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progress:
(page 49 of 191)
"The free will response to theodicy is also bankrupt. Lewis says he can't imagine a world in which free beings don't go astray. And he's a fiction author! Therefore, I can only suppose that he didn't really try to imagine such a world but rather simply wrote it off. God could have made it much easier to believe in him. An omnipotent god would be aware, although Lewis wasn't, of behavioural nudging." — Jul 22, 2025 12:12AM
"The free will response to theodicy is also bankrupt. Lewis says he can't imagine a world in which free beings don't go astray. And he's a fiction author! Therefore, I can only suppose that he didn't really try to imagine such a world but rather simply wrote it off. God could have made it much easier to believe in him. An omnipotent god would be aware, although Lewis wasn't, of behavioural nudging." — Jul 22, 2025 12:12AM
progress:
(page 0 of 252)
"I've been a staunch proponent of the view that increasing economic growth is the easiest & perhaps best lever to pull for people interested in increasing human welfare since I read Cowen's 'Stubborn Attachments' years ago. It was therefore interesting to read in chapter 3 of this volume the argument that the harms of an ageing population, obesity & climate change will be offset by the benefits of BAU economic growth." — Jul 19, 2025 01:36AM
"I've been a staunch proponent of the view that increasing economic growth is the easiest & perhaps best lever to pull for people interested in increasing human welfare since I read Cowen's 'Stubborn Attachments' years ago. It was therefore interesting to read in chapter 3 of this volume the argument that the harms of an ageing population, obesity & climate change will be offset by the benefits of BAU economic growth." — Jul 19, 2025 01:36AM
“If sleep represents the high point of bodily relaxation, deep boredom is the peak of mental relaxation. A purely hectic rush produces nothing new. It reproduces and accelerates what is already available.”
― The Burnout Society
― The Burnout Society
“Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer fed by anything but sudden changes and constantly renewed stimuli. We can no longer bear anything that lasts. We no longer know how to make boredom bear fruit. So the whole question comes down to this: can the human mind master what the human mind has made?”
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“A civilization’s memory resides in the continuity of its institutions.
The revolution that interrupts a civilization’s memory, by destroying those institutions, does not relieve society of a bothersome caparison that is paralyzing it, but merely forces it to start over.”
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The revolution that interrupts a civilization’s memory, by destroying those institutions, does not relieve society of a bothersome caparison that is paralyzing it, but merely forces it to start over.”
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“A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time—pills or stairs. —Joan Welsh”
― The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy
― The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy
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