Category Archives: Philosopy or Pill-osophy ?

Pills are not the only medicine- indeed they are a minority medicine.
Medicines are everywhere – sometimes it is ideas that can be the most powerful.

Philosophy started asking the question “how to live a good life?”
It’s as valid today
-and has fewer, less hazardous side effects.

Spinoza | Then & Now

Posted on February 23, 2022 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

From Then & Now, Spinoza’s ideas as a guide to life and living.

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Can CBT help you not get eaten by lions today?

Posted on November 13, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

CBT – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – has, by now, been through the full cycle of having been the latest fad in “mental health” services. It starts with being trialled, then touted as the latest cure-all, then operationalized and stripped-down, manualized, … Continue reading →

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Heidegger in the Kitchen

Posted on September 13, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

I’m a Jelly Baby, You’re a Jelly Baby. Let’s cook. Continue reading →

Posted in Ideas, Philosopy or Pill-osophy ?, sh!t is f#cked | Tagged Heidegger, heisenberg, Let's cook, Walter | Comments Off

Me-n-The Universe

Posted on January 5, 2016 by dave umbongo

Funny creatures, humans, as if the entire universe is created for them to judge, to decide decide: good- evil, stuff I like-stuff I hate so it can be filed categorically and permanently in convenient little boxes fixed for eternity – … Continue reading →

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The wisdom of Cows

Posted on May 1, 2015 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Some days it seems we could learn from others… From The School of Life, a few things we might learn from our bovine better angels… Some highlights… It’s weird they exist at all You can’t tell what a cow is … Continue reading →

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I always feel like I’m guilty of something – Albert Camus.

Posted on September 25, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Within intellectual society, I don’t know why, but I always feel like I’m guilty of something. It seems that I’m always breaking one of the rules of the clan.
Albert Camus Continue reading →

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what we observe…

Posted on February 5, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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the laughing heart – Charles Bukowski

Posted on January 25, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. . . . . The Laughing Heart your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank … Continue reading →

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knowledge and power and lifecrap – Michel Foucault

Posted on January 7, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Michel Foucault rocked the world with his ideas and his efforts to reveal and question the relationships between claims to knowledge, claims to power and authority over others. No claim to authority, no matter how banal, comes without a corresponding … Continue reading →