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The Terrible Toos (Too Fat, Too Poor, Too Old…)
Too this, too that. Theatrical, but moving. Might bring tears. __________ Watching Jade Beall’s TED talk on body hatred recalled for me the general problem of human suffering described by John Koller in Asian Philosophies (2007, p. 9, fifth edition): … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, desire, feminism, life, philosophy, psychology, women, women's rights
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Theorizing Desire
If you think about it, we respond to whatever arises into consciousness with desire, aversion, or neutrality. And the things that appear to consciousness are always in flux: they arise, they ripen, they decline from attention and disappear. Then others … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, desire, Nietzsche, philosophy, psychology, suffering
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Thinking about Obsession and Compulsion
It’s that locked down quality that I’m thinking of, like a bulldog latched and focused on a limb. Dante, in his Inferno, sets the obsessive and compulsive in the outer circles of hell. The obsessive and compulsive are not as … Continue reading
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Tagged compulsion, desire, life, lust, obsession, psychology, racism
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What, Exactly, Is Wrong With Bestiality?
__________ The above video is amusing, but also raises an interesting question: what is it, exactly, that’s wrong with bestiality? Notice that the perpetrator isn’t getting it on with women and fantasizing about animals; instead, he’s getting it on with … Continue reading
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Tagged animal rights, bestiality, culture, desire, life, love, pleasure, psychology, sex, sociology
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The Tortoise Shell, the Umbrella, and Hindu Meditation
In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says to Arjuna (Barbara Miller’s translation, pt. 2 stanzas 55-58): When he [the yogi] gives up desires in his mind, is content with the self within himself, then he is said to be a man whose insight … Continue reading
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Two lives, no books
This post comes from a brief exchange that I overheard, at a garage sale, yesterday morning. A man and a woman, both looking to be in their forties, paused at the same moment and gazed down into a box of books that was for … Continue reading
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Tagged books, desire, existentialism, freedom, life, Motivation, patience, psychology, reading, regret
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Dialing for Love: She Wanted Miracle, Mystery, and Authority
This today in Spiegel: A German woman looking for love dialled the emergency police line 13 times saying she wanted to meet a policeman. And her wish came true — two officers arrived to disable her phone.
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“I Sought the Light”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella
My heart, she said, it goes out to you like a pinched wick.
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Image of a Woman, in Solitude, Reading a Letter
Solider. Mother. Father. Son. Lover. Husband. Friend. Daughter. Sister. Brother. Stranger. Clergyman. Aquantance. Who is the letter from? Is she reading a letter sent to her, or spying words sent to another? In her solitude, as she reads, does she hear the person’s voice in her head? Is … Continue reading
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