Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Creating a Vegetable Garden
See how an IrriGator unit was used together with a drip setup in order to take care of a freshly planted vegetable garden. The tap timer ensures that the garden is frequently watered, whilst the GelBlock ensured that in addition to water, all the plants receive vital nutrients, micro-nutrients, trace elements and bio-stimulants. The water…
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4. Conserving the Causal Structure
Hence, Conservatives need to distinguish between the persuasive effort and the effective effort. The first is the effort to persuade our opponents; the second involves the effort required to enact our ideals, realistic though they are. Returning to Ayn Rand once again, we must remember that it is our justified civil duty to use force…
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Comparing 2 Gold Bull Markets
The 70s Bull Market – – – The 2010’s Bull Market I noticed this link on Twitter: https://kingworldnews.com/now-that-gold-has-bottomed-here-is-the-case-for-34000-gold/ Which is where I got the following: Date | Gold Price | Gold V Monetary Base % 17/02/1975 | $186 | 29% – – – 29/8/2011 | $1876 | 14%23/08/1976 | $103 | 14% – – – 23/11/2015 | $1056 |…
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Be Suspicious of What You Want
It was July 2011. A group of us needed a place to watch the Super Rugby final. We were spending the uni vacation pruning vines down near Pemberton in Western Australia. After working a half day that Saturday, we got cleaned up and headed into town. Before the hotel, we replenished our supplies at the supermarket and bottle-o. Especially the bottle-o! There is…
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5. A Tale of Two Pathologies
How do we go about understanding psychology, especially pathology? Insights from Carl Jung’s ‘Psychological Types’ are useful here, providing one has sufficient context. Hence, we shall consider that each individual is the sum and sequence of their choices. Thus, making initial choices the most significant, as in a nonlinear system adapting to feedback.
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6 Reasons Your Garden Struggles in the Summer Heat
Those of us who live in Perth know very well the meaning of hot and dry. Furthermore, those of us who fall within the spectrum of house proud and avid gardener, have to deal with the added difficulty of keeping our gardens alive and healthy through the summer. And yet it is possible. Any stroll…
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2022 Current Affairs
Many believe that vaccines have ‘approval’. They don’t – they only have emergency use ‘authorization’ which will expire once the state of emergencies end. How long will these be extended? Surely some jurisdictions will lift theirs before others.
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Churchill on the Declaration of Independence
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