Month: February 2016
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Seeing. As if “thinking”. Being. As if “seeing nothing”.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first in a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby and the best close-ups of Pluto that humans may see for decades. [1] In another story: Scientists have long known that when sounds are faint or objects are seen through fog…
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Atheism as a set of Beliefs (and not a religion, so what?). Atheism as an Obstacle to progress.
I read in a philosophy forum post that... "Atheism is a valid freedom of conscience position" OK, so is ANYTHING else. "Do not attack it as anything else" "ANYTHING" else? What does that even mean? Does atheism has a special immunity privilege? Surely not. "Although it has characteristics similar to those of religion (so does…
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Tarantulas… Colours… Evolution… Destiny…
Tarantulas have evolved almost exactly the same shade of vibrant blue at least eight separate times. (1) If time does not exist, is anything happening now NOT defined by what happened in the past and by what WILL happen in the future? Can things happen in any other way? Like tarantulas evolving the same colour…
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The Fountain
A movie not like any other movie. [1] So many comments and different views. [2, 3, 4, 5, 6] The mysterious dualism of Life and Knowledge. The search for Immortality. Ascending towards a light. Triangles. Rectangles. Spheres. Love. A connection. A separation. A dying star as the path to death and life. [7, 8, 9,…
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Ghosts… Depression… A dead God. The unseen problems of a “progressed” world…
It is exactly α hundred years since Sigmund Freud set pen to paper to write his groundbreaking paper Mourning and Melancholia. Published in 1917, Freud distinguished between two responses to loss: mourning, when the object of loss is clear and obvious, and thus can be emotionally processed; and melancholia, a state of being in which…
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