• jeffreymartin (64)in #philosophy • 4 years ago

  Philosophy Forum - Part 5

  Here we go again. The subject is ethics this time. I don't particularly like how this first question is phrased, because it doesn't make the problem plain. Nevertheless, I…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #philosophy • 4 years ago

  Philosophy Forum - Part 4

  Epistemology is the theory of knowledge. What is truth? How do we know? Important and difficult questions that will be debated as long as there are humans with the ability to…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #politics • 4 years ago

  Fighting Local Government Corruption - Part 21 of ?

  Winning is often the end of an endeavor, but not always. In politics winning should not be an end in itself, only a step. It is the beginning of the true struggle for which the…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #writing • 4 years ago

  A Christmas Card Poem

  I did an Ancestry DNA test a few years ago and ended up finding an older sister a few states over. My mother, father, and I have taken different approaches to giving her and…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #philosophy • 4 years ago

  Philosophy Forum - Part 3

  Philosophy applies to life. And life adds perspective to philosophy. Often these two things end up disconnected. Here's the question for this essay. What is the sorites…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #philosophy • 4 years ago

  Philosophy Forum - Part 2

  I have two essays on logic to write today. And we're going to see one of the reasons that I don't particularly like academia right away. Here is a note about the essays.…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #philosophy • 4 years ago

  Philosophy Forum - Part 1

  Philosophy is inescapable. It is ignorable, which is what most people do with it. There are parts that I find quite interesting, enjoyable, and useful. Technical logic is not…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #writing • 4 years ago

  Great Movies About Writers and Writing

  A few years ago I went looking for a movie list to both inspire and instruct me about writing and being a writer. There are such lists, but there are no good lists. Over the last…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #fashion • 4 years ago

  Jeff Invents a New Necktie Knot

  A few days ago I was watching the movie 'Gabriel's Inferno'. In one scene Julianne is fixing Gabriel's tie in a car. It annoyed me that the rich, sophisticated, intellectual was…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #election • 4 years ago

  Fighting Local Government Corruption - Part 20 of ?

  This election will change things throughout the United States, and in Dalton Township. Predicting what that change will be is more difficult. In Dalton there are three possible…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #farming • 4 years ago

  Why Authoritarian Governments Hate Small Farms

  Authoritarian governments have a tendency to limit or even collapse the food supply. At first that doesn't appear to make sense. People get angry and desperate when the food…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #life • 4 years ago

  Three Deathbed Realizations

  There are certain situations that approach the limit of what it is possible for us to experience as human beings. In December of 2015 I was laying in a hotel bed in Mombasa…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #teaching • 4 years ago

  Vera and the Disappearing Squirrel

  The stories we consume affect how we view everything. With a nine-year-old girl in the world today, the movie 'Frozen' has a good chance of coming up. Once upon a time in…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #writing • 4 years ago

  Vera and the Girl Who Became a Mermaid

  Transformation is a common theme in literature. Sometimes we transform and then enter a new world, at other times we enter a new world and then transform. Sometimes, it's…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #teaching • 4 years ago

  Vera and the Raccoon that Caught a Fairy

  Fun, funny, and serious can often go together. One can change to the other in a split second. That happens in life, and sometimes it happens while you're writing. Pay…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #writing • 4 years ago

  Vera and the Talking Dog in the Forest of Many-Colored Trees

  I've put some of the stories that Vera and I have written together up on my blog over the last few months. She likes it. You can see that in the ending of this one. I like…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #teaching • 4 years ago

  Vera and the Animal Garden Story

  Dialogue is fun. It's the original uniquely human interaction, talking. And, humans love to bestow that gift upon animals in stories. You would think the dialogue of a…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #writing • 4 years ago

  Vera and the Flying Turtle

  Stories are kind of like waking dreams. That's especially true when you get into fantasy. Vera has the imagination of an intellectually engaged nine-year-old. I think I keep…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #teaching • 4 years ago

  Vera and the Ice Horse

  Reading and writing stories is an amazing experience. Experiencing what a kid does when continuing a story idea is often quite surprising. The natural symbology that emerges…

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• jeffreymartin (64)in #meditation • 4 years ago

  Meditation in Chinese Schools and Beyond

  One of the best parts about teaching is learning. I've had students from a multitude of cultures, different countries, different languages, different religions, different ages…

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