mental health

January 16, 2025

Dinner for one.

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Arts and Leisure, Social and Political Commentary

addiction, art, food, homeless, homelessness, lonliness, mental health, painting, people, person, photo, social, solitude, street, unemployment, youth
January 16, 2025

Doing our doxastic labour together (vetting candidates for beliefs with our peeps), 4 of 4: What we stand to lose.

Recall my project here, Doing our doxastic labour together (vetting candidates for beliefs with our peeps), 1 of 4 In the final instalment of this series, I lay a few bones (see 3 of 4) on the table for your consideration. I hope you find them as interesting as I do. “If the human race Continue reading

Philosophy, Political Rhetoric, Social and Political Commentary

belief, beliefs, CNN, community, cooperation, doxa, doxastic, epistemology, Fox, groups, knowledge, lonely, medias, mental health, MSNBC, news, opinion, Philosophy, rhetoric, social, social media, technology, tribe
January 16, 2025

Doing our doxastic labour together (vetting candidates for beliefs with our peeps) 2 of 4: Survival & Companionship

To find out what I’m up to here, see : Doing our doxastic labour together (vetting candidates for beliefs with our peeps) 1 of 4 *I’ve checked the links below to ensure they are active as of Jan 16, 2025 Often times we pick up facts that appear useful or interesting and bring them back Continue reading

Philosophy, Political Rhetoric, Social and Political Commentary

belief, beliefs, companionship, doxa, doxastic, epistemology, evolution, friends, groups, mental health, peeps, Philosophy, psychology, relationships, social, social epistemology, support, survival, tribe
March 20, 2022

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. In Matters of Love and War — And All Matters In Between — There is No Dearth of Armchair Psychiatrists

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Pam-Toons

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October 22, 2020

Experiment with prose poetry. About Hell.

People wonder where is hell and what is hell and others answer, hell is here. It’s here on earth, and it’s pain. People are in pain and it’s hell. People are in hell. And people are out of hell. Some leave, some enter, some remain. There are three ways, three ways out of hell. First. Continue reading

Arts and Leisure, Catch-All

addiction, advice, counsel, evil, guidance, hell, mental health, pain, peer, professional, recovery, solidarity, suffering, theodicy
July 8, 2020

People are saying

*Update: substitute for “pandemic” any highly charged story currently looping on news media. “People are saying….” People are saying all kinds of things as this pandemic unfolds. Of course they are, that’s what people do !! Inspiring things, horrible things, hypocritical things, smart things, stupid things, true things, false things, all kinds of things. Some Continue reading

Catch-All

anxiety, health, immunity, information, media, mental health, pandemic, Philosophy, relief, stress
April 26, 2019

Community and Alienation, 4 Vignettes

A Community of Sufferers* I’m having a meal with my husband at a pub in Bristol, delighting in the warm and jovial conversation of the three older men having a pint at the neighbouring table. By their camaraderie, I assume they’ve had a long history together, probably meeting at this very pub over many years. As Continue reading

Catch-All

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