In Ancient Greece sophists were teachers who taught virtue, which in those days generally meant the art of statesmanship, to young men rich enough to afford their services. Sophistry, as their art was called, is a trade much criticized in the dialogues of Plato, where Socrates attacks not only the practice of teaching for a […]
What you are about to read is based on a TRUE story. Michel Siffre is 100% REAL and actually did this! =============== by Sean Dempsey, 04/02/25 A Chronicle of Isolation, Madness, and Savage Darkness In the early 1970s, as Cold War psychology and space exploration collided with radical ideas about human consciousness, a lesser-known but […]
A close friend carelessly posted the following meme on facebook the other day. Big mistake. I hate memes! Well … I obviously could just let it go. What follows is a logical rant in rejoinder. Me: “I don’t really have a horse in this fight, and I recognize there’s often a lot of emotion on […]
