A stupid question perhaps, but only because the term can be applied to literally any pattern we can recognize, subjectively or objectively. Even chaos is a but a kind of order. Order itself however, can be seen as a category in need of no larger context context. In consideration of it's universality, it's curious that we can discuss it at all. How ( Read more... )

Just another something I've been thinking about lately ( Read more... )

I find this monologue offensively beautiful ... The level of political incorrectness is somewhat astonishing to say the least ... What do you think ?

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So here in abstractthought, there have been plenty of discussions about the cosmos, conceptions of God, reason, paradoxes, etc. While many [of you] might regard the Adam and Eve narrative as a story that is totally incompatible with logic and reason, I beg to differ! That is not to say the story operates on logical principles; much of it deals ( Read more... )

It seems that now I'm doing one of the final things that I was destined to do - this text will begin to live its lives and may outlive me. I told this text very different people - it can cure imperfections and diseases of the soul (IMHO, of course).

Several years ago I came upon a curious book - "Calm Mind" Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani (Grand Sheikh ( Read more... )

Take away love, take away peace, take away sanity, take away joy, take away life, take away hope, all i beg of you is to give me truth. This is my final assertion, the ultimate resolve of a questionable hypothesis, the prevailing thought of a revered principle, the central thesis of an illusive question. Of all the intrinsic values that define ( Read more... )

Emotional Regulation strategies act along a fluid baseline, personalized and dynamic, which governs the degree of overall emotional activation to a situation . Each regulatory strategy modulates the degree of reaction to an activating situation, and its overall effectiveness is depend upon the positive or negative degree of this baseline level. Yet ( Read more... )

I have been pondering this for a few days, now. I seem to have found a contradiction, either that or I'm wrong in one of my premises ( Read more... )

He will live his death labeled the lone voice of life ... the lukewarm lives of lackluster lip syncers have enthroned the lapses of some lying lame ducks. The once laughable struggle of an ugly little laborer has laddered to the limelight with no plans to leave. Laying in their lack, it was their lust that prompted greed, now he lives in ( Read more... )