Month: April 2012
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50/50, dying from cancer and how Seneca can help...
Everything is fine. Until you learn that a loved one is dying from cancer. You then panic. You do not know what to do. And it is really bad that the very good film 50/50 shows how the only way out of such a situation is talking to a social worker or to a foreign…
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On the belief in Existence
We see. We feel. We believe that things "exist". And then we philosophize on what "existence" means. And in order to do that we attempt to see what "seeing" is. We try to model reality only to realize that reality continuously escapes us. We analyze things only to see that too much analysis destroys their…
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Quality Paintings on the web
I have gathered below a set of quality painting pictures from the Internet. For no apparent reason. Just because I like them. A good painting is always a good companion... And it is always nice to have a nice painting in your post instead of a cold photograph. A painting is made with love by…
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Against alternative medicine... But why?
Many times we read articles about doctors critisizing "alternative medicine". However what we do not understand is that the very characterization of a practice as "alternative" automatically places it in this special place in our brain where we have put all the things which are interesting but "wrong". Why would you say that something, anything,…
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The weight of soul, the dogmatism of medicine...
Once upon a time, a physician conducted six experiments which showed that there is a stable loss of weight upon human death. The physician was Dr. Duncan "Om" MacDougall (c. 1866 – October 15, 1920). In March 1907, accounts of MacDougall's experiments were published in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research and the medical journal…
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