Posted by Bob Adamcik | Feb 28, 2018 | Book Review, Contentment, Happiness, Modern culture, Notes, Search, Time | 4 |
“Your time or your life!” (—Jean-Louis Servan Schreiber, in “The Art of Time.” Marlowe & Company, New York City 2000, 162 pages) The opening line of this readable little book cuts immediately to its core message....
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 | Jul 19, 2017 | Belief, Book Review, History, Notes, Religion, Search | 0 |
I’ve long wondered about gnostics and gnosticism, an early rival movement to Orthodox Christianity. Numerous passages in the New Testament epistles refer to it obliquely (and condemn it harshly). So I sought out...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Jun 28, 2017 | Book Review, Evil, Human Nature, Notes, Other people, Search, Society | 0 |
“When I tried day after day to do good and to relieve the suffering of my patients, I was myself. And when I let myself go and plunged into shameful activities, I was also myself. My scientific studies forced me to the...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | May 7, 2017 | Belief, Book Review, Contentment, Death, Human Nature, Mortality, Notes, Religion, Search | 4 |
Man is a collection of atoms through which pass the moods of God…” T.F.Powys, “Soliloquy of a Hermit,” (Hardpress Publishing, Miami. Originally by G. Arnold Shaw, N.Y., 1916) On first read, this work...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 17, 2017 | Book Review, History, Notes, Search, Society | 0 |
“We have advanced from canoes to galleys to steam ships to space shuttles—but nobody knows where we’re going.” — Yuval Noah Harari (From Animals Into Gods: A Brief History of Humankind, draft edition 2012)...
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