Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Lessons of History by Irfan Khawaja
I know the thesis, but haven’t read it. It isn’t high on my to-read list. I don’t expect to be enlightened by it. Carter’s view is the conventional one that I myself held for decades but eventually had to abandon, namely: “…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly in the context of modern fantasy and roleplaying settings. In particular, the notions I want to tackle are first how did ancient currency systems work in terms of value (what could you buy with how much) and then…
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(Policy of Truth) Let the Boomerang Speak
“Could Better Security Have Stopped the New Orleans Terror Attack?” asks the New York Times with furrowed brow. Yes, if you turn the country into a gigantic fortress, you can probably stave off another a “terror attack.” But then, you can achieve even greater assurance of safety against “terror attacks” if you take a cyanide…
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(Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka) teaching old hippies new tricks
Around about 2000, I began to consider how it would be, when and if I became an Old Hippy. Old Hippies had been a common part of my cultural heritage ever since the Eighties, when it was generally understood that they were terrible embarrassment to everyone — including, somehow, hippies. They continued to wear the…
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(xkcd.com) Origami Black Hole
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Lessons of History by Roderick T. Long
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Male friends
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(Policy of Truth) An Agitated Moslem
An irony no one could have made up: just a few days after the death of Jimmy Carter, the grandfather of our Afghan wars, a veteran of one of those wars launches a terrorist attack on the United States. Asked about the possibility of blowback from the proxy war he had devised in Afghanistan, Carter’s…
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