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Adventures with Rev. Arthur at Founder’s

Hyatt Carter During our 21-year stay in Southern California, my wife Linda and I enjoyed many adventures. Two of those adventures were of special importance. First, our finding of Founder’s Center for Positive Spirituality and becoming part of that community under the inspiring leadership of Senior Minister Rev. Dr. Arthur Chang whom I sometimes refer… Continue reading Adventures with Rev. Arthur at Founder’s

Liuhebafa (六合八法)

Liùhébāfǎ (六合八法) I’ve just begun looking into a form of Qigong called Liuhebafa (六合八法). In a primary text it is said that . . . The essence of our mind-intention art is that the six unions provide the theory.吾宗心意法。六合為體。 . . . and then gives this interesting progression: 六合The Six Unions （一）體合於心1. Body unites with… Continue reading Liuhebafa (六合八法)

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The Philosophers at Finnegans Wake

The Philosophers at Finnegans Wake The following are sixty-five (plus one) philosophers present at the Wake. They appear here chronologically by date of birth. Several associates of philosophy are included, such as Darwin, Freud, and Einstein, as they have had significant influence on philosophy. Numbers following the names represent page and line numbers in FW.… Continue reading The Philosophers at Finnegans Wake

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A Ba-ba-babble-ing Song

A No-No Nse-Nse by Bā-bē I’ll sing for Thee a simple song,That You may listen all day long: May I wonder all wise humblehow a bee so wee can bumbleor a bug in glee can tumbleand wind in a seashell mumbleawesome thunder roar and rumblelightning zigzag hiss and grumblelofty mountains rise and crumblesummer storms jostle… Continue reading A Ba-ba-babble-ing Song

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Muddleheaded and Simpleminded

How is it that people, even very smart people, even people of genius, can come to hold radically contrasting worldviews? Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, two pivotal intellectual figures of the 20th century whose fundamental views were as different as night and day, present an illustrative case. In their younger days, Whitehead and Russell… Continue reading Muddleheaded and Simpleminded

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The Lord’s Prayer in Wakese

“Let outers pray” (482.18):oura vatarsthat arred in Himmal,harruad bathar namas, (599.5-6)In kingdome goneor power to comeor gloria be to them farther? (213.31-32Bring us this days our maily bag! (603.7-8)the foregiver of trosstpassers (345.28)I have not left temptation (311.13)That they take no chill (259.5)Forsin. Thy thingdome (18.21)in guilt and in glory (627.23-24)her heavens for ever (29.14)… Continue reading The Lord’s Prayer in Wakese

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How Bugs Bunny Got His Name

The famous name was accidental. In 1938, when almost the only well-defined character on the lot was Porky Pig, a director who answered to Bugs Hardaway thought a rabbit might play nicely opposite Porky, and commissioned one from the resident character designer. The designer, a Disney alumnus named Charles Thorson, sent back a model sheet… Continue reading How Bugs Bunny Got His Name

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Not One. Not Two.

Hyatt Carter A controversial topic in philosophy is the so-called mind-body problem.1  For the materialist, who claims that matter is the only reality, the mind can be reduced to chemical or electrical processes of the brain. The pure idealist, on the other hand, turns in exactly the opposite direction, with his claim that the ideal… Continue reading Not One. Not Two.

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