Late last night I had a serious lapse of faith in social media — as we all must from time to time. We should have serious doubts questions about this stuff… Which is why I chuckle whenever I read editorials merely pointing out “there are hazards” and digitization “isn’t all good” — as if any [...]
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Part of an ongoing series on belief. David Brooks generated a lot of discussion with his column in May on “The Neural Buddhists“: Scientists have more respect for elevated spiritual states. Andrew Newberg of the University of Pennsylvania has shown that transcendent experiences can actually be identified and measured in the brain (people experience a [...]
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I’m going to go through this a lot quicker than the subject maybe deserves; it won’t be as comprehensive or straightforward as the title suggests. Anyways, this post is part of an ongoing series… It’s that… the whole point is this isn’t something to be settled on, but something that continuously unfolds or emerges through life [...]
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by Brian on 01-21-2009
in art
This may or may not be interesting to anyone (I’m assuming it’s not) but I feel like I need to write this to get a more coherent sense of the influences that shaped my thinking. Or maybe that’s not it — I don’t really know why I feel like I need to write this, I just [...]
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