past two decades have been as spectacular as the advances in artificial intelligence. A great deal of symbiosis has ...
The Great Onward Press

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Yoda Sutras

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