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Category: philosophy
Killing time
Paul Nigh's 'TeamTimeCar.com' Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine I would love to own a classic car. A 65 Mustang, an E-Type Jag, maybe a DeLorean. If I had a DeLorean, I’d treat it gently, keep it in a…
The gift of life
The Judeo-Christian-Islamic view of life is that some deity created all life - plant, animal, human - and set them to multiplying etc.Every culture has a more or less thrilling and entertaining creation story, but somehow, life began with an…
Happy, happy, happy
My view of the world includes distinctions between words others might regard as equivalent. Mind, brain, consciousness, intellect: all very different things to me in my perception.So too with the concepts of pleasure, happiness, and bliss.As a writer of erotica,…
Scratching the clouds
Looking back to Plato and Aristotle with their competing views of the cosmos, Aristotle reckoned that what we see is what we get; the universe is merely those things we may perceive.His teacher Plato thought that there was a framework…
Eyes on the Overworld
There are the two views of looking at the cosmos I mentioned earlier. There is the view of Aristotle, that the physical world is all there is. Anything more complex or divine than what we can see and touch and…
The log
Everyone knows Raphael's painting The School of Athens. It is a fresco in the Vatican, illustrating philosophy, by showing one great big happy cocktail party with all the ancient philosophers.I had a background in classic science fiction, and one of…
The One thing
My adult life has been one of travel. I've been lucky enough to circle the globe many times, and to travel to Europe and America more times than I can count. I try to seek out sites of history, of…
The One, part two
In my previous post, I sketched out Pascal's Wager, and commented a little on why the cosmos must be more complex than our thoughts about it.I was moved to comment by this endearingly earnest post in a blog I follow.…
The One
There is a philosophical argument that first arose in Western thought in the Seventeenth Century: God exists or does not exist. We cannot determine which is true by thought alone.There are two outcomes at death: Heaven or HellYou must choose…
