A few years ago, I was in the kitchen of a friend’s house preparing for a meal. When we sat down to eat, my friend’s wife wolfed down her supper and then disappeared into another room to do some work....
03.19.2023 Newsconcerns.com and 4 sitesMany old gods have faded away (what happened to Egyptian, Greek and Roman deities? ) Belief in God seems to be declining in the developed world. Some say that truth never changes — our interpretation ...
03.16.2023 Rgj.com and 1 sitesMy sister-in-law, my brother’s widow, passed away very early this morning after a fairly brief but very serious illness that cascaded into multiple crises with astonishing speed. If I have the time an...
03.21.2023 Patheos.com“Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, Mock on; ’tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. ” William Blake, Untitled (c. 1800) I recently listene...
03.18.2023 Orthosphere.wordpress.comTitle: The Art of Cycling – Philosophy, Meaning and a Life on Two Wheels Author: James Hibbard Publisher: Quercus (UK) l Pegasus (US) Pages: 305 Year: 2022 (UK) l 2023 (US) Order: Quercus (UK) l Simon & Schuster (US) What it is: A cycling memoir that challenges traditional views of the sport while taking the reader on a journey through two and a half thousand years of Western philosophy Strengths: It’s rare for a cycling book to challenge the reader to reassess central tenets of what some claim ...
03.19.2023 Podiumcafe.comV ipparthi Adimurthy is a former Satish Dhawan Professor and Dean of Research at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST). He is known for his contributions to the rocket technology...
03.22.2023 Asianlite.comIt was Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), the British Mathematician, Philosopher and more importantly the Godfather of present generation atheists, who stated it so categorically that he does not see any r...
03.21.2023 Boloji.comFrom The Critic: A war still raged in Europe, but the enemy were firmly in retreat. The occupation of Paris had been broken, and France was free, and so were the cafés of the Boulevard St Germain. No ...
03.16.2023 Thepassivevoice.comAccording to Gottfried Leibnitz, we live in the best of all possible worlds. He argued that while there is an infinity of possible universes, God chose to create this one – and since God is not only o...
03.20.2023 Advrider.comThe philosopher Bertrand Russell said the following about his famous student Ludwig Wittgenstein: “At the end of his first term at Cambridge, he [Wittgenstein] came to me and said, ‘will you please tell me whether I am a complete idiot or not? If I a...
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