STILLNESS new essay
VIRTUE new essay
SEX new essay
R R R new essay, the three Rs in education are not enough ... a fourth R is required
RELIGIOUS new essay, what is a true religious experience?
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GUNS 2 new essay about the gun routine by stand-up comic Jim Jefferies, see blog 1054
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Edition 64
XXXIX new pages about blog 1052: Humanity’s Potential, based on the book THE PRECIPICE:
Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
AI new essay
LIE new essay
MEANING new essay
PRECIPICE new essay
ABORIGINAL new essay
BLACK, BLACK LIVES MATTER new essays
EINSTEIN added a footnote to E=mc2about the properties of energy
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HUMAN new essay, what is a human being?
RELIGION 3 updated, with new references re. the notion that only religion can provide ethics
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ARETE new essay
After reading Chris Hedges': WAR is a FORCE THAT GIVES US MEANING (bitterly poetic war journalism), I added these essays:
WAR 1, 2
WAR / PEACE-CONSCIOUSNESSI added a footnote re. WAR
PATRIOTISMI added a footnote re. WAR
LOVEI added a footnote re. WAR
SOLDIERSI added a footnote re. WAR
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MUSIC new essay
EINSTEIN added a definition for the theory of relativity
THE FUTURE 1 a re-write of THE FUTURE
After reading two new books (new for me) Jordan B. Peterson's 12 Rules For Life and Robert Wright's Why Buddhism Is True, I added to these essays:
BUDDHISM
HAPPINESS
JESUS
KNOW YOUR SELF
MEDITATION 3
XXXVIII
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ALTRUISM new essay
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Edition 59
XXXVIIIthe full text of my blog 1001, it’s an extended version of my essay THREE THOUSAND
XXXVII new page, blog 997, re. an article in the NYT by Richard Flanegan about the climate emergency
ALONE I added the idea of still ... being alone and still may lead to experiencing inner peace
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Edition 58
HOPE new essay
PEACE I re-wrote the footnotes to the essay, after I included the Stanislav Petrov incident
NOW new essay
SECULARISM new essay
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XXXVI new page with the email exchange that forms the background to pages XXXIV and XXXV
STOICISM added a footnote about Marcus Aurelius's book Meditations
SCRIPTURE amended essay and added footnotes about the Bible's content on homosexuals
(they shall surely be put to death ...) and husband and wives (the latter shall submit to the former)
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XXXV new page from blog 985, about religious indoctrination and the question:
What shall we tell the children
XXXIV I re-wrote page XXXIII about blog 958 Belief vs Reality
MEDITATION 3 I re-wrote the section about mindfulness meditation
BELIEF I added the footnote about believing in nothing
FAITH I added the footnote about the movie Hacksaw Ridge and Desmond Doss
BLASPHEMY a small update, with an immediate direction to THE TRUTH
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DHARMA new essay
PRESENCE new essay
XXIV new page from blog 932 Spirituality and Intellectual Honesty
XXVII I re-wrote the conditions of the First Filter
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QUALITY I re-wrote the essay
HAPPINESSadded a footnote about the difference in happiness for Buddhists and us Westeners
DAWKINSnew essay, about the scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins
DUALITYnew footnote about non-dualism in respect of calamities like the Holocaust
MONEYadded the last footnote, about a negative aspect of money
GOD 6added a section in the footnotes, about cardinal Pell's warped beliefs
XXXIIIamended the appendix page with blog 958 Belief vs Reality, referencing George Pell
COMPLEXITYnew essay, about the chaos in our lives
EXPECTATIONSmade changes, about how expectations are a trap
RENAISSANCE MANadded Stephen Fry,
the man who displays the effortless superiority that comes with being English
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Edition 53made many changes to formatting and punctuation
GNOSTICISMnew essay, gnostics believed in a world of duality
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Edition 52
THREETHOUSANDamended the time-line of the history of humankind after reading Sapiens
JESUSamended the footnotes with a reference to Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari
MONEY amended the footnotes with reference to Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari
FAITH added the story of Desmond Doss and Hacksaw Ridge
PANPSYCHISM new essay, panpsychism relates consciousness to the physical world
ETHICS added a section to the footnotes about the secular nature of ethics
QUALITY new essay with a definition of Quality, as per ZEN and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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Edition 51
KRISHNAMURTI added one last thought about meditation
MONEY added two paragraphs after reading The Barefoot Investor; amended my note re. Bob Proctor to: 'To help you feel rich, visit Bob at bobproctor.com'
REALITY 1 a new edit, to the last sentence: There is no God; the belief in the dogma of an interventionist God potentially causes violence and wars
XXXIIInew appendix page with blog 958 Belief vs Reality
PHILOSOPHYnew essaylisting my influences
STOICISMmade edits after I started reading The Daily Stoic
LGBTadded non-binary and cisgender
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FREE WILLadded a footnote about Albert Einstein's take on Free Will
HOLOCAUSTamended the definition for Zionism
MINDFULNESSnew essay
SATORIadded six + one paragraphs in the footnotes, about my inner experiences
XXVIIInew appendix page: an abbreviated version of blog 943 about the Fourth Filter
XXIXnew appendix page: an abbreviated version of blog 946 about Albert Einstein's "God Letter"
XXXnew appendix page: an abbreviated version of blog 949 about Albert Einstein's "Cosmic religion"
XXXIInew appendix page: an abbreviated version of blog 953 about Albert Einstein's "Weltbild"
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EINSTEIN, HAWKINGnew essay: Hawking
XXIVnew appendix page: an abbreviated version of blog 945 about The Sermon On The Mount
XXVIInew appendix page: an abbreviated version of blog 941 about the Great Filter
JESUSnew essay: Christians believe Jesus to be their Messiah, offering salvation & eternal life
REALITY 1new essay: There is no God, so there's no point fighting wars of which God is true
REALITY 4added footnotes with a comment by Krishnamurti, and after reading the book The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking: What is Reality?
SCRIPTUREadded a paragraph in the footnotes, about Jesus' Sermon On The Mount
THE FUTURE 2new essay: Will humanity survive?
CLIMATE CHANGE DENIALISMI added a mention of natural, Ice Age causing climate change
WHYI added three footnotes
XXVthis is the abbreviated version of my blog 938 about Leo Tolstoy and his take on the truth
XXXIII have re-introduced my UNITY page
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XVIIthis is a re-write of page 17 in the appendix, my abbreviated version of my blog 482 on truth
JAINISMmade a change referring to the Jain's concept of truth
THE TRUTH 3, 4new essays; combined with THE PATH
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THE PATHnew essay; also new:
XXIII The Path: At the feet of the Master; see also my blog 935
THE TRUTH 1, 2I combined the two essays on the one page, to make room for THE PATH
CREATIVITY, CRIME I added CREATIVITY, which I had deleted before
METAPHYSICS I made changes since I added CREATIVITY again
GOD 6 I added a second section with a reference to a Krishnamurti book, see also my blog 935
WISDOM I added another footnote, also with a reference to a Krishnamurti book
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KNOW YOUR SELF in the footnote, I added the very last sentence, "the self is a process"
MEDITATION 2 I added new footnotes, quotes from Krishnamurti and Osho, see also my blog 927
SPIRITUAL new footnote, about Spirituality and Intellectual Honesty, see also my blog 932
VEDANTA new footnote about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi & Transcendental Meditation, blog 931
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GOD 1 this is a re-write of the essay
I have re-instated the additional pages that were in the front of edition 37, they're now an appendix (I removed them after the Foreword Review, see my vlog of 16 March 2018). These are the pages:
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ATARAXIA added three paragraphs to the footnote, about how to learn happiness
EXPECTATIONSnew essay, about how they inhibit our personal freedom - bunched together with EVIL
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Edition 43
FREE-THINKING, FREE WILLtwo essays on the one page, FREE WILL is new, edited from WILL
DETACHMENTvideo added footnote about Comedians in Cars getting Coffee, + two more paragraphs about the news
WASATIAnew essay, about the Palestinian peace movement
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CHILDREN Saskia, Yani and Radjin
BLASPHEMYvideo added definition for 'oxymoron'
SATORI added quote by Virginia Woolf
RATIONALISMvideochanged the last sentence in the footnotes: Making the right choices
RELIGION 2videotwo paragraphs added at the bottom: Don't underrate one aspect of religion
VEGETARIANtwo paragraphs added to the footnote about the work of Jane Goodall
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FACTFULNESSvideonew essay, about two new books I have on order ... very exciting, see my blog 891
FACTFULNESS work in progress ... there's method in the madness
LIFEvideo new page; LIFE 1 & 2 combined and edited ... to make room for FACTFULNESS
GOD 3video edited the last sentence in the bottom section
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Edition 40
ALONEvideo two paragraphs added at the bottom
DEATH 3video two paragraphs added at the bottom: Who does the dead body belong to?
DELUSION, EGO ego is a new essay
DUALITY added second paragraph from the bottom ... "Indeed, it must be understood ..."
GOD 3video the bottom section with three new paragraphs and UNITY added
THE FUTURE three new paragraphs added at the bottom
WAR the bottom paragraph added, the one about what shall happen first when declaring war
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Edition 39
BLASPHEMYvideo new essay
CREATIVITY ... this essay has been deleted, to make room for BLASPHEMY; along with deleting Creativity, I've deleted the Nine Dots puzzle from my book (even though it was ever so pertinent on the EINSTEIN page)
GANDHI clarified comment on Gandhi's quotes
METAPHYSICS edited after CREATIVITY was deleted
REALITY 1 added comments at the bottom, three paragraphs
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