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• The Top 10 Longest American Bridges

  
  Spot On Lists — Authority: 142
  For purposes of common definition, a bridge may be dismissed to be nothing more than a structure designed for convenience of passage over water bodies or other unassailable domains. When your destination is what lies across the bridge, then the bridge itself is of great importance. But any great philosopher will tell ...
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• Asperity Parity: How to Argue Forcefully Yet Fairly

  
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  Asperity Parity is being as rhetorically rough as your debate partner but no rougher. Its a key to having creative, expansive debates. Truth springs from arguments amongst friends, which requires the ability to argue and stay friends. You cant afford to be too blunt or too tentative, not by some absolute standard but ...
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• Being alone

  
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  Photo credit: Adirina on Sxc.hu   I stumbled upon this video this weekend on Facebook. Given that I have had deep, wrenching sobbing sessions related to my boys leaving the nest , it seemed like the perfect meditation for my life. I have viewed being alone as a negative. Something to be avoided. The words of ...
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• Dance of the Collage Homunculus

  
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  Each of us enters the world with limited powers. We are born within the bounds of bodies, which both grant and limit the power of our will . Limitation frames our existence . We live a limited span; we have limited strength; we have limited power to create. Naturally we resent our limits, and our spirit rebels ...
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• Hiromi in Kyoto: Day 5 Part 1

  
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  Day 5 - (Raku) Bus to Ginkakuji Ginkakuji Walk along Philosopher’s Path to Nanzenji From Nanzenji walk to Keage Subway Station Keage Subway Station Karasuma Oike Subway Station Kyoto Subway Station Lunch JR Kyoto Station Otsukyo Station (Shiga) Walk to Oumi Jingu Oumi Jingu Walk back to Otsukyo ...
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• William Vallicella on the Meaning of Life

  
  A Myth in Creation: Awais Aftab's Blog — Authority: 133
  William Vallicella (aka Maverick Philosopher ) recently made a series of posts on the topic of meaning of life , and these contain some of the most philosophically sophisticated and refined discussions that I have read on the matter. In this post I’d like to summarize some of his main conclusions, primarily for ...
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• The Philosopher’s Stone

  
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  If you could turn your aluminium Coca-Cola can into gold, would you? You probably would, but if everybody could do it, it wouldn’t be quite so amazing since gold would become common and not worth much. The old Greek myth of King Midas, who was granted his wish that everything he touched would turn to gold, ...
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• Instructions for Life – Losing

  
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  Some people thrive on taking risks. I am not one of those people. I live my life cautiously — taking one carefully planned step at a time. Last week, I took a risk. It was fairly well-calculated. And relatively safe. If it didn’t work, there was no risk to life or limb. I put my name in the hat for a ...
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• How to Deal With Atehist Fallacies: atheists trying to defend appeal to poularity

  
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   Sylar, the same idiot who argued that Bayes is mathematics, therefore, its a mathematical fact that theres no God, and that prison populations must mirror the general population, is at again. Now hes making a sophisticated version of appeal to popularity. This argument is obviously not aimed at demonstrated that ...
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• Good habits…

  
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  “Good habits comes from bad experiences. Many experiences comes from bad habits.”
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• Man-to-Man with Cultural Thinker Roman Krznaric

  
  Cameron Conaway: The Warrior Poet — Authority: 126
  Roman Krznaric is perhaps the world’s foremost authority on empathy. Here’s our interview with him. Roman Krznaric is the author of The Wonderbox : Curious Histories of How to Live , The First Beautiful Game: Stories of Obsession in Real Tennis and his recently-released How to Find Fulfilling ...
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• Blog: The Composite Presidency…..

  
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  Glenn Fairman Composite girlfriends, composite birth certificates, composite intellect, composite childhood, composite facts from which a sanitized version of a shadowy life is composed and crafted for public consumption. The compression or adulteration of Mr. Obama‘s life is posited as an act of obfuscation — a ...
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• Aspirations on yellowing paper

  
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  I am finally sorting through my mother’s things in earnest. Yesterday, I woke up with a keen sense of wanting to get things done, and the feeling didn’t pass by this morning. After a very slow start to the morning (try rushing a toddler, while still respecting her limitations and independence), I almost bulldozed ...
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• Minns-Parvis edition of Justin Martyr’s “Apologies”: An exemplar for presenting religious texts.

  
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  I am very impressed by the Denis Minns and Paul Parvis edition of Justin Martyr’s Apologies (part of the Oxford Early Christian Texts series ) .  Not only is the text interesting on its own terms, but it strikes me as a model of how to present Christian religious texts (other religions, such as Judaism, ...
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• Q: Philosopher Quinn

  
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  I’ve blogged about Philosopher Quinn before. This story by Jens Rushing was included in our March 2008 issue and I really enjoy it still, four years later. Is it the most well-written thing we’ve ever published? Um, no, but I think it might very well be the most fun. The phrase ‘…to chase camels. Good ...
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• Interview with Emily Vogel [AUDIO]

  
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  The Eggshell Parade  brings you a reading and interview from poet Emily Vogel. http://archive.org/download/InterviewWithPoetEmilyVogel/EditedInterviewWithEmilyVogel.mp3 Related Posts Interview with Neil Shepard [AUDIO] ...
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• What Should be Done for the Gun Control Bill

  
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  What Should be Done for the Gun Control BillMost people believe that guns kill people.Not true.People kill people.Tragedies such as the Aurora theater shooting and the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings werent because of the gun control law.These situations unfolded because of sick people that somehow acquired an assault ...
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• A Nice Poem

  
  Thoughts For India — Authority: 113
  Am Quoting an English translation of a Tamil poem composed some 2000 years ago by Avvaiyar "It is rare to be born as a human being, It is still rarer to be born without any deformity. Even if you are born without any deformity, It is rare to acquire knowledge and education. Even if one could acquire knowledge and ...
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• Amazing Harry Potter Locations To Visit

  
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  The phenomenon that was a slight, bespectacled young boy, who went by the name of Harry reached epic proportions when the last book by JK Rowling wa published. The memory of Harry and his chums lives on and if you are a fan of the movies or books, then you are certainly able to feed your Harry desires easily. Grab the ...
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• Instructions for Life – Risk

  
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  Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. ~Dalai Lama I am many things, but not a risk taker. After all, I even read the FCC statements that come with a new phone before I’ll use the phone.  I look both ways twice before crossing the street. And you will never catch me ...
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