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thought wave Reason and Conscience: A Schizoaffective Struggle Part II
I have been working on an autobiographical novel about myself and my trials and tribulation with a mental illness I have. I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. This is likened to a psychosis which involves bi-polar disorder and schizophrenia. I was intending to publish a book when it was finished but I decided to break it up in parts and publish in on zowiewowie.com, my e-zine. I think I can still publish the book and there is much more to write about as I have expanded my journal with great intensity and profound thoughts since then. The most recent parts of my journal, including my weekend retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani, will be release in an article I am working on called Noesis Episteme: the Search for Truth in Knowing. Please click to continue to read my tragic story and how I came to be the person I am today, and how this website came into being. The title of my book is Reason and Conscience: A Schizoaffective Struggle. My older brother is the first in the family to be diagnoised with Paranoid Scizophrenia. He murdered my father, Richard Webb, in Savannah Georgia, claiming it was self defense. You can click on the link to read the next chapter, but you can also view the actual newspaper releases from 1995 when this happened. They will also be available at the end of the chapter.
Book Cover for Reason and Conscience: Not Published
I have. I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. This is likened to a psychosis which involves bi-polar disorder and schizophrenia. I was intending to publish a book when it was finished but I decided to break it up in parts and publish in on zowiewowie.com, my e-zine. I think I can still publish the book and there is much more to write about as I have expanded my journal with great intensity and profound thoughts since then. The most recent parts of my journal, including my weekend retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani, will be release in an article I am working on called Noesis Episteme: the Search for Truth in Knowing. Please click to continue to read my tragic story and how I came to be the person I am today, and how this website came into being. The title of my book is Reason and Conscience: A Schizoaffective Struggle.
observe A Good Man is Hard to Find "I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic," Flannery writes. "The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism... when I see these stories described as horror stories I am always amused because the reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror."
Click here to find out how this was made and to read the full short story by Flannery O'Connor.
Feb 1, 2012, 03:00:00
observe Cultural Determination: Simply a Race Issue?
I am a woman, who happens to be white. I possess my own personal cultural identity, but our society does not classify it as being “white.” I am hesitant to refer to culture as being either white or black because to stereotypically label it limits the depth of understanding the complex nature of culture in its entirety. Culture cannot simply be referred to as a race issue and I am consequent proof of that. Within our melting pot of a Nation, the personified ingredients have blended and one’s culture is no longer strictly determined by the color of their skin. As a grown woman, the forming of my own personal ideas, customs, and beliefs has had less to do with the color of my skin and more to do with my individual life realities, which have exposed me to a diversity of people and places. Within our society, the cultural aspects of a variety of races are expressed, but the prevailing issue here lies in the question: how much of culture is actually determined by race? If a white child is born and raised in the conditions which are usually misconceived as belonging to black culture, of which culture does the child belong? The lines have been blurred and other characteristics, such as class stature, geographic location, and social mentality are as much of a cultural determinate as race, if not more.
transmit What Gender Means For a Woman of Today
So here it is…another day into the night of a survivor, independent, super woman and all I feel like doing when I come home is to pick up something to eat (because I can't cook) and be told to be quiet and come to bed where I am forcefully made love to. The conquer becomes the conquest then falls soundly asleep and rests in order to take over the world by day only to surrender to it at night. Ah, the life of a strong and fulfilled woman in today's society. What bliss, we have the power and opportunity (that is, if we claim it) to conquer or forfeit accordingly to our very own personal taste. Although I wouldn't have it any other way, this daily transitioning of roles can be a bit overwhelming.
thought wave Problem I: Is there such a thing as a teleological suspension of the ethical?
Kierkegaard presented the cause of pain and suffering in the chapter The Unhappiest One, in one of his major works Either/Or. He also classified different types of unhappiness in Either/Or. There are three conditions of unhappiness revealed in the Text of The Unhappiest One. All conditions of unhappiness occur when the individual in sorrow is absent from himself/herself, as he writes, “So the unhappy one is absent...either when living in the past or living in the future.”
The first condition is the one disposed to remembering the past; this happy individual weeps for the past and has lost all sight of hope. The text expounds this condition of happiness in the example of a girl weeping over an unfaithful love. “...she loved him with all her soul, with all her heart, and all her mind — she can remember then, and sorrow.” This individual of mourning is the one whose existence resides in the past.
The second condition is the hoping individual. In the text he writes that the hoping individual is unhappy when the “...hoping individual would have a future which can have no reality for him...” Also, he writes that “hoping individuals always have a more gratifying disappointment,” and that “[t]he unhappy hoping individual was not able to be present to himself in his hope, similarly with the unhappy thinker.”
The third condition is the unhappiest one, who has both the vices of hope and memory of the past working to produce his despair. This is also an illustration of Abrahams "leap of faith" in the text Fear and Trembling, where we see that the paradox of faith presents a "teleological suspension of the ethical".
How does this relate to Islamic extremist? How does it compare to ethical or tragic hero? Are the writings of the great proto-existentialist thinker Søren Kierkegaard relevant to the current times?
We present the first problem from the early writings of Fear and Trembling which examines the faith of Abraham and duty to God's will.
Main Entry: tel·e·o·log·i·cal
Variant(s): also tel·e·o·log·ic
Function: adjective
: exhibiting or relating to design or purpose especially in nature
- tel·e·o·log·i·cal·ly adverb
Feb 4, 2006, 21:44:00
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The Evolution of Consciousness: Owen Barfield
Owen Barfield (9 November 1898 – 14 December 1997) was a British philosopher, author, poet, and critic.
Owen Barfield
Barfield was born in London. He was educated at Highgate School and Wadham College, Oxford and in 1920 received a 1st class degree in English language and literature. After finishing his B. Litt., which became the book Poetic Diction, he worked as a solicitor. Because of his career as a solicitor, Barfield contributed to philosophy as a non-academic, publishing numerous essays, books, and articles. His primary focus was on what he called the "evolution of consciousness," which is an idea which occurs frequently in his writings. He is most famous today as a friend of C. S. Lewis and as the author of Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry.
Barfield met Lewis in 1919. In 1923 he married the stage designer Maud Douie. They adopted three children: Alexander, Lucy, and Geoffrey. Lewis wrote his 1949 book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for Lucy Barfield and he dedicated The Voyage of the Dawn Treader to her brother Geoffrey in 1952. Barfield died in Forest Row in Sussex.
The InklingsBarfield has been known as "the first and last Inkling". He was one of the founding members of the Inklings literary discussion group based in Oxford. He had a strong influence on C. S. Lewis,[3] and, through his book Poetic Diction, an appreciable effect on J. R. R. Tolkien. Lewis was a good friend of Barfield since 1919, and termed Barfield "the best and wisest of my unofficial teachers". That Barfield did not consider philosophy merely intellectually is illustrated by a well-known interchange that took place between Lewis and Barfield. Lewis one day made the mistake of referring to philosophy as "a subject." "It wasn't a subject to Plato," said Barfield, "It was a way."[5] Lewis refers to Barfield as the "Second Friend" in Surprised by Joy:
But the Second Friend is the man who disagrees with you about everything. He is not so much the alter ego as the antiself. Of course he shares your interests; otherwise he would not become your friend at all. But he has approached them all at a different angle. He has read all the right books but has got the wrong thing out of every one. It is as if he spoke your language but mispronounced it. How can he be so nearly right and yet, invariably, just not right?
Saving the Appearances: A Study in IdolatryMain article: Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry
Saving the Appearances explores some three thousand years of history—particularly the history of human consciousness. Barfield argues that the evolution of nature is inseparable from the evolution of consciousness. What we call matter interacts with mind and wouldn't exist without it. In the Barfield's lexicon, there is an "unrepresented" underlying base of reality that is extra-mental. This is comparable to Kant's notion of the "noumenal world".[17]
Similar conclusions have been made by others, and the book has influenced, for example, the physicist Stephen Edelglass (who wrote The Marriage of Sense and Thought), and the Christian existentialist philosopher Gabriel Marcel, who wanted the book to be translated into French.
Barfield points out that the "real" world of physics and particles is completely different from the world we see and live in of things with properties.
In our critical thinking as physicists or philosophers, we imagine ourselves set over against an objective world consisting of particles, in which we do not participate at all. In contrast, the phenomenal, or familiar, world is said to be riddled with our subjectivity. In our daily, uncritical thinking, on the other hand, we take for granted the solid, objective reality of the familiar world, assume an objective, lawful manifestation of its qualities such as color, sound, and solidity, and even write natural scientific treatises about the history of its phenomena—all while ignoring the human consciousness that (by our own, critical account) determines these phenomena from the inside in a continually changing way.[19]
The particle world of physics is independent of human thought, and only indirectly accessible to humans. The world we see and perceive directly is dependent on and alterable by human thought (this is not to say there aren't or are limits.) Both are 'real' or 'unreal' depending on the meaning of real; this change over time in human thought is exactly Barfield's point.
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The Internet today is undeniably global, but it began in the United States and its foundations were laid in English. All domain names for over 30 years have been made exclusively out of the English alphabet, hyphens, and numbers. Every domain! Convenient for native English speakers, but that's less than 10% of the world's population. The language barrier has been one of the few factors limiting growth of the Internet.
The fact of the matter is that what English-speaking users of the Internet consider to BE the Internet, is just the tip of the iceberg! There’s a much bigger Internet the rest of the world is using and they'd like to get on it in their own language.
Imagine if you wanted to access the Internet, but you didn't read or write English. What if you had to type in foreign letters to be able to reach any website directly? Wouldn't that be frustrating?
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Viral Thought: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective
Evolutionary Psychology is the study of evolutionary biology and cognitive psychology. In terms of strategies
Sexual Selection and Memes
in human mating, evolutionary psychology seeks to provide the ultimate theoretical explanations of why certain traits are selected over others. The components of sexual selections assert that females are the selectors of such traits in males. Through natural variation, evolutionary theory implies that traits appear in an organism because of natural selection. Through fitness, number of offspring, these traits carry on through genotype. The same process must follow for memes to propagate. Why are certain memes selected for and some or not. Are there good memes and are there bad memes. Think about this and follow the link for a further explanation of Evolutionary Psychology.
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Feb 6, 2012, 09:46:00
I have been on a long journey since my father, Sir Anthony Berry MP, was killed by the IRA in the bombing of the 1984 Tory Party
conference in Brighton.
In the days after the bomb I wanted to somehow bring something positive out of the tragedy and began a journey of healing.
The last 25 years have been full of learnings and remarkable experiences
In November 2000 I met Pat Magee, the man responsible for planting the bomb and we have now become friends. For me, the question is about whether I can let go of my need to blame, and open my heart enough to hear Pat's story and understand his motivations. The truth is that, sometimes I can and sometimes I can’t and this choice is always there.
I wanted to meet Pat, to hear his story and see him as a real human being. At our first meeting I was terrified but as soon as we met we talked with an extraordinary intensity. I shared a lot about my father, while Pat told me some of his story. I realised half way through that first meeting that I was at the beginning of another journey.
I still have feelings that are painful. I still get angry but I have learnt that these feelings can be transformed into passion for change. My passion for change starts with me wanting to stop the cycle of violence and revenge in me and has grown into helping create a world in which violence is not seen as a viable way of resolving conflict.
My commitment is to see the humanity in everyone. Building Bridges for Peace is now a umbrella for all the work that I do to participate in creating a peaceful world.
-- Jo Berry
My commitment is to see the humanity in everyone.
Jo Berry
The spur to continue comes from all the feedback we get - people who say it has moved them and caused them to think deeply.
Helping to understand the roots of war, terrorism and violence.
Our Mission
To advance the education of the public in the understanding of the roots of war, terrorism and violence, and to promote dialogue and mediation or other non-violent expedients as the means of peace in situations of conflict.
Our Vision
A world which has moved beyond the concept of ‘enemy’ - a world where the dignity and validity of all humanity is respected
Workshops
We facilitate workshops where dialogue happens with opposing groups
We offer workshops in schools, prisons, universities on non violence
We offer workshops in conflict resolution internationally where there is conflict
Conferences
Create peace conferences where there can be examples of non violence working to resolve violence and workshops in conflict resolution
Promote alternatives to violence
Training
We offer training in facilitating dialogue between victim/victimisers .
Dialogue
Facilitate meetings between victims and 'enemies'
"I think it is good therapy for individuals like Pat and Jo to tell their stories. Finding out the truth from those stories is a key to heal the wounds. Healing comes through understanding and a realisation that my humanity is inextricably caught up in yours - no matter what terrible things you might have done."
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Madonna's superbowl half time show
Madonna's half time show was surprisingly very eloquent and tasteful in the name of world peace. Watch as she reinvents herself and her music.
But during the show, it is reported the the artist M.I.A. displays her middle finger (bird). Below is the picture. It is either the middle finger or the index finger. You Decide.
M.I.A: Middle Finger?
Feb 5, 2012, 22:12:00
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Batman: Anarky (1999) "(Anarky is) a philosophical action hero, an Aristotle in tights, rising above mere "crime-fighter" status into the realm of incisive social commentary."
Norm Breyfogle,
Batman: Anarky introduction, June 1998
Batman: Anarky is a 1999 trade paperback published by DC Comics. The book collects prominent appearances of Anarky, a comic book character created by Alan Grant and Norm
Batman: Anarky (1999)
Breyfogle. Although all of the collected stories were written by Alan Grant, various artists contributed to individual stories. Dual introductions were written by the creators — both of whom introduce the character and give insight into their role in Anarky's creation and development.
Featured as an antagonist in various Batman comics during the '90s, stories based on the character were highly thematic, political, and philosophical in tone. The majority of the collected stories ("Anarky in Gotham City", "Anarky: Tomorrow Belongs to Us", "Anarky") are influenced by the philosophy of anarchism, while the final story ("Metamorphosis") is influenced by Neo-Tech. Although anti-statism is the overarching theme of the collection, other concepts are explored. Anarky's characterization was expanded throughout the stories to present him first as a libertarian socialist and anarchist, and in the final story as a vehicle for explorations into atheism, rationalism, and bicameralism. Literary references are also utilized throughout the collected stories to stress the philosophical foundations of the character. The collection also tracks the character's evolution from a petty, street-crime fighting vigilante, to a competent freedom fighter in opposition to powerful forces of evil.
Critics have positively received some of the stories within the collection, analyzing Anarky as a unique force for political commentary and discussion within DC Comics' storytelling. However, the expansive growth of the character's unique abilities and characterization has also fueled criticism as having overpowered the character beyond suspension of disbelief.
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Feb 4, 2012, 10:43:00
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