Lately I’ve been dealing a lot with overcoming fears, tiptoeing outside of my comfort zone, and loss. What a downer. On the flipside, I spend a lot of my day thinking about ways that I can get people to like insects as much as I do… and I know for some of you reading this… Continue reading On our fear of insects
An Aesthetics of Books: Why Getting Rid of Books Is Difficult
“I only buy new books so that I can make sure they don’t have any highlighting or notes in them. If I died, I wouldn’t want anyone to find my books and think other people’s notes were mine.” When one of my teachers in graduate school said this, I at first took it as a… Continue reading An Aesthetics of Books: Why Getting Rid of Books Is Difficult
Updates: Google Hangouts, Favicons, Kickstarter
A few quick and exciting announcements today: Upcoming Kickstarter Project I’m planning to launch a Kickstarter project next week for a book on Philosophy and the Good Life that I’m very passionate about writing. I’m going to be asking for a lot of support, and I’m hoping that this will be a huge success. I… Continue reading Updates: Google Hangouts, Favicons, Kickstarter
Word(l)y Wednesday: We Can Work It Out
Logos (Language and Thought) Lately, with this being election season in the U.S. and all, I’ve had quite a few …we’ll call them “discussions”… which have each been handled in one of a few different ways. Today I’m exploring what those different approaches to discussion are, and what each means for the ideas being discussed.… Continue reading Word(l)y Wednesday: We Can Work It Out
Film & Philosophy: Frailty
Warning: If you haven’t seen this movie, this post will contain spoilers. SWalters suggested [amazon_link id=”B00006FMCU” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Frailty[/amazon_link] to me after a conversation where we were discussing how anyone could ever be certain whether or not God was speaking to them. This movie delivered on that question in a big way. Frailty and Philosophy… Continue reading Film & Philosophy: Frailty
Moral Monday: Political Advertisements (TV Edition)
Merry Moral Monday! So, I’ve been told there’s some sort of democratic rights of citizens shindig going on tomorrow. In honour of electing complete strangers to later actually elect (or re-elect) the personage who shall bear the burdensome title of “Mr. President,” I wanted to pose a couple of questions for readers to consider critically. … Continue reading Moral Monday: Political Advertisements (TV Edition)
What Your Facebook Profile Picture Says About You
I. INTRODUCTION: While our inner thoughts, processes and philosophies are inside of us we can sometimes express those identifiers subconsciously. We’ve heard of left- and right-brained people; here’s an easy chart to help you understand what that means: What I want to know is if we can we use self-preferred photography or commissioned art to… Continue reading What Your Facebook Profile Picture Says About You
Undecided Voters: The Importance of TV
CNN recently published an interesting feature on undecided voters in the 2012 election. This post isn’t about the politics of the article – rather, it’s about the decision to include both the television and what’s on the television as one of the important elements of the profile of a person. And of course, the token atelevisionist is also… Continue reading Undecided Voters: The Importance of TV
Word(l)y Wednesdays – Vox Populi
Ethos (Language and Ethics) The past two weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about voice, specifically the voices I adopt when I’m talking or writing to certain audiences. The more I considered the voices I use and the situations I use them in, the more I questioned whether any of them were “fake” voices. And… Continue reading Word(l)y Wednesdays – Vox Populi
Philosophy Book Club: Ishmael
“Teacher seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.” It is this ad near the beginning of Daniel Quinn’s [amazon_link id=”0553375407″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Ishmael[/amazon_link] that kicks off the fast-paced story. The book was a quick afternoon read for me, as it was interesting enough to continuously compel me to… Continue reading Philosophy Book Club: Ishmael