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Time and Time Again; To Hurry Or Not To Hurry

March 5, 2008 by Norm Bearrentine Leave a Comment

Originally posted on 06-08-07: So yesterday I was standing in front of my bedroom window, savoring time and the visual world like a warm bath, and later that same day I was thinking about Uncle Charlie, my dad's brother. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 2008 Tagged With: brain, eating, history, hurry, mindful, Time, Vipassana, visual world

Timeless: Conceptual Thinking and Perception of Time

March 5, 2008 by Norm Bearrentine Leave a Comment

Originally posted on 06-07-07: After I got dressed this morning, which comes after peeing, washing face, stretching, and Tai Chi, I put on my glasses and stood for a while, gazing out my bedroom window.  An article I read … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 2008 Tagged With: attention, awareness, brain, clocks, conceptual thinking, Discover magazine, James Joyce, perception, Planck scale, sensory, Time, verbal processing

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When I realized that the idea of god was a joke, I thought that was the end of the story. Later I found that Christianity had shaped my values, and while some were worth keeping, many had lost their foundation—the meaning of life, for example. Something similar happened when I realized that the idea of free will was a joke, and I’ve spent the decades since both those realizations discovering and editing what Julia Galef calls the “orphan beliefs” they left behind. It’s a tricky business, and this blog has been a chronicle of my efforts to puzzle it all out, including reviews of related books. I hope you find it helpful.

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