Compassion Graph

I'd like to see a Compassion Graph as it relates to income. It starts off at near 0 with extreme poverty. How can you care about others when you are trying to survive. Then it must shoot upward and peak somewhere and head back down to 0, or near it, with extreme wealth. Apply it…

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Irreducibility of consciousness is best

Argument for God I know.God as somethingThat promises us a return,That our joy in each other Was the culmination of all this strivingAnd that its taking place is a knotIn a rope that after allStays.There are those intent on provingThe reduction.Of course the definition of material is whatCan come apart.But I tell you, as the…

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leaders

if we're overwhelmingly inclined to extermnate ourselves as a race–if we're helpless before this design, a leader is one who is going the opposite way. that is the definition of a leader. one who is with every fiber of his or her being going against our current. We take note and are inspired by that…

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film as suprise machine

a tunnel through which surprises come without warning or a means of artistic expression, which involves presenting, expectation, beauty, pacing etc

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Brene Brown schtick

and this Brene Brown person, yes very perceptive about scarcity–made me realize the connection. It's really about relation. Back to Buber's I & Thou. Significant to me that such intellectual lights as C Hitchens roundly trash Buber as a hypocrite. I know little of his life, but the work has always seemed essential and true…

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