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· 2M ago
Quora answer: What are good ways to retain information?
One good way to retain information is to create diagrams of what ever you are studying. I learned this from a teacher of philosophy I had in college whose name was Professor Alfonso Verdu. He would draw diagrams of the philosophies that he was teaching. So I took this method as my own, and did [...]
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Quora answer: If someone self-identifies as a polymath, is he/she actually one?
Quora answer: If someone self-identifies as a polymath, is he/she actually one? Kent Palmer http://kdp.me Copyright 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath I am a polymath. I refer you to my answers on Quora, and my works as evidence. Now it is for you to decide if I am actually one. For instanc
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Quora answer: If someone self-identifies as a polymath, is he/she actually one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath I am a polymath. I refer you to my answers on Quora, and my works as evidence. Now it is for you to decide if I am actually one. For instance, Socrates claims to not be a Sophist. But in certain circumstances Plato makes him look precisely like what he is agains
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Quora answer: What are some non-American films you shouldn’t go your whole life without seeing?
Andre Rublev by Andrei Tarkovski http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Rublev_(film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Tarkovsky http://kp0.me/H3JzZu http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-non-American-films-you-shouldnt-go-your-whole-life-without-seeing
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Quora answer: Are Harold Bloom’s books worth reading as a layman?
Harold Bloom is a key Literary Theorist for many reasons, but I think the most interesting of which are his books the Anxiety of Influence and the Map of Misreading, where he talks about how creativity is really stealing, and then covering up what is stolen. For instance, now it is fairly clear from
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Quora answer: How does study abroad change a person?
I studied in England for almost ten years doing a Ph.D. at London School of economics. In London the cultural life is amazing, and so one can do what ever one wants to do culturally easily, which for me was going to Plays and watching Movies from all over the world. National Film Theater was [...]
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Quora answer: What existed before the Universe?
The real question here is not about the Universe per se, but about our perception of it. In other words how do we start talking about a Universe at all? And the answer to that in my opinion is General Schemas Theory, i.e. that we project many different templates of understanding on Spacetime and the
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Quora answer: Where can I obtain a digital copy of the song Annihilation in Allah?
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Habib of Morocco who died in the Seventies over 100 years of age who was a reviver of Sufism and Islam in his time from the Darqawi Tariqa. The following is one of the songs in his Diwan which is some of the most sublime sufic poetry ever written because it is [...]
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Quora answer: What are people’s perceptions of sufism?
“From a traditional Muslim’s perceptions, there is a concern with Sufism that it is: (a) distancing itself from the primary sources of Islam: the Qur’an and Sunnah, particularly in matters of how best to serve God;” Rather than distancing itself from the Sunnah, Sufism embraces it totally if it is g
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Quora answer: What is Sufism? How can I be a Sufi?
Sufism is not a mixture of Hinduism and Islam, the closest thing to that is the Sikh faith in my opinion. Hinduism has many gods and is polytheism and Islam on the other hand is a radical monotheism, so there is a fundamental incompatibility here between Islam and Hinduism. However, this is not to s
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