Hey, there’s some new material up—a lot of it, actually—over at the New Sophists’ Almanac site. Marvin discusses hip-hop and rap, and describes an art work, and I turn our focus, for the time being, to a new question about compassion and moral philosophy. As usual, Marvin responds with intelligence and panache. Aw, hell,...
Read more →This week’s F5 is courtesy of Roganda, who asks a short and sweet question: What 5 non-sexual, physical (tactile) sensations do you enjoy most? These might be a little weird, but one thing I’ll say is that I really only began to appreciate these things late in life, maybe a few years ago at...
Read more →For amusement, Lime asked me to take one of these enneagram tests. I found this one: Conscious self Overall self Take Free Enneagram Personality Test Enneagram Test Results Type 1 Perfectionism |||||||||||| 45% Type 2 Helpfulness |||||| 29% Type 3 Image Focus |||||||||||||||||||| 86% Type 4 Hypersensitivity |||||||||||||||| 61% Type 5 Detachment |||||||||||||||| 68%...
Read more →Really, I’m not stoned to the gills. Really. You’re a Spirograph!! You’re pretty tripped out,even though you’ve been known to be a bitboring at times. You manage to serve yourpurpose in life while expending hardly anyeffort (and are probably stoned to the gillsall the while). What childhood toy from the 80s are you? brought...
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