Suppose a building at a former concentration camp was designed, built, and used as a torture chamber. The camp is now only a museum for those interested in the history. But one night during a storm, the former torture building gets a broken window. Question: Do you repair the window? Related: I took the picture […]
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Oscar Wilde was seated next to an elegant lady at a dinner party. The conversation became animated and contesting, and Wilde asked the women if she would go to bed with him for one million pounds. The woman was flustered, but upon consideration said Yes, she probably would. Wilde then asked if she would go
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Stephen Hicks and Ryan Faulkner-Hogg discuss the great philosopher’s mature period. Who is Zarathustra? How does one become who one really is? What explains the Great Inversion: the decline of master morality and the rise of slave morality? Related: Ryan and Stephen discussing the influence of Schopenhauer on the young Nietzsche. Stephen Hicks’s Nietzsche and
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At the rate of one woman per night, that would take 13.7 years. “In 281, Emperor Wu took 5,000 women from Sun Hao’s palace into his own, and thereafter became even more concentrated on feasting and enjoying the women, rather than on important matters of state. It was said that there were so many beautiful
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A palliative care nurse reports the top five regrets that patients expressed to her: 1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. “This was the most common regret of all. When people realise that their life is almost over and look back
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The postmodern rules for titles are: Use at least one “neo-” and/or “de-” prefix, indicate a “critical” stance towards “capitalist” and/or “patriarchal,” and stick a colon in the middle. Just keep refreshing this generator page until you find one you like and then “borrow” it. Credit to Andrew C. Bulhak of Monash University. Related: Explaining
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“Only through the group, I realised — through sharing the suffering of the group — could the body reach that height of existence that the individual alone could never attain. And for the body to reach that level at which the divine might be glimpsed, a dissolution of individuality was necessary. The tragic quality of
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Every other year or so I post that the United States Postal Service government monopoly loses billions while private-sector FedEx and UPS were profitable. It’s a multi-decade trend now. FedEx and UPS versus USPS. * USPS Loses $15.9 Billion – But Bosses Get Hefty Compensation Raises. * FedEx Income Statement. * UPS International Profit Rebounds.
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