Archive for April, 2010
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010For years I’ve held the mindset that nature is cruel and needlessly puts us into combat with one another in a struggle over resources while only the fittest survive. Upon learning some new things I’ve found out there’s more to learn about evolution. Just recently I learned how life has evolved on various islands and [...]
Sad But True…
Sunday, April 25th, 2010Bertrand Russell wrote this in 1949 in his book Authority And The Individual. I thought it worth sharing: “In the modern world, and still more, so far as can be guessed, in the world of the near future, important achievement is and will be almost impossible to an individual if he cannot dominate some vast [...]
Life Is A Self-Realization
Sunday, April 25th, 2010There’s been a certain set of thoughts running through my head over the past several months which I can’t seem to get out of my head. I think the entire point of life is to discover our own potential and what we’re capable of doing. In very strange sense every possibility already exists. Say I [...]
Your Brain And Consciousness
Saturday, April 24th, 2010I promised quite a while ago that I’d write about the brain and the nature of consciousness. When I went to write this entry the first time it got so complicated I abandoned the attempt. This time I’m not going to make the same mistake. What I found is that if I write about this [...]
What’s In Your Inbox?
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010I love checking my email. Why? Because I have all kinds of fun things delivered to me everyday! Things so imaginative I could never have thought of them on my own. Seriously, it’s stuff like this that makes life worth living. This next image cracks me up. When did NASA say that discovering extraterrestrial civilizations [...]
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