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I HAVE MOVED TO: www.thethoughtcirlce.com

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I know it is late, but -as usual- I am unable to sleep. I have been busy thinking; which is suppose is the fulcrum of my plight. Nevertheless, if I am to sleep, I must write down these thoughts. About two weeks ago I commenced to study one of my introduction to logic books. I decided to do this so as to refresh my understanding of some of the more basic tenets of predicate and syllogistic logic.

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In the current situation in which we find ourselves, one has to be suspicious of what is happening. Is it the case that Obama really wants to "save" some 40 million americans from the doom of not being insured? Or, could it be the case that Mr. Obama does not actually want to help like it appears he does? The vast majority of those 40 million americans are either collage-age and are in not

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Here is a great link to an article about Rand and how her prophetic words are being literally resurrected from the grave. AYN RANDI would recommend reading it. Thanks,J.R.P

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Bloggers,I usually avoid entering discussions which involve anti-mormon or similar rhetoric due to its nonsensicality and pharisee type sense. However, I have become quite frustrated by the disrespect and invasive attitude that some of these propagators of such rhetoric have; not only do they possess the false belief that their narcissistic and overly erroneous understanding is the "correct

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For the last 2 years I have grown a desire to focus on humanitarian efforts. I think that we have lost the value of what life is, as a nation that is, and perhaps... humanity has. I also feel strongly that the economic perversion that has perpetuated itself and integrated into virtually every society has caused more pain than pleasure. WE MUST CHANGE! We must go back to the roots of capitalism

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This post may not be as long as I would like, but I will attempt to make it as precise as possible. While sitting in church on Sunday, I was contemplating the ability of God to be able to preform some action. While thinking about the later, I came to the conclusion that God is not a free agent. This was supprising to me, and I quickly attempted to find justification that would negate my

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President Barack Obama's inauguration next week is set to be the most expensive ever, predicted to reach over $150m (£102m). This dwarfs the $42.3m spent on George Bush's inauguration in 2005 and the $33m spent on Bill Clinton's in 1993 -according to a report made in The Guardian. We are currently experiencing a sever recession, which could be or is the worst financial crisis since the depression

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This will be a short post. I am very busy studying for certain things relative to my education. This post will question on of the principle components of Egalitarianism: that every person is entitled to equal opportunity. This view is a very westren-specific one, and is derived from similar views, such as: Autonomy, equal-rights, or free will. However, can we really hold a rational belief that

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To proceed, let us first list in detail what compromises Kripke’s Puzzle. Consider Pierre, a native French speaker that does not speak a word of English or any other language, one-day hears or considers the city of London. Upon considering this famous city, he utters the statement, in French, “Londres est jolie.” The translation of this utterance is, to some extent, London is beautiful.

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In the USA we have fallen behind in the number of students who finish their proposed collage major. We also have the fourth lowest collage participation among competitive countries. Additionally, there seems to be a growing anomaly that has self-perpetuated since the late 1980s -that anomaly is what type of collage majors are actually graduating and entering society. The vast majority of collage

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Obama has proposed that there should be a type of "civil service" imposed upon the youth of america. I personally think that some aspects of this are great; except for the compulsory requirements that it might have to demand. Bellow is a copy of what certain members of his future cabinet aims to propose. You can read it here."We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under

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I am preparing on writing a paper on Kripke and his essay, A Puzzle About Belief. In this Puzzle he raises (this is off the top of my head, so if I am wrong then forgive me) some problems about How we hold certain linguistically statements and how they associate with one's beliefs.  So, consider one of his puzzlesThere is a man named Pierre, and Pierre learns that Skaowsky  is a famous polish

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There was recently "news-speak" about members of the LDS church leaving their position and affiliation with this church because of its opposition to gay marriages. You can read about it here.I would like to speak out against those members who are leaving the LDS church and criticize them for their complete disregard for their former faith's positions and the knowledge that they should have

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Recently it was found that Proposition 8 was verified and the ability for homosexual couples to get married in California is now not possible -from a legal aspect. However, there is much debate that is continuing to grow. There have been several appeals that have been made that hold that this (prop. 8) is a violation of civil rights and equal protection under the law. It has been argued that if

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This is what you are going to get with this man in the office here. I would also like to say that while he (Obama) may have crushed the so-called "racial" barriar that has existed in politics, he  will also go down in history for being the most radical president yet. I almost would like to think that I should send him a copy of John Stuart Mill's, On Socialism  and see if that helps the poor Mr.

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This is the first "official" post on this blog. Prior to it, I have been writing/pontificating about some school related stuff, but now I will get down and dirty -yes that is right, we are talking DIRTY.With the major contoversy and squabble about the recent approval of the California highest court to legalize  same-sex marriages (if we can call them that), we have been even more bombarded by the

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How is it that we are able to judge art? What concepts, conditions, or properties are necessary for us to make a reliable aesthetic judgement? Perhaps we could use some condition or rule to apply some aesthetic term. However, Sibley argues in his work Aesthetic Concepts that there are "no non-aesthetic features which serve in any circumstances as logically sufficient conditions for applying

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Our next adventure into the world of aesthetic thought will deal with the ideas and theories of Arthur  Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer's thought takes up a smiler, but distinct, view as German Idealism (Hegel and Schelling). The main reason for his separation from the Idealism of which many of his contemporaries were teaching and propounding, was his disagreement with the over-abundant use of

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Some may not know what the word: Aesthetics means, but you should! This word is something that describes some property that is fundamental to us being who we are, human. The admiration of beauty and or being concerned with beauty is what Aesthetics means. Being able to admire the beautiful, the sublime, the mundane -the aesthetic, has been considered a way to admire life and the parts of it that

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