Tag: wisdom
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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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Is Christianity against knowledge? (Yes and No!)
Many have wandered whether religion and Christianity in particular is against knowledge. Not because of it being related to the "dark" Middle Ages (a story which has been discredited a long time ago by Harmonia Philosophica; read the relevant article "Middle Ages - An enlightened era") but because of the famous story of God forbidding…
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Education. Short- sightedness. Non-thinking. Not seeing.
Spending more years in full time education is associated with a greater risk of developing short-sightedness (myopia). (1) Seeing a lot. Reading a lot. Thinking a lot. A blind man can do that. But it takes a full working brain to think nothing. It takes a wise man to know nothing. It takes two pair…
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Do less. And less. And less. Until you do everything...
A recent article portrayed a woman who managed to become a CEO before she was thirty. (source) This is not the only case where "Doing more and more" is praised as the main way people should pursue their existence in this life. Modern civilization and today's society praises the ones who push their limits, do…
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Language. Civilization. Silence. Re-death.
Sixty years ago, renowned Harvard psychologist B. F. Skinner published one of the most important books ever written about language. Verbal Behavior offered a comprehensive account of our unique capacity for symbolic communication, arguing forcefully over nearly 500 pages that it was learned rather than innate. The culmination of years of work, it was certainly…
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