A: There is something greater-than-material. Q: But why? A: Because it is good. Q: Which part? A: The whole. Ignore the parts: focus on how they fit together. Q: Why does this matter? A: To choose. Q: Why? A: Because we are part of it; there is only One and all are parts of that. [...]
Posts under ‘Ontology’
Junk science
Given sufficient time, any intelligent individual will eventually reach the conclusion that reading about science is generally useless. Scientific research is supposed to be self explanatory. Any attempt to write about it is merely a barrier or middle man. Why take a secondary account, when a primary one is available? The original, raw, experimental data [...]
Black holes
Scientists don’t really know what Black Holes are. Then again, there are a great many things that scientists don’t know. They have their theories – often ideas dreamed up over coffee and doughnuts - and in the manner of scientists, they then set out to convince themselves, and those of us who take scientists seriously, [...]
Knowledge
People — especially those who write — often like to quote other people. I have often wondered about this, and what makes them do it. Perhaps to lend a supposed importance to what they, themselves, write. Out of everything that has ever been written, or said, by everyone who ever lived, there is generally something, [...]
Euro or Drachme?
“One of her major points is that while conservatives attempt to use logical argument, liberals jump to slogans, pictures, jokes, metaphors and threats.” – ‘Demonic, by Ann Coulter‘, Brett Stevens, June 2011 This is most definitely true. Take today for example, with Liberal parties and politicians declaring: “We must give money to Greece! If we do [...]
Change your life
If the ancient world was primitive man finding ways to conquer nature and thus come to dominate his habitat, the modern world has taken things to another level. The modern state is a construct with interests sometimes at odds with rather than aligned with those of its inhabitants. Some of its minions, the industries, tend [...]
Lessons of Fox Domestication
Of all the crazy scientific experments performed by the Soviets, one of the more interesting is their exploration of evolution using foxes, performed despite the ideological opposition to evolutionary theory. Led by a biologist named Dmitry Belyaev, researchers at the nearby Institute of Cytology and Genetics gathered up 130 foxes from fur farms. They then [...]
Origins
The Mystery Before the beginning, there was the Void. From the Void was born Darkness, and from Darkness was born Light. From the two, there was born Potential. The Potential organized itself, from The Darkness, from The Light. From Potential was born The Way. Alongside it was born The Chaos. From The Way was born [...]
