ser•vi•tudeNOUN1. slavery or bondage of any kind: political or intellectual [or spiritual] servitude.2. …Synonyms: bondage, bonds, chains, confinement, enslavement, obedience, peonage, serfdom, serfhood, subjection, subjugation, thrall, thralldom, vassalage, yoke,(Source: Dictionary.com) In this latter-day, when the “promises” of power and gain have again captivated the imagination of most of the world and ALL of the powers that […]
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A [mathematical] ceiling is a [philosophic] term used to describe “the unseen, [unacknowledged, peer-enforced] barrier that keeps [many modern scientists] from rising to the upper rungs of [knowledge and truth], regardless of their qualifications or achievements.” (Adapted by this blogger from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_ceiling ) IF Plato (/ Socrates) is right: ▪ that “The Divided Line”1 as
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In a nearby rural community, there has been a vigourous, ongoing discussion in the local paper about the headlines and pictures that “grace” the “Magazines at the Checkout Counter.” The initial complainant (a young mother with several young children frequently in tow) has been immensely relieved and gratified that the grocery store chose to heed
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