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- Althusser - Competing Interpellations And The Third Text By : Sam Vaknin
With the exception of Nietzsche, no other madman has contributed so much to human sanity as has Louis Althusser. He is mentioned twice in the Encyclopaedia Britannica as someone's teacher. There could be no greater lapse: for two important decades (the 60s and the 70s), Althusser was at the eye of all the important cultural storms. He fathered quite a few of them.
This newly-found obscurity forces me to summarize his work before suggesting a few (minor) modifications to it. - Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life By : Blueboy
I was always somebody who felt quite sorry for myself, what I had not got compared to my friends, how much of a struggle my life seemed to be compared to others. I was caught up in a web of negativity and needed someone or something to help me to escape.
During an afternoon at work one day, aged around twenty one, a colleague I was working with started to talk to me. What he said was quite upsetting and disturbing, however would have a profound effect on my future. He said to me: - Chasing Our Tails By : Craig Harper
Ever feel like you're doing a whole lot of nothing in particular?
Very busy achieving not much at all? - Comment On The Importance Of Human Life By : Sam Vaknin
The preservation of human life is the ultimate value, a pillar of ethics and the foundation of all morality. This held true in most cultures and societies throughout history.
On first impression, the last sentence sounds patently wrong. We all know about human collectives that regarded human lives as dispensable, that murdered and tortured, that cleansed and annihilated whole populations in recurrent genocides. Surely, these defy the aforementioned statement? - commitment to philosophy By : Majid
Debate between islamic and western philosophy - Do You Believe In Ghosts? By : Suie Roberts
Do you believe in ghosts? Most people can probably tell you at least one ghost story regardless of whether they believe or not. If such ghostly experiences are so common and widespread, then surely they have a ring of truth or existence?
So what are ghosts? They are believed to be dead people who haven't yet passed over to the 'other side'. They are stuck in limbo for one reason or another, trapped in our physical world. Some people say this is because of a traumatic death, or because of tragedy. - How To Obtain A Workers Compensation Settlement By : Morgan Hamilton
In my opinion, our justice system should not be abused by people who are just looking at to make a quick buck. However, there are times when people get injured and really deserve money for their injuries. I know because I was crippled on the job. I would be penniless today if not for my workers compensation settlement.
In my state, the worker's compensation commission is notoriously pro business. Those who are in charge of the commission avoid giving decent workers compensation settlements whenever they can. I was offered a pittance when a broken machine chopped off my hand. For my troubles, I was only offered $10,000 dollars and an early retirement. - If I Was The Boss Of The World..... By : Craig Harper
The other day at work I was walking past a couple of young kids who were sitting on a couch and chatting. The first sentence I heard come from a little boys lips was:
"If I was the boss of the world, I would make everybody play together." - On Being Human By : Sam Vaknin
Are we human because of unique traits and attributes not shared with either animal or machine? The definition of "human" is circular: we are human by virtue of the properties that make us human (i.e., distinct from animal and machine). It is a definition by negation: that which separates us from animal and machine is our "human-ness".
We are human because we are not animal, nor machine. But such thinking has been rendered progressively less tenable by the advent of evolutionary and neo-evolutionary theories which postulate a continuum in nature between animals and Man. - Religion And Science By : Sam Vaknin
There are many kinds of narratives and organizing principles. Science is driven by evidence gathered in experiments, and by the falsification of extant theories and their replacement with newer, asymptotically truer, ones. Other systems - religion, nationalism, paranoid ideation, or art - are based on personal experiences (faith, inspiration, paranoia, etc.).
Experiential narratives can and do interact with evidential narratives and vice versa. - Say Cheese By : Majid
Acceptions of Similing face every where - Texas Holdem Poker: Basics of the World Most Popular Game By : James Lezpool
Here is a basic introduction to the world most popular game: Texas Holdem poker. You can learn here how to play the game, how the hands are ranked and more. - The Incredible Relationship Between Our Mind And Our Body. By : Craig Harper
Years ago when I was young(er) and dumb(er) I went to a Deepak Chopra seminar.
Someone had dragged me along to hear this bloke who, apparently, was some kind of doctor, philosopher, teacher, mystic and guru.
I'd never heard of him. - The Science Of Superstitions By : Sam Vaknin
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
Albert Einstein, The World as I See It, 1931
The debate between realism and anti-realism is, at least, a century old. Does Science describe the real world - or are its theories true only within a certain conceptual framework? Is science only instrumental or empirically adequate or is there more to it than that? - Utopian Society Is Not Ideal By : Gabriel
Among the ‘discoveries’ that occurred then was that of the New World by European explorers, and the curiosity concerning these voyages of exploration plus the advent of the printing press meant that ‘printed records of the Renaissance explorations were [soon] everywhere available’, and thus Utopia as ‘a product of this exploratory context’ is ‘undeniable’. This is apparent in that its central character is a sailor and that his impressions of the imaginary island of Utopia constitute most of More’s text, which is a cross between travel narrative and social satire. The above quotation from Utopia depicts the Utopian lifestyle, one that has benefits and drawbacks, and the references to work, corruption, and poverty highlight key aspects of any debate considering whether or not one would like to live in More’s Utopia. - Utopian World Has Problems By : Gabriel
The confusion one might experience in approaching such a question is mirrored in the centuries of scholastic debate the text has aroused; since its very first appearance in print Utopia has succeeded in functioning primarily to provoke uncertainty and disagreement amongst its readers and interpreters. The problem, of course, is that it is extremely difficult, even on close analysis of the text, to discern the degree to which the vision of the supposedly ‘perfect’ society Utopia paints is intended to be taken seriously. While on the one hand the book overtly works to present us with a technically flawless plan for the organisation of society, on the other, it seems simultaneously to strive to make us aware of certain dubious features of that plan, which cannot help but limit reader enthusiasm in the approach to the whole.
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