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Category: philosophy

Happy, happy, happy

by Britni Pepper24 May 2019 1 Comment

My view of the world includes distinctions between words others might regard as equivalent. Mind, brain, consciousness, intellect: all very different things to me in my perception.So too with the concepts of pleasure, happiness, and bliss.As a writer of erotica,…

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erotica, life, love, philosophybliss, happiness, orgasm, pleasure, smile

Scratching the clouds

by Britni Pepper20 May 2019 1 Comment

Looking back to Plato and Aristotle with their competing views of the cosmos, Aristotle reckoned that what we see is what we get; the universe is merely those things we may perceive.His teacher Plato thought that there was a framework…

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philosophyforms, Plato, Plotinus, reality

Eyes on the Overworld

by Britni Pepper17 May 2019 1 Comment

There are the two views of looking at the cosmos I mentioned earlier. There is the view of Aristotle, that the physical world is all there is. Anything more complex or divine than what we can see and touch and…

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life, philosophyAristotle, consciousness, divine, god, Plato, Thor

The log

by Britni Pepper15 May 201915 May 2019 2 Comments

Everyone knows Raphael's painting The School of Athens. It is a fresco in the Vatican, illustrating philosophy, by showing one great big happy cocktail party with all the ancient philosophers.I had a background in classic science fiction, and one of…

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philosophyAristotle, forms, pi, Plato, reality

The One thing

by Britni Pepper12 May 2019 Leave a comment

My adult life has been one of travel. I've been lucky enough to circle the globe many times, and to travel to Europe and America more times than I can count. I try to seek out sites of history, of…

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art, life, philosophy, travelAyasofya, parthenon, religion, temple

The One, part two

by Britni Pepper11 May 2019 1 Comment

In my previous post, I sketched out Pascal's Wager, and commented a little on why the cosmos must be more complex than our thoughts about it.I was moved to comment by this endearingly earnest post in a blog I follow.…

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philosophyAbsolute, Good, One, Plato, Plotinus

The One

by Britni Pepper11 May 2019 1 Comment

There is a philosophical argument that first arose in Western thought in the Seventeenth Century: God exists or does not exist. We cannot determine which is true by thought alone.There are two outcomes at death: Heaven or HellYou must choose…

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philosophyTao te Ching

Cross and bothered

by Britni Pepper6 May 2019 1 Comment

Yesterday, I talked about how a national flag could be used as a symbol of hatred. Hatred towards immigrants, hatred towards the rest of the world. If someone displays an American flag icon prominently on their social media talk page,…

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life, love, philosophy, social mediaChrist, Christianity, Good Samaritan, Jesus

OK never

by Britni Pepper25 April 201918 April 2019 Leave a comment

A Twitter friend of mine - a very talented writer by the name of Jacinta Horgan - put me on to a book called The Exact Opposite of Okay by Laura Steven. This Young Adult novel is as powerful and…

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life, philosophy, reading, reviewgender, high school, Laura Steven, MeToo, sex, YA

Are you Greek?

by Britni Pepper23 April 201922 April 2019 4 Comments

At a conference in Delphi - we were studying The Sophist, which turned my brain into spaghetti, with Plotinus and Sophocles* for light relief – our dialectic professor asked me at the evening plenary, "Tell me, are you an Australian?""Yes,…

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life, philosophy, social mediaAustralian, Delphi, ego, Irish, self, twitter

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