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Photo Journal 6/14/2020

June 14, 2020 by Joe Gray in Photo Journal

Shot with Canon G7XMKII

Portland, Oregon

Follow me on Instagram @g_grins and @fractalfocus.nature

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June 14, 2020 /Joe Gray
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Photo Journal

Book Review: Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry

June 09, 2020 by Joe Gray in Book Review

Comanche Moon is the second book in the Lonesome Dove series and continues the journey of  Texas Rangers Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae as they try to tame the west from a dwindling but wildly fierce number of hostile Comanche tribesman. Buffalo Hump continues to lead his people against the encroaching caucasian intruders and we follow his story to the end, and his tale becomes a symbol of the weakening state of the once proud and free native peoples. We also meet Blue Duck, the main antagonist in Lonesome Dove, who is Buffalo Hump's half Comanche half Mexican son. Blue Duck never got along with his father and his disrespect for the old ways leads to him being cast out by his father. 

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June 09, 2020 /Joe Gray
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Book Review

Marketing...

May 29, 2020 by Joe Gray in Cultural Musings, Poetry, Thoughts, Whimsies

Look at this!

Get in on what I'm doing!

Press this button to get in. 

Go here to get in on this. 

Do this to get in on that. 

Check me out here and there and everywhere. 

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May 29, 2020 /Joe Gray
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Cultural Musings, Poetry, Thoughts, Whimsies

Brief Thoughts on the Ontological Argument

April 23, 2020 by Joe Gray in Philosophy, Religion, Thoughts, Epistemology

The ontological argument...

Anselm defined God as "a being that which no greater can be conceived", and argued that this being must exist in the mind, even in the mind of the person who denies the existence of God. He suggested that, if the greatest possible being exists in the mind, it must also exist in reality because if it exists only in the mind, then an even greater being must be possible—one which exists both in the mind and in reality. Therefore, this greatest possible being must exist in reality. 

---- From Wikipedia

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April 23, 2020 /Joe Gray
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Philosophy, Religion, Thoughts, Epistemology

Photo Journal 4/20/2020

April 20, 2020 by Joe Gray in Photo Journal

Shot with Canon 80D and 100mm Macro 2.8 Lens

Portland, Oregon

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April 20, 2020 /Joe Gray
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Photo Journal

Philosophical Zombies? (On Consciousness and Concepts)

April 12, 2020 by Joe Gray in Consciousness, Philosophy, Thoughts

Zombies aren't real so any reference to them as a legitimate metaphor for a being that acts like a human but has no internal conscious experience is nonsensical. The reason this metaphor is confusing and mostly useless is two-fold.

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April 12, 2020 /Joe Gray
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Consciousness, Philosophy, Thoughts
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