Adam Blatner
Words and Images from the Mind of Adam Blatner
Taking Stock
This phrase is used as an opening to an idea that people should re-evaluate their lives periodically, perhaps as often as they change-up their computer systems. Changing circumstances, growing maturity, refined values, all are appropriately met with a taking of time, respecting oneself enough, to take stock of priorities. Since life is so complex and […]
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Appreciating Complexity (Cultural Trends Part 4)
Another trend is toward a growing appreciation of complexity in the social as well as natural sciences, and indeed in the general mainstream world-view. (For many of these trends, the growing awareness of a given trend may only involve a small fraction of the general population in the next few years—but I think this number […]
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Applied Improv and Drama
There’s a message / blog I posted on a new connection: The Applied Improvisation Network. You can see it halfway down. It turns out there are over a thousand people so far exploring ways improvisation might be applied in a wide range of situations. Hurray! I’m hoping to find out more about this and perhaps […]
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International Folk Dancing Links
Among other things, I’ve done this kind of dancing for 53 years, on and off. More about this on my website. I am by no means an expert in this form, but I guess I’m okay at an intermediate level. I’ve learned many hundreds of dances, which, when played, seem like old friends. To get […]
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Illusions: A Wider Perspective
Two topics (among many others) on my mind seem to be overlapping as I discover more books reflecting more research on the topic: illusion and critical thinking. It turns out Freud just opened the door a crack—the unconscious is far more vast and complicated than he ever knew! (Freud once likened himself to Columbus and […]
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Interspirituality (Cultural Trends Part 3)
Interspirituality is a few steps beyond tolerance, which evolved into inter-faith dialogue. My understanding of this term is that it refers to a search for or at least an opening to an appreciation of those elements in all religions that speak to the same psychological and communal-ethical spirit. (This builds on a blog of July […]
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Foolin’ Around
On my website under “papers” at the bottom is a section titled “Foolin’ Around, and there I have posted some links to webpages that might be amusing to you. They have odd cartoon-doodles I’ve drawn, too. They are bits of fluff that in a sense illustrate my doodles. No, they’re really profound and mysteriously exotic […]
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Evil—Reconsidering the Problem
There are several kinds of evil. One is mere misfortune that may even be the acts of many people colluding in a venture that fails, such as some of the economic “bubbles” that have afflicted Europe and America for several centuries. Another involve “acts of God” that are really Mother Earth—Gaia—who hardly knows humans exist, […]
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Fractal Metaphysics
(An occasional paper of the Journal of (Very) Speculative Philosophy) by Adam Blatner, Confabulologist Extraordinaire For more fun, see No. 2 of this Journal A Theoretical & Speculative Metaphysical Confabulation I have been instructed / empowered / inspired / channeled / whatever to let you know the low-down on the higher-ups, the “that’s what it’s all about” […]
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Journal of (Very) Speculative Philosophy, No. 2
(The Officially Certified Publication of The Inter-Galactic Institute of Confabulology) Editor and Primary Author: Adam Blatner, Confabulologist Extraordinaire Issue #2 January 6, 2011, but drawing on sources from 2007 and hither and yon. Chapters in this issue include: What it’s All About: The Hokey Pokey Theory; Resonant Energy Fields ; and Soul-Concrescence What It’s All About: The Hokey […]
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