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beautiful

By Dale, on April 29th, 2010%

Is beauty completely subjective?

I just had a truckload of beauty dumped in my lap as I took part in ‘Mixi Club’ at my church. Mixi Club provides community and food to the most interesting and wonderful range of people from the community around.

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india: different

By Dale, on February 25th, 2010%

So I should probably post about my recent trip to India.

I could give a ‘what we got up to’ report of the work our team did (some still over – some still yet to go) on the new Freeset T-shirts building. But we didn’t only go as labourers – we went to observe as well. Kerry took us on . . . → Read More: india: different

teleology & ethics

By Dale, on May 26th, 2009%

The word ‘teleology’ (from Greek τελος ‘telos’ – meaning ‘goal’, ‘end’, ‘purpose’ or ‘that toward which things tend’) is not a street-level term. However, the concept of a purpose, goal, function or ‘end’ to things most certainly is. It’s a common as anything. Teleology is blindingly relevant.

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true beauty

By Dale, on April 16th, 2009%

…is sometimes found in surprising places.

measuring value

By Dale, on April 6th, 2009%

There are at least two kinds of ‘value’ – a) the kind science can measure, and b) the kind that science cannot.

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surgery to save or end a life

By Dale, on April 1st, 2009%

Anyone who knows me knows I’m aware of the sensitivities associated with abortion. Although in one sense (something like the sense reflected in the post title) I think it can fairly be seen as a simple issue, I also affirm that it has complexities.

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depressing

By Dale, on March 31st, 2009%

…that a video game like this even exists.

how nice…

By Dale, on January 29th, 2009%

…of “all of [them] on the Facebook Team” to wish me a happy (30th) birthday (on the ’30th’ of January).

sentience and consciousness

By Dale, on January 28th, 2009%

Consciousness is at least sentience, but not less.

We can imagine a spectrum of least sentient to most sentient. The nearest animals to humans, in this case, would (obviously!) have the closest kind of sentience to humans. But (however this ‘emerged’ or came to be) humans are ultra-sentient. We have more than sensation (sentience); we also have a perceiving, yearning . . . → Read More: sentience and consciousness

caption competition

By Dale, on January 26th, 2009%

I thought it would be a bit of fun to put this INCREDIBLE (but I’m not biased) picture up and let people try out some captions for it… Have fun!

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