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Life
The basic inorganic building blocks from which life was formed are chemicals such as methane, ammonia, water, hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide, and likely a few more. To date no credible scientific theory has been advanced that can account for … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Science & Religion
Tagged elementary particles, evolution, life, life-forms, the building blocks of life, the cosmos is a living organism
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Our Heavenly Home
… But Trailing Clouds Of Glory Do We Come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!” (William Wordsworth) Apart from the obligatory nod to the prevailing local deity at the time that this was … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmology, cosmos, evolution, theoretical physics, Very Large Telescopes, VLT
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The Myth of Sisyphus
Sisyphus, as we know, is the figure in Greek mythology who was punished by the local Gods for his deceitfulness by being forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only for it to roll down again at the … Continue reading
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Tagged absurdism, Albert Camus, cosmology, Existence, meaning, Sisyphus
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The Largest Maritime Disaster in History
On the 30th of January, 1945, the Soviet submarine S-13 attacked and sank the MV Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic sea with as many as 10,000 refugees on board, and in so doing caused the largest maritime disaster in recorded … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander marinesko, Grossadmiral Dönitz sea bridge, Kaliningrad, maritime disaster, MV Wilhelm Gustloff, WW2
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Religion Kills Once Again
It was reported by the BBC today that a Bangladeshi publisher of secular books has been hacked to death in the capital Dhaka in the second attack of its kind on Saturday, police say. Faisal Arefin Dipon, 43, was killed … Continue reading
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Tagged faith, hacked to death, Islamic Radicalism, religion, secularists blogger, truth
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The Subject Defines the Object
“Nothing is an object unless there is a subject to consider it.” While not questioning the existence of objects when not directly considered, in “The World as Idea”, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) says that we only know the world in relation … Continue reading
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Tagged Descartes, ding an sich, distiction between subject and object, Kant, Nietzsche, Perception, sensory organs, stream of consciousness
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Life is a Metaphor
Life is a metaphor and living it tells us what the cosmos is all about. The problem is, we don’t really know what is going on, but are forced to act out what is at stake here by our very … Continue reading
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Religious Zombies
Zombies are undead creatures, typically depicted as mindless, reanimated human corpses with a hunger for human flesh (Wikipedia) Zombies are purported to be mythical creatures – nevertheless there is abundant evidence that they exists, but then more so as religious zombies, by … Continue reading
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Tagged mindlessness, religious beliefs, zombies
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WWII – Liberation Day
Today, May 5th, is National Liberation Day in the Netherlands to commemorate the capitulation of the Nazi forces in that country exactly 70 years ago on May 5, 1945. It is a national holiday, although not a statutory day off … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur “Bomber” Harris, civilian refugees, Dresden, Liberation Day in the Netherlands, WWII, WWII Bombing of civilians
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A Depressing Part Of Being Human
I think often about the human condition – and maybe too often – and in particular about what it would take to move beyond the current state of affairs that appears to be largely defined by an insatiable desire for … Continue reading
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Tagged human being, insatiable desire, personal gratification
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