Monthly Archives: December 2011

Cartamania

Posted on 2011/12/31 by pk

Cartamania (A pk coinage): Preferring the Menu to the Meal: a Pandemic Knatz.com / Teaching / Society / Social Epistemology / Reality / Mission: to discuss the lack of empirical basis for kleptocratic ideals Cartamania Realism Cartamania Scholastic Realism & … Continue reading →

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Motives, Ambition, Accomplishments

Posted on 2011/12/29 by pk

pk Motives, Ambition, Accomplishments … Knatz.com / Personal / Overview / pk “Motives” / @ K. 1998 04 Above I report my ambition and its evolution. I detail my strategies. Some of the evidence that it’s so is in the … Continue reading →

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Ambiguity of Memory

Posted on 2011/12/28 by pk

When I was a kid the family told a story about my Uncle Charlie, when asked if he could play the violin, replying, “I don’t know, I’ve never tried.” I understood that it was supposed to be funny: a funny … Continue reading →

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Motives: What Makes pk Run?

Posted on 2011/12/27 by pk

Why Do I Bother? Knatz.com / Personal / Overview / pk “Motives” / Science posits identicality and interchangeability for physical particles. (Of course we don’t know such particles well enough to be sure.) (It’s people who don’t know the Chinese … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas!

Posted on 2011/12/25 by pk

Holliday Greetings to John Quintero. John Quintero is a fellow disciple of Ivan Illich. John Quintero is the Illich disciple I didn’t meet until a year or two before Ivan Illich’s death. Other Illich disciples I met by going to … Continue reading →

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Jesus, Darwin, Dostoevsky

Posted on 2011/12/24 by pk

A Note to pk Motives module: Knatz.com / Personal / Overview / pk “Motives” / @ K. 1998 04 28 Some of my points, however important, were distracting from the simple shape of this section: /Overview / pk “Motives” /. … Continue reading →

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Unbearable Commissars

Posted on 2011/12/23 by pk

/ Movies / The Unbearable Lightness of Being, a novel by Kundera was filmed for 1988. Tomas is presented as a doctor, a brain surgeon. Mostly though we only see him seducing women. “Take off your clothes,” Tomas instructs a … Continue reading →

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Presbyterian Recrudescence

Posted on 2011/12/21 by pk

I title this sub-section of my church stories Presbyterian Recrudescence: I was confirmed in a Presyterian Church: many of my church memories and experiences are “Presbyterian” in some way. One post goes into what “Presbyterian” means; here I’ll say a … Continue reading →

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Presbyterian pk

Posted on 2011/12/21 by pk

/ HierCon / Church / I’m narrating stories illustrating the thesis (Ivan Illich’s) (and mine) that society’s institutions militate against the Christian ideals we’re supposed to embody: that we support vertical hierarchies, authorities, secular as well as sacred, while pretending … Continue reading →

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Presumption of Innocence

Posted on 2011/12/20 by pk

There’s a tradition in law, celebrated in this culture, that the law is to presume a citizen innocent until proved guilty. I offer a modification. I, an ordinary powerless schmuck, should be presumed innocent, you similary should be presumed innocent: … Continue reading →

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