Posted by Bob Adamcik | Nov 11, 2019 | Death, History, Human Nature, Meaning, Mortality, Notes, Significance | 2 |
I read of the recent discovery of a Bronze Age battlefield in northeastern Germany, in a narrow valley of the Tollense River. Meeting at the site of an ancient bridge, hundreds or even thousands of men fought and killed one...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Nov 4, 2019 | Contentment, Human Nature, identity, Meaning, Notes, Other people, Search, Significance, Society | 1 |
Two nights ago I had a dark and lonely dream. Vague now, but it centered on my father’s garden, an anchor of my childhood home. At the beginning of the dream, my family and I worked that garden…turning the soil,...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Oct 20, 2019 | Contentment, Human Nature, Mortality, Notes, Reality, Search, The self, Time | 0 |
A few days ago, I was listening to an interview of a Venezuelan writer. She had left the shell of what was, only a decade or so ago, one of the more thriving economies of Latin America. Now living in Spain, she had written a...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | May 6, 2019 | Belief, Human Nature, identity, Notes, Politics, Search, Society | 0 |
I pointedly avoid political content on this site. But the political environment of any era is fodder for a student of human motivation. And in today’s increasingly inflammatory scene, considering the drivers behind...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 6, 2019 | Belief, Human Nature, Notes, Science, Search | 0 |
I’m finishing Huston Smith’s “Fundamental Truths,” (see a recent post), and see now that it is essentialy an apology for intelligent design or something similar. I will comment in full after I finish, but...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 3, 2019 | Belief, Human Nature, Meaning, Modern culture, Notes, Religion, Search | 0 |
My last post reminded me of something I stumbled on last year. A group of villagers on the island of Tanna in the South Pacific believe Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is a divine being. This Prince Philip Movement is only...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Feb 26, 2019 | Belief, Human Nature, Notes, Religion, Search | 4 |
A friend of mine told me recently that her teenaged son has suddenly begun asking about churches. Since she has raised him and his brother areligiously, it surprised her. He hasn’t yet asked to begin church-going but...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Jan 8, 2019 | Belief, Human Nature, Meaning, Notes | 0 |
People seek meaning through belief, a major reason why they cling so tenaciously to belief, even in the face of evidence to the contrary.
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Oct 17, 2018 | Human Nature, identity, Notes, Self-image, The self, Values | 1 |
It occurs to me this morning that shame is perhaps the most powerful of emotions, more so than any other. Certainly is is the most unappreciated. Shame goes to the core of our self image, or perhaps to the image we present to...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Aug 25, 2018 | Death, Human Nature, Mortality, Notes, Search | 0 |
The one thing we all agree on is the finality of death… .
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | May 30, 2018 | Contentment, Happiness, Human Nature, identity, Notes, Self-image | 0 |
That last post brings to mind the old bluegrass song… So, if I who am so attached to and nested in my personal space, am still willing (nay, compelled) to take off anyway, the question is, “Why?” And I am not...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | May 30, 2018 | Contentment, Human Nature, Notes, Search | 0 |
Back home last evening, after six weeks traipsing around Portugal and Spain and Southern France. I wake up in the early morning here and fall into my old rituals…opening the house to the day, black coffee in the quiet...
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