Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Dreams vs. Reality, and what we make of it.
Six months ago, I expected to be seeing this right about now. It’s morning in the Al Rabieh section of Amman, north of Fifth Circle. I was going to spend a couple days in the city, connecting with new and old friends, then take a ride up to Ajlun to meet up with some good…
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Get ready…
For some months- okay, probably much longer than that, I have had a sense of… something. I’ve had a feeling of restlessness, and it’s one I haven’t had for a long time. The last time, I started a business. Before that, I moved to a state I had only visited once. Both have been profoundly…
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Disappointment
It’s a bit of a disappointing start to the week. There’s little point in going into all the details, but the experience brings up a lot of questions and thoughts. Disappointment happens. It is a part of life- we disappoint others when we make promises we cannot keep. Others do the same to us. Sometimes,…
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Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone was created in 196BC, as a document declaring tax free status for temple priests in Egypt and ordering construction. It was discovered by the French in 1799. So what? The Rosetta Stone was written in the three languages- Greek, Coptic, and Egyptian Hieroglyphic. Before its translation in 1824, with the first English translation…
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Coincidence? I think not.
My wife and I were recently engaged in creating a mind map. It’s an ongoing effort to help us to understand better what significant life events until now have been leading us towards. As such, it’s a constant work-in-progress. But this mind map really illustrates the idea that there are no accidents in life. Our…
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The unexamined life…
Socrates is famously quoted as saying, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” At some later point, I’ll reflect on my studies of Socrates/Plato during my undergrad years at Northern Illinois University. But for now, I would like to share a framework that my friend Ron K. shared with me a few years ago for…
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The meaning behind the title
At almost 40, I am yet again taking a run at blogging. There was one really bad attempt in 2004-05, and I will buy dinner for the first person who can find said bad attempt- sadly, it lives on in a popular blogging site. I first made “weekly blogging” part of my annual Goals for…
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