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2017 listener stats for the Global Chillout station. Country # listeners Average time (min) United States 201355 41 Unknown IP 186698 47 Germany 41259 61 Canada 37822 74 United Kingdom 34095 71 Russian Federation 19390 42 Japan 18186 39 […]
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I am not at all religious, but I respect religion and religious people. Honestly, I find religion fascinating–what people believe and how their beliefs motivate their actions. That is part of what separates humans from animals. Humans are belief-motivated beings. […]
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Epicurus on Happiness “We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.” – Epicurus Epicurus is one of the […]
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Was a story about Spotify censored by online tabloid HuffPost? The article was an expose of a closed-door meeting between artists’ rights activist Blake Morgan of I Respect Music and executives of Spotify, the music corporation. Morgan is a regular […]
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“The Devaluation of Music” was written by Craig Havighurst in 2015. Two years on his observations about what is wrong with the music industry are more true than ever. Havighurst probably is not surprised things have become worse because nothing he […]
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Seriously, you have no right to be bored. If you feel bored, the fault is yours. Sorry, but it’s true. Stop whining and start living.
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One of the most notoriously misunderstood concepts in the history of philosophy is Friedrich Nietzsche’s Übermensch. The word “Übermensch” is too often mistranslated into English as “superman” but the German “Über” means “over” not “super.” We need to be clear […]
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Danny Kaye on Travel To travel is to take a journey into yourself. – Danny Kaye
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Kant’s Sixth Proof of God Immanuel Kant definitively demonstrated in his writings that no proof or disproof of the existence of god could be fashioned from pure reason. He conclusively and persuasively showed that all of the five standard rational […]
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