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Thought proof

Posted on December 8, 2013 30 Comments

This past week CNN has been airing a special program about three people who apparently died and were brought back to life. All three had experiences of an afterlife that they viewed as being heaven. In all three cases, the physical death was for an extended period of time and they had similar experiences of […]

Behind the surface

Posted on November 15, 2013 18 Comments

In Plato’s Republic, Socrates suggests that looking merely at the surface of things as most of us do in our daily lives, will not lead us to understand the phenomena that underpin the workings of the world. While this is not welcome news, it actually explains why we are so easily misled by people with […]

The great obscurian novel

Posted on October 30, 2013 24 Comments

I just got this email from Word Press: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/nanowrimo-2013/ I skimmed it as I usually do with their posts, just to find out if it was anything earth-shattering. Have you seen this? It invites us to spend November writing the great American, or whatever, novel. The challenge is to write every day and make it […]

No one’s afraid of Virginia’s wolf

Posted on October 28, 2013 20 Comments

Two things happened simultaneously this weekend. I listened to the reports (and read them in the NYT) of Europeans who are now worried about what is happening in the US, given a barrage of frightening warnings that have been leaked to the world insidiously for months. On the heels of that recognition, I had a […]

hAvatar will e-travel

Posted on October 22, 2013 4 Comments

We were so exhausted Sunday night that we just collapsed in front of the TV, flipping the channels for something mindless yet not insipid. All the stuff I had DVRd was just too heavy. Then I realized I had a Bill Moyer’s episode taping, so we watched that. There was a long segment with Richard […]