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According to UC Irvine professor of informatics Dr. Gloria Mark, once you are captured by a distraction, it can take up to twenty-three minutes to get back on track.4 And since the average person succumbs to distractions an average of every
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“Self-interest and rational calculation can thus look like common sense, but there are other ways of understanding human motivations.”
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“Yet this absolute power of God over man is counterbalanced by the idea that man is God's potential rival.”
― You Shall Be as Gods: A Radical Interpretation of the Old Testament and Its Traditions
― You Shall Be as Gods: A Radical Interpretation of the Old Testament and Its Traditions
“Once I could no longer find a way to theologically maintain God and hold onto the significance of my historical moment, letting go of God was natural.”
― Writing God's Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist
― Writing God's Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist
“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.”
― Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
― Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
“philosophy is no longer concerned with the quest for the truth of the world and so is reduced to a limited sphere, which only ensures the uninterrupted flow of capitalist markets. Truth as a philosophical category thus becomes enslaved to the unthinking markets of capitalism; philosophy at the service of the robber barons. Truth's instantiation is thus brutally reduced to the exercise of pure and arbitrary power in various domains of the world.”
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Philosophy
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This is the group is intended for anyone interested in philosophy. It is just starting, but when I searched the public groups, I didn't find anything ...more
Cognitive Dissidents
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A meeting place for people dedicated to subverting oppressive 'realities' by whatever means we're inspired to use. ...more
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