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Walt McLaughlin
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·Sep 13

How Cognizant Are We?

An Exploration of Human Consciousness — Last night I was so tired I couldn’t think straight. So I went to bed, entering the land of dreams. This morning, when I awoke, my immediate thoughts were as fuzzy as the thick mist hanging over the landscape out my window. Then the fog in my head cleared and…

Consciousness

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How Cognizant Are We?
How Cognizant Are We?
Consciousness

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Aug 26

Chasing Tornadoes

Indederminacy and the Sublime in Nature — Smart people head for the basement when the tornado warning comes — whenever the threat is imminent. That’s what my mother always did, ushering my siblings and me down there to crouch against the wall and listen to the radio until the all-clear report came. I lingered upstairs once, hoping…

Nature

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Chasing Tornadoes
Chasing Tornadoes
Nature

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Aug 7

Embracing Mythos in a Culture Devoid of Meaning
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Josh Chandler Morris

Yes indeed, we live in a mysterious universe.

Yes indeed, we live in a mysterious universe. And while science informs our worldviews, expanding our knowledge of What-Is, that's not all there is to what any of us believes. Thanks for this thoughtful look into the matter.

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ILLUMINATION

·Jul 27

The Imbalance of Nature

Are we the architects of our own demise? — There is much talk these days about the balance of nature. Most conservationists and ecologists embrace the notion, believing that disruptions to the global ecosystem — the biosphere — is due largely to human interference. To remedy that, we should mend our ways. …

Nature

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The Imbalance of Nature
The Imbalance of Nature
Nature

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Jul 11

Woods Wandering

An excursion into the wildness within — I stepped off the logging road, pushing through a tangle of young spruce blocking the way, and felt my nerves loosen for the first time in months. Springtime verdure was abundant in the lowlands, but in the mountains the leaf buds of the trees were just opening. The chill of…

Nature

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Woods Wandering
Woods Wandering
Nature

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The Philosophy Hub

·Jun 27

The Absurd Man in Nature

Where Camus got it wrong — I had everything figured out when I was 18 years old, or at least thought I did. Then I went off to college to study philosophy with a heavy emphasis on Existentialism. Several years later, I walked away with a degree in Nothingness. …

Philosophy

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The Absurd Man in Nature
The Absurd Man in Nature
Philosophy

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Jun 16

Requiem for Homo Sapiens

A Failed Yet Glorious Species — Sing praise for Homo sapiens, those magnificent, brainy primates! We bury the last of them today. May God rest their souls in peace. They were the last of a long line of hominins, outcompeting the rest. There has never been more powerful creatures on Earth. …

Humanity

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Requiem for Homo Sapiens
Requiem for Homo Sapiens
Humanity

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May 16

This Phenomenon Called Life

What is all this living and dying for, and how did it come about? — People I love are dying. That we are mortal creatures isn’t news to anyone, but it’s different somehow when death hits close to home. In recent years I’ve lost my parents, two boyhood friends, and other friends I’ve known for decades. There seems to be a flurry of death going…

Nature

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This Phenomenon Called Life
This Phenomenon Called Life
Nature

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ILLUMINATION

·Apr 28

A Pantheistic Perspective on Things

Acknowledging the meta-physical world that we inhabit — Pantheists say that God and the universe are one and the same. No deity transcends the universe, they tell us but exists immanently within it. This makes sense from a naturalistic point of view. Nature is everywhere. Nature is the universe, and nothing exists beyond it. As a natural philosopher…

Philosophy

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A Pantheistic Perspective on Things
A Pantheistic Perspective on Things
Philosophy

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Apr 11

Among the Whales

Contemplating the secrets of the deep — This is not what I had expected. When the last hint of the Maine coast fades into the mist, it seems like we have entered another dimension. The 65-foot boat that my wife and I boarded in Portland looked formidable back there. …

Philosophy

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Among the Whales
Among the Whales
Philosophy

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Walt McLaughlin

Walt McLaughlin

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Philosopher of wildness, writing about the divine in nature, being human, and backcountry excursions.

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