tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384204442011-08-24T20:08:33.447+01:00<i>Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.</i>daubmirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03064747499097619873noreply@blogger.comBlogger801100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38420444.post-74691153202840569582009-09-07T20:38:00.027+01:002011-01-02T21:25:57.762Z

After all the shit I posted... I have just decided that I believe in capisci?

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To say one has an experience that is conscious (in the phenomenal sense) is to say that one is in a state of its seeming to one some way. In another formulation, to say experience is conscious is to say that there is something it's like for one to have it. Feeling pain and sensing colors are common illustrations of phenomenally conscious states. Consciousness has also been taken to consist in the

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Kinkazzo's Travels (keeps expanding...)A clever blog:PHARYNGULAEvolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal: Professor PZ Myers"The world as we know it was created by a fortuitous collision of atoms." ~Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, Book VIf you are concerned about -wishful thinking and the pie in the sky-the decline of science and the rise of

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The Origin of the Universe, Earth, and LifeThe term "evolution" usually refers to the biological evolution of living things. But the processes by which planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe form and change over time are also types of "evolution." In all of these cases there is change over time, although the processes involved are quite different. In the late 1920s the American

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Ta-taaaa: The Origin of Life![N.B.: Here and now I admit that I have a direct line with God]The ProblemThe question to be considered here is not how living bodies originate now. With respect to the present everyone admits biogenesis as a law, i.e., not a single instance is known of a living body which did not come into existence through a process of generation from another living body. The

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Developing Historical FormatsHistories of the portion of the earth known to the writer are properly classed as world histories inasmuch as they seek to record the whole significant and knowable past. By that standard, therefore, Herodotus and Ssuma Ch'ien were world historians as well as founders of their respective historiographical traditions. Among the Greeks, however, Thucydides promptly

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POINTING THE FINGER: HAS HISTORY GOT ANY VALUE?There would seem to be at least three possible viewpoints of the value of history. Clearly such a statement calls for the qualification that the positions represented by these viewpoints are unlikely to be sharply demarcated, but will generally merge into one another.The first is the view that history is bunk, often positively harmful, and that we

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Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk. ~ Jacob BurckhardtGaius Julius Caesar [1] (July 12 or July 13, 100 BC – March 15, 44 BC) was a Roman military and political leader and one of the most influential men in world history. He played a critical role

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Born: 13-Jul-100 BCBirthplace: Rome, ItalyDied: 15-Mar-44 BCLocation of death: Rome, ItalyCause of death: AssassinationGender: MaleReligion: PaganRace or Ethnicity: WhiteOccupation: Head of State, Roman Dictator 45 BC until 44 BCNationality: Ancient RomeMilitary service: Roman Legion, Asia and CiliciaThe great Roman soldier and statesman, born on the 12th of July 102 BC. His family was of

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Caesar left behind him in the minds of certain friends a suspicion that he neither desired nor cared to live any longer, on account of his fading health, and for that reason alone slighted all the omens of religion, and the warnings of his friends...Others again suppose that he chose rather to face at once the dangers which threatened him on all sides than to be forever on his watch against them,

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Et tu, Caesar!Youth (100-82)When Caius Julius Caesar was born, the leading man in Rome was Caius Marius, who had saved the Roman Republic several years before by defeating two German tribes, the Teutones (102) and the Cimbri (101). The connections between the Marius and Julius families were close: Marius was married to a sister of Caesar's father. So, Caesar belonged to a powerful family.His

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Stoicism and Ancient RomeStoic philosophy was first developed in the Hellenistic world after 300 B.C. The Stoic worldview is one of a rationally governed universe of material entities, each answering to its controlling principle ("logos") and thus participating in the overall cosmic logos. In its most developed form, Stoicism takes the lawfulness of the cosmos as the model on which human life is

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by MuzaK KazuMFirst worry. What distinguishes music from non-music? The world is replete with sound -- both man made sounds and the sounds of nature. Many of these sounds are quite beautiful -- the cries of various animals, the sound of the ocean, the whistling wind, the human voice, the majestic boom of the space shuttle as it rockets into space. But only a few of the sounds with which the world

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PART I1. ThemeOne of my long-standing philosophical ‘worries’ is what I describe as a ‘cognitive dilemma’ in relation to musical communication. How can an art form which lacks a discursive element and addresses itself primarily and indeed immediately to the auditory sense, be discerned as conveying ‘truth’ or ‘profundity’? The power is amply attested — so much so that alone among the arts music

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It has been said that humor consists of wit a thought-oriented experience, mirth an emotionally-oriented experience, and laughter a physiologically-oriented experience. And while each can be experienced independently of the others, when experienced together they synergistically create the witty/mirthful/laughful experience we refer to simply as humour.Wit as a thought-oriented experienceWit

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Love is a many splendored thingThis piece focuses on personal love, or the love of particular persons as such. Part of the philosophical task in understanding personal love is to distinguish the various kinds of personal love. For example, the way in which I love my wife is seemingly very different from the way I love my mother, my child, and my friend. This task has typically proceeded

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INFINITY AND GENRESI. Formulating the questionII. Some contemporary opinionsIII. The mode of existence of genresIV. Ontological foundationsV. Verse and proseVI. Narrative and expositionVII. Species of the narrative genreVIII. Species of the expository genreIX. The lyrical genre. ConclusionThe question of the literary genres has been disputed for centuries. It is one of the most important matters

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Sent by my dear Canadian friend jb --- still a believer!Below two songs, two poems, two invocations...i rose above these sterile sheetsa cold sweat left behinda departure from a living deathdelivered just in timethe plot had thickened to the pointwhere there was little hope to seethe antagonist had raised his fistno option was open to mebut for a deus ex machinaa god in the machinean unexpected

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Mind, mind upon the blog, What's the mindless mind of all? What is a mind? How is it related to a body?Descartes answer was substance dualism. A person consists of an immaterial substance (mind/soul) attached to a material substance (a body). But this thesis fails a crucial test. An immaterial substance cannot move a body; therefore a mind cannot move a body. I shall assume that to have a mind

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I love the way Nelson DeMille writes, especially his trilogy with John Corey as the main character.On reading his very latest, WILD FIRE, I came across this beaut cameo of an acknowledgement, which has to be the best ever written to make fun of "name dropping" authors. Here 'tis -- enjoy:...There is a new trend among authors to thank every famous people for inspiration, non-existent assistance,

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Hypotheses, hypotheses…The present day concept we hold of the Universe is far beyond anything the early Greek Philosophers such as Aristotle had in mind. In ancient geocentric views of the Universe, the earth held a primary position and the stars and planets (wanderers) of the heavens were just lights in a celestial sphere. There was no concept of a galaxy, supergalaxy, or cluster or

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Albert Einstein and his Idea of GodOPENING WORDS:"The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To know that what is impenetrable to us

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NOSTALGIA, AS A FORM OF MEMORY, IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR everyday world; its presence is indisputable. But like memory, nostalgia is an evasive concept of often-ambiguous meanings. Perhaps we should begin by asking: What exactly is nostalgia? Or maybe the first question really should be: What exactly was nostalgia? Are we nostalgic for people, places, specific points in time, or simply the past

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There are some powerful odours that can passOut of the stoppard flagon; even glassTo them is porous. Oft when some old boxBrought from the East is opened and the locksAnd hinges creak and cry; or in a pressIn some deserted house, where the sharp stressOf odours old and dusty fills the brain;An ancient flask is brought to light againAnd forth the ghosts of long-dead odours creep.When opening a

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LONE HORSE WHOSE NAME BECAME A BYWORD FOR GENIUSby John Rigden*(Published on Times HE Supplement: 07 January 2005)Einstein is the object of John Rigden's admiration for his determination to apply reason to the toughest challengesA US sports commentator recently asserted that a particular player was very smart. To emphasise his claim, the commentator said: "He's no Norman Einstein, but..."

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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.~Albert EinsteinI read this book in one gulp and enjoyed it utterly. It's good indeed to partake of a genius' flights of creativeness, especially when the universe is involved: and this book becomes for me a sort of trampoline, a proxy catapult for jumping into the beauty of Infinity, courtesy of Einstein.Among the many

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Life, it might be argued, is the distinguishing feature of all organisms and may most usefully be thought of as involving various kinds of complex systems of organization providing individual organisms with the ability to make use of those energy sources available to them for both self maintenance and reproduction. Underlying this deceptively persuasive definition, however, lie those persistent

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Historians still call the year 1905 the annus mirabilis, the miracle year because in that year Einstein published four remarkable scientific papers ranging from the smallest scale to the largest, through fundamental problems about the nature of energy, matter, motion, time and space. In March 1905, Einstein created the quantum theory of light, the idea that light exists as tiny packets, or

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Book review by Andrew Robinson*(Published on THES: 28 October 2005)Title: Einstein on Race and Racism Author(s): Fred Jerome and Rodger TaylorReviewer: Andrew RobinsonPublisher: Rutgers University Press, 2005ISBN: 0 8135 3617 0Pages: 206When Albert Einstein was named "Person of the Century" in a special millennium issue of Time magazine, the publication devoted four articles to his

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Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me? ~Einstein, 1944.Together, billions and billions of stars like our sun form gigantic star systems - galaxies like our own Milky Way galaxy, which probably doesn't look all that different from the galaxy NGC 4414 shown here:[Image: Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA)] The cosmological models of general relativity paint a rather simple

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Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality. ~Albert EinsteinALBERT EINSTEIN, COSMOS AND RELIGIONby V. Dokovic (Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, 11001 Belgrade, Serbia) and P. Grujic (Institute of Physics,11080 Belgrade, Serbia)(December 27, 2006)SUMMARY: We consider

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CONTENTS:~FIRST PLACE!~WHAT IS GENIUS? by Harold Bloom~SHAKESPEARE AND THE EULOGIES TO GREATNESS~SOUL OF THE AGE [review]~HAROLD BLOOM - SHAKESPEARE: THE INVENTION OF THE HUMAN [review]~SHAKESPEARE BY BLOOM [review]~DANTE ALIGHIERIFIRST PLACE!An overseas poll conducted by the BBC some time ago, has concluded that Sir Isaac Newton was the "Greatest Briton" of all time, followed by Churchill and

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Leonardo da Vinci: Sources and Expressions of His GeniusJoan Farber JohnsonThe subject which I wish to explore in this paper is the nature of Leonardo da Vinci’s creative genius, its sources in the society of his time, and its expression in his art, his science, and in the very manner of his living. I will attempt to indicate those aspects of Leonardo’s genius which are a reflection of myriad

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EINSTEIN & FAITHFrom Einstein by Walter Isaacson (2007).He was slow in learning how to talk. "My parents were so worried," he later recalled, "that they consulted a doctor." Even after he had begun using words, sometime after the age of 2, he developed a quirk that prompted the family maid to dub him "der Depperte," the dopey one. Whenever he had something to say, he would try it out on himself,

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Two interesting excerpts:AN INHABITED UNIVERSE?by Seth Shostak, reposted from the Stephen Hawking's UniverseSeth Shostak holds a degree in physics from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology. He is the Public Programs Scientist at the SETI Institute, in Mountain View, California.The soft lights from the stars on a summer night appear romantic,

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DEFINITION AND MEANINGGenuine and Verbal DisputesWe've seen that sloppy or misleading use of ordinary language can seriously limit our ability to create and communicate correct reasoning. As philosopher John Locke pointed out three centuries ago, the achievement of human knowledge is often hampered by the use of words without fixed signification. Needless controversy is sometimes produced and

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THE PHILOSOPHY OF BARUCH [BENEDICT] SPINOZA ________________________________________TABLE OF CONTENTS [click to go to chapters]I. General NotionsII. Life and WorksIII. MetaphysicsIV. Man and EthicsV. PoliticsVI. Conclusion________________________________________I. General NotionsOf the two problems left unsolved by Descartes (the determination of the relationship God and the world and between the

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Reposted from the American Humanist AssociationWHAT IS HUMANISM?by Frederick EdwordsThe sort of answer you will get to that question depends on what sort of humanist you ask!The word "humanism" has a number of meanings, and because authors and speakers often don't clarify which meaning they intend, those trying to explain humanism can easily become a source of confusion. Fortunately, each meaning

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Speech by Prof. Stephen Hawking at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Dec. 2006)ON THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSEAccording to the Boshongo people of central Africa, in the beginning there was only darkness, water, and the great god Bumba. One day Bumba, in pain from a stomach ache, vomited up the sun. The sun dried up some of the water, leaving land. Still in pain, Bumba vomited up the moon, the

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CONTENTS [click titles to go to chapters]:1. DID JESUS CHRIST REALLY LIVE?2. A DOUBTFUL EXISTENCE3. THE HISTORICAL JESUS4. SPIRIT, SOUL, AND MIND5. BIBLICAL FANTASIES & JEWISH ATHEISM6. WHOSE BIBLE IS IT ANYWAY?7. BUDDHA AS FICTION: THE BUDDHA MYTH8. HOWEVER…HUNDREDS OF PROOFS OF GOD’S EXISTENCE!9. ...AND FINALLY: GOD'S NOTES{for specific references within the texts below,check them on Wikipedia,

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~ CONTENT THIS PAGE:3. THE HISTORICAL JESUS4. SPIRIT, SOUL, AND MIND5. BIBLICAL FANTASIES & JEWISH ATHEISM{for specific references within the texts below,check them on Wikipedia, entering your query intothe 'search' box of Wikipedia's Homepage}DID A HISTORICAL JESUS EXIST?by Jim Walker(originated: 12 June 1997 / additions: 05 Dec. 2006)Amazingly, the question of an actual historical Jesus rarely

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~CONTENT THIS PAGE:6. WHOSE BIBLE IS IT ANYWAY?7. BUDDHA AS FICTION: THE BUDDHA MYTH8. 666 PROOFS OF GOD'S EXISTENCE{for specific references within the texts below,check them on Wikipedia, entering your query intothe 'search' box of Wikipedia's Homepage}WHOSE BIBLE IS IT ANYWAY?ASK AN ATHEIST!By Philip R. DaviesIt is still a curiosity to most persons in the street that there are University

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BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THESE ARE...GOD'S NOTES:[click to enlarge and read]_______________________________________________...well, now check out Daniel Dennett's website and related entries, including the Edge.

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Some interesting papers:[click each page to enlarge it and read]Genome, Genetics, Evolution etc.

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CONTENTS:1. CHARLES DARWIN [biography]2. DARWINISM3. DARWIN, DARWINISM, GRADUALISM, PROGRESSISM, MARXISM AND MORE... _____________________________CHARLES DARWINCharles Darwin was born on Feb. 12, 1809, The Mount, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Eng. d. April 19, 1882, Down House, Downe, Kent. His full name is Charles Robert Darwin. Darwin was an English naturalist renowned for his documentation of

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A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the

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CONTENTS:~ UNIVERSAL DESIGN?~ ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS [from Wikipedia] UNIVERSAL DESIGN?A conference contribution by Dr Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize in Physics(reposted from www.meta-library.net)INTRODUCTIONI have been asked to comment on whether the universe shows signs of having been designed. I don't see how it's possible to talk about this without having at least some vague idea of what a

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BASES FOR CONSCIOUSNESS:~The Neural Basis of Consciousness~Reality And Consciousness: Turning The Superparadigm Inside OutTHE NEURAL BASIS OF CONSCIOUSNESSChristof Koch and Francis Crick(November 4, 1999)Abstract: The physical basis of consciousness appears to be the most singular challenge to the scientific, reductionist world view. In the closing years of the second millennium, advances in the

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...but first let’s explain Dennett:From the Philosopher’s Café (April 2003) DAN DENNETTBy Guy Douglas and Stewart SaundersDaniel C. Dennett is currently Distinguished Arts and Science Professor and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University in the United States. A noticeable aspect of Dennett’s work is his desire to make serious philosophy accessible to the general reader in

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COSMIC MINDBy Victor J. StengerProfessor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any substance without the mind . . . . so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind,

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An engraving made in Paris at the time of the French Revolution shows a little man on a distant mountain observing through a telescope the activities of mankind. There could scarcely be a better image to represent the role and position of the modern intellectual as they differ from those of his counterparts in classical antiquity. He has no secure home, no well-defined purpose. His main

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Descartes was turned into a cultural icon already in the seventeenth century. In the twentieth century, he is still an icon, an icon of implicit or explicit cultural villainy, who is said to be responsible for, or at least to have provided a major impulse toward, a whole range of modern ills and putative ills: rationalism, subjectivism, egocentrism, dualism, agnosticism, atheism, scientism,

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Although the contours of personal love differ with its various forms, there are some features that seem common to them all. As understood here, they all take persons or groups of persons as their intentional objects; they all express some core interests in their objects; they differ somewhat in their evaluations of their objects; and they all involve beliefs about the identities of their objects

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An activity is solitary if it is either done alone or if done with others, the sharing of the activity (as opposed to its results) has only instrumental significance to them. An activity is an individual one if the agent's interest in it is satisfiable apart from any intrinsic interest in the satisfaction of anyone else's interests. Thus not all solitary activities are individual activities,

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He was 18 and inexperienced — in all respects — when he came to Rome in 1938. For Federico Fellini, it was the beginning of a love affair that lasted more than 50 years.Rome dazzled and indulged him. It fed the dreams he turned into such movies as La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Roma and others so imaginative that a word had to be coined to describe them: "Fellini-esque." He could hardly bear to be

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Like the waters of a riverThat in the swift flow of the streamA great rock divides,Though our ways seem to have partedI know that in the end we shall meet.~ Twelfth-century Japanese verseOne simple change in our worldview would have the most profound and dramatic effect on our lives. And it is this: to see, as Eastern philosophies have long seen, that the brain does not give rise to

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Don't you just love Brahms?In the first title above, we have two novels by French writer Françoise Sagan (June 21, 1935–September 24, 2004) -- novels which I remember with the typical 60s nostalgia.Tristesse: sadness.Brahms: a quest for unreachable happiness... Just like Sagan.HAPPINESS - so much talk about it, so little of it.And can one seriously study happiness, so as to understand its

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LANGUAGE AND MENTAL EVOLUTION Speaking in tongues?Bla bla bla bla blabbering?Language is actually quite widespread in nature in its primitive form of communication (all animals communicate and even plants have some rudimentary form of interaction), although it is certainly unique to humans in its human form (but just like, say, chirping is unique to birds in its "birdy" form).Language is very

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THE WESTERN CANONACCORDING TO HAROLD BLOOMThe first job of letters is to get a canon -H. Belloc go to CONTENTSINTRODUCTIONThe best of Western literature is considered to be the Western Canon. The list of works in the Western Canon varies according to the critic's opinions on Western culture and the relative importance of its defining characteristics.The Western Canon is a term used to denote a

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Looking at Paintings and making friends for lifePLAN TO LOOK AT ART REGULARLY You have to make looking at art a part of your regular routine. Visit galleries, your local museum, etc. Don’t be afraid to seek out art beyond the gallery walls – it’s out there. There’s no shortcut or substitute for this practice when it comes to developing an appreciation for art. You can read all the art history

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Kinky Friedman: a Texan JewboyCOMPOSING KINKAZZO AS A HOMAGEThe moniker KINKAZZO is my homage to Kinky Friedman, folksinger and eccentric author: it combines English and Italian in a kinky way, where the first part is directly derived from Friedman’s nickname (received during his freshman year for his curly hair, I believe, and not is sexual habits...uhm...) and the second part -azzo, if

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Perceptions and EmotionsEmotion appears to be a key component in the behaviour of conscious beings. To some extent, consciousness "is" emotion. There is probably no recollection, no thinking and no planning that occurs without feeling emotions. We are either happy or sad or afraid or something else all the time. There is rarely a moment in our day when we are not feeling an emotion. William James

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or The Quest For MeaningSYNOPSIS:When we seek to make our own lives "meaningful", we might be struggling with two different sorts of meaninglessness. We can create many kinds of relative meanings within the assumed areas of meaningful life: money, achievement, love, marriage, children, enjoyment, & religion. But even when we have fulfilled such meanings, we might still feel an ultimate hollowness

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MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!Bravo Christopher: I love your banter!So, here's more of you...From City Journal, (Winter 2007)FACING THE ISLAMIST MENACEChristopher HitchensMark Steyn’s new book is a welcome wake-up call.In the prologue to his new book, America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It, Mark Steyn sarcastically alludes to two people whom, in different ways, I know well. The first is novelist

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RELIGION POISONS EVERYTHINGby Christopher Hitchens ~Excerpt from Hitchens' new book GOD IS NOT GREAT: HOW RELIGION POISONS EVERYTHING -- Reposted from Slate etc. PUTTING IT MILDLYIf the intended reader of this book should want to go beyond disagreement with its author and try to identify the sins and deformities that animated him to write it (and I have certainly noticed that those who publicly

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POSTMODERNISM DISROBEDby Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins' review of Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. Profile Books 1998. Published in U.S.A. by Picador as Fashionable Nonsense.(Published as 'Postmodernism Disrobed', Nature 394, pp 141-143, 9th July 1998 and, in abbreviated form, in A Devil's Chaplain)Suppose you are an intellectual impostor with nothing to say, but with

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God built His shrine here, because He wished to be Alone! So why bother Him...?~ ~ ~ * ~ ~ ~THOSE FANATICAL ATHEISTSby Dan Gardner, Published: Saturday, May 05, 2007Reposted from: The Ottawa Citizen It's popular these days to equate those who question God with the worst kind of zealots, but it's not fair...Yesterday was one major religion's holy day (Friday). Today is another's (Saturday).

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CONTENTS:~MEMES, EVOLUTION, AND CREATIONISM~SEX, DRUGS, AND CULTS MEMES, EVOLUTION, AND CREATIONISMBy H. Keith Henson and Arel Lucas Copyright 1990 Institute for Memetic Research. A close version of this article appeared in Vol 1, No. 1 of the Journal of Ideas, September 1990.ABSTRACT: This paper discusses the question of creationism and evolution theory in the context of memes. Several key

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THE ATHEIST CRUSADE by Sara Yoheved Rigler with Rabbi Moshe Zeldman (Published: Saturday, March 22, 2008)A Jewish rebuttal to Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion Columnist and psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple, writing in the prestigious "City Journal," discloses the origins of his atheism. He was nine years old and attending prayer assembly in his British school. The headmaster Mr Clinton commanded

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BEHAVIOR AND THE GENERAL EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSby William M. BaumDepartment of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, andDepartment of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, DavisSHORT ABSTRACT The resemblance among operant shaping, cultural evolution, and genetic evolution appears clearly only in the light of a general concept of evolutionary process. Every evolutionary

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CONTENTS:~LET THERE BE BRIGHTS: BY RICHARD DAWKINS~THE BRIGHT STUFF: BY DANIEL C. DENNETTWhat is a bright?~A bright is a person who has a naturalistic worldview ~A bright's worldview is free of supernatural and mystical elements~The ethics and actions of a bright are based on a naturalistic worldview *Is Your Worldview Naturalistic?Think about your own worldview to decide if it is free of

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THE SEARCH FOR IMMORTALITYWe understand immortality as the limit of stability, infinite survival, duration, persistence, and lack of change or variety. It is often observed that the phrase "survival of the fittest" is a tautology. We understand it more as a definition of fitness in terms of survival, and hence of stability. Since it must be that evolution produces stability, then we can say that

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Multifaith Praying Mantis with Religious Standard Bear-ers

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by Charles Krauthammer Hamas has only one grievance: Israel's very existence Late Saturday, thousands of Gazans received Arabic-language cell-phone messages from the Israeli military, urging them to leave homes where militants might have stashed weapons. -- Associated Press, Dec. 27 Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral

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by Alan M. Dershowitz Don't play into the deadly, cynical ploy of Hamas and blame Israel. (January 2009) As Israel persists in its military efforts -- by ground, air and sea -- to protect its citizens from deadly Hamas rockets, and as protests against Israel increase around the world, the success of the abominable Hamas double war crime strategy becomes evident. The strategy is as simple as

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And now watch this: A 10-min. multi-media presentation on the history and background of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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ONLINE SEMINAR... The Shocking Explanation for the World's Longest Hatred Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics, and the Catholics hate the Protestants, and the Hindus hate the Moslems and everybody hates the Jews. --Tom Lehrer, song "National Brotherhood Week". A transforming seminar and an exploration of anti-semitism.

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