“There is Nothing but Immortality!”: Walt Whitman and The Book of Heavenly Death (1905)
Choice excerpts from *Leaves of Grass* that speak to Whitman’s conception of immortality.
From The Public Domain Review
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Wander the web like a shoreline.
Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
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Self-Esteem Requires No Permission
“A man who decides to live by his own internal code must first make his peace with being hated by those who survive on permission.” — Yukio Mishima Follow Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Charleston … Continue reading → The post Self-Esteem Requires No Permission appeared first on…
From Kagi Small Web
What the Favor Authorizes
A giver can acknowledge every repayment while keeping the power to decide that none of it earns you the right to refuse.
From Kagi Small Web
A Philosopher Wants Researchers to Stop Saying Psychedelics Dissolve the Self
Some people on psychedelics say their sense of self vanished completely, but their own words, read closely, could describe several different changes.
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Hazel Weakly
I have thoughts, lots of thoughts. They never stop thinking. Never stop thunking.
From personalsit.es
SHORTS (4) ‘Professor Van Norden, Western philosophy is not racist’
A short analysis and summary of my essay. Photo by the author. Source
From Kagi Small Web
FixMakeMod
Where broken things have feelings, tools have tempers, and right-to-repair meets Saturday morning cartoons
From personalsit.es
How religions evolved? Charts, Maps, Citations
A family tree of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism on one chart: 180 dated firsts, 140 branches and schisms, each dated by its first surviving evidence and linked to the cited chapter. Free poster, CC BY.
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Up & Down the Ladder of Abstraction
a systemic guide to interactive visualization
From Explorable Explanations
Jens Oliver Meiert
I’m Jens Oliver Meiert, and I’m an engineering lead, guerrilla philosopher, and indie publisher. I specialize in the craft of frontend development, write tech and non-tech books, and love trying things out. Follow my work on meiert.com.
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Ronnie's Casino and the Nature of Reality
an interactive exploration of bell's theorem
From Explorable Explanations
The Alchemical Transformations of the Mutus Liber (1677)
Carl Jung’s copy of the “mute book”, an alchemical manual charting (through a series of images) the “humid way” of forging the Philosopher’s Stone.
From The Public Domain Review
An inanimate object cannot pray.
shakespeares-gm: maidthings: loveofhumanity: My new startup Psimoni will contract out cloud computing to do this at 26k ourfathers/min for just $15 a month @heresylog thoughts? An inanimate object cannot pray.
From Kagi Small Web
Epistemic Injustice: When Knowledge Is Unfairly Dismissed
An invitation to speak does not guarantee that our knowledge will receive fair consideration. Epistemic injustice examines how prejudice and unequal power shape whose testimony counts, whose experiences become understandable, and whether a contribution can influence what others investigate or…
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jan’s thoughts
Heyo 👀 My name is Jan. I’m a human who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. What’s this all about? When you’re reading this, you’ve entered my personal internet playground. Welcome, please come in, have a seat and a cup of fresh coffee. This is where I come to collect and express my thoughts, as well as…
From personalsit.es
Pray in the Middle of the Song
You know prayer matters, but it's become one more thing you're behind on. Paul says pray on all occasions with all kinds of prayers, so the hallway, the drive home, and the empty conference room all count. Here's how to keep the conversation going all day, for yourself and for your team.
From Kagi Small Web
Going by; Laughing; Living.
Do you hear all this noise? It's frightening. The sky is pink, and orange, and yellow all washed-out by the grey of the clouds. A group of people is going by, they are laughing, they are living. And I wonder how. I'm trying to understand, how can I go by? How can I laugh? How can I live? Why aren't…
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hypersubject.net
Hi! I’m ege. Welcome to my corner of cyberspace. The following is for you to make sense of who I am. It is an attempt to make myself legible to you. So you can label and categorize me and decide if I’m worthy of your time and attention.
From personalsit.es
Ramblings of NT
The personal homepage of Nabraj (NT) covering web development, breadboard projects, tech insights, sports, philosophy, and musings on life beyond the code.
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Something Something Soup Something
ludwig wittgenstein's 'language-game', as a game
From Explorable Explanations
Ryan Basden
Ryan Basden writes, makes, and works from a belief in agency, deliberate craft, truthfulness, and responsibility—through security, projects, and life.
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That's this stretch.
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