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Tag: Philosophy

Sundry Weighty Matters and Jellyfish

Diary 7/2 to 7/3/22: Mumblecore; Johnstone on Ukraine etc.; Hemlock Club meeting; General Semantics; Frank Harris: My Life and Loves; cyclic reality and Nietzsche; reasons for religious belief; grumpy moods.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Doom, General Semantics, Hemlock Club, Literature, Movie Reviews, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Quotes, Science Leave a comment July 3, 2022July 3, 2022 5 Minutes

Hemlock Club and Socrates Cafe

Diary 6/25/22: Interesting articles from Nature, including Roe; Alan Watts poem; no doom and gloom; my bleak philosophy; poetry challenge; annoying flies; misery of heat; MLK quote and Christopher Phillips.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Hemlock Club, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Poetry, Quotes, Science, The Writing Life Leave a comment June 25, 2022June 25, 2022 5 Minutes

Consider the Source, etc.

Diary 6/13/22: Second day of hearings; Jonathon Green gets attention here; Chris Hedges quoted; Visual Basic obscurity; anti-war on Pirate TV; change of emphasis in today's entry.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Blogging, Computers, Diary, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Recipes, Veganism, Visual Basic Leave a comment June 13, 2022June 13, 2022 6 Minutes

“Get a load of this”

Diary 5/31 to 6/1/22: Dr, Hill, Sherlock, etc.; coffee and death risk; where's my ballot? laughing at the VA; my left hand; Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey; depressing Truthout; gun control hopeless; Wittgenstein, Marcel, and my reading.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Diary, Humor, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes Leave a comment June 1, 2022June 1, 2022 6 Minutes

CAFOs, Movies, Miscellaneous Links and Stuff

Diary 5/30 to 5/31/22: Wittgenstein quote; concentrated animal feeding operations; Emma and Jauja on DVD; Eleanor Goldfield podcast on Roe; "the great resignation"; food warnings.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Environmental, Internet links, Movie Reviews, Philosophy, Quotes Leave a comment May 31, 2022 5 Minutes

Meaning in Music and Falling Asleep

Diary 5/30/22: What it's like to fall asleep; The Rake's Progress on DVD; quotes on meaning in music; Stravinsky as Picasso; and Auden.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Book Reviews, Diary, Movie Reviews, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Quotes Leave a comment May 30, 2022 4 Minutes

School Shootings (and less important stuff)

Diary 5/28 to 5/29/22: Poker win; Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations reviewed with quotes; bureaucratic nonsense; Anne Brontë; report on "the best way to address...tragedies"; "kayfabe"

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Alan Carl Nicoll Book Reviews, Depression, Diary, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Quotes Leave a comment May 29, 2022 4 Minutes

Atheist Quotes Jesus!

Diary 5/15 to 5/16/22: Birthday party invite; psyllium debacle; short $; the world needs YOU; "Arguments"; discovering Tori Amos; strike a pose to feel confident; psyllium warning.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Health, Neuroscience, Poverty, Psychology, Quotes Leave a comment May 16, 2022May 16, 2022 5 Minutes

“Bans Off Our Bodies” and “Against Mysticism”

Diary 5/12 to 5/14/22: Protest planned in Bakersfield; empathy; dreamlets; "Charles Adolphus Spree"; fiction writing and contentment; Wittgenstein; WordPress stats; The World Needs Me; philosophy club?

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Dreams, End of the World, Fynn novel, Hemlock Club, Neuroscience, Novelist Notes, Philosophy, Probation, Self-guidance, The Writing Life Leave a comment May 14, 2022 7 Minutes

The Ten Percent Solution

An argument in favor of making a commitment to charitable works. Ten percent is suggested but is not inherently part of the argument. This document is presented copyright-free for fair use in the hope that others will feel free to pass it along. The wording is my original expression of old thoughts.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Philosophy, Poverty, Prison Diary, Psychology, Self-guidance, Uncopyrighted Material Leave a comment May 13, 2022 2 Minutes

Politics and Philosophy

Diary, 5/10/22: Progressive International's Summit; Johnstone; Truthout; Wittgenstein book quoted and discussed; smoothie with oatmeal; Independent Left News; download woes; neuroscience studies; "reification"; Dr. Bramhall.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, End of the World, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Recipes, Veganism Leave a comment May 10, 2022July 18, 2022 6 Minutes

The Self, Neuroscience, and Wittgenstein

Diary 5/8 to 5/9/22: John Oliver; Noam Chomsky and Putin's propaganda; genocide; Assange; how to explain a lapse of memory: neuroscience vs nonsense for profit; Wittgenstein and James.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Memory, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Quotes Leave a comment May 9, 2022May 11, 2022 6 Minutes

Curtains, Hemlock, and Quotes

Diary 5/7 to 5/8/22: McAfee expensive; stupid about groceries; Hemlock Club w/photo; dark night; Zen and analysis; not believing fantasies; another smoothie; Frankl quote and doom; Dostoyevsky and grief; Gibran and pain; "repugliKKKan"; opening the curtains.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Doom, Hemlock Club, Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, Quotes, Recipes, Self-therapy, Veganism Leave a comment May 8, 2022May 8, 2022 4 Minutes

My Legacy, and Other Nonsense

Diary, 5/4 to 5/5/22: Rant about Roe; free lists; smoothie experiments; Marvel and Terminator; notes and journaling; what every intellectual wants? Actresses, drooling. Coming to take me away!

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Alan Carl Nicoll Bullet Journal, Diary, Hemlock Club, Humor, Movie Reviews, Philosophy, Psychology, Recipes, Veganism Leave a comment May 5, 2022May 9, 2022 6 Minutes

Highsmith and Wittgenstein

Diary 4/12 to 4/17/22; US hypocrisy; an emotional crisis survived through self-indulgence; "shrunt" defined; neurosis? Wittgenstein and Highsmith quotes; the essential essence.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Book Reviews, Diary, End of the World, Hemlock Club, Philosophy, Psychology, Quotes, Self-therapy Leave a comment April 17, 2022April 17, 2022 6 Minutes

Know Thyself: A Personal Essay

"Know thyself" as applied in my life, an essay from years ago, with an update.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Autobiography & Memoirs, Philosophy, Psychology, Self-therapy Leave a comment April 10, 2022 5 Minutes

Friendship: Diary 4/6 to 4/8/22

Losing a friend and looking for more; Ted DVD; Chomsky quoted; Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations instead of fiction writing? What I might read next; 800 books; Merrick Garland.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Diary, Movie Reviews, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, The Writing Life Leave a comment April 8, 2022 4 Minutes

Diary: Doom, Camus, and Breakfast

Diary, 3/31-4/2/22; down moods and how to recover; Greenwald and whistleblowers; book overload again; bleakspeak; what is sensible at the end of civilization?

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Alan Carl Nicoll Depression, Diary, Doom, End of the World, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Quotes Leave a comment April 2, 2022 7 Minutes

My Taoism: Diary, 3/27 to 3/28/22

Blog post stats; Taoist Sage quote from Smullyan; how I spend my days; naps versus sleep; "Taoistic" quatrain from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám; sensible behavior now.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Bullet Journal, Depression, Diary, Doom, Literature, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Quotes, Self-guidance Leave a comment March 28, 2022March 28, 2022 4 Minutes

Slangster Jonathon Green: Diary 3/10 to 3/11/22

Notes of a Novelist; doublethinking myself and playing with my words; Mister Slang; Powell's Books; The Mountain of Ignorance analogy; anti-religion rant; Emily Fox Gordon

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Book Reviews, Diary, Literature, Novelist Notes, Philosophy, Quotes, The Writing Life, Writing Tools Leave a comment March 12, 2022 7 Minutes

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    • The Stranger, by Albert Camus: A Consideration
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    • Book Thoughts 1: Meaning of Life and Self Development, part 1
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      • Book Thoughts 3: Philosophy
      • Book Thoughts 4: Politics, Economics, History
      • Book Thoughts 5: Psychology, Mind, Human Nature
      • Book Thoughts 6: Novels and Plays
    • Four Books: Prison Diary
      • A Stack of Books: Prison Diary Excerpt
      • More Book Thoughts from My Prison Diary
      • Prison Diary: Books and More Books
      • Prison Diary: A Potpourri of Books
    • Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes and the Value of Literature: Prison Diary
    • Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth (Prison Diary)
    • Dobyns on Metaphor, and Henry James. Prison Diary Extract
    • A Discussion of To Kill A Mockingbird
    • On Reading Charles Bukowski
    • Prison Diary: Hemingway’s “Macomber” Story
    • Email to a Classics Book Discussion Group
  • The Bleak Philosophy
    • The Ten Percent Solution
    • Getting Started in Philosophy
    • A Cog in the Machine
    • Philosophy Today: Diary 9/11 to 9/12/21
    • Epistemology: Models & Mysteries
    • Know Thyself: A Personal Essay
    • What is it Like to be Me?
    • Knowledge and “Christopher Columbus”
    • Religion, Morality, and the Meaning of Life: Prison Diary
  • On Writing
    • Astronomy for the Writer
    • Notes of a Novelist
    • Expressing Thoughts in Fiction
    • Metaphor Examples
    • “You Need an Angle”
    • The Subjective Microscope
    • “She was angry.”
    • Good Mornings
    • Character Names, Expanded
    • Tasty Words
      • Tasty Words: Other
      • Tasty Words: Verbs
      • Tasty Words: Nouns
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