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·Oct 14, 2018

Formulating Modern Purpose: Part 2

The Most Relevant Unknown — We manufacture our own purposes to suit our own psychologies. While day-to-day purpose is relatively easy to create and provides some satisfaction, it isn’t sustainable; psychologically, it’s too easy to see past. Purpose that sustains ‘beyond-the-horizon’ is much more challenging to conceive. Three premises to consider: 1. No matter how large-scale, projects with expected results fail to satisfy purpose ‘beyond-the-horizon’.

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Formulating Modern Purpose
Formulating Modern Purpose
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·Aug 26, 2018

Formulating Modern Purpose: Part 1

Projects vs. Platforms — During the first era of humanity’s tenure, surviving moment-to-moment involved such an overwhelming effort that contemplating the problem of purpose was rarely on the foreground of anyone’s mind. The global emergence of deification provided a cornerstone for purpose that dominated most of recorded history. More recently, Nietzsche declared the death…

Purpose

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Formulating Modern Purpose: Part 1
Formulating Modern Purpose: Part 1
Purpose

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Aug 20, 2018

The Case for Anthropocentrism

Why humanity is the priority, not the parasite. — It is often said of humanity that we are like a plague on the life of Earth. Had we never evolved, proliferated and grown to exploit natural resources on a massive scale, life would not now be experiencing its sixth mass extinction; what a tragedy that the most incredible natural…

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The Case for Anthropocentrism
The Case for Anthropocentrism
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Aug 20, 2018

Is Sexuality an Irrational Tragedy?

The Porcupine Argument — Abstract Although it isn’t possible to select what it is we sexually desire, it is at least possible to be aware of how our thinking is overtly influenced by archaic evolutionary programming. The amount of time and energy sexual desires have cost people is vast. Our otherwise beautifully curious, exploratory, artistic…

Sexuality

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Is Sexuality an Irrational Tragedy?
Is Sexuality an Irrational Tragedy?
Sexuality

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Steven ten Holder

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