How Traumatic Was a Trip to the Moon? — A Church for Starving Artists

I’m thinking about trauma today. Pastors are entrusted with stories of trauma from parishioners, strangers, and colleagues. Domestic abuse. Combat. Incest. Terrorism. Fire. Pastors (and educators, social workers, police officers, and medical professionals) hear a lot of difficult stories – at least if we are authentically open to hearing them. And I don’t know […]

via How Traumatic Was a Trip to the Moon? — A Church for Starving Artists

As I prowl around bookstores, I find a gaggle of books on managing technology overload. One after another fall of the presses and make their way on the shelves and into my hands. Some, I buy; most, I pass over. Often, I think, “I noticed that twenty years ago.” I did not predict Google or […]

via Philosophy of Technology in Six Ideas — Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D.

“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair— — but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”

via Thomas Merton says: — The Müscleheaded Blog

The Gorgon Stare, a military drone-surveillance technology that can track multiple moving targets at once, is coming to a city near you.

via ‘Nothing Kept Me Up At Night the Way the Gorgon Stare Did.’ — Longreads

This week Indispire asks would you rather be a specialist or a generalist? Future society will need specialists or polymaths? Your thoughts on this debate which is going on since ‘Philosophy’ branched out to know more and more about less and less Thoughts on this debate which is going on since ‘Philosophy’ branched out to […]

via Specialist vs. Generalist : Horses for the Courses #SpecialistVsGeneralist — Occassionalmusingsblogpost.wordpress.com

(Image credit: Shutterstock.com.) Although the Earth was created about 4 billion years ago, there is considerably a less amount of past scientific knowledge available, and there are obvious reasons—the chief among them are the past incidences of destruction…on the other hand, facts still exist, and won’t cease to, no matter how much they have lost significance and attention.

via Destruction of scientific knowledge: past events that made it difficult for science to be easily accepted in future — Motivation & Environment

“Whether or not it draws on new scientific research technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science.” Or so argued Paul Goodman in a 1969 essay for the New York Review of Books titled “Can Technology Be Humane?” I first encountered the line in Postman’s Technopoly and was reminded of it a few years […]

via Technology Is a Branch of Moral Philosophy — L.M. Sacasas

PHILOSOPHY IN THE MODERN WORLD

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Quotes

How Traumatic Was a Trip to the Moon? — A Church for Starving Artists

Philosophy of Technology in Six Ideas — Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D.

Thomas Merton says: — The Müscleheaded Blog

‘Nothing Kept Me Up At Night the Way the Gorgon Stare Did.’ — Longreads

Specialist vs. Generalist : Horses for the Courses #SpecialistVsGeneralist — Occassionalmusingsblogpost.wordpress.com

Destruction of scientific knowledge: past events that made it difficult for science to be easily accepted in future — Motivation & Environment

Technology Is a Branch of Moral Philosophy — L.M. Sacasas