#Philosophy

Apologize for the long thread. We can relate Darwin's theory of evolution to Hindu philosophy of 10 incarnations of the god. Details on the link below.https://www.google.com/amp/s/indroyc.com/2016/01/05/dashavatara/amp/ Whether ramayana
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This is what you would learn if you went to university in the 12th century.Could modern schools and universities learn something from it?A Thread. There was, of course, no single
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1) So I've been reading Oliver Crisp's, Analyzing Doctrine & I have a few observations. In this thread I consider Ch. 1.He is preoccupied with gaining admission to the club
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Jeanine Pirro isn’t actually talking about Trump’s “business”, she’s talking about her “business”: her personal interests. People like Pirro have a defensive, aggressive reaction when it comes to defending their
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Read interviews of Seth Klarman by Jason Zweig in 2010, and another of Late Parag Parekh in 2001. Always love finding common themes and connections between what I read. In
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Indians / Hindus may want to celebrate centuries old Dharmic tradition of #GuruPurnima & silently retire sickular #TeachersDay . #TIL (Today I Learnt) about Dr Radhakrishnan. Details are not very
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As I struggle to articulate my anger against what's being celebrated so shamelessly today in our country, I want you to drop in essential readings regarding this, so we could
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1/ "The really great painters are the ones that change how other people paint, like Picasso. David Swensen changed how everyone who is serious about investing thinks about investing,” says
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Rebuilding Arsenal #KroenkeOut Most of the transfers are ambitious, but it does us no good to rely on mediocrity any longer. Manager:If Arteta were to get sacked, which I personally
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Where to begin? Perhaps only in England does one still find intellectuals holding to the Victorian agnostic belief that ‘Christianity destroyed classical civilisation’. Over 100 years of scholarship has showed
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Most Hindutva thought is lazy because it rests its assumptions on “Neo-Sikhs”This thread, for example, arbitrarily localizes Khalsa Raj as a local Punjabi political philosophy - when it explicitly was
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1/ Imagine a society where the education system is based on our musical ability. All jobs demand that "basic" qualification and credentials in music are much sought after and are
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1. It strikes me that we are thinking too much about what we get from the Eucharist (reception of Communion) and too little about how we participate in it (offering
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Do any other interdisciplinary researchers get mis-disciplined a lot? Like in an invisible kind of way (especially researchers of color/women). Here's a few examples... and I'd love thoughts on how
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A thread on mentors:In high school, I was lucky enough to be mentored by three people: Mr. and Mrs. K, a couple, and Mr. L, their old friend who also
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How Paypal led to Palantir, a quick thread:Peter Thiel and Palantir's CEO Alex Karp were roommates at Stanford. Both received their JD's from Stanford Law in 1992.https://stanfordpolitics.org/2017/11/27/peter-thiel-cover-story/ Karp
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