BiblioFile

Over 40 college student. Sober. Bookstore owner. Philosophy, epistemology, literature. Someday professor.

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I adore you
As the sun
Adores the night
And weeps at it's departing
Moon
It's stars
It's darkened blue
Empty nude exposure
Of everything
I stay here
In the day
Parted by a world that
Turns me from you
Because it must
And I am dark
Even in my shine
I weep
As others bask

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@sarahhepola Yes, I can

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@avidseries Lived there for a year. Great houses surrounded by an episode of cops.

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@MattWelch @CharlesCMann Got mine today at B&N

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@glukianoff I learned about him through @jon_rauch
Love his story

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@DoctorPerin This is fantastic. Thank you

[Dr. Arthur Brooks @arthurbrooks]

I don't have many happy memories. For a long time, I thought it was just how I was wired.

I had the science wrong. Memory isn't a personality trait. It's what's left of your attention.

Your brain saves vivid memories when attention is high. That’s why time slows down at a wedding, a birth, or a car accident. You remember those moments because you were actually there.

The reverse is also true. If you weren’t paying attention, your brain didn’t save it. The event happened, but you weren’t there for it. So now it’s gone.

This is why most of your life is forgotten. Not because anything bad happened and is being suppressed—but because you weren’t fully there for most of it.

You can’t fix a past you didn’t save. But you can give your future self a past worth coming back to.

The you of ten years from now will only have what you save today. Sit with her at dinner. Look at your kid’s face. Notice your daily walk.

Save the present. It’s all your past will ever be.

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@JoshPhillipsPhD I overheard the guy at the counter at half Price books tell a customer that nobody buys these. I laughed and I told him that's not true. I own a small used bookstore and I have sold five sets.

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@billybinion I own a small indie bookstore. I used to think like Bernie, but I have since changed my mind. Especially with now being in college and needing academic books one can't simply go to a shop like mine and find. If I wish to be left to pursue happiness the so should he.

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Trying to fill the gaps in my community college philosophy education & the only free thing I could find is Hillsdale. Enrolled but did so knowing Jesus is big there. We have no secular equivalent?
@sapinker ?
@RichardDawkins ?
Anyone?

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@JonahDispatch @Tyler_A_Harper It was wonderful to listen to two people I respect so much nerd out which I am always a fan of. This episode was a wonderful reminder that there are sane people out there. I was beginning to doubt it. Thank you both for providing a reprieve from our insane times.

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@glukianoff @TheFIREorg Well it goes to show that people on mass don't understand that legal precedent rises above political bias. It irritates me.

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@MattWelch But so many people on my Facebook say it was staged. That many people can't be wrong including the man that ran the local library........

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@HistoryBoomer I can't believe the people on my Facebook that are mature adults that believe this was staged. One ran the local library for years.

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@michaelshermer Reviewing my Facebook feed today I immediately thought well, Michael is going to get asked about this on his next book interview. By the way I'm ordering the book....and ignoring my Facebook feed

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@TheView @whignewtons It was about a year ago that I thought after listening to you, "this is someone more people should know."
So glad to see you having a moment.

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@mysteriouskat Haver you read The Constitution of Knowledge by @jon_rauch ?

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@mysteriouskat Continuous education. Live as a perpetual student

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@CorieWhalen @AnthropicAI @claudeai Agreed. It is like having a professor of philosophy or political science at my whim.

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@petersavodnik Agreed. That's why I went back to school in my late forties to study epistemology

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@JoshPhillipsPhD I've seen this far too many times and it proves that we have a serious problem when it comes to historical knowledge