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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Apr 27
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    Abraham Maslow has a vision of academic lineage. I find this quietly but deeply moving.pic.twitter.com/vwnbw0Rdj1

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      1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Apr 27
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        The sense of wonder when I discovered that I am in a direct line of teacher-student descent from Copernicus, Kepler, Kekulé—and Martin Lutherhttps://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1109496818373529600?s=20 …

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        Tycho was a great grandstudent of Copernicus... https://academictree.org/physics/tree.php?pid=24246 …
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      1. Anders Sandberg‏ @anderssandberg Apr 28
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        I had fun a few years back trying to visualize academic genealogies. https://www.flickr.com/photos/arenamontanus/276441279/in/album-72157594326128194/ … https://www.flickr.com/photos/arenamontanus/269437442/in/album-72157594326128194/ … http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2006/10/genealogy_the_next_generation.html …

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        QC Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy

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        Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv
        I am never truly alone, for I have the light of human consciousness pulsing through my nerves. I am a verse in a song that echoes through millennia. I am Feynman and Archimedes, I am laughter and joy, curiosity and awe, discovery and delight ...anyway, support your local library pic.twitter.com/PMs1hP0X4d
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      1. Robert N Stonehill‏ @ShapesOfEmpathy Apr 28
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        Reminds me of the book Thanks a Thousand, where the author finds and thanks everyone responsible for his cup of coffee. It's a great awareness expanding practice to provide gratitude and belonging. I envision it as the chain of life.

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      1. Peter Griffin Simp‏ @MienOfMoloch Apr 27
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        Perhaps a bit beneath you but there's a wonderful history of philosophy textbook called 'The Great Conversation' that captures a lot of this narrative quite consciously and beautifully

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        Tantric Buddhist Masters can recite their lineage all the way back to OG Siddhartha himself. It's the same pride I imagine an European aristocrat would have felt and comes with a certain standard of excellence and nobility of character, if properly cultivated.

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        I’m no academic or philosopher. That’s probably why when reading this I naturally translated it to my biological lineage. The effect was I’m sure different, but still a good sensation and a wonderful grounding feeling. Thank you.

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