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Qualia and the Ontological Mystery for Beginners
The difference between a problem and the experience of a mystery:
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Tagged being, earth, elementals, fire, life, love, ontological mystery, qualia, sky, wind
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Motorcycle Love: “You live in a box, you drive a box, you work in a box. When you get on those two wheels . . .”
Slate has a video series called “Interviews: 50 cents”, in which they have random “man on the street” conversations with people. Slate recently went to the Pomona Fair in Southern California and did an interview with a heterosexual couple into Harley Davidson motorcyles. You … Continue reading
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Tagged contact, God, life, love, motorcycle, motorcycles, mystery, spirit, the ontological mystery, wind
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T. Boone Pickens Scraps Plans for the World’s Largest Wind Farm
The wind farm would have been in Texas, but transmission problems (getting the energy from the plains to where people live) seem to have been an insurmountable barrier to bringing Pickens’s ambitions to fruition. Apparently financing wasn’t going well either. Sad. … Continue reading
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Tagged electricity, energy, energy independence, environment, environmentalism, oil, oil dependency, solar, T. Boone Pickens, wind, wind farms
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Senator Al Franken v. T. Boone Pickens: Remember the Wind Farm Ads—or the Swift Boat Ads?
Wind Farm ads v. Swift Boat ads? Billionaire T. Boone Pickens has recently shifted gears in his political activism, promoting green energy sources (like wind) in ads and at congressional hearings. But Pickens was also a major funder of the Swift … Continue reading
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MONSTER Off-Shore Wind Turbines: A FIVE HUNDRED FOOT TALL One Goes Up This Weekend off German Waters
So says Der Spiegel: Once it is up and running, the titan will produce six megawatts of power, enough to provide electricity to 5,769 households.
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