01 OCT 2022 by ideonexus
Third place
Oldenburg calls one's "first place" the home and the people the person lives with. The "second place" is the workplace—where people may actually spend most of their time. Third places, then, are "anchors" of community life and facilitate and foster broader, more creative interaction.[1] In other words, "your third place is where you relax in public, where you encounter familiar faces and make new acquaintances."[2]
Other scholars have summarized Oldenburg's view of a third place with eight...Folksonomies: community
Folksonomies: community
25 MAR 2022 by ideonexus
Ten Golden Rules of Go
Tan Bu De Sheng (贪不得胜) - The greedy do not get success
Ru Jie Yi Huan (入界宜缓) - Be unhurried to enter opponent´s territory
Gong Bi Gu Wo (攻彼顾我) - Take care of oneself when attacking the other
Qi Zi Zheng Xian (弃子争先) - Discard a stone to gain sente
She Xiao Jiu Da (舍小就大) - Abandon small to save big
Feng Wei Xu Qi (逢危须弃) - When in danger, sacrifice
Shen Wu Qing Su (慎勿轻速) - Make thick shape, avoid hast...16 DEC 2021 by ideonexus
Subjected Under the Guise of Freedom
Any disciplinary power that expends effort to force human beings into a straitjacket of commandments and prohibitions proves inefficient. It is significantly more efficient to ensure that people subordinate themselves to domination on their own. The efficacy defining the system today stems from the fact that, instead of operating through prohibition and privation, it aims to please and fulfill. Instead of making people compliant, it endeavors to make them dependent. This logic of neoliberal...People freely subject themselves to oppression in return for satisfying their addictions. Because the oppression is not overt, like in a police state, people blame themselves and not the system for their dissatisfactions.
18 NOV 2021 by ideonexus
Personal Growth is Not Hoarding Knowledge
Personal growth is about figuring things out and gaining experience, not hoarding knowledge. An attitude that promotes discovering the new and the valuable is far more important. Thus, your tactics and strategy should always be changing and evolving. Adopt fresh tactics regularly to replace your old ones. Today is more important than yesterday.
What's yours is not the new technique, but rather the effort that goes into unearthing it. Knowing what's needed to make those discoveries will allow...Folksonomies: self-improvement
Folksonomies: self-improvement
17 OCT 2021 by ideonexus
We Would Lose Sleep Over the Loss of a Finger, but Not th...
Let us suppose that the great empire of China, with all its myriads of inhabitants, was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake, and let us consider how a man of humanity in Europe, who had no sort of connection with that part of the world, would be affected upon receiving intelligence of this dreadful calamity. He would, I imagine, first of all express very strongly his sorrow for the misfortune of that unhappy people, he would make many melancholy reflections upon the precarious-ness of huma...Folksonomies: morality
Folksonomies: morality
17 OCT 2021 by ideonexus
The Moral of the Bees
Then leave Complaints: Fools only strive
To make a Great an honest Hive.
T’ enjoy the World’s Conveniencies,
Be famed in War, yet live in Ease
Without great Vices, is a vain
Eutopia seated in the Brain.
Fraud, Luxury, and Pride must live
Whilst we the Benefits receive.
Hunger’s a dreadful Plague, no doubt,
Yet who digests or thrives without?
Do we not owe the Growth of Wine
To the dry shabby crooked Vine?
Which, whilst its Shutes neglected stood,
Choak’d other Plants, and ran to Wood;...Folksonomies: social commentary
Folksonomies: social commentary
17 OCT 2021 by ideonexus
Corporal Punishment in Education
1. He that has not a mastery over his inclinations, he that knows not how to resist the importunity of present pleasure or pain, for the sake of what reason tells him is fit to be done, wants the true principle of virtue and industry; and is in danger of never being good for any thing. This temper, therefore, so contrary to unguided nature, is to be got betimes; and this habit, as the true foundation of future ability and happiness, is to be wrought into the mind, as early as may be, even fro...Folksonomies: education
Folksonomies: education
14 OCT 2021 by ideonexus
Temple of Reason 2/2
At the foot of the mountain, pure water flowed from a spring, falling by various cascades; twelve men dressed as mountaineers, armed with pikes and with civic crowns on their heads, were hidden in caverns in the mountain; as the procession arrived, singing the last couplet of the Marseillaise, the mountaineers quietly came out of their caverns without fully revealing themselves, and when “Aux armes, citoyens” was sung, they ran to get axes to defend their retreat, posted themselves on di...14 OCT 2021 by ideonexus
I Think, Therefore I Am
I had long before remarked that, in relation to practice, it is sometimes necessary to adopt, as if above doubt, opinions which we discern to be highly uncertain, as has been already said; but as I then desired to give my attention solely to the search after truth, I thought that a procedure exactly the opposite was called for, and that I ought to reject as absolutely false all opinions in regard to which I could suppose the least ground for doubt, in order to ascertain whether after that the...Folksonomies: philosophy metaphysics
Folksonomies: philosophy metaphysics
The first paragraph is sound, but then the conclusions drawn in the second are not.
28 FEB 2021 by ideonexus