Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Rise and Fall of Gloryland
A future history in fable Long ago and far away, a beautiful country called Gloryland was founded upon a green and plentiful continent by pale people with a vision of equality and freedom. To prepare the land for this vision, they carefully removed all the dark people who lived there, and then brought in other dark…
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Riddle Me This
Lessons in the truly ordinary Why do trucks turn that way? Why are phone menus so aggravating? What makes Möbius strips work? With plenty of complex and consequential issues to think about every day, you might wonder why these small riddles are worth writing about. I wonder that too, but I can’t seem to help myself.…
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Two Rivers
photograph by adrian on unsplash It’s Complicated: Lit Up & The Writing Cooperative Contest It used to be that world and heighthad made your face a frozen stream,and ice and rock were poor disguisefor waters rushing black beneath,so cold they’d burn whoever ventured there. But down and down and further down (with gravity or other hid device)the…
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My Secret Names for G*D
Photograph by Emily Morter on Unsplash. We all have questions. There are probably as many ways of prayer as there are people. Most religious traditions offer forms and formalities to be followed, and most have preferred languages and liturgies. But nearly all serious theologies or philosophies admit human words simply cannot define the Divine. Therefore,…
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Write, Pray, Love
With apologies to John Keats (and Elizabeth Gilbert) It appears that writers cannot help thinking about writing. I suppose it’s analogous to sculptors thinking about carving marble, or musicians thinking about making melodies. But with writers, it’s amusing because we are thinking about words with, of course, words. It reminds me of television commercials advertising…
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Prophet Motives
It’s not always about the money. Gelt. Boodle. Scratch. Sugar. Loot. Photo by Dmitry Moraine on Unsplash A friend and I were talking recently about the urgent necessity of developing alternative energy sources when the friend said, matter-of-factly, “Of course, people have to be incentivized to do that development…” We’ve all heard this mantra a hundred times.…
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Damned Spring
Photo by Jordan Ladikos on Unsplash Chinooks, they say, for the last few days are blowing out windows, punching at trees,teasing of spring in the deadlock grim of winter;melting snow: powdering breaths of almost-summer,hale and evocative, driving me mad.In spring I know I’ve spent another season.Damned spring. I’ve never had much use for spring;don’t like it when it comes…
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