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Nietzsche in a Nutshell
__________ Once you perceive that you are flung into a cosmos in which God is dead (or silent), and your ultimate questions are unlikely ever to be answered, it’s time to stop worrying about who or where you are really—what the truth is—and just, say, make lion-man totems … Continue reading
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Tagged art, atheism, creativity, hippies, literature, Nietzsche, nihilism, philosophy, writing
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Blogging David Goodsell’s “The Machinery of Life” (The Preface)
David Goodsell is a molecular biologist at The Scripps Research Institute in California, and he has written a hippie-beautiful introductory text to molecular biology, The Machinery of Life (2nd edition, Springer 2010), which Scientific American calls “an impressive and original book.” … Continue reading
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Tagged biochemistry, biology, cell biology, complexity, English, evolution, hippies, life, machines, meaning, Santi Tafarella, science
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Ben Franklin: Science Hippie
I love the Promethean line that Anne Marie Jacquez Turgot wrote to accompany Houdon’s bust of Benjamin Franklin: Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. Translation: He snatched the lightning from heaven and the sceptre from tyrants. That says it all. Ben Franklin: another science oriented … Continue reading
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Groovy Park Instrument Players Led by a Singing and Dancing Kybele
Some male devotees accompany their chain-wielding goddess: Below are some fit lines from Euripides’ Bakkhai (from scene 1) describing Korybantes—ecstatic drumming and pipe-playing young men devoted to the Phrygian mother-goddess Kybele: Triple-crested Korybantes Devised for me The circle of stretched hide! In … Continue reading
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Tagged Bakkhai, chains, dance, dionysos, Dionysus, hippies, kybele, life, mental health break, music, parks, poetry
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Thinking about Nietzsche: does truth matter?
One thing that the religious fundamentalist and the secular scientist agree on is this: what is actually true matters. Or, as they say on the X Files, “The truth is out there.” I’m not interested in denying that the world really … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Ayn Rand, epistemology, existentialism, freedom, hippies, imagination, lies, Nietzsche, the counter-enlightenment, truth
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Seeing American Life from the Vantage of Death
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, American, death, hippies, life, reason, sanity, science, skeletons, the Beatles, the human race
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21st Century Bohemian Hippie Joy
The liberated body and free-flowing consciousness. The hope of the world: When I watch this I think of John Keats’s famous lines from “Ode on a Grecian Urn”: Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all … Continue reading
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Tagged bohemian, Dionysus, exercise, hippies, hope, John Keats, joy, life, love, music, self help
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Doobie Doobie Do—in California?
Expanding liberty and consciousness—and traffic accidents—in California? Pot seems to be headed for the ballot this year. This today from Reason: It looks like a marijuana legalization initiative will be on the ballot in California this fall. Today the backers of the … Continue reading
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Tagged America, California, consciousness, freedom, herb bearing seeds, hippies, James Dobson, liberty, marijuana, pot, pot freedom, prohibition
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I Like What These Two Women are Saying
This woman experienced mystical and poetic Blake light energies for months after her near death experience: And this woman says love is what life’s about: I’m listening. If God exists, S(he) is the groovy hippie ground of being in love with … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, God, hippies, joy, life, love, meaning, near-death experiences, peace, psychology, women
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Atheism is Dead?
There will always be atheists in the world—so I’m not talking about a demographic trend. I don’t know where atheism is heading with the masses. For all I know, it may be growing faster than any other idea in the world. Go team! … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, atheism, atheist, Christianity, cults, death, hippies, religon, terence mckenna, urizen, William Blake
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Are You Ready?
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Tagged aquarius, eschatology, galactic, hippies, meditation, New Age, terence mckenna, yoga
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I Love Terence McKenna
He died of a brain tumor a few years back, but he was always a wonderfully engaging thinker and speaker. I went to one of his talks in Los Angeles in the late 1980s, and Roy of Hollywood used to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, hippies, meditation, paranormal, psychedelics, terence mckenna, yoga, Zen
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Hipster Condensation of the Book of Job
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Tagged apologetics, art, Book of Job, existence, hippies, hipster, Job, life, literature, suffering, the problem of suffering, urban
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Mental Health Break
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Tagged 1970s, hippies, life, mental health break, mountains, psychology, steve miller
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Cosmic Groovy
Appearing to have stepped out of a 1970s time machine, Paul Davies gives a stimulating talk on the cosmic mysteries. Intellectual wavy gravy: And Part 2:
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Tagged 1970s, God, groovy, hippies, meaning, paul davies, philosophy, physics, science, the brady bunch, time machine
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Eschatology for Beginners
Something’s happening! Whether it’s a dawning Messianic era, the UFO rapture, a technological Singularity, or some soon coming secular utopia (Marxist, neoconservative, or otherwise), the problem of suffering in the world and our intellectual confusions are about to be resolved in the arrival of … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-christ, atheist, Ayn Rand, End Times, eschatology, Hegel, hippies, Jesus, marx, reason, ronald mcdonald, second coming
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Iran’s Turn: Not Televised, But Twittered?
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Tagged gandhi, hippies, history, Iran, Islam, life, Muslim, Politics, protest, revolution, twitter
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This is What Democracy Looks Like? The G20 Economic Summit in London Could See Massive Protests and Violence
I generally support these types of demonstrations. It keeps democratic pressure on politicians. But the hanging of bankers in effigy? No thanks to that emotionally sick man’s hate projections and dehumanization of others. Keep the demonstrations nonviolent, hippie-positive, and life affirming. No … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, economy, fascism, G20, hippies, leftist activism, Marxism, Politics, protest, social psychology
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Prometheus Unbound 