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Thoughtlets. LXI.
This is why I think Hobbes is important: “And as in arithmetic, unpracticed men must, and professors themselves may often err and cast up false, so also in any other subject of reasoning, the ablest, most attentive, and most practised men may deceive themselves and infer false conclusions, not but that reason itself is always Continue reading
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Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Plague-Spreader.
When the Bubonic Plague rekindled in 16th and 17th century Europe, some thought the illness was spread by diabolic agents who captured its essence in an ointment and then smeared the greasy substance on walls, people, and all kinds of things. Some of those accused of being plague-spreaders were burned at the stake. What’s interesting Continue reading
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Music, stories, games as responses to ‘uncertain times’
About our responses during uncertain times …This is not a “beware the apocalypse” doom and gloom post. Neither is it a “look on the bright side” post. Rather, last summer I read a book called Apocalyses by Eugene Weber, an Canadian historian. And a passage therein set me to thinking about the various kinds of responses to Continue reading
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