Posted in Z, tagged abstract, Achilles, concepts, empiricism, Heap of Sand Paradox, language, logic, math, nonsense, paradox, Philosophy, science, semiotics, signified, signifier, Stoicism, symbols, zeno on May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Paradox Cafe
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Zeno (c. 495 BCE) Zeno was a Stoic philosopher best known for his four ‘paradoxes.’
The two most popular paradoxes are:
1) Zeno asks how many grains of millet must fall before a sound is heard. One fallen grain makes no sound on impact, therefore it accounts for ‘nothing.’ A second grain (a [...]
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Posted in A, tagged adherents, belief, canada, census, courts, cults, demographics, earth, Eileen Barker, faith, globe, government, humanity, jurisprudence, law, new religious movements, planet, population, records, religion, religion and science, science, statistics, uncertainty, world on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Adherents of all Religions It is difficult to get accurate figures for the number of adherents in each world religion.
Religion being a very personal issue, often central to one’s self-image, it’s conceivable that many people don’t wish to report their true beliefs to a proverbial Big Brother and thus will check “other” or “personal” on [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Anthroposophy, belief, blind faith, buddhist, cayce, ESP, faith, graff, hindu, insight, intuition, jung, myth, new age, prediction, psi, psychic, religion, remote viewing, science, scientism, spirit, Steiner, targ, theosophy on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
£20 Holograms
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Akashic Records Derived from the Hindu (Sanskrit) and Buddhist (Pali) understanding of akasha (= ether, subtle space, the forms of space), the Akashic Records is a term used by Theosophy and Anthroposophy to denote a cosmic memory bank of all that ever was.
The term is often used uncritically by believers, not [...]
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Posted in A, tagged alchemy, aquinas, astrology, Bible, depression, development, dynamic, egypt, Eliade, enlightenment, esoteric, esoterica, gold, happiness, hucksters, jewel, joy, jung, jungian, life, magic, medieval, mystic, mysticism, myth, newton, occult, osiris, pain, phenomenology, philosophers stone, Philosophy, psychology, religion, science, self, self actualization, soul, spirit, spiritual, sublime, subtle, suffering, synchronicity, theology, transformation, zodiac on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Alchemy (2)
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Alchemy In everyday usage the word alchemy describes a psychological interplay among people.
Its etymology points to the actual practice of alchemy–derived via Arabic from the Greek chemeia.
Historically, alchemy involved the heating and mixing of chemicals and mineral substances with a view toward artificially transforming base metals into gold.
The ancient Greeks in [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Adler, alien, Aliens, belief, channeling, childhood, Clairvoyance, delusions, demons, ESP, et, evil, fantasies, freud, genetics, jung, madness, medium, mental illness, mysteries, neurosis, nutrition, paranormal, parapsychology, Philosophy, possession, precognition, prophecy, psi, psychiatry, psychic, psychology, science, sociology, space, star trek, strange, stress, synchronicity, trance, trauma, ufo, unexplained, urban legend on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Alien Trio 2
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Alien Possession Theory (APT)
A corrupt tree cannot bear good fruit (Luke 6:43)
APT considers the possibility, commonly found within science fiction, that hostile extraterrestrials (ETs) from another world or realm may have a negative effect on psychologically vulnerable human individuals through the use of psi.
This alien invasion motif does not [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Aristarchus, cosmology, earth, geocentric, Greece, greek, heliocentric, science, sun on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Aristarchus (of Samos, 310 - 230 BCE) is the first known Greek to have proposed a heliocentric model (i.e. the earth rotates around the sun).
His theory was rejected in favor of the geocentric models (i.e. sun and planets rotate around the earth) of Aristotle (384-322 BCE) and later, Ptolemy (90-168 CE).
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Fixed from non-copyright image desribed as: “10th century [...]
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Electric Neuron
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) One of the more interesting issues in contemporary philosophy and science fiction is that of machines possessing consciousness.
When we consider that human consciousness is in large part affected by our bodies and especially the biochemical charges running through of the [...]
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Posted in A, tagged astrology, astronomy, belief, devil, esoteric, fantasy, holism, holistic, myth, new age, paranormal, parapsychology, pseudoscience, religion, Satan, science, scientism on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Astrology [Greek: astron (star) + logos (discourse) = "discussion on stars"]
Ancient method of divination and forecasting originally developed in Mesopotamia (Babylonia and Assyria) for the benefit of ruling kings.
In ancient Hellenistic culture astrology became popularized and individualistic.
In English translations of the Old Testament astrologers appear to be condemned quite often. But only in one instance [...]
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Posted in B, tagged Big Bang Theory, cosmology, creation, life, myth, origins, religion, science, space on February 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Big Bang Theory A popular scientific theory but by no means a proven fact about the origin of the Universe.
The Big Bang theory suggests that a massive cosmic explosion took place about 14 to 20 billion years ago, out of which our known Universe expanded and developed.
The theory does not account for how the matter/energy [...]
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Bourdieu, Pierre (1930-2002) French social thinker whose work delineates ideas popularized by postmoderns such as Michel Foucault and the semiologist Roland Barthes.
Like Foucault, Bourdieu was critical of Marxism, Existentialism and Structuralism and tried to understand the discipline of Sociology within its own cultural context.
But not only that. Michael Payne says he also argued that theories, beliefs and [...]
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