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David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” 2005 Kenyon College Commencement Address
Wallace is totally the Buddha in this speech, preaching attentional choice, vigilance in looking, and imaginative awareness. It’s a shame he hit bottom in 2008 and, in the grip of a severe depression (a recurrent scourge that plagued his life), … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, college, david foster wallace, experience, life, literature, seeing, work
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Terence McKenna Tells the Truth
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Tagged experience, LSD, poetry, psychedelics, terence mckenna
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My New Favorite Christmas Song
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Tagged Christmas, experience, happy holidays, holidays, innocence lost, santa
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Is this code for something?
And I’m getting a “Where’s Waldo” vibe from this music video as well.
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Tagged 1970s, Blake, experience, happiness, innocence, life, love, midday love, sex, sunshine, where's waldo
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Werner Herzog turns “Where’s Waldo” into a haunting existential enigma
Where to begin?
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Tagged atheism, Camus, comedy, existentialism, experience, godless universe, humor, innocence, life, Nietzsche, Sartre, werner herzog
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Tea-Partiers in America Take Note: Marcel Theroux’s Creepy Tea Party in Japan
Marcel Theroux is a novelist and documentary film makers for BBC 4. He does some really interesting work. Here’s a clip from his documentary on Japan (In Search of Wabi Sabi ). I suppose that the clip below depicts some Blakean … Continue reading
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Tagged Blake, documentaries, experience, innocence, Japan, marcel theroux, Michael Jackson, pedophiles, tea, tea partiers, tea party movement, teabaggers
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Judy Garland Singing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
And with heartbreaking power:
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Tagged Christmas, death, experience, hope, innocence, joy, judy garland, life, longing, love, peace, William Blake
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: The View from Anne Frank’s Window (July 22, 1941)
Amsterdam’s Anne Frank House recently put on YouTube rare footage of Anne Frank leaning out of a window to get a look at a newly married couple in her neighborhood: And here’s Anne Frank, at a younger age, in a group photo: … Continue reading
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Tagged anne frank, bergen-belsen, death, experience, fascism, Hitler, innocence, Judaism, life, the Holocaust, windows
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What is Empiricism?
Here’s a quote from Wikipedia: In philosophy, empiricism is a theory of knowledge which asserts that knowledge arises from experience. Empiricism is one of several competing views about how we know “things,” part of the branch of philosophy called epistemology, … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, empiricism, epistemology, experience, John Locke, knowledge, life, philosophy, science
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“Where Did I Come From?” (A Poem by Santi Tafarella)
I’m slicing fish now, but then it was different. For on this very kitchen counter, listening to the breezy talk of seagulls and the sounds of Big Sur on CD, … Continue reading
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Tagged conception, creationism, evolution, experience, Genesis, life, literature, love, origins, poems, poetry, william carlos williams
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