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


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?


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


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

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Me-n-The Universe


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


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.


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.
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what we observe…


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the laughing heart – Charles Bukowski


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


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

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life is not a problem to be solved – Søren Kierkegaard


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