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yeah most the others are empty filler or introductory throat-clearing, but “two things can be true” frames many topics in a helpful way
I think there may be just enough warm(ish) weather this afternoon to begin some yard work.
Here is a paradox. “Although truth is founded on the real, is in touch with the real, we can get into intellectual contact with reality only by the peculiar operation known as abstraction….”
But this means our grasp of poetry, art, nature, anything that is beautiful, which is grounded in the unabstracted particular, must proceed by way o…
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Victor Frankl maintains that man’s greatest desires are not simply for a easy life with no struggle or tension, but for “worthy goals” and for a life of meaning and purpose where we forget ourselves in the service of others. Pleasure cannot make us happy. Joy cannot be grasped. It can only be received
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Here’s what I know about having a large platform on other social media sites.
NONE of them drive any traffic to Substack. None.
Less than 1% of my traffic comes from any social network.
I'm having an especially hard time understanding what you're saying today. What do languages have to do with any of this?