Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Keep matters for a time in suspense
Admiration of their novelty heightens the value of your achievements. It is both useless and insipid to play with your cards on the table. If you do not declare yourself immediately, you arouse expectation, especially when the importance of your position makes you the object of general attention. Mix a little mystery with everything, and…
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Fight Music
Ask Eminem if he does black music and he will answer you without any hesitation:
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Are the spammers creating bogus weblogs?
Ok, guys, I’m really p****d off. This morning I noticed referral spam in my referrals on Webalizer, and on the referrals list on the right side of this page. This referral came after a suspicious email, that I replied to in order the verify authenticity. Here was the original email: My name is Mark, and…
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Purple Pills
The ‘ Purple Pills ‘ song from ‘ Devil’s Night ‘ album is all about popping pills and swallowing mushrooms and intentionally made of crazy statements. Different drugs like mescaline, coke, heroin and mushrooms are mentioned in the song.
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Character and Intellect
These are the two poles of our capacity; one without the other is but halfway to happiness. Intellect is not enough, character is also needed. On the other hand, it is the fool’s misfortune to fail in obtaining the position, employment, neighbourhood, and circle of friends of his choice.
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Kangaroo
I’ve been wondering for the last few days why my weblog has been receiving more than the average number of visitors. It appears it’s down to a photograph of a kangaroo in my photos section. Its ranked in the top 100 on Google images – along with my picture of a cheetah. I am now…
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Eminem vs Canibus
Among all the persons who were opposed to Eminem, Canibus can be considered more than a rap battle rival than a real enemy. There is much more lyrical rivalry between both men than real bad feelings against each others. Where did the rivalry between Eminem and Canibus start ?
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Sept. 11 tape: courage amid chaos, Betty Ann Ong
I am still amazed by stories such as this, its been over 2 years since that day, and yet my interest, it seems, will never go away. Perhaps its having lots of relatives working in airlines, and having quite a bit of knowledge about aircraft and airlines that fascinates me. Or maybe its just Ms.…
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I missed a good night
Sounds like everyone had a good time at the debate on blogging in the House of Commons last night. I wish I could have made it. I did attend the last event in the Grand Committee room, and have met everyone that was there, besides a couple of bloggers with whom I have recently become…
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Everything is at its peak of perfection
This is especially true of the art of making one’s way in the world. There is a more required nowadays to make a single wise person than formerly to make the Seven Sages of ancient Greece, and more is needed nowadays to deal with a single person than was required with a whole people in…
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