Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Cops and Robbers (9) “High Noon at the Butler Corral “
Cops and Robbers (Part 9) High Noon at the Butler Corral Often, I read about members of the public complaining bitterly about Police brutality. It’s an emotional, inflammatory subject. Sure, it happens. Cops are human too. They are not perfect. Hello? Is anybody? But I wish the complaining public could see sometimes the other side…
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The Burning Soldier (6) “Bam-Bam “
The Burning Soldier Part 6: Bam-Bam Some stories… …are so hard to write, not because you don’t know how to write it. On the contrary, you know exactly how to write it. Especially when it’s been bubbling around in your head for nearly four decades. No, it’s more a case that they are threatening to…
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Of dignity and despair
We are, we fragile mortals, a sum total of our life’s experience. We are shaped by what we have seen, what we have done, and decisions we have made, as well as actions we have taken, and events that were thrust upon us, during our all too brief sojourn on this planet Earth. This is…
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Mr. Willard’s Going Home – Part I
Some stories just stick in your head. They might not seem like real stories at the time, just things you know you want to remember, because although they don’t all ‘come together’ in meaning for you at that point in life, you know they’re important enough to remember, that somehow there is a lesson to…
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Liar’s Poker
Liar’s Poker I went for a walk this morning. Through the fields, across the still dew on wild grasses, I stepped out lustily, my heart singing an old Irish ballad. Carefully, I stepped around the dandelions and the daisies, the forget-me-nots and the rag weeds. I clambered over a few old fences, and around the…
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