Category Archives: Philosophy

A Stack of Books

Posted on February 26, 2025 by paulyr2

One stack of books among an arrangement of seven on a table in basement. I have many more books down there and throughout the house. Here are titles from bottom to top. What is the meaning of this? Get wisdom! … Continue reading →

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Burial: Right and Rite

Posted on June 22, 2024 by paulyr2

Human beings have a long-standing custom of burying their dead. Around one-hundred-thousand years ago, human individuals were buried in a cave, Qafzeh Cave in Israel, with coloring tools left in-situ. The stone tools, including lumps of ochre, indicate primitive artistry, … Continue reading →

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Sekazi Mtingwa: He’s not Jesus Christ, He’s a Physicist

Posted on April 4, 2024 by paulyr2

A recent article in ScienceNews magazine (March 23, 2024) offers biographical highlights of this man’s life and career. As a youngster, Mtingwa thought he was “the second coming of Jesus Christ,” but learned in Sunday School that he was unwilling … Continue reading →

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Two Vectors, One Point

Posted on March 8, 2024 by paulyr2

Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was a French writer, a well-respected philosopher and novelist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1964), which he declined. In philosophy, Sartre is known as an existentialist, one who theorizes about the meaning of being. In 1944, … Continue reading →

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A Definition for ScienceFiction

Posted on January 26, 2024 by paulyr2

Science fiction is a genre within literature and film; since writing is thousands of years older than film-making, origin of this category is to be found there, in novels and short stories. In the western world, classic science fiction authors include … Continue reading →

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Artificial Intelligence?

Posted on December 29, 2023 by paulyr2

Is there such a thing as artificial intelligence? No, there is not. The current AI star, ChatGPT, arranges and rearranges information to answer human-posed questions that may or may not be true. Here is its response when I asked it, “what do you … Continue reading →

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Mourning and Memory: a ‘Lion’ Lesson

Posted on August 8, 2023 by paulyr2

The movie, ‘Lion,’ was released in 2016 and was successful financially and in popularity and was nominated for numerous Academy Awards in U.S. The movie is based on fact. A little boy, maybe five years old, is separated (by accident) … Continue reading →

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Politics of Malcom X

Posted on June 28, 2023 by paulyr2

Politics is the way persons and groups relate to each other intentionally to affect government. Voters voting is political behavior; citizens not voting is political non-action; a mayor talking to a fire-chief over the phone is politics. Political activism by … Continue reading →

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Basics of Buddhism

Posted on June 5, 2023 by paulyr2
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Logic

Posted on March 23, 2023 by paulyr2

Logic is an aid to knowledge. Logic is based on experience and numbers (i.e., mathematics, esp. algebra). Symbols are very important in logic as they’re used to reduce a problem to abstract form to arrive at what is true and … Continue reading →

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