Philosophy
So I was gazing at my navel yesterday and as often happens, my mind began to wander. I thought about the way my mind often wanders when navel gazing and realized that I frequently think about the act of navel gazing itself. When I do, it turns out that there are roughly four categories of thought that pop up: on the form of the navel, on the contents of the navel, on the origin of the navel, and on the meaning of the navel. I meditated for a while on how interesting it was that I was now reflecting on thinking about considering navels.
Then I thought to myself, "Well, enough of this. I need to get back to work. Lots of philosophy that needs taking care of."
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Philosophy
On Navel Gazing: Channelling Jack Handy
So I was gazing at my navel yesterday and as often happens, my mind began to wander. I thought about the way my mind often wanders when navel gazing and realized that I frequently think about the act of navel gazing itself. When I do, it turns out that there are roughly four categories of thought that pop up: on the form of the navel, on the contents of the navel, on the origin of the navel, and on the meaning of the navel. I meditated for a while on how interesting it was that I was now reflecting on thinking about considering navels.
Then I thought to myself, "Well, enough of this. I need to get back to work. Lots of philosophy that needs taking care of."
- The Innies/outies Ratio
The conversation turned to belly buttons yesterday and relative proportion of innies to outies in the population at large. The entire family is comprised of innies which seemed to give anecdotal evidence to the claim that most people are innies. How great...
- Is Water H20?
Hallq, over at Uncredible Hallq, is reading one of my favorite pieces by Hilary Putnam and failing to see what is so wonderful about it, so I thought I'd pipe in because it's a puzzle and an argument that I didn't get at first either, but...
- Vocabulary List--#25
Here'sssssssss Tim with a new list of words. achromic ey-kroh-mik adjective Colorless, without coloring matter. adscititious ad-suh-tish-us adjective 1. Derived or acquired from something on the outside. 2. Supplemental, additional. agnize ag-nahyz...
- Things Change And Old Memories Are Important
J. C. 1963 "Old Love" by Louis Begley August 11th, 2012 The New York Times YEARS ago, when I was a callow 39, I had lunch with a college friend whose intellectual authority over me was considerable; we lunched together often, at least once a month. On...
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"In search of the real Dracula" by Leif Pettersen Octoberr 12th, 2011 BBC Travel Long before Bram Stoker’s literary Dracula sparked a century-long, global obsession with vampires – both the torturing and tortured variety – a lavishly mustachioed...