Category: Illogical
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Credo!
Tertullian is widely regarded as having originated the expression “Credo quia absurdum” (est) (I believe because it is absurd) and the phrase often appears in contemporary polemics about the rationality of religious belief. Patristic scholars have long pointed out that Tertullian never said this or meant anything like it. (although as I have explained many…
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The real meaning of Tao: Everything possible. Illogical. Thus true.
People see patterns and rules everywhere. But these patterns and rules are elusive. A pattern could be there and you could “see” it, but if you interpret the data in a different way or if you examine the context of your observations, you could "know" that there is no pattern and you could stop “seeing”…
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Raw chicken. Τime-reversal mirror. Living to your birth.
Light that strikes a new and improved mirror is always returned to sender. South Korean physicists have created a composite mirror, made up of about a thousand tiny reflectors, that coaxes light waves to retrace, in reverse, the paths taken by the original waves that struck it. As a result, the researchers were able to…
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Nietzsche and irrationality as the only possible religion!
Nietzsche believed in the irrationality of life. Something which has led many people against religion. But on the same time many of these people accuse religion of being… irrational. But can the meaning of life be rational? Can the purpose of the cosmos be logical? If we have to accept life as it is, like…
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DNA. On the edge… Breath in.... Breath out!
For a skin cell to do its job, it must turn on a completely different set of genes than a liver cell -- and keep genes it doesn't need switched off. One way of turning off large groups of genes at once is to send them to "time-out" at the edge of the nucleus, where…
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