Category Archives: Philosophy, Science & Religion
The Larger Context
Life’s larger context is defined, in the first place, by our ideas about our place in the world provided we see it in in terms of being intrinsically linked to everything else that is going on in it. Consequently, our … Continue reading
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Spiritual Beliefs
Existential writers such as Søren Kierkegaard claimed that proof of God cannot be the outcome of a logical argument, such that God’s existence can never be a public or objective truth. Belief in God, consequently, must always be a private … Continue reading
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Religion
The suggestion that the human race is lost and absolutely hapless when it comes to understanding their place in the world has been expressed many times. In the mid 1600’s the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza wrote that people find themselves … Continue reading
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A Solution in Search of a Problem
Much of what I am trying to do here is to get to the story behind the story, i.e., to get a glimpse of the greater context of what plays itself out every day as what we refer to as … Continue reading
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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
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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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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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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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