Category: philosophy
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Doctors of Education
Doctor comes from Latin verb docēre and means ‘to teach’. In Dutch a teacher is called a ‘docent’. Doctors of education should be paid as much as doctors of medicine. Doctors of child medicine are just as important if not more important than doctors for adults. I want to bring more science into education, doctors…
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Cake is the answer to life the universe and everything
Science and religion are glorified cooking. Speaking to a friend of mine, who is following the teachings of a Lama, he described to me how one one of the fundamental principles of Buddhism is repeatability. In many of the Buddhist teachings such as searching for the ego that they say isn’t there, the point is…
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Solved problem?
Responsibility + Joy can pretty much guarantee you a life worth living. But is that it? Solved problem? Responsibility comes from Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s search for meaning” (one of the final chapters titled ‘Meaning of Life’). Joy comes from “The Book of Joy” from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama. Between the three authors…
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A human equation
If you educate the senses of any child with an equal waiting of science, art & music you will produce fine and decent human beings.
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Scientific observers, shepherds and messiahs
There’s a thread running through these all. A messiah is a shepherd A programming language shepherds you in a direction People become very religious about programming languages Shepherds observe their sheep, they observe them objectively Teachers observe their pupils Maria Montessori spoke that teachers should be scientific observers There’s something here, some connection. Teachers aren’t…
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Compassion in the gutter
… compassion, which means “suffering with” Book of Joy p452 We’re suffering with each other, but we’re not suffering alone. We’re all in the gutter. It’s good if some of us are looking at the stars, but it’s better to realise we’re all in the gutter together. You, me, Putin, Trump, Dalai Lama and Desmond…
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Dad and Fred…
My dad was a great man, but he was an alcoholic and his drinking was what I consider to be the main cause for my family to fall apart. Separately from this I recently had the privilege to go to the funeral of Fred. Maybe it sounds odd that I call it a privilege, but…
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Man hugs
I love man hugs. I never hugged my dad and he never hugged me, the most intimate it ever got was a handshake. I never hugged an uncle or any male family member. I’m pretty sure I might have never hugged an Englishman, or at maximum it is a handful of guys. Somehow its just…
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Jesus for atheists
I guess this is not much more than a review of Leo Tolstoy’s book ‘A Confession’ and his other books on religion. I’ve been an atheist as long as I felt that the words in the Lord’s Prayer were ridiculous. I believe the Bible is a work of fiction like any other book that talks…
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What if the trees were the real angels?
“What if the trees were the real angels?” — Me, Lier, 2021 This is what I sat to think looking at this war memorial angel statue in Lier. Turns out there is a name for this – Pantheism. My interpretation is roughly that Nature and God are the same thing. This makes sense to me…
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