Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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From My 40 to Your 14
Photo by Ian Keefe on Unsplash reluctant poem for my daughter We are both fourteen, and alsogoing-on-forty-or-more:Both of woman-mind and soul,yet nested still in girls’ wild ways. At fourteen, life is awful promise; nothing certainnothing known.But still she is/we are the sumof all, for best or worse.With womankind, it’s hard to tellthe promise from the curse. At fourteen,…
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Named After God
Photo by Becca Tapert on Unsplash reluctant poetry Tell me now, again, what God’s name is: When prayer wields words like fiery phallic swords; When we must worship towers of bishops,casting out heretics, burning witches; When Eve our mother bears the blame for sin and pain,though bearing all in birth, and bearing all to Adam,just a mudman…
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Gratitude Workarounds
Photo by Chris Ensey on Unsplash Because the wheel’s still spinning By now we probably all know the terrific Zen tale that teaches us never to assume we know whether events will turn out to be good for us or bad for us. The story goes like this: A man’s horse runs away — bad news! The horse returns,…
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On Refusing to Be Ill
Photo by Allan Bueno on Unsplash And what do to when this no longer works Okay, fine. I’m ill. It surprises me that I am even considering writing this post because I am not allowed to be ill, I have never been allowed to be ill, and part of me is sure that if I just refuse to…
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Waiting Around with John Milton
Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash Could be paradise up ahead Sometimes, if you’re feeling uncertain and sort of irrelevant, an old, dead, white-guy poem is just the thing you need to read. I mean that in the nicest way, too. I do love a great variety of humanity, but I am essentially an archaic, white, middlebrow…
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The Real Reason We Don’t Get Along
Photo by Ben Wicks on Unsplash We’re living backward. Americans, they say, are ideologically and culturally split down the middle, just like that cheap pair of pants I foolishly bent down in that time. Since the Founders, we have always enjoyed a lively back-and-forth exchange of ideas, but now it appears the division is becoming personal…
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Is This Life Broken or What?
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash I couldn’t tell from the manual I’m getting real tired of trying to get Life to work right, and I’ll bet you are too. So I complained to the Management. Everybody assumes this Life thing is the best thing ever. It’s a powerhouse product; a gamechanger. It provides us with sunshine…
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