Tag: death
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Future affecting the past 2: The creepy coincidence of Richard Parker(s)...
In Edgar Allan Poe's only novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, published in 1838, Richard Parker is a mutinous sailor on the whaling ship Grampus. After the ship capsizes in a storm, he and three other survivors manage to catch a tortoise to eat while stranded on the sea. However after some days they have…
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You will Die.
You will soon die. Have you forgotten it? Do you feel unpleasant when someone reminds you of that little truth? How do you live, without remembering the most important part of life? Do you fear enough? Are you enslaved enough to your body? Do you worship the temporary? Socrates slept peacefully one day before his…
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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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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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