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amba
The only software I really need is the English language.
Interests: blogs, cats, words, popular culture, radical-middle politics, religion/spirit/values, books & reviewing, martial arts (shodan in kyokushin karate), the feldenkrais method (trainee)
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Did you ever see the original Star Trek episode called "The Enemy Within"? It's really my favorite because it's so thought-provoking. The transporter divides Captain Kirk into two. It turns out that his decisiveness and strength of command comes from his "bestial," appetitive side, but that side is also frightened. His "evolved" side is irresolute, but compassionate and fearless. He's only half a man either way,
Commented May 4, 2011 on Beast + Angel = Mensch at After the Future
Beast + Angel = Mensch
I hope you'll forgive my mania for diagrams lately. I'm just practicing for stuff I have to do for work. But a couple of years ago I put up a reflection piece on Steinbeck's East of Eden entitled "Shrewd as Serpents, Guileless as Doves." About a year before I reread The Brothers Karamazo...
This is stunning. And I will quote and thank it when I get to writing the third part of this. It has long seemed to me that the biggest single cause of abortion is downhearted women trying to buy love with sex.
Commented Jul 9, 2010 on Scarred Souls: More About Abortion at baldilocks
Scarred Souls: More About Abortion
The Confession I posted on June 9, 2010 couldn't just stand as is was, mainly since it was an answer to a specific question, "Should Black Women Stop Getting Abortions." Of course all women should stop having abortions. But since the question singled out black women, and since that conversatio...
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Mar 15, 2010
Euan -- if you read LeGuin's THE DISPOSSESSED you will understand "the concept is cool but the reality requires compromise" and you'll also be very glad you did -- it's a marvelous, thought-provoking book.
Commented Oct 23, 2006 on Social computing as spiritual practise at The Obvious?
Social computing as spiritual practise
I have finally got around to reading Stephen Covey's book The 8th Habit and am really enjoying it. I first read The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People many years ago and got a lot out of it at the time. His new book is full of interesting quotes and it occurred to me on reading the following on...
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