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Post No. 14: Great Power Relations, Part 2
Post No. 14: Great Power Relations, Part 2 As described in Part 1 (Prelude) on this topic, "Realism" is the approach most often taken in...
Martin Sullivan
Jan 29, 20234 min read
Post No. 13: Prelude to Great Power Relations
Post No. 13: Prelude to Great Power Relations. Prelude to the topic of Great Power wars, causes and potential ways forward.
Martin Sullivan
Jan 13, 20234 min read
Post No. 12: The Christmas Season
A poem to start this post: (with a nod to T.S. Elliot) Let us go together, you and I, and listen to a tale of one season. We'll snatch a...
Martin Sullivan
Dec 9, 20222 min read
Post No. 11: The Gordian Knot: Part Two of "A Person or a Self?"
In an earlier post regarding part one of this topic, I suggested that yes indeed we are a person but I would leave open the question of...
Martin Sullivan
Nov 12, 20224 min read
Post No. 10: A Tale of Two Schoolboys, Part Two
In part one of this tale, Vladimir was on top of Volodymyr violently punching him as Volodymyr valiantly fought back. Both of them were...
Martin Sullivan
Oct 30, 20223 min read
Post No. 9: A Tale of Two Schoolboys
Once there was a school boy named Volodymyr. He had a friend with a similar name which was Vladimir. Volodymyr spent a lot of time with...
Martin Sullivan
Oct 23, 20223 min read
Post No. 8: A Person or a Self?
Are you a person or a self? This may sound like an inane question but it actually has interesting implications. My name is Martin. This...
Martin Sullivan
Oct 6, 20222 min read
Post No. 7: The Other is Good/Bad
Judging - this is what we do because we are human. Once our brains and body have developed sufficiently and we have had enough time to...
Martin Sullivan
Aug 25, 20222 min read
Post No. 6: Violence
Violence is an ugly word. It is even uglier when it is put into practice. Why is it that some people and countries resort to violence?...
Martin Sullivan
Aug 23, 20222 min read
Post No. 5: Patience
Patience is perhaps an underrated virtue in today’s fast paced culture. We don’t like to wait for things. We’re used to acquiring a vast...
Martin Sullivan
Aug 1, 20221 min read
Post No. 4: Reba the Amoeba
An Amoeba is a single-celled organism and one of the first life forms on earth. Amoebas are usually found in ponds and have the...
Martin Sullivan
Jul 18, 20221 min read
Post No. 3: The Quiet Mind
The mind is a peculiar, complicated and strange thing. We speak of the mind is if we know what it is yet no one can point to it or grasp...
Martin Sullivan
Jul 9, 20222 min read
Post No. 2: Online Addiction
The other day I was in the fitness center lifting weights. Nearby was a young woman doing squats. The whole time she had her cell phone...
Martin Sullivan
Jun 30, 20221 min read
Post No. 1: The Essence behind It All
There are quite a few of us who are curious about an essence that lies behind and underpins all that we experience in the world. Some...
Martin Sullivan
Jun 28, 20221 min read