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Clarity in Confusion
*Daily Prompt It was the late 90s, San Diego, at a little cafe called Espresso Roma. Planted in my usual reading spot, Philosophy books and notes were stacked in front of me and a hot mocha cooled off to my right. I interrupted the study session to ask my friend and fellow philosophy major: “Don’t you…
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Pros to being Introverted
1. Research shows that people develop envy and feelings of emptiness when scrolling through social media news feeds like Facebook and Instagram. Not so for the introverts. This is an entirely foreign phenomenon to the introvert. Pictures of others out and about never summon feelings of envy. 2. Letting people know we are introverts gets…
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You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch
WordPress Daily Prompt: What is your least favorite personal quality in others? This is a mischievous little question, for one’s answer inevitably discloses more about the self than the other. That is, any quality one finds annoying in another actually reveals the depths of one’s own personality. But, in the spirit of participating in the…
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Student Drawings on Exams Part II
Here are more doodles discovered while grading. Enjoy! (For Part I click here.)
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A Trip Down Memory Lane with Books
The philosopher Martin Heidegger wrote that forgetting is not solely about forgetting an object but about forgetting yourself in relation to the object, time, and place. For example, if you cannot remember where you put your keys, you also cannot remember yourself in the context of the last time you held your keys. The inverse…
