Posted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 2, 2022 | Death, Mortality, Notes, Reality, Self-image, The self, Time | 0 |
I have an old friend (old as in I’ve known him for forty-four years, and old as in he turned one hundred six weeks ago). We met in 1978 and have been close since, though he is thirty years my senior. When he was my current...
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 More…(1 Corinthians 2:9, KJV) I’m reading Fundamental Truth: The Common Vision of the World’s Religions, by Huston Smith (HarperCollins 1976). He purports to examine singular threads of belief woven through all...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 22, 2018 | Belief, Blog, Death, Mortality, Notes, Reality, Religion, Search | 4 |
So last Sunday, my neighbor sat down with his morning paper and never got up. They found him hours later, but from his new perspective, it could have been light years. He had been a neighborhood fixture, one of those guys that...
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 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 | 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 | 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 MorePosted 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 MoreThis last weekend, my little adopted town in East Tennessee held a annual three-day festival, a big deal. Takes a week to set up, with tents and booths and bandstands and vendors and competitions spread over many acres....
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