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When asked to describe what makes us human, what is, specifically, the essence of a human, humans typically fail. Some say, it is the body.
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* It's never easy for me to say "I believe". The verb seems to imply the static and the simple -- black and white, yes or no.
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Yesterday...
8:00 pm. Out with my girlfriend to meet some friends at an upscale Indian place down the street. The sexes pair off, and it's not long before we're rambling about Kerouac and Burroughs. It's a conversation that's fun the first...
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Economists love to invent stupid theories of how 2 completely separate things are correlated. They believe (and make believe) that when you compare 2 variables and, after some basic math, check that they are "correlated", you can guess the value of...
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I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.
Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the...
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I have to write a blog today or my account will apparently become inactive, so, I'll just write a short one on a favourite quote of mine that I'll continue in a later blog.
"If you have to ask, you'll never know".
I love this because it is in...
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Alien Landscapes on Earth
There are many features on our grand planet which due to numerous geological and environmental factors literally appear as if they are from another world. The WebEcoist has put together this list of bizarre landscapes...
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The Catacombs of Paris (Catacombes de Paris) are a famous underground ossuary in Paris, France. Its entrance is located near the Denfert-Rochereau station of the Paris Mtro. Organized in a renovated section of the city's vast network of...
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The great Lestat once said, that life is meaningless, because, even after death, we shall never know the reason for being alive.
This statement can be taken in so many ways, and that, I have found, is the problem.
I recently stumbled on...
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Yesterday I spread out on comfortable green chair of my Hotel Radisson room and wrote pages and pages in my new notebook..
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JRR Tolkien was once asked if he would write further episodes of Lord of the Rings. His response was extraordinary.
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From Yoko Ono:
Q: How do you define hate and love?
A: The distinction between hate and love is all in your head. When you wish to make yourself ill, you think of hate. When you wish to make yourself healthy, you think of love.
Q: Where is...
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We can say that there is a deep yearning for the truth that is part of our nature. It is recognition that life is not what we thought it was, and we are not what we thought we were.
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Looking for a suitable URL for my previous post, I decided to explore the imagery that tickled the corners of my mind with attaching an 'invisible' to the word 'tattoo', an operative word in the title of the Larsson novel.
This morning, it...
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It is the 29th of September, 2009, and, on average, in the world, there is seen to be little the matter with being monosexual. Of course, exclusive heterosexuality is generally seen as much more desirable than exclusive homosexuality, but the...
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The people are getting more postmodern, the environment is worsening, the buildings are rising, the technology is getting smaller, more portable and more advanced. Every possible area of knowledge is booming.
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In the bible, Matthew 7:16 to be precise, it states that "by their fruits you shall know them". What this means, by analogy of how well a fruit can bear fruit, is that you can know somebody by their outward manifestations.
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By Ray Tapajna based on notes from Father McQuade SJ JCU, Modern Heresy course -
Naturalism plays a big part in our Bewildered New World - and also relates to Pope Benedict's new economic encyclical- Charity in truth ( Caritas in Veritate ) ...
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I have been doing a lot of thinking recently, and a lot of observing (yeah I know, what's new). Something that has become clear to me is the truth of the saying, "it takes one to know one".
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Ray Tapajna Chronicles - Tom Palaima reviews Robert Jensen's The Godless Christian
I read the book and wanted to review it but was unable to find a way since it collided with my spirit - but Robert Jensen does try to find ways to resolve the...
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