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 [...]
Posts under ‘Ontology’
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 [...]
Variations of intelligence
Discussions of intelligence are quite common around these parts. Such discussions almost always revolve around intelligence in a strict sense, usually pertaining to IQ or other related measures of fluid intelligence. However, there are other domains of human thought that have been neglected. One such area, which has received some coverage, is morality. Generally morality [...]
Food for thought
From Jesus to Wall Street
Geologic dimensionalism and the origin of evolution
Geology is an interesting subject, it studies the macrocosm of Earth and how its dimensions are the very support that allows biology to exist. In this sense planetary geologists observe higher dimensions to that of biology, of which biology is almost entirely dependent. We call the interaction of geology and biology an ecology. Life as [...]
Intellectual property
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9 Every so often, I find ideas typed by my compatriots challenged by some readers. There are apparently many misconceptions about what are [...]
Pakistan floods, a self inflated natural disaster
We have been seeing in the news recently about the Pakistan floods and how evil nature is harming the poor, innocent Pakistani people, here’s a few reasons why we shouldn’t concern ourselves with other societies problems: Twelve million are affected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces, while a further two million are affected in Sindh. [...]
Sensibility and Intelligence
When we talk about intelligence, it is primarily the ability and inheritance of the individual, race, species that is able to deny short term sensuality and aim toward achieving a goal, to sacrifice pleasure in the present to achieve a greater reward in the future. The way nature configures this is through the promise of a reward, either [...]
Iron Will, Faith & Discipline
Long neglected, the west continues its miserable decline into absolute failure. Will we ever rise to rule ourselves again? What is our ability to organize ourselves and form a collective force, a social force, an Iron Will able to conquest back our nations from the disorientated weakness of convenience? What is needed is organization, strict [...]
