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BC Legislative Session Starts With A Prayer?
No, that was not appropriate. This stuff is meaningless to me – and although graceful hogwash by any other name – I want our politicians to be accountable to me and everyone else they claim to represent, the people in … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountability, BC Legislature, Higher Authority, Prayer, Separation of Church and State
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Creationism and other Bedtime Stories
Over the years I have watched – somewhat bemused, I must admit – the ongoing debate between the proponents of the theory of evolution and those who hold that everything that exists today is the instantaneous product of an act … Continue reading
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Tagged Creationism, evolution, intellectual dishonesty, super natural beings, theory versus fantasy
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What Will They Dream Up Next?
So there are folks in India and members of the Hindu religion, who – at the occasion of the recent solar eclipse – gathered by the thousands to take a bath in the filthy and polluted Ganges river near the … Continue reading
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Tagged Hinduism, Reincarnation, religion, unsubstantiated beliefs
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The Meaning of Meaning
Meaning is a function of context – the framework of relationships between people, things and events that bear on a thing or event such that they are placed within this framework in a way that value is provided to the … Continue reading
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Tagged finding meaning, framework of relationships, meaning, subjectivity, the context of meaning
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Moving Beyond Survival
Much if not most of what drives a human being today appears to be rooted in the basic need to survive. Initially very much like the animal that is an intrinsic part of us, we would have had to compete … Continue reading
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Tagged human survival, need to survive, survival as an end in itself
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The Truth Is Not Out There.
Some scientists like to believe that more information about the origin and nature of the universe can be found by poking around in the farthest reaches of outer space, many millions of light years away. What they are trying to … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmic dust, earth, infinite timespace, truth, universe
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The Cosmos Explained – Well, Maybe …
There is a scene in the movie Terminator 2, where the next generation terminator – who had morphed himself into a cop – is frozen solid after a tanker truck filled with liquid nitrogen spills its load all over him. … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmology, cosmos, evolution
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Does God Have a Belly Button?
According to the Christian bible, God created man in his own image. So this question occurred to me: Given that we have one, does God have a belly button? Yes, I know that is a silly question, but I’m sure … Continue reading
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Tagged creation, Creationism, discovery, God, mankind
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The Evolution of the Global Mind
Is the Cosmos here for us, or are we here for the Cosmos? Then again, it could be neither, or both, or we are just innocent bystanders, and a by-product – if not a casualty – of a cosmic cataclysm … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, evolution, homo faber, homo sapiens
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Only the Day after Tomorrow Belongs to Me.
” … Some are born posthumously.” This is Nietzsche’s way of saying that he has looked beyond the current wretched condition of humanity and is anticipating the arrival of an enlightened being who represents a new and superior iteration of … Continue reading
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Tagged evolution, human condition, human race, Nietzsche, self-destructive, Übermensch
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