{"id":11796,"date":"2010-02-28T15:45:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T15:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/28\/new-search-engine-duck-duck-go\/"},"modified":"2010-02-28T15:45:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T15:45:03","slug":"new-search-engine-duck-duck-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/28\/new-search-engine-duck-duck-go\/","title":{"rendered":"New Search Engine:  Duck Duck Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">While on &#39;ego surfari&#39; I came upon <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/William_F._Vallicella\"><font face=\"Georgia\">this page.<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">&#0160; What a wonderful time to be alive, despite the general horrors of existence, not to mention those particular to our time and place and individual circumstances.&#0160; See the Whole from many sides.&#0160; There is much more to it than your foreshortened persepctives allow.&#0160; Don&#39;t obsess over the those crushed in Haitian and&#0160;Chilean earthquakes when there is also bliss and beauty and beatitude in the world.&#0160; If you decry the shit, don&#39;t ignore the beautiful roses it fertilizes.&#0160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">As for the ego, it is ugly and odious&#0160; &#8212; <em>Le moi est ha\u00efssable<\/em> said Pascal famously and pensively &#8212; but that is only its night side: ego betokens spirit in us.&#0160; Only a spiritual being can say &#39;I&#39; and mean it.&#0160; An answering machine can say it but not mean it.&#0160; Only an I can recognize and love a Thou and stand master of the universe in thought.&#0160; An ambiguous structure, the ego is a principle of&#0160; both alienation and union.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While on &#39;ego surfari&#39; I came upon this page.&#0160; What a wonderful time to be alive, despite the general horrors of existence, not to mention those particular to our time and place and individual circumstances.&#0160; See the Whole from many sides.&#0160; There is much more to it than your foreshortened persepctives allow.&#0160; Don&#39;t obsess over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/28\/new-search-engine-duck-duck-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Search Engine:  Duck Duck Go&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}