Category: Philosophy


  • Yearly report for my personal site shows a definite increase in traffic over the last year. Still not very much… – – – – – Need some ideas on places to visit in Philadelphia… if you have any, sign the gbook or find one of the methods on my contact page – – – – – Hotmail…

  • Happiness

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    The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself. –Theodor Reik

  • Tom Wise has another opinion article out on Racism and the criminal justice system. Read it on Alternet.org ———- Shopping online with a credit card should be getting safer. Inter@ctive Week has an article on Mastercard, Visa, and American Express approaches to making this stuff safe. Inter@ctive Week article

  • Note to self: Do not ask people to reply to more than one question per email.

  • Bet you thought that the Taliban would stop at desecrating the Buddist statues. Think again! Read the UN Wire article.

  • Sense

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    A Dennis Leary quote: Racism isn’t born, folks. It’s taught. I have a 2 – year old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. — Denis Leary If you believe everything you read, you better not read. — Japanese proverb We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with…

  • I especially like the last paragraph. Are we really certain that the mechanism of society, like the mechanism of the heavenly bodies or the mechanism of the human body, is subject to general laws? Are we really certain that it is a harmoniously organized whole? Or is it not true that what is most notable…

  • “…there is an art to flying…or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

  • You live and learn. At any rate, you live. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. — Douglas Adams