Comments for avocatio virtualis http://minervan.wordpress.com a diversion from the essence Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:46:31 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on The Swerve is Real by Hypatia Callisto http://minervan.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/the-swerve-is-real/#comment-254 Hypatia Callisto Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:46:31 +0000 http://minervan.wordpress.com/?p=671#comment-254 Rethinking Brownian Motion With The 'Emperor's New Clothes' http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727191300.htm Rethinking Brownian Motion With The ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727191300.htm

]]> Comment on Crossing the Chasm to the Goddess by Hypatia Callisto http://minervan.wordpress.com/crossing-the-chasm-to-the-goddess/#comment-253 Hypatia Callisto Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:56:49 +0000 http://minervan.wordpress.com/?page_id=647#comment-253 I have unlocked the meaning of the reason to do visual proems... also of Lucretius. They always open with a story, a vision, a mental image that the philosopher or priest wishes to communicate. I have unlocked the meaning of the reason to do visual proems… also of Lucretius. They always open with a story, a vision, a mental image that the philosopher or priest wishes to communicate.

]]> Comment on Crossing the Chasm to the Goddess by Hypatia Callisto http://minervan.wordpress.com/crossing-the-chasm-to-the-goddess/#comment-252 Hypatia Callisto Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:53:14 +0000 http://minervan.wordpress.com/?page_id=647#comment-252 As the wave rises, it must also fall. If the wave is just a ripple, life is peaceful. If the wave is a tsunami, the fall from the top is precipitous. As the wave rises, it must also fall.

If the wave is just a ripple, life is peaceful.

If the wave is a tsunami, the fall from the top is precipitous.

]]> Comment on Crossing the Chasm to the Goddess by Hypatia Callisto http://minervan.wordpress.com/crossing-the-chasm-to-the-goddess/#comment-251 Hypatia Callisto Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:50:38 +0000 http://minervan.wordpress.com/?page_id=647#comment-251 <blockquote>It is impossible for one to live pleasurably without living prudently and honorably and justly, and also without living courageously and temperately and magnanimously, and without making friends and without being philanthropic, and in general without having all the other virtues. For the greatest errors in things we choose or avoid occur when some people accomplish individual actions while they hold the opposite view and, because of that, are in the grip of vices.</blockquote> Philodemus, from "On Choices and Avoidances" Quoted from <a href="http://books.google.de/books?id=4dsu7QU0QbcC&pg=PA27&vq=%22are+in+the+grip+of+vices%22&hl=en&source=gbs_search_s&sig=ACfU3U0VQLZHUG9zaDQIs6lRxUEKAKx9TA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">"The Ethics of Philodemus" by Voula Tsouna</a>

It is impossible for one to live pleasurably without living prudently and honorably and justly, and also without living courageously and temperately and magnanimously, and without making friends and without being philanthropic, and in general without having all the other virtues. For the greatest errors in things we choose or avoid occur when some people accomplish individual actions while they hold the opposite view and, because of that, are in the grip of vices.

Philodemus, from “On Choices and Avoidances”

Quoted from “The Ethics of Philodemus” by Voula Tsouna

]]> Comment on The Long Tail of Snake Oil by Hypatia Callisto http://minervan.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/the-long-tail-of-snake-oil/#comment-250 Hypatia Callisto Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:42:40 +0000 http://minervan.wordpress.com/?p=678#comment-250 Don't ever think you are an idiot. I am glad you are broadening your awareness. It's vitally important that more people do so. Keep thinking! :) Don’t ever think you are an idiot. I am glad you are broadening your awareness. It’s vitally important that more people do so. Keep thinking! :)

]]> Comment on The Long Tail of Snake Oil by katiem http://minervan.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/the-long-tail-of-snake-oil/#comment-248 katiem Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:39:58 +0000 http://minervan.wordpress.com/?p=678#comment-248 Trying to follow your blog makes me feel like an idiot. But the ideas I am tenuously grasping are interesting and thought-provoking. Trying to follow your blog makes me feel like an idiot. But the ideas I am tenuously grasping are interesting and thought-provoking.

]]> Comment on The Swerve is Real by Hypatia Callisto http://minervan.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/the-swerve-is-real/#comment-246 Hypatia Callisto Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:11:49 +0000 http://minervan.wordpress.com/?p=671#comment-246 to control the market, control your desire to control the money, control the government's desire to have a free market, control your desire to have a free government, control the flow of money to control the market, control your desire
to control the money, control the government’s desire

to have a free market, control your desire
to have a free government, control the flow of money

]]> Comment on The Swerve is Real by Hypatia Callisto http://minervan.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/the-swerve-is-real/#comment-245 Hypatia Callisto Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:06:51 +0000 http://minervan.wordpress.com/?p=671#comment-245 a last interview with Milton Friedman, towards the end, he talks about his perfect money. http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2006/08/milton_friedman.html a last interview with Milton Friedman, towards the end, he talks about his perfect money.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2006/08/milton_friedman.html

]]> Comment on How to Build High Pressure L$ Pipes by Hypatia Callisto http://minervan.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/how-to-build-high-pressure-l-pipes/#comment-244 Hypatia Callisto Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:26:58 +0000 http://minervan.wordpress.com/?p=575#comment-244 Epicurus said there are two kinds of motion, the straight and the swerve. This is the swerve. http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1035 Stop swerving the money! The invisible hand is wrong!!!!!!!!!!! Epicurus said there are two kinds of motion, the straight and the swerve.

This is the swerve.

http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1035

Stop swerving the money! The invisible hand is wrong!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> Comment on On those stepping into virtual rivers… by Hypatia Callisto http://minervan.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/on-those-stepping-into-virtual-rivers/#comment-243 Hypatia Callisto Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:07:38 +0000 http://minervan.wordpress.com/?p=557#comment-243 That is what philosophy is for. That is what philosophy is for.

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