Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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You Are More Than Just Your Body
What is the body? The body is our vehicle for this life, it’s the ship we sail through our experiences. It’s what we feel everything through; it’s what carries us. It’s what causes us pain when the journey comes to an end. That’s the one caveat about this beautiful life. We get to use these […]
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Oh… those judgmental people
I think I’ve written on this before in some form, but the idea that people in our lives are often just symbols is a powerful concept, and really can’t have enough attention. At extremes, we’re looking at prejudice and racism when we talk about this particular topic, but at a moderate level, this is something […]
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Staring At Rocks For Answers
There’s an ancient ‘trick’ that shamans would use to find answers to things. They called it “rock staring”. And, as the name implies, you would stare at a rock until you saw ‘something’ in the rock, and then after determining what that ‘something’ is, you interpret what it means. Then you spin the rock 45 […]
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There's Only So Much That Can Be New At Once
The marketplace is always evolving. Over the past three years, I’ve experimented with various online backup services. I recently started with a new one that addresses concerns that a number of the currently-popular ones have. The key point here is that this new service would not have been able to be successful three years ago, […]
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When Cartoons Become Religious Icons
What is life, but that which we experience with our senses? And what do we sense but that which surrounds our body? I once knew a man who guided people through visual meditations, he called them ‘journeys’. He had a process for these journeys in which if it was a person’s first time, that person’s […]
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The Sun Invaded My Dream
This morning I woke up out of a dream in which I was running around a lake. During that run, the sun was beating down really hot into my eyes. The sun became so hot and aggravating on my eyes that it became the purpose of the dream, it became what I was focusing on, […]
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Of Love & Commerce
How much love is there in commerce? Obviously, we all know the phrase “it’s just business”, implying that there can be no compassion, no emotion, when it comes to doing business. Forget business, let’s talk about commerce. Means the same thing, but has a different connotation. You “do business” but “engage in commerce”. Commerce is […]
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How To Love Everyone in the World
All you need is just one person you already love. If you’re there, then each person you meet, just pretend they’re the person you already love, and soon you’ll be in love with that new person. Then, each time you meet a new person, just pretend they’re always the people you already love. When a […]
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When Love of God Goes Hateful
Love is interesting in its spiritual significance. Ok, that’s an awkward phrasing, or at least over-intellectualized. But when you use big words, you can’t help but sound heady. Ah well, big words are fun. Anyway, onto the matter at hand: Love & God. You know, I wanted to write about some kind of insightful notion […]
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