Much of the confusion of our time can be distilled to a difference between inside and outside. We think, for example, that the representation of ourselves in social circumstances is our ego, and fail to notice that our ego is in fact an inner voice not very much concerned with how others see us. The [...]
Posts under ‘Ontology’
Religion: a primer
Religion, for most, was always optional. Something we might be vaguely aware of, and this awareness would temper, to one degree or another, our behavior towards ourselves and others. When Christianity, in its various flavors, ruled supreme, this was fine. Good enough. But now? What now? With Christianity under full attack, and in full retreat, [...]
Worship
Do you remember looking out at the stars at night, thinking about the scale of it all, and that it went on forever, and it was all so utterly uncontrollable and so threatening that you recoiled in fright, and couldn’t keep thinking about it? All children, I think, do that at some point. That’s fear. [...]
Reality
Reality. A word we’ve all used. We all know what it means, don’t we? Um. No. We most certainly don’t! A word about the picture: Imagine that’s you, on the other end of that charging grizzly. No weapons. Nowhere to go. No time to make a plan. That’s Reality! And so to work… This essay [...]
Lao Tzu
Lao Tzu, it is said, lived about 500 years before Jesus. Some say he didn’t actually exist, but then, they say that about Jesus, too. So, for the sake of clarity, let us assume that he – if he existed at all – lived about 2500 years ago. Not that it matters, really, when he [...]
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, [...]
45 queries. 1.085 seconds