Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Irrational Friday
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Six Chix, 3/14/25 Happy Pi Day, everybody! Today, 3/14, is used as a tongue-in-cheek opportunity to celebrate pi,…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on You Can’t Burn Down Neapolis by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Roderick T. Long. By the way, there’s still an offending O in “you can’t create the right sort of neopolis from within the assumptions ….” I reckon you’re hungry, and the A looks like just one slice of pizza, w…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on You Can’t Burn Down Neapolis by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Is Sciabarra a round pizza? Seems to entail Sciabarra. I dunno, man, I thought he kinda favoured the square Sicilian pizza. But in honour of Nablus and Naples I reckon the round Neapolitan pizza should take precedence here…
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(QC RSS) Hipster Comedy
girl ain’t got no butt
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on You Can’t Burn Down Neapolis by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Thanks. Resolution of the mystery: I got it right when I first wrote the post, but glancing at it on the train the next morning, was somehow convinced that it “looked wrong,” hurriedly miscorrected it, and then…
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(xkcd.com) Planet Definitions
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on You Can’t Burn Down Neopolis by Roderick T. Long
This is a minor, picky point compared to the serious issues in your post, but I am no stranger to minor, picky points. So …Neapolis, not Neopolis. (Polis is feminine.)Mysteriously, you have it correct in the URL but not in the title or the body….
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Doom, gloom, Wilbur Weston, etc.
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Herb and Jamaal, 3/13/25 Ha, no, see, Herb’s mother-in-law, “doomscrolling” just means when you keep going through your…
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(Policy of Truth) You Can’t Burn Down Neapolis
Years ago, I went on a long road trip with a Palestinian friend, first to Nablus, then to Nazareth, and eventually to Haifa. Nablus wasn’t officially part of our itinerary; we really just stopped there en route to Nazareth to take a bathroom break. We parked the car by the Nasr Mosque in the middle…
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