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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 […]
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 […]
Social immedia
Posted on October 11, 2013 9 Comments
A bit behind the curve, I forced myself to visit Reddit for the first time last week and am finally getting around to elaborating on a thought that has been developing over the past year. About four months ago, I had enough of Facebook. As I mentioned somewhere, I only joined Facebook in 2010, after […]
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