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Should we let sleeping dogs lie?
To not would make you a bit of a dick. But it’s also fairly standard practice to wake up a dog, because they tend to find the best places to sit quite naturally. But then you end up with those...
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Should we let sleeping gods lie?
I always preferred mythologies, religions and fantasy novels that had pantheons of gods to ones that just had one almighty ineffable creator. There’s something naturally (and relatively reasonably)...
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Have we become human doings rather than human beings?
First. Let me share with you a trick that makes the world a better place. Whenever I see the word ‘doing’ I try to pronounce it phonetically, to rhyme with ‘boing’ (the onomatopoeic word for a bouncy...
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Do you know where you’re going to?
On some level, I’m aware that I’m a mote on the surface of a giant spinning ball, that’s curling an immense circle around an even bigger giant ball (this time fiery) that is actually spinning around...
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Is silence golden?
I spent two minutes alone in bed in silence this morning. I mean, technically, I spent a lot longer than that in bed in silence today, and debatably, I wasn’t in silence, as I left some musical...
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Who?
Everyone. Fundamentally. The thing to remember about consciousness, is that while it feels unique, it is clearly everywhere (or possibly nowhere at all, and that’s a thought to bleak to contemplate)....
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Where?
I think the answer is supposed to be ‘wherever I lay my hat’, but I may actually be more rooted than I’d dream. A lot more rooted. It’s hard to say, because I’ve not moved around much. I’ve lived in...
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When?
I’ve already been putting this off for half an hour. The time is always now, but so much can be put off indefinitely, that it becomes irresistable. We cede control of our time to immediate whim, and...
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Why?
Most of the time when people ask why, they mean how. If they don’t, they are leaping out of the realm of the provable and into guesswork. A why question asks for an opinion on something unknowable. An...
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WTF?
Get used to it. The world is consistently and inherently that ridiculous. This doesn’t mean that everything is okay, but it means that you probably shouldn’t be so surprised. The sheer quantity of...
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