When you talk, you're broadcasting a pre-recorded message. This is because talking activates the motor cortex with learned patterns. So I'm saying that talking inherently involves prejudice and pre-conceived notions, neither of which involve thinking (in the sense of reflecting and understanding)

Thinking... to go Heidegger on it, means meeting "the world" in some psychic space between. You welcome in the world and allow it to be what it is... as opposed to telling it what it is. You allow yourself to be transformed... physically your eyeball really is changed by light,...

I jumped into reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra with the book reading group on this forum. The results were unexpected. I began to see Nietzche hiding in the nooks and crevices of modern thought. Through Walter Kaufman, I discovered that I'm not the only one to read his writings and think: oh I know where he got that from... only to discover that Nietzche either formulated the ideas independently, or more astonishingly... that it's the other way around: Nietzche was the actually the origin.

Ultimately, my travels through Nietzche's ideas ground to a halt as I discovered I'd had more...

Rudyard Kipling related a story about his meeting with Mark Twain. Kipling was expressing his appreciation for Tom Sawyer when Twain was prompted to explain that he was in the midst of rewriting it.

Taken aback, Kipling remarked: "You can't rewrite Tom Sawyer."

"Why not?" asked Twain. "It's my story. I can rewrite it if I want to."

Surely Kipling realized he was dealing with a goof ball. But what if Twain had been serious? Kipling was right. Tom Sawyer may have been the soul property of Mark Twain in the beginning, but...

There's a really good thread about this in the Off-Topic Forum. But since I grew up in the southeastern part of the US, I thought I'd BLOG about it anyway.

"Four score and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." -Abraham Lincoln

After the war there was a meeting of a civil rights group. The men in the group were trying to explain why the group needed to abandon women's rights. Not only did it undermine the credibility of the group,...