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14 November 2013

Antonio Machado Vuelve a Segovia
Centro Segoviano
15 November at 7:30pm

Posted by Lawrence at Thursday, November 14, 2013

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--NEWS 2023-2024--
-News and Notices
20thC ideologies today
21st century ideologies
3D printing and other technologies in our life
Accountability of the Governing Class
Agenda 2030
Agenda 2030 – Links
Aging
Aging: Why do people perceive aging differently?
Algorithms
Alien Life
Alienation in everyday life
All the world is a market
Anarchism
Animal intelligence
Animal rights
Anti Social Behaviour
Apocalypse
Apocalyptic thinking
Are bad people responsible for their actions?
Are different languages necessary?
Are equal opportunities achievable?
are ignorant people happier?
Are our genes in charge (of us)?
Are prisons a waste of time and money?
Are the psychological and physical realms independent?
Are there moral principles?
Are values dead?
Are we alone in the crowd?
Are we apes in a technological jungle?
Are we being watched?
Are we born lucky?
Are we confused about our image?
Are we in control?
Are we objects or subjects
Are we puppets?
Are we responsible for the legacies we leave behind?
Are we slaves to the new media?
Are we the creation of our own mind?
Are we Westerners losing our culture?
Arrogance
Arrogance-2
Artificial Intelligence
Attraction
Authority
awareness without thinking
Be water
Being a Woman
Being evil and mental disorder
Being Natural
Being nice to others
Blame
Body Language (2)
Boomerang Effect
Boundaries for AI
Brain conditioning by social media
Brainwashing by the media
Bullying
Bye Bye Love letters
Can machines be conscious?
Can protest politics change anything?
Can we be free and in a relationship?
Can we go beyond first impressions?
Can we live without wars?
Can we make ourselves?
Can we mould society?
Can we understand the Oriental mind?
Capital Punishment
Catharsis
Certainties and uncertainties
Change
Chaos
Cheating
Children’s rights
Citizen feminism
CIVIL LIBERTIES IN A POST PANDEMIC SOCIETY by Simon
Civil liberties in a post pandemic society.
Clichés
Climate change and social breakdown
Collaboration
Collateral damage of new technology
Collective Guilt
Colonialism
Common sense
Common sense (2)
Compassion
Conflict resolution
Conformity
Conspiracy
Control and manipulation in our life
Controlling information to protect us
Cooperation
Creativity
Creativity.
Crime
Cultural Intelligence
Dating
Dating 2
Death
Death Penalty
Declining manliness
Democracy without parties (2)
Democracy without political parties
Demonstrations
Destiny
Dietary ethics
Differences
Differences in cultural mentalities
Dignity
Discrimination against men
Distributive leadership
Do all bad things make you worse?
Do human beings have an infinite appetite for distraction?
Do Religions help people?
Do self help books harm people?
do they reflect reality?
Do things change if we change?
Do we deserve our government?
Do we ever communicate effectively?
Do we exist?
Do we get what we deserve?
Do we have a right to anything?
Do we have a right to assisted suicide?
Do we have a soul?
Do we have an absolute right to have children?
Do we have property rights to human rights?
Do we have the society we want?
Do we have to trust theories?
Do we have to wear masks in our world?
do we learn from our success or do welearn from our mistakes?
Do we make our destiny?
Do we need a world government?
Do we need ambition to succeed?
Do we need myths?
Do we really become what we think?
Do we suffer too much?
Does (romantic) love exist or is it just fantasy?
Does Christmas have any point?
Does egalitarianism damage merit?
Does history matter?
Does humour make us human?
Does language determine culture?
does money give you freedom?
Does multiculturalism work?
Does personality change over time?
Does philosophy give us answers?
Does the end justify the means?
Does the medium affect the message?
Does the past determine the future?
Does the working class still exist?
does travel broaden the mind?
Dogmatism
Double Standards
Dreams
Dreams do not pay the bills
Durability of pain
Eagerness (ilusión in Spanish).
Education
Education now and post pandemic
Education the role of the state and parents
Embracing mistakes
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Security
Empathy
Entertainment
Entitlement
Envy
Equality vs fairness
Equality vs. fairness
Equity
Escape from reality
Eternal Return
Euthanasia
Evaluating the past
Events that change history
Evil
Evolution
existence and reality
Expectations
Experience
Expressions of the soul
Failing helps us to mature
Failure helps our maturity
FALLING OUT OF LOVE
FALLING OUT OF LOVE (Olga)
Family relationships
FAMILY……
Fear
Fear of Change
Fear of Death
Feminism
First impressions of others
Flexibility
Food
Fragility
Freedom and Privacy
Freedom of speech (internet)
Friendship through Social Media
Gender
Genetic Discrimination
Getting Old
Give Chance a Chance
Global Risks
Globalisation
Good and bad vibes
Good and Evil?
Gratitude
Great Achievements
Grieving
Guilt
HAPPINESS
Hate Culture
Have feelings evolved?
Hell is other people
help or harm
Heroes in our time
Heroism
Homo Economicus
Hope
Hope and Action.
How can morality change our life?
How can we know ourselves?
How do we create personal harmony?
how do you know that somebody loves you?
How does culture influence our behaviour?
How does language affect reality and perceptions?
How does language define our world?
How does will affect destiny?
How fundamental is mathematics?
How important is childhood?
How much are we influenced by fear?
How much do we know about something we didn’t experience?
How much time should we spend on altruism?
How powerful is money?
How realistic are relationships portrayed in fiction?
How relevant is the past?
How responsible are we for the progress of the Covid Pandemic?
How the media (eg. organisations) change our identity?
How to avoid the fatality of eternal return
How to be a pacifist
How to deal with worries
How useful is competition?
How useful is history?
How valid are 20thC ideologies today?
How we learn (How do we learn?)
How women think
Human Identity
Human Instinct
HUMAN SEXUALITY
Human Touch
Humour
Hunches
Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy (the beauty of)
Idolatry
Ignorance is bliss
Imposing Safe Behaviour (the seat belt)
Individual motivation and corporate behaviour.
Indoctrination and Instruction
Inefficient people
Inherited behaviours
Inspiration
Insults
Integration in Society
intellectuals
Intent is Magic
Interesting People
Interfacing with technology
Interpreting Reality
intolerance
Intuition
Intuition or Reasoning
Is art necessary and/or liberating?
Is Artificial Intelligence a threat?
Is beauty an advantage?
Is capitalism dying?
Is democracy obsolete?
Is Europe in decline?
Is euthanasia ethically correct?
Is every person their own world?
Is Facebook as good as Face to Face?
Is fear the most negative of emotions?
Is freedom an illusion?
Is freedom of speech always good?
Is freewill a fallacy?
Is good art a matter of opinion?
Is happiness in the mind?
Is happiness the most important goal?
Is health the most important thing in life?
Is humanity doomed to repeat its mistakes?
Is ignorance the secret to happiness?
Is it 1984 or Brave new world?
Is it better to be young or to be experienced?
Is it ethical to seek human perfection through manipulation?
Is it love or is it sex?
Is it necessary to lie in life?
Is It Possible for Something Not to Exist?
Is it possible to forgive? (Lawrence)
IS IT POSSIBLE TO FORGIVE? (Richard)
Is it possible to live forever?
Is it the right system?
Is Justice Revenge?
Is life a dream?
Is life a joke?
is love all we need?
Is love an illusion?
Is love necessary for life?
Is materialism destroying society? by James O'Doherty
Is materialism destroying society? By Lawrence Baron
Is moderate activism a waste of time?
Is morality innate or learnt?
Is personal identity a myth?
Is philosophy fiction?
Is psychology a pseudo science?
Is racism natural or cultural?
Is sex more than a massage?
Is sexism natural?
Is solitude necessary for human beings?
Is the future predicable?
Is the future predictable?
Is the institution of the family possible today?
Is the institution of the family possible today? (Richard)
Is the march of technological and economic development a step in thewrong direction?
Is the march oftechnological and economic development a step in the wrong direction?
is the media too powerful?
Is the past chasing us?
Is the world a friendly place?
Is there a mental health problem today?
Is there a struggle between the conscious and the unconscious?
Is there a universal beauty?
Is there life after death?
Is there really freedom in democracy?
Is there such a thing as right or wrong?
Is this an era of changes or a change of an era?
Is this an era of changes or a change of era?
Is war inevitable in history?
Is war necessary?
Is Western culture decadent?
It’s never too late
Joy
judging others
Justice and Revenge
Justice or Revenge (2)
Keeping Death in Mind
Kitsch and other strange art
Knowing other minds
knowledge from no experience
La necesidad/deseo de trascender.
Language and Mind
Language as a political tool
Legitimate self defence
Less is More
Life and Death
Life changes if we change
Life does not follow the agenda
Life is too serious to be taken seriously.
Listening to Others
Living in big cities
Living off the grid
Living the moment
Loneliness
Loneliness and being alone
Looking for a meaning in what we do
Looksism
Love is dead
Love without sex
Loyalty
Loyalty and Infidelity
Luck vs Talent
Lying
Lying 2
Madness
Making Decisions
Making everybody like ourselves
Male - Female Archetypes
Male-Female psychology
Male–Female Psychology (essay by Richard)
marriage: is it necessary?
Me vs Us
Memories
men as seen by women and vice versa
Mental Health issues today
Minority Rights
Mistakes in life
Mixing Cultures
Modern Democracies:their virtues and failures.
Modern feminism
Modernity
Monarchy
Moral and cultural decadence in Europe
Moral Behaviour
Morality
Motivation
Mourning
my friend
My opinion is better than yours
Neither forgive nor forget.
New Normal
New ways of communication
No is the answer
No one is an island
Nostalgia
Nothingness
Obsession vs Highly Emotional
On being objective
Optimism
Our beliefs about 2050
Our limits and limitations
Our mission in life?
Our past is our future
Ownership
Owning-our-words
Pandemic – how responsible are we now?
Panic
Partyless democracies
Patience
Patience (2)
Patriotism
Perception
Perception of mental diseases in our society.
Personal Branding
Personal Development
Personality Complexes
Personality cult in politics
Perversions
Philosophy and Language.
Phobias
Piracy
Pleasure
Political Education
Poverty and Welfare
Privacy vs Security
Privilege
Prohibition (of happiness)
Promiscuity
pros and cons
Psychoanalysis vs Confession
Punishment
Punishment: is it natural or cultural?
Qualified parliamentarian
Race as a social concept.
Random Events
Real and Digital Relationships
Redemption
Refugee Rights
Relationships as a consumer product.
Relationships between generations
Religion and Education
Religion free society
remorse
Repeating to Learn
Resilience Vs Resistance
Respecting Nature
RETIREMENT by James
Returning to the sea
Revenge
Rights and Obligations
Rights of the child
Rivalry
Rivalry (Rivality)
Satisfaction
Saving Humnity
Science and Technology
Science vs Magic
scientific idolatry
Secrecy
self deception
Self destruction in (by) Human Beings
Self Esteem
Self-delusion
Selfishness and Altruism
Sense of humour
Sentient Animals
Shallowness
Shame
Should good things be imposed on others?
Should our will be the basis of our life?
Should politicians be held responsible for what they say?
Should politicians be qualified to be members of parliament?
Should there be limits to democracy?
Should there be limits to science?
Should we know everything?
Silence is golden
Silent mind
Sincerity
Skepticism or scepticism if you like.
Social Classes
social fragmentation
Social Identity
Social Integration
Social Justice Warriors
Social Networking
socialising with others
Spectator violence
Spirituality
Staying Young
Strategic phoniness
Subliminal Messages
Success
Suggested Past Topics
Suspicion
Symbolism in Religion [symbols in religion]
Synchronicity
Taboo Language
Taking life as it comes
Talking too much
Team vs Individualism
Tenderness and Aggressivity
TERRORISM
Terrorist or Hero?
The aesthetic beauty of machines
The animal in us
The Baby Boom Generation
The beauty of mediocrity
The beauty of selfishness.
The book in us
The Boomerang Effect
The conflict of civilizations
The cost of moving on
The courage we bring to life - Is the courage we bring to life the most important thing?
The culture of victimhood
The Deep State
The definition of being happy
The difference between obsession and being highly emotional
the disadvantages of being different
The duties of government
The effect of global English on our thinking
The effect of technology on society
The effects of the weather on Culture
The effects of the weather on Culture.
The emotional value of things
The emptiness of our souls
The ethics of dealing with fellow animals
The ethics of journalism
The ethics of solidarity
The ethics of space exploration
The existence ofthe soul
The Fear of Randomness
The fragility of life
The Function of Art Today
The function of doubt in our life
The function of offence
The function ofdoubt in our life
The future of the European Union.
The gap between teaching and learning.
The good things that come from bad situations
The here and now
The Human Touch
the impact of music on us
The impact of technology on us
The impediment of the past
The importance of Childhood
The importance of having a job.
The importance of physical appearance
The importance of Sleep
The importance of understanding consciousness
The importance of understanding consciousness (LAWRENCE)
The Importance of Understanding Consciousness (MARK)
The individual and technology
The influence of AI on our behaviour
The influence of technology in our emotional life
The influence of the pandemic on 21st C ideology
The Inner Impulse
The Inner Impulse by Pedro
The journey or the destination
The joy of breathing
The joy of spite
The law of the jungle
the limits of freedom
The Limits of knowledge
The limits of personal autonomy.
The limits of space exploration by Lawrence
The limits of space exploration by Tatiana
The Line Between Genius and Insanity
the masks we wear
The meaning of “isims”.
The meaning of happiness
The membrane between private and public life
The misuse of the term Democracy
The most important word in any language is Why
The nature of desire
the nature of dreams
The nature of the ego.
The necessity of Faith.
The need for intellectual thinkers
The need for religions in the 21st Century
The need to have good (amicable) enemies
The need to leave a legacy
The new female - male revolution
The notion of crisis: what is a crisis?
The Paradox of Freedom
The Perfect Me
The perversion of democracy
The philosophy of possession
The Philosophy of Sex
The power of change
The power of emotions in our society
The Power of Sex
The power of words
The present economic crisis
The problem of Infobesity?
The purpose of Christmas
The reasons for changing what we think (or our ideas)
The relevance of tradition
The risk of human extinction
The risks of intelligence
The risks of philosophy: what do we miss by being philosophers?
The role of emotions in decision making
The Role of Language in Ideology
The saturation of feelings
The seduction of power
The Self Sufficient Life
The seven deadly sins
The Sixth Sense
The skeleton within us
The sociology of work today
The Spanish Character
The truth about the truth
The use of language to manipulate people
The usefulness of fantasy
The utility of the useless
The utility of the useless - Letter by Pedro
The value of experience
The value of Lies
The Value of Silence
The Value of your vote
The way to happiness.
The will to convince
The will to convince.
The wonders of the ordinary
The World is a Stage.
Things I don’t know about myself
Thinking out of the box
TIME
To be or to have
To Forgive
To have or To be
To live in the present.
To Pretend
Tolerance - Intolerance
Totalitarianism
Traditions
Truth
TV content today
Vacations or Holidays
Vegetarianism
Violence
Virtues and Vices
Vocation
volunteering for clinical trials
Volunteering for medical tests
We are made by others.
We are the result of our actions!
We don’t get it.
We get in life what we expect
What am I missing out on because of my character?
What are we waiting for?
What can a new born today expect of life?
What can we do without money?
What can we reasonably expect from friends?
What do we get out of philosophy?
What do we mean by values?
What do we really want?
What does handsome enough mean?
What does our generation owe the future?
What does respecting someone mean?
What happens when we understand something?
What if there are intelligent extra terrestrial beings?
What is a family?
What is a happy society?
What is a nation?
What is a person?
What is aesthetically right or bad?
What is an idea?
What is Beauty?
What is civilization?
what is common sense?
What is fun?
What is insight?
What is it to be natural?
What is leadership?
What is news?
What is philosophy these days?
What is success?
What is the connection between existence and reality?
What is the importance of time?
What is the value of art?
What is truth?
What is wrong with being judgemental?
What makes a being human?
What makes a cliché?
What makes a good debate?
What makes a person interesting?
What makes a person strong?
What makes our destiny?
What we want and what we can get.
What's in a name?
What's wrong with being judgemental?
When does euphoria end and happiness begin?
Where does behaviour stops and action begins?
Where does patriotism stop and xenophobia begin?
Where does technique stop and art begins?
Who creates culture?
Who is the winner: reason or emotions?
Why are Mafias a good business?
why are people so violent?
Why are psychological disorders taboo?
Why are religions obsessed with s€x?
Why are religions obsessed with sex?
Why are religions so successful?
Why are they so frustrating?
Why do people believe anything?
Why do people need to join clubs?
Why do people perceive aging differently?
Why do revolutions happen?
Why do we always associate sex and love together?
Why do we buy lottery tickets?
why do we need a partner?
Why does society very often reward perversity?
Why is it important to have difficulties?
why should we be good people?
Why so many conspiracy theories?
Will climate change lead to social breakdown?
Will Machines Have Souls?
Winter solstice
Wisdom
Witch Hunting in our society
Women in the past and now
Work Does Not Pay
Would you take a rejuvenating therapy?
You and my perception of you

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A Note about the Essays

The essays are meant to give some ideas for the discussions we have. That is, if people feel like using them that way. I also use these essays to express some of my ideas and thinking on the subject.

However, because I usually write these essay at short notice, I have no time to do in depth research on the subject. And any ideas I feel are my own, might have already been expressed by others. But I did not come across them in the limited research I sometimes do.

Finally, most times I do not have time to polish my essay as they ought to be. My apologies for this.

All the best,

Lawrence

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