Tag: life
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Our time
This is kind of inspired by Roger Penrose’s thoughts on the Universe. Time goes like: And you’re sat there thinking about whether to have a Big Mac or a Filet O Fish. How can you grasp the length of time that has passed until you came on the scene? How can you grasp the length…
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I’ll be back
A possible explanation for re-incarnation, but not how it’s explained in current religions. Once you die time has no meaning. Like going to sleep. In the same way you had no concept of how much time passed until you ended up in the body you are now. How long did those last 13+ billion years…
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Informers
There were a lot of people in fear under the Nazis. I can understand people doing terrible things if they are told to, because the consequences for themselves and their families could be worse if they don’t. Plus most people aren’t that brave. But those people who willingly helped, happily turned Jews or resistance fighters…
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Time
We’ve got all the time in the world as long as we don’t fuck up the world. So slow the fuck down and take care of nature.
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The Kingdom of Delusion is Within You
I’ve been reading Tolstoy’s The Kingdom of God is Within You alongside Dawkins’ The God Delusion. I agree with almost all that Dawkins has to say, yet in my eyes he says it without any of the grace or weight or feeling of Tolstoy. They’re both attacking the church, but Dawkins chooses to attack all…
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We’re in Hell (it’s just not that bad yet)
I keep thinking how we create hells on earth (torture, slavery, colonialism, war, pollution, sweatshops, factories, sacrifice, genocide, gas chambers, executions, mafia, gangs, poisons, concentration camps, suicide, terrorism, horror films, gladiators, nuclear bombs). Maybe this was Jesus’ point – if we don’t follow his advice hell is where we will end up. The more you…
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The Measure of Population Control
(Edit: This was initially titled The Three Dimensions of Population Control, but in honour of Martin Luther King’s Measure of a Man, referring to the three dimensions of man, I’ve changed it. I think it’s also relevant because here too we’re trying to measure population control.) Tolstoy proposed four ways that the people are controlled:…
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Cake is the answer to life the universe and everything
Science and religion are glorified cooking. Speaking to a friend of mine, who is following the teachings of a Lama, he described to me how one one of the fundamental principles of Buddhism is repeatability. In many of the Buddhist teachings such as searching for the ego that they say isn’t there, the point is…
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Solved problem?
Responsibility + Joy can pretty much guarantee you a life worth living. But is that it? Solved problem? Responsibility comes from Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s search for meaning” (one of the final chapters titled ‘Meaning of Life’). Joy comes from “The Book of Joy” from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama. Between the three authors…
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Dad and Fred…
My dad was a great man, but he was an alcoholic and his drinking was what I consider to be the main cause for my family to fall apart. Separately from this I recently had the privilege to go to the funeral of Fred. Maybe it sounds odd that I call it a privilege, but…
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