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Category: What Is History Meaning?
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Is it Really about Being Radical or Not?
ID 9805130 © Chelovek | Dreamstime.com It is a big news day. As I write this blog, the Impeachment Vote is being carried out in the United States House of Representatives. It is a radical action; an action that seeks the root intention of the American constitutional writers, a few centuries ago. Earlier I…
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Mapping Locations on the Mind-Brain Belief Spectrum
Here is a graph where a person can map their own beliefs on questions of mind-brain, and map the positioning of other thinkers across the past-present-future continuum. The movement from left to right are possibilities of belief from an unquestioning supernaturalism to an empty materialism. Supernaturalism hangs on the ancient idea…
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Typical Pathways of Belief
The meaning of history is entangled in the inherited orthodoxies of childhood, along with pathways which better and creative thinkers search out. The conventional and dull thinker will dwell in the security of old dogmas. Most believers do not wander far from home, but often are in the territory of heterodoxy unawares — deviation from…
