Category: Ζωή και Θάνατος
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Follow the current with Free will...
Most people when they are driven away by a current, try to resist. And most people drown in their attempt to do so. Having the wisdom to know when you must let yourself float freely in the powerful current is too difficult for most of us to master... Doing so does not mean that you…
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Facebook Murders - Signs of our times?
A kid killed another kid due to comments made on a Facebook Wall...!!! [1] Too ugly to be true. But yet again, when was reality beautiful? Similar Facebook murder have taken place again [2]. Death was always part of human life. The only difference is that now death comes for much less important reasons sometimes...…
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Future affecting the past (!) & Hemingway - Too illogical to be false...
Chinese people think that the future can affect the past. They say that once upon a time a very mighty and powerful man in China did not manage to become an emperor only because he was punished for his followers conducting human sacrifices AFTER his death (!!) ... For us westerners this seems absurd. But…
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Why do good people suffer?
This is one of the greatest problems that troubles philosophers around the world: Why do good people suffer? I think the problem can be solved if we understand that it is not really a problem. Who are we to know that suffering is "bad"? Who are we to know that being "happy" in this short…
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From an apple that is not an apple to death that is not death...
Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc. (OSF) has created a genetically modified apple that does not brown after being cut [1]. Is an apple that does not turn brown after being cut an apple? What are the characterisitcs an apple has? How many characteristics of an apple can we change before we stop talking about "apples"? Are…
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