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Big Questions - Meaning, Purpose, Life-after-death, Evolution and its Ramifications
The Big Questions? A friend of mine recently posed the following questions to me as part of an on-going discussion: 1. Why are we here? Do we have a purpose? 2. What happens to us when we die? 3. Is their any guiding… -
Transhumans and Immortalists
I've been watching some interesting 20-minute lectures on the TED web site concerning science, technology, medicine, aging, etc. I wish I could share each video with everyone I know, because I think such interesting thi… -
A Circle, or The Cave And Beyond (Journal20080213)
The sun and moon they thought were high gods, And I? I felt that we all moved in circles. ----- ----- ages of longing for height, reaching for light ; aching for darkness. Though I have to grope on my soft cal… -
Out of the Lab
J20070224 Sometimes I want out of the lab. ----- you were right, in some ways at least. I think my head was in the clouds. I didn’t even realize it. Is it amazing that I could still be a naive child? But i… -
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ohhhh hehe the sweet alternative to living or dying. . . . -
Memes
I don't often have/make too much time for books not related to classical studies, even though I have piles and lists of such books and wish I had a faster, better processor/brain, so that I could devour such. But I rec… -
Immortal Tithonus
Preface to "The Voice of a Cicada" Assignment: At UT Austin in a college Latin class covering Cicero’s essay “On Old Age,” I was given a creative writing assignment: Assuming the persona of the mythological character… -
Death and Old Age - The Voice of a Cicada
This was a lengthy short story, with lots of obscure allusions, written for a school assignment. Preface and EndNotes posted at http://www.xanga.com/WindOnReed2/555527142/immortal-tithonus.html. - - - Each holiday… -
Dreams Within Dreams
Journal 2004-12-15: 7:00 AM Before going to sleep, he said, “I want to know more of what’s in my subconscious. What’s beneath the surface?” And he slept. Later, waking, ... at least from one perspe… -
Life, Evolution, Competition, Progress?
Life is willing to sacrifice countless 'individual' human, animal, plant lives in vast, intertwined games of competition. Constant slaughter. Do the fittest always survive? Is evolution always progress?
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Principia, Existential Thoughts
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Existential Questions
1. Is life/existence ultimately undesigned or desi... -
God is pan-sexual
My girlfriend's friend's boyfriend posted three a...
