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Two Uses for The Principle of Charity
Tempering reaction with reflection – that is the philosophical point of view.In order to access the core concept of The Principle of Charity you must first avoid familiar uses of words and recognize that the principle is not directed by a moral expectation. “Charity” in this case does not mean giving to poor people. “Understanding” in this case is not about agreement and feeling, it is about…
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School Board in Tennessee Bans Teaching of book ‘The Bible’
School Board in Tennessee Bans Teaching of book ‘The Bible’
January 27, 2022 The board voted unanimously to remove the popular book from classrooms because it contained inappropriate words and images, according to minutes from the meeting. A school board in Tennessee voted unanimously this month to ban “The Bible,” a best selling account of the origins, history, and end of the world, from being taught in its classrooms because it contains material that…
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Deadly Delusions
Death is so terrifying to many that fantasy is a welcome alternative to truth. So it was for Hans Gaardner who became known in Norway for denying COVID-19 as a hoax and conspiracy. Sadly, Gaardner was infected by that virus at a public resistance event that he organized and died.…
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Compassion For Your Enemy Cultivates Clarity
Compassion For Your Enemy Cultivates Clarity
Do you want to improve your mind? Would you take direct action to feel and live better? If so, then practice a simple, though challenging, process: intend and send loving kindness to the people you most dislike.
Wishing harm for someone is a reflection of the pain and anger within oneself. Until we address the strife in us, we cannot find our personal power.
Wishing someone good is an…
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The Mask of the Red State
The Mask of the Red State
A halloween tale with gratitude to Poe, Camus, and King.
The plague devastated the cities, the country, and the world. No pestilence in the last century had ever been so contagious, so fatal, so frightening, so vast. Fevers and sudden weakness then lungs filling with fluid and organs failing. The scarlet stain of the pestilence lay within, assailing the cells and vessels of the blood making…
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Causes + COVID = Confusion
Causes + COVID = Confusion
Every death is caused and as any astute student of nature knows, most effects are the results of multiple causes.1
Any astute student of politics knows that demagogues are seldom limited by facts, science, or reason and will loudly trumpet multitudes of falsehoods to advance their power.
A corrupt means of acquiring power through confusion is to deny cause-effect relationships by…
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We always have a choice between fear and justice
We always have a choice between fear and justice
For some people the simple act of driving home from work carries the weight that they may be pulled over for suspicion on no grounds other than who they are. Some parents live in persistant fear that their children may be harmed by the very officers who are empowered to protect them. For some people even open cooperation with power is met with cruel violence.
Ancient Athens was An original…
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Our Emerging Global Consciousness
Our Emerging Global Consciousness
On the long view, you and I are living in extraordinary times. One hundred years hence students will study us now as a pivotal moment in the history of our species. What we are experiencing right now – the responses to a perceived crisis – is unprecedented. Once covid-19 passes, our world will not be the same as it was a month ago. There will be sad, bad, good, and better – but most of all there…
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Our Emerging Global Consciousness
Our Emerging Global Consciousness
On the long view, you and I are living in extraordinary times. One hundred years hence students will study us now as a pivotal moment in the history of our species. What we are experiencing right now – the responses to a perceived crisis – is unprecedented. Once covid-19 passes, our world will not be the same as it was a month ago. There will be sad, bad, good, and better – but most of all there…
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On Questions
One way to characterize philosophy is as the art of questioning. New questions and new types of question open previously unexplored possibilities. The assumptions of an entire culture or generation can be altered by the posing of new questions. Questions are often not welcome. One way to deal with questions is by force of authority:
*Many times I have witnessed young children asking questions…
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Corvallis Review Reviews Death Café Corvallis
Corvallis Review Reviews Death Café Corvallis
Who wants to talk about death?
Many people, it turns out.
Every week for the last two years, Death Café Corvallis has met to give anyone who cares to a space to share their thoughts on mortality.
Some weeks it is one person, at others it is ten. At most sessions there is someone new to the conversation and often folks who keep coming back.
On a recent sunny afternoon McKenzie and Piper showed up;…
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A vital factor in who we are as individuals is how we conceive of death.
This is because how we conceive of death conditions how we value life.
Few of us value all lives equally, even when it comes to human beings.
Nor do many of us think of our own deaths in the same terms as we do for others.
Some folks may have a degree of clarity in these variations, but I suspect that for most of us the deep…
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A Farewell Party
John Shields was not a man to let death get in the way of a good party.
His wife sent out the email invitations so that at 78 years, John could leave this life surrounded by family and friends.
He chose to die by assisted suicide rather than by the amyloidosis that was shutting down his body.
A New York Times article – At His Own Wake, Celebrating Life and the Gift of Death– by Catherine Porter…
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Last Breath at Dawn
Last Breath at Dawn
Whatever I anticipated on Friday morning it was not to witness the last breath of a young man.
I walk to work whatever the weather and this morning the rosy fingertips of dawn hinted at a sunny Spring day.
I had an early meeting so stopped at the corner café to organize my notes over espresso.
After coffee I set off to campus. A block away I saw something on the walkway my side of the railroad…
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The Universality of Death and Dharma
The Universality of Death and Dharma
Yama – God of Death and Dharma
Among those who contemplate death, few are as thorough in detail and depth as are Buddhists.
A traditional Tibetan book, Bardo Thodol, is often referred to in English as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, though a more accurate translation is The Great Liberation through Hearing. A modern classic of Tibetan Buddhism is The Tibetan Book of Living and Dyingby Sogyal…
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Death in the Family
Death in the Family
As family matters go, death is surely a big one. How families respond to the deaths of loved ones is likely a primary determinant of a culture’s treatment of mortality. Death is not a common social topic in the U.S. and I have sometimes thought that stemmed from a form of denial. On the other hand, perhaps it is a function of propriety in which as a family matter, death is left to the family.…
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The Longevity of Laughter
The Longevity of Laughter
This first spring day my father turned 92. He was in the hospital for a fall, but without much damage, so he bounced back fast.
His room provides a terrific view of the harbor and snow capped Mount Baker of the North Cascades.
The hospital staff conveyed one key point – Dad has a great sense of humor. Everyone who knows him will concur. Whether I live past 60 or 100 I know that the soul of wit…
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