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POPSThe Language of God Among Collins’s most controversial beliefs is that of “theistic evolution”, which claims natural selection is the tool that God chose to create man. In his version of the theory, he argues that man will not evolve further. “Scientifically, the forces of evolution by natural selection have been profoundly affected for humankind by the changes in culture and environment and the expansion of the human species to 6 billion members. So what you see is pretty much what you get.” “If one is willing to accept the existence of God or some supernatural force outside nature then it is not a logical problem to admit that, occasionally, a supernatural force might stage an invasion,” he says.
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POPSThe Pressure of Time A verb is a movement that must have an object, an urge for an attaching of its desire, for what would the sea be if there were no shore to crash upon and sound its melancholy slow withdrawing ebb, and where would mari-time be if all were only sea? And where would you be if all there was is me? Verbs are the electricity of stories, being comes into being on energy's random licking of obscure and fleeting objects.
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POPSBrain 'imaging' in the Renaissance So were these master artists of the Renaissance trying to hide images of anatomically correct brains in their religious work? Why would they do it? Were they trying to put science into religion without getting caught? Or is this just one big coincidence? Maybe the four scientists that wrote the article need to take a break from the neurosciences. What do you think?<<
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POPSTo be Interesting and Interested Let Go of Mind <<<The practice of mindfulness – in its psychologically Buddhist sense – has been described as a kind of detachment, dis-identification, i.e. dis-interest from one’s own thoughts, which, as Snelling points out in his “Buddhist Handbook,” are “not us” (3). Notice Snelling's italics: our thougths are "not us." This Buddhist proposition that we are not our thoughts would imply that any real communication beetwen us (and not between our respective fleeting states of mind) would have to be non-verbal... So, then, it would seem that in order for us to show inter-est in others’ thoughts, for us to inter-exist, we need to lose interest in our own thoughts. To co-exist, it seems, we need to never mind our own minds. With no thoughts to stand in the way of understanding, there is nothing between us, there are no gaps of misunderstanding to bridge…>>>
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POPSTel Aviv 10th international doc. Film Festival "In Israel we are at a crossroads between East and west, between different religions; we have issues like immigration and inter-marriage," said Tsur. "Young filmmakers are looking at Israel from a different angle."
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POPSMathematicians are odd Disclaimer: I have nothing against mathematicians - I'd like to add: nothing efficacious, in any case. One of my mathematics teachers was extremely odd - but I venerated and adored him! Another mathematics teacher of mine was a prick, and I feared and hated him. But he was neither a good mathematician nor odd.
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POPSTower of Song alchemy, romanticism, philosophy, RADIO www.youtube.com/watch?v=u10V_7IVD2Y
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