Oh, the humanity!
I’m following news about the latest radical Islamist atrocity, this one in Manchester. And I see once again that most ubiquitous term of self-deception by our species: “Oh, the inhumanity…!”...
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On T.F. Powys and “The Soliloquy of a Hermit”
Posted 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 MoreYe olde shibboleth wisdom company…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 9, 2017 | Human Nature, identity, Notes, Self-image, The self | 0 |
Turn cliché on its head: Do unto yourself as you would unto others…or “as you would unto others, do unto yourself”. It’s about self love.
Read MoreEmpathy, acceptance and tolerance
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Dec 20, 2016 | Human Nature, Notes, Other people, Reality, Search | 2 |
This is a followup to my last post, because it seems mildly incomplete. I should have perhaps mentioned empathy. Empathy seems to me the only means of truly communicating with anyone, of understanding them. It’s what...
Read MoreReflections on early civilizations and social stratification
Posted 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 MoreMan, the great paradox…
Posted 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 MoreWar in Human Civilization, by Azar Gat
Posted 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...
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