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A wise woman once said: excellent people discuss ideas, mediocore people discuss events, inferior people discuss other people. This blog will be devoted mostly to ideas that I teach and write about. Ocassionally I will throw in some travel, recipes, movie reviews or other quirky indulgences. Since the state of our world and efforts to mend it are never far from my consciousness, you will also find some "current events" features under "tikkun olam." Please feel free to add your comments. Definitions: Midlife--Too late to do anything really new; too late not to. Mussar- A traditional Jewish practice to cultivate ethical insomnia(thanks to Rabbi Stone) If you want to know more about the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College where I teach, check out www.rrc.edu

Sunday, December 24, 2006

happiness

Robert Nozick offers the following thought experiment. If a genie offered you the option of living in perfet, sublime happiness the rest of your life, would you agree if
--you had to be asleep from now on
--had to give up 30 i.q. points
--had to give up a uniqe talent
--one of your siblings was never born
--one of your children was never born
-- you were turned into a pig
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