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    <title><![CDATA[What do we do about us? . . .continued.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2013 01:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I hope it will have been clear from my last post that a specific concentration of resources by a national government can distract the attention of its citizens from their own collusive involvement in supporting the dehumanization of segments of the population,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What do we do about us?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 04:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[After having whetted your appetites in the last two or three posts, I'm now in a quandary. It isn't that I don't know what to say, it's that I do not now have to hand the very book that I wanted to quote from as a justification for my proposals. (It is... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A one sentence &quot;bite&quot;]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Much more to come . . . But I came across the following sentence from Elias as I was preparing my next post, and it occurred to me that it was probably better to defer my drafting plans for the moment, and let Elias's bald sentence summarize what will... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Connectedness]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:28:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This is my follow-up on the unfinished business of my last post. It was unrealistic of me to imagine that, in the interim, any of you would be able to gain access to the two major sources I referred to. Never mind: here's the promised summary. It's hard... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Childhood's End?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I rather suspect that my last post may have been experienced as cryptic and consequently difficult by those of you who are unfamiliar with the authors mentioned in that post, and more particularly with the concept of Gaia. For greater clarity, and hopefully... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gaia, symbolism, and us.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 04:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Readers who have been reading this blog over several months, and readers who have themselves also read Making Sense of Us, will know that I attach enormous importance to the work of Carl Woese and Lynn Margulis (and incidentally, of course, James Lovelock),... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Effability revisited]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 19:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I was musing over a letter from a friend recently, and was struck by how frequently the writer used what are currently termed "scare quotes". It's a bad misnomer, if only because the meaning of the use of the quotation marks may be quite other than specified... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Change]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 03:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Whether or not you are a regular reader of this blog, please indulge me, and do the following: Click on this link, watch the following 3 minutes or so, and then try to tell yourself you have not been changed. No need to tell me or anyone else what results,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Congruence––(Coming together)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 21:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Occasionally, things do come together, don't they? This post invites you to celebrate such an occasion, and pursue its implications. My goodness! Metaphysics, sociology, psychology, and the happenstance of immediate experience do come together, and we... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;Ceci n'est pas une pipe.&quot; (Effability and its variants)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[At several places in MSOU, I referred to the possibility of understandings of our human situation which do not lend themselves easily, or at all, to the likelihood of summary in words. For the most part, my references to such possibilities were simply... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Terror, or not]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I suspect many readers of my posts have had qualms about the degree to which aspects of my arguments might seem to over-emphasize abstract argument at the expense of immediate relevance to the issues we face. For those of you who still entertain such... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[An Error of Emphasis]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Why do we so often miss the point of what is actually going on in life, and in our lives? I think it must be because we are preoccupied with immediate issues, rather than with the processes that cause them to be issues in the first place. Issues seem... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Music of Mind]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[First, a warning . . . I suspect this post will appear in my overall blog inventory as having been written before the post on effability. It would make considerably better sense for you to read it after that post. What I intend to do here is to explore... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Dicovering our Self]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:27:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I've experienced an interesting convergence of sensibilities over the past few days, and, quite apart from ruminating on the factors that combine to promote a new opening of mind to their existence, I'm presently trying to come to terms with what I think... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Déja vu]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:16:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Since following up on my own recommendation the other day to consider the implications of Johanna Seibt's article on "Process Philosophy" in the on-line Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, I was sufficiently intrigued by Alfred North Whitehead's treatment... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Once more: the Cosmos and Us]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[For those readers who are familiar with Making Sense of Us, and perhaps even for some of you who have dipped only occasionally into this blog, it will come as no surprise that my overall purpose has consistently been to show how the manner in which we... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Words, and What they Carry.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:07:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I'm very aware that those of you who have already read MSOU may have been exasperated at my decision not to follow up there on the implications of every tendril reaching out to some larger meaning. This blog was undertaken specifically to make up for... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Science, Religion, Metaphysics, and Us.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:44:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Like so many things––indeed, everything!––this blog is ever in process, so I can't be too distressed by not having successfully concluded the last post in convincing fashion . . . The following is my attempt to take it a bit further. The questions that... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[More on Mind, and Motive.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:57:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[My last post was in part a rumination on my procrastination in following up on the implications of the last chapter of my book. (See also "Chapter Ten Revisited.") My emotional log jamb, however, as can perhaps be discerned in that last post, eventually... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Aspiration and Process]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In the last chapter of my book Making Sense of Us I made a case for our committing ourselves, both as individual beings, and as a species collectively, to an optimal process of being, rather than to a pre-determined goal. The relevant section, if you... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Becoming]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 06:41:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Like many of you, I suspect, I have over this past holiday period experienced a turmoil of emotions. The massacre of schoolchildren and their teachers in Connecticut, the killing of firefighters at Webster, the horrible rape-murders in India, the murder... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[For Anonymous]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 03:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This needed saying; it could scarcely be better said. Please read it! http://nilanjanaroy.com/2012/12/29/for-anonymous/ We've still got a long way to go . . . John ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[In Memoriam––Jacintha Saldanha]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In quite a few of my earlier posts I have touched on our ability to disregard our responsibility towards one another. In the last couple of days the relevance of such a message has been epitomized by the reports from London (via the BBC) of the contribution... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Meaning, and Intent]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:23:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Today, November 28th., there is on 3quarksdaily a very interesting article by Jay Tolson, commenting on a recent book by Jim Holt (Why Does The World Exist), also available directly from: http://theamericanscholar.org/questions-of-being/ Apart from the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Contemporary Humanism]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:32:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A couple of posts ago I referred briefly to Auguste Comte and led you to expect that I would return to discuss what he saw as the third phase of humankind's journey towards understanding of itself. Those of you who followed my advice to refer to Wikipedia... ]]></description>
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