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Disappearance  

The flow of life has its own rhythm.  

While reading Adriana Cavarero’s work, I couldn’t stop thinking about the sexist messages and ideas that I consumed without even realizing it while reading many philosophical texts. Attempting to reframe ancient philosophy in a less misogynistic way is no easy task, but I believe in doing so, we can all begin to unlearn both the explicit and more subtle sexism embedded in philosophy. In reading the piece, I felt like I was battling the misogynistic and patriarchal gaze of Plato - which is fitting for the title.

The human animal enjoys killing for profit, fun, and pleasure. The history of the human animal is one of warfare. There has been warfare all of my life: Born during World War II, the Korean War, and the War in Vietnam, Iraq (Wars 1 & 2), and Afghanistan, as well as the Israeli Wars.

These are the major conflicts (all nonnuclear) currently underway.

I am constantly asked, “Prof. Dave, are you a Jobber." My answer is clear. Given the state of my mental and physical deterioration, I am in no position to Job. Well, Prof. Dave, have you ever Jobbed?

Have I Jobbed?

 I was teaching at the SP Jain School of Global Management in Sydney, Australia. The curriculum was devoted, almost entirely, to international business management. I was teaching international business strategy and international business to MBA students. The students were predominantly from India.  One of the main attractions of the program was that the students spent a semester at each of the three SP Jain campuses in Sydney, Dubai, and Singapore. Almost all of the students were from India. Many of the MBA students were very young.

As an atheist, I often feel starved of non-theistic philosophies and philosophers. I realize there are many diverse atheist philosophers, however they are certainly not the majority. I would argue most people can think of more religious than atheist philosophers - which makes sense as there are many more religious people in the world than atheists.

It is the Jewish New Year. On Rosh Hashanah, it is written on Yom Kippur it is sealed who will live and who will die. There is no consensus in the Jewish religion with respect to the existence of heaven or hell. Some believe in a forthcoming Messianic period. 

Many people are climate skeptics. They do not understand the science/mythology. But Climate Change is real!

Garden of Eden

A colleague asked an important question with respect to "momentous changes." I was unable to discover specific literature with respect to "momentous changes." However, I identified Black Swan events and Creative Destruction as proxies. A brief description follows.

117 billion humans have existed in total.

Schopenhauer