Category: Medicine
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About the Holy Communion & Excuses...
In light of the coronavirus, many talk about the need to shut down churches, socialize only on the Internet, banish Christianity (interesting how more massive gatherings of Muslim communities in Europe have not gained so fierce enemies...) and declare Science as our new religion. For that reason I feel compelled to simply point out the…
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Coronavirus, Christianity, Death, "sissies"...
There is a lot of discussion about the new coronavirus affecting the world as we speak. Harmonia Philosophica usually does not deal with such news since our focus is philosophy and not everyday matters. Our subject is the eternal, not the ephemeral. And yet, as we have said many times here, the ephemeral is sometimes…
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Coronavirus epidemic. Hand washing. The art of simple. And other 'little things'...
According to scientists, to fight an epidemic, focus on hand washing. (1) An advice which came into light just as the epidemic of the coronavirus is gaining momentum. We have been so much focused on high-tech and elaborate methods of dealing with diseases, that we have forgotten the greatest weapon we ever devised against disease…
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Against Abortions - Summary of arguments
Modern civilization is the civilization of "rights". And this entails the non-existence of any "obligations". The abortions case is the best example illustrating such a way of thinking. Abortions are seen today as a "human right". Never before had anything so dark been painted with so glorious colors. Never before had such an unethical action…
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Killing humans. By analyzing rocks. [Brake that rock!]
University of California, Berkeley neuroscientists have tracked the progress of a thought through the brain, showing clearly how the prefrontal cortex at the front of the brain coordinates activity to help us act in response to a perception. Recording the electrical activity of neurons directly from the surface of the brain, the scientists found that…
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