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Original Technorati articles tagged “materialism”

• in Business
  Black Friday Madness: Should America Seek Help?
  Does consumer madness on Black Friday indicate a larger problem with the American economic system?
  by sethjared / on Nov 15, 2011
• in Politics
  New President Calls for End of Materialism and Selfishness?
  It's no Joke. However, it's not the President of the United States, but the President-elect of Ireland.
  by stephengfm / on Oct 31, 2011
• in Politics
  Society & Corruption
  The disregard of spiritual or moral conduct for material pursuits leads to a depraved mental state in which the individual chases illicit wealth or other objects of desire.
  by Pushhyarag / on Feb 23, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “materialism”

 

• Declutter

  
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  Filed under: Food, Health, and Lifestyle , Random Stuff Tagged: advice , declutter , identity , junk , life , materialism
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• Outrage and Incredulity: The Atheist Charge of No Evidence

  
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  What is all this stuff really about? It never ceases to amaze me how passionate atheists can be about nothing. I mean by that, atheism is supposed to be nothing more than an absence of belief, right? Yet so many times I see them full of fire and arrogance, blowing their little minds just because someone holds ...
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• Top 10 Secrets to Live Happy Life in 2013

  
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  “If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier,” wrote the melancholy poet Sylvia Plath once. Soon after, she put her head inside an oven and committed suicide. What would make a young and beautiful, vibrantly talented and hugely successful individual to give up on life so violently? She certainly had reasons to be ...
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• Fighting Materialism

  
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  Jesus looked at him and said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!” Luke 18:24 How is the god Mammon conquered? The Bible offers a perspective from which to view all of life’s economic decisions. The Holy Spirit is with us; Jesus is our present teacher. The following are some ...
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• The Life of Psi

  
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  Readers should take note of a new section in Chapter 6 entitled “ Psi Phenomena .” We have discussed parapsychology in previous editions but have been very critical of the research and skeptical of the claims made in the field. And although we still have strong reservations about most of the research in ...
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• Evan Osnos on the Resonance of “Gatsby” in China

  
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• Stephen C. Meyer and Peter Atkins debate intelligent design

  
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  This dialog occurred in 2010 on the Unbelievable radio show. I made a rough transcript, so please see below for that. The MP3 file is here . (60 minutes) Details: The documentary film “Expelled” is presented by US Actor Ben Stein and makes the case that scientists who question Darwinian orthodoxy and support ...
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• Article: Atheisms Universe is Meaningless and Valueless by J.W. Wartick

  
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  In this featured post , J.W. Wartick contends that what follows from atheism is a meaningless and valueless universe. His argument is as follows: 1) On materialistic atheism, all we are is matter in motion. 2) There is no objective reason to value matter moving in way  A  over matter moving in way  ...
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• Psychiatry, biology, neurology, stupidity.

  
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  Just weeks before the long-awaited publication of a new edition of the so-called bible of mental disorders, the federal government’s most prominent psychiatric expert has said the book suffers from a scientific “lack of validity”. The expert, Dr. Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental ...
  2 weeks ago

• Generosity vs. Zero-Sum Thinking in the Workplace

  
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  When discussing economics, we frequently encounter the zero-sum fallacy : the notion that the economic pie is fixed, that there is always a winner and a loser, and that, for someone to grow rich, another must become poor. Read more on Generosity vs. Zero-Sum Thinking in the Workplace… The post Generosity vs. ...
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• Partha Chatterjee on Subaltern Studies, Marxism and Vivek Chibber

  
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  At the recent Historical Materialism conference held in Delhi from April 3-5, a panel was organized with great fanfare - an official panel by the HM editors – around Vivek Chibber’s new book Postcolonial Theory and the Spectre of Capital. This panel was billed to be a decisive refutation of Subaltern Studies and ...
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• Tuesday of 5th Sunday after Easter – Matthew 6:24-34

  
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  Matthew 6:24-34 “You cannot serve two masters.” You’ve heard the saying, from the old Westerns: “This town ain’t big enough for the both of us.” Well, your life ain’t big enough for 2 opposing masters. You cannot serve both God and wealth, and you cannot serve both God and self. So who’s your ...
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• Parking Your Luxury Car in Your Living Room—a Critical Thinking Opportunity

  
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  When Singapore middle school principal Mike Johnston shared this video of a man living in a luxury apartment building in Singapore parking his high-end sports car in his living room, I thought it might be part of a sci-fi movie or a satiric piece of filmmaking. It’s not. But what a great humane education tool ...
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• Reading “Gatsby” in Beijing

  
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  At The New Yorker, Evan Osnos suggests that Baz Luhrmann’s new film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby “could hardly find a more fitting audience than in China in the opening years of the twenty-first century.” Perhaps no work of fiction has returned to me more often over the past eight ...
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• Materialism is a Prison

  
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  At some point we’re going to have to acknowledge that scientific reductionism as we practice it is no longer an adequate means of explaining reality. In fact, it’s actually sort of becoming a threat to the entire psychic eco system. There’s nowhere to turn but in my friends, but I don’t see a whole fuck of a ...
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• Exposing Pre-Commitments

  
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  A Moment of Rare Honesty Every so often an Unbeliever comes along who shows he is aware of his assumptions and pre-commitments.  It does not happen very often.  The cry of our age is, "Just the facts, maam."  We just focus upon facts and follow wherever they take us.  The problem with this is that our ...
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• The Religion of Promissory Materialism

  
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  I’ve recently gotten sidetracked involved in an online discussion forum on religion over at Google+. Here’s my latest post there, now cross-posted here: https://plus.google.com/118014954414967440482/posts/G37NQCRgdyu I just finished reading “The Emotional Life of Your Brain” and while I wasn’t really ...
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• All That Is Precious

  
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  Throughout my life, I’ve accumulated a lot of stuff. I have boxes of things that at one time were important but over time have lost their intrigue. And, as an unrepentant collector, I’ve realized that the thrill is in searching for and acquiring a new piece to add to the collection. Then my attention turns toward ...
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• Never Worn, But Not For The Reason You Think

  
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  I remember learning for my MBA about peoples shopping addiction (aka compulsive shopping ) and how it consumes their time and money and fuels their self-esteem.  Like a high gotten from alcohol, drugs, and sex, shopping can give people a relief from the everyday stresses that engulf them. An interesting ...
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• Why “materialism”?

  
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  I am finding myself increasingly puzzled by the use of the term “materialism” in contemporary continental philosophy. On the one hand, there seems to be a significant drive to claim the name “materialism,” and indeed to claim that one’s own position is the truest and most radical materialism. On the other ...
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