Posted 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...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Sep 11, 2017 | Search | 0 |
…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...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Sep 2, 2017 | Blog, Human Nature, Meaning, Notes, Significance, Society | 1 |
Remember Genesis 1:28? “…God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living...
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