Posted by Bob Adamcik | Dec 20, 2016 | Belief, Happiness, Notes, Other people, Reality, Search | 0 |
Coming back from Europe last week reminded me of coming back from Chile and the Peace Corps back in 1980. This time I was only gone five months, back then it had been 30. Trying to explain to anyone what I had experienced was...
Read MoreBecause of its breadth and detail, this is among the more difficult books I’ve tackled. In brief, Armstrong reviews the theological histories of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the three related monotheistic traditions....
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Nov 26, 2016 | Class, History, Human Nature, Notes, Society | 3 |
I’ve spent six years now traveling throughout Western Europe, also reading histories of western civilization…from earliest prehistory to modernity. I’ve but scratched the surface, I know…an adequate...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Nov 10, 2016 | Creativity, Human Nature, Notes, Search | 2 |
…capable of incredible beauty and massive destruction, unselfish kindness and unspeakable cruelty. With a brain the size of a melon and couple of opposable thumbs, we conceive of and build the World Trade Center and...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Nov 1, 2016 | History, Human Nature, Notes, Search, Tribalism, War | 1 |
This is the last of a trilogy of posts on death and destruction. Then we can move on to something serious… So, I spent the time since my last post reading War in Human Civilization, by Azar Gat. Gat is Ezer Weitzman...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Oct 5, 2016 | Death, History, Mortality, Notes, Search, Tribalism, War | 1 |
I’ve contemplated this follow-up post for a week or more now. My visit to Berlin has me wondering how to think about the massive numbers of war dead between 1915 and 1945. Finally, I decided to put it into perspective, so...
Read MoreI haven’t posted for the last several weeks because I’ve been drifting…northern France, various places in Holland, also Berlin and what used to be East Germany. Maybe I didn’t post because it was...
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