Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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My Role Models
Diverse talents are more appealing than focused ones. At my age it is more like to be Roll Model and I would call the sleepwell range of mattress. Seriously it always been the Renascence man who fascinated me. They are very different from the contemporary focus freak. The were like the dancing peacocks, spreading their…
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Dedication to the unknown soldier
The 11th Standard English text had a play I forgotten its name. The play was set between the two world wars. A scientist creates a bomb. He was boasting about it to his sister. The sister has just lost her son. When she sees her brother gloating she gets very upset that someone like him…
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country mouse
I rather gnaw bran than gnawed by fear What would I prefer the city or the country? Remember the fable we heard as kids? The country mouse and the town mouse. A town mouse or shall we say city mouse here, visits the country mouse. The country mouse treats him to the standard country fare…
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Mountains Versus Marathons
climbing a hill or running away may the wise Athena help. Patroclus’ arrow-injury bandaged by Achilles. Styled democratically á la Aristogeiton & Harmodius as γενειήτης (ἐραστής) & ὑπηνήτης. Marathon Vs mountain climbing. With Athena’s clear thinking let us look at the pros and cons and make a wise decision. Whether it makes sense to run…
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