Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was born in Amsterdam and lived in the Dutch Republic, where he worked as a lens grinder. In 1655-56, He was expelled from the Jewish religious community, but his love of philosophy brought him a small but dedicated circle of supporters. In...
The Third Law of Thermodynamics says that energy seeks to move from areas of high heat to low heat until a calm equilibrium of everything is attained. Water at a high level will flow to a lower level whenever it can. The force of gravity causes the water to move...
Riffing off the post about Belonging, it’s funny it stays within me. The words we write become the conversations within, maybe even the dreams as we sleep. But with belonging, it also becomes every awake moment. We are – when we seek to belong – dreaming...
Eulogy thanks to Berries Laura Emerson Alaskauu1.blogspot.com Alaskauu1.substack.com Book: Log Cabin Reflections, Kindle version Yesterday, my dad died. I spent a few hours processing the news, but all I felt was an emotional maelstrom and a physical need to go...
Maybe – the truth about … “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”.. Einstein… and the deep philosophical knowing of … ‘we can’t think our way out of this’… is...
I don’t believe in God, because that word is too attached to religious myths, especially within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. (The religions of Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism are far less attached to their myths, which are more like illustrative stories.) Lots of...
