Tag: living
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Modern doctors & the Hypocrisy of health...
Oxford researchers published a research on Lancet which says the NHS should consider giving statins to healthy people, so as to decrease the risk of heart attacks [source 1="<a" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18091708" 2="target="_blank">BBC" 3="News</a>" language=":"][/source]. There you go. It is really weird how many scientism-lovers believe that medicine and technology gives them a better life, while many…
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50/50, dying from cancer and how Seneca can help...
Everything is fine. Until you learn that a loved one is dying from cancer. You then panic. You do not know what to do. And it is really bad that the very good film 50/50 shows how the only way out of such a situation is talking to a social worker or to a foreign…
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Fasting, Easter, right & wrong...
You laugh when religion tells you that too much of materialistic pleasures is bad. You think fasting is ridiculous or - at the best - hypocritic. But when your dietologist tells you to stop eating too much meat, you obey with no questions asked. I guess it all depends on WHO tells you (capital letters are…
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The Philosophy of (Greek) Frappé, Zen, non-thinking, living...
We humans are strange beings. We like living and yet we do everything we can to die. Taking things as they are, not thinking too much, just staying cool while the universe explodes besides you, could be part of a Zen teaching. But this is not a Zen teaching. This is the Frappe Philosophy. Many…
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Dawkins, life's purpose, steaks
In "God's Delusion", Dawkins refers to the purpose of life by citing a meeting he had with Watson. During the interview he took from Watson, Dawkins asked him what he thinks about science finding out the "how" and religion finding out the "why" in life. Whatson, according to Dawkins, responded that "I do not believe…
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