Monthly Archives: July 2024

Breezeway Stories

Posted on July 28, 2024 by Dave Pollard

This is #32 in a series of month-end reflections on the state of the world, and other things that come to mind, as I walk, hike, and explore in my local community. The “common area” of our apartment tower is located four … Continue reading →

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Against Mythology, Reality Contends in Vain

Posted on July 24, 2024 by Dave Pollard

artwork by Simeon Netchev (CC BY-NC-ND) from World History Encyclopedia The title of this essay is plagiarized from Aurélien’s latest, which plunges into the treacherous subject of myth. Myth, sadly, for reasons Aurélien takes pains to explain, often trumps the … Continue reading →

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The Terrible Secret

Posted on July 22, 2024 by Dave Pollard

This is a work of fiction. image by Willgard from Pixabay, free for use under Pixabay’s content licence There is something I have to tell you. It’s a secret. But I’ve forgotten what it is. I knew a moment ago, … Continue reading →

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Ten Important Things I Learned From Very Intelligent Women

Posted on July 20, 2024 by Dave Pollard

images of Alice Walker and Ursula Le Guin, CC-SA 2.0 from wikimedia Women write just over half of the books that are published each year, almost double the proportion of just a generation ago. These books are skewed towards fiction, … Continue reading →

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The Four Horsemen, Updated

Posted on July 18, 2024 by Dave Pollard

Photo of Harold Gosney’s sculpture of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, from Humber Museums Partnership on flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). From left to right, the horsemen are Famine, Disease, Death, and War. The renaming shown above is my own … Continue reading →

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Not Longing For Anything To Be Different

Posted on July 15, 2024 by Dave Pollard

(This chart is yet another attempt to create a model of how human conditioning works. This article is focused on the fourth example — situations that make us long for what we believe and imagine “could be”, or what we … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: July 2024

Posted on July 14, 2024 by Dave Pollard

yep, whether you look at us through a moral lens, a scientific lens, a philosophical lens, or a satirical lens, we cannot help be only and exactly what. and who, we are; cartoon by Will McPhail Everyone’s obsessed with the … Continue reading →

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In Critical Condition

Posted on July 12, 2024 by Dave Pollard

Many of my articles on free will and non-duality argue (perhaps obsessively) that: All human behaviour is (no more and no less than) the biologically and culturally conditioned response of our bodies to the circumstances of the moment. There is … Continue reading →

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The Devil You Say

Posted on July 9, 2024 by Dave Pollard

This is a work of fiction. image by Sammy Sander on pixabay — free for use under their content licence I went in search of the Devil. Surely, I thought, there must be someone to blame for this mess. At … Continue reading →

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War Games

Posted on July 4, 2024 by Dave Pollard

map by TD Projects, 2009; thanks to Indrajit Samarajiva for the link The latest article from historian and lifelong public service ‘insider’ Aurélien argues that we shouldn’t worry about WW3. Nobody wants a war anymore, he argues — it’s bad … Continue reading →

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