Tag: modern society
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Harsh sounds…
Neuroscientists have analyzed how people react when they listen to a range of different sounds, the aim being to establish the extent to which repetitive sound frequencies are considered unpleasant. Their results showed that the conventional sound-processing circuit is activated but that the cortical and sub-cortical areas involved in the processing of salience and aversion…
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(Modern) Slavery...
People bound to their relationships. Doing things just to please others. Employees tired to their employers. Doing things just to satisfy them. Managers enslaved to their customers. Adhering to whatever they say as long as they are happy. CEOs enslaved to their shareholders. Making everything possible to make them happy. People bound to their desires…
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Inherited strength & Arrogance in religion, science and elsewhere.
Nowadays we often talk about the arrogance of people in various fields. Arrogant scientists do things simply because they can do them, without thinking about the consequences. Arrogant priests are almost celebrating that they quit the church and "moved on". Arrogant managers in companies behave unacceptably without any empathy for colleagues or customers. And the…
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Christ did not exist! Do you still believe?
There was a lot of discussion recently on Greek Facebook about a famous and popular priest who decided to stop being a priest. A choice that divided and provoked either positive or negative comments. I will not dwell on this discussion and on whether a priest who does such a thing is doing the right…
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With respect to the dead... [The Coronavirus Sweden example]
Coronavirus crisis has helped in revealing the true nature of people and of states. Crises of such proportions do have the tendency of doing so. Within the crisis people feared death, people laughed at death, people showed ignorance of epic proportions for basic scientific facts, others just chose to worry about everything while some of…
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