Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Policy of Truth) Don’t Come Around Here No More
I can only muster one thought in response to the Ralph Yarl shooting: legalities aside, and taking press reports at face value, it seems to me that having a doorbell constitutes implicit consent to peoples’ ringing it. If you consent to having people ring your doorbell, you’re not entitled to regard someone’s ringing it as…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on A Rabbi’s Zig-Zag Learning Curve on Israel/Palestine by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to butimbeautiful. Thank you. Yes. First-hand experience is very under-valued in intellectual life. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that one needs first-hand experience to have any knowledge whatsoever of a given topic, but you do need fi…
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(QC RSS) Not To Be Disturbed
she’s just trying to be reasonable
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Loves working with you
New comic!Today’s News: Missed out on The Art of Ménage à 3 Kickstarter campaign?Get it via InDemand at Indiegogo: https://igg.me/at/artofma3/x/27564548#/Want printed books or swag? Check out our store! https://pixietrixcomixs…
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(QC RSS) Whys And Whatfors
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on A Rabbi’s Zig-Zag Learning Curve on Israel/Palestine by butimbeautiful
I don’t agree with you on everything but I do on this, and I always find your views interesting. Really, the point is that one can’t really understand an issue without first hand experience. LikeLiked by 1 person
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(Policy of Truth) A Rabbi’s Zig-Zag Learning Curve on Israel/Palestine
I’m sure readers of this blog get sick of my posts on Israel and Palestine, if only from overexposure to a single, somewhat bludgeoning point of view. So here, for a change of pace, is a link to a blog post by Rabbi Maurice Harris, the rabbi of String of Pearls, the Reconstructionist synagogue that…
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(QC RSS) Classic Claireface
>:D
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(Policy of Truth) Can I Count on Senator Zwicker Not to Defame Me?
Probably not. I just got this text message from the re-election campaign of my local state senator, Andrew Zwicker et al., a Democrat in New Jersey Legislative District 16. He asked for my vote. I made a modest counter-offer. Background and petition from Jews from Palestinian Right of Return. Background from Al Jazeera. From Middle…
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(Jesse Walker, Author at Reason.com) Debate: Democracy Is the Worst Form of Government Except for All the Others
What is the relationship between liberty and democracy?
Got any book recommendations?