Posted by Bob Adamcik | Feb 8, 2018 | Admin, Notes, Search, Uncategorized | 0 |
…the last couple of months, but not so in thinking. When I have long voids, it is usually because I am mentally engaged elsewhere. I will not post here merely for continuity. This lapse has seen me reading (on which I...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Dec 13, 2017 | Belief, Book Review, Death, Human Nature, Meaning, Notes, Reality, Search, Significance | 4 |
“Other animals do not need a purpose in life. A contradiction to itself, the human animal cannot do without one. Can we not think of the aim of life as being simply to see?” (–John Gray, in “Straw Dogs:...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Dec 3, 2017 | Human Nature, Notes, Search, Society | 0 |
…is to allow the human spirit to flourish. All the while I am reading John Gray and his empirical argument that humans are nothing more than other animals, I am at odds with myself. On the one hand, I have to agree with...
Read MoreThese following is a quote from “Straw Dogs:” Virtual reality is a technological simulation of techniques of lucid dreaming practised by shamans for millennia. Using fasting, music, dance and psychotropic plants, the...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Nov 17, 2017 | Contentment, Human Nature, identity, Notes, Search, The self | 1 |
…the realization I could have lived different lives is only now becoming real to me. The one I chose (or that chose me, whether by fear or fate or circumstance), is only this I know. Even as I write this, I only now...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Oct 16, 2017 | History, Human Nature, Notes, Search, Society | 2 |
I once heard author Jared Diamond speak about his book “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.” As he was addressing Easter Island, a once forested isle that was eventually denuded by its inhabitants...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Oct 7, 2017 | Contentment, Happiness, Human Nature, Meaning, Notes, Search, Significance | 1 |
Authorities are having trouble with motive behind the Las Vegas shooter. None of the usual apply. Here’s a comfortable white guy, no criminal history or history of violence, relatively wealthy, stable, has a...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Sep 11, 2017 | Blog, Human Nature, identity, Meaning, Notes, Reality, Search, Self-image, Significance | 2 |
…and he is describing the fiction of the self, the fictive self. He posits that life is really only a series of discreet but connected perceptions tied together by the capacity for reflection we call consciousness. The...
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