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存亡
I'm writing this here because my mother is likely to eventually read this. I might as well out myself. Sorry to freak the rest of you guys out, you don't have to read this. Fair warning ( Read more... ) -
"All is welcomed here"
This is a song I heard this past weekend, lyrics by Deva Premal & Miten.
Broken hearts and broken wings ( Read more... ) -
Magnetically suppressing certain kinds of moral judgements
Maybe some of you have already seen this:Lead researcher Dr Liane Young said: "You think of morality as being a really high-level behaviour ( Read more... ) -
Words
Brent Weeks' latest novel has this vivid description I'm am going to steal. "Flailers", people who, unable to perceive subtle distinctions, apply Will to cover a multitude of flaws.
Hey, it works.
Namaste -
Objective, Subjective
I went to Auburn over the weekend to help my dad move some things and visited with some friends. We got talking about Robert M. Pirsig's notion of arete, and a friend brought up this story (my retelling ( Read more... ) -
My Angreal
For those rare folks who are Jordan fans *and* know this story, I carry this around and introduce it as the "angreal" that I got from JordanCon 2010"
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Random, "arete"
You can tell when an artist makes big motions,
and his skill when they are small,
but sometimes I wonder what happened
to those I can't see at all?
Namaste -
RAQ
All ye martial arts folks:
What are some of the Rarely Asked Questions you wish you could have asked when you first started training?
Namaste -
MMO
I knew I should not have gotten myself addicted to an MMO ( Read more... ) -
Fortune Cookie: Weapons of Mass Education
From the beginning, there was purpose behind forced schooling, purpose which had nothing to do with what parents, kids, or communities wanted. Instead, this grand purpose was forged out of what a highly centralized corporate economy and system of finance bent on internationalizing itself was thought to need; that, and what a strong, centralized ( Read more... )