Category Archives: Philosophy
Warning: Deep thoughts ahead.
Free will?
"WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT?" Great minds can sometimes guess the truth before they have either the evidence or arguments for it (Diderot called it having the "esprit de divination").One of the topics in review is the … Continue Reading ››
Book review: Rethinking life & death
Book review: Tyranny of the moment
Subtitled "Fast and slow time in the information age", this book by norwegian Thomas Hylland Eriksen details the struggle between two kinds of experiences. Fast time is when you're doing 10 things at the same time. You're talking on the phone while reading email, listening to the radio and half-following another conversation in the … Continue Reading ››
Book review: The art of happiness at work
The Dalai Lama knows a thing or two about how to be happy. Not only has he studied buddhist philosophy, psychology, history etc. all his life, he's also a terribly nice person who has devoted his life to serving others - his own people (the tibetans) as well as the rest of us. In Continue Reading ››
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There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love. - From Don Juan de Marco
Book review: The art of happiness
The Art of Happiness starts out by defining the role of happiness in our lives:
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in … Continue Reading ››
Book review: Rational Mysticism
John Horgans book Rational Mysticism breaks new ground because it is written by a man who is clearly a sceptic but who seems to want to believe in something beyond rationality - yet doesn't want it so much that he forgets to ask the tough questions. And the strong side of this book is … Continue Reading ››
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Christian Theism is the belief that God is a personal, transcendent Creator of the universe--and of us. This world view showed up on a T-shirt I saw recently: There are two things in life you can be sure of. 1. There is a God. 2. You are not Him. - From this article: Answering the Big Questions of … Continue Reading ››
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Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back