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Monday, March 10, 2008

It’s About Time...Part VI

If you want to live longer, move into the basement. Or at least move out of your penthouse, and get down to the ground floor. Alright, I’ll confess, it won’t lengthen your life to any really noticeable degree, but it will definitely do so. Not by days, not by hours, but maybe by fractions of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 6, 2008

It’s About Time...Part V

Before I examine some of the specific phenomena that demonstrate that these theories are, in fact, ‘effective’ theories, a few more general remarks. The ‘union’ between space and ‘time’ in spacetime is at least as significant as the ‘Copernican Revolution’, which postulated a heliocentric universe.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

It's About Time...Part IV

I know when I am beat, lol. Being faced with a huge collective yawn from my readership, I shall leave out all kinds of stuff that I find interesting, and fast-forward pretty well to the modern era, were things get simultaneously simpler and more difficult…sorry… Until fairly recently, whatever... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, March 3, 2008

It’s About Time...Part III

As I have said, time begins with the emergence of consciousness. Thus, in a sense, time emerges out of ‘time’. This emergence of time in and through consciousness occurs specifically and exclusively in human consciousness. Any other forms of consciousness, though clearly in ‘time’ and ‘geared’ into... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 1, 2008

It’s About Time...Part II

In this part, I shall begin by making an important analytical distinction, important at least for my present purposes. I shall distinguish between ‘time-in-itself-whatever-it may-be’, and ‘time-as-an-object-of-human-consciousness.’ It’s a distinction that, I hope will become clearer as we go along,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, February 24, 2008

It’s About Time...Part I

This post, that is. But also that I write about something I had meant to reflect on for quite a while, partly motivated 'at the time' by our erstwhile fellow Blogger, Enigmatic. Not to ultimately unravel the complexity, but to better understand it. It won’t be very systematic, but more like a chat,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 18, 2008

Naut on Religion…XXXII (Islam)

Throughout history, religious tolerance has never been mankind’s strong suit. Yet, it is difficult to find another example of a religion which, cobbled together from a variety of sources, defines itself from the outset in explicit opposition to its roots. And although at the beginning of Muhammad’s... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, February 17, 2008

Naut on Religion…XXXI (Islam)

This continues my attempt at formulating an answer to the question of Islam’s intolerance and aggressiveness. As I had suggested in section XXVIII, part of that answer resides in the fact that Arab culture was margina l to the Greco-Roman center of the world. That fact alone was bound to breed... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 11, 2008

Naut on Religion…XXX (Islam)

As we are nearing the end of this undertaking, a few more observations are in order. To begin with, while it would not win a popularity contest, this series has had its readers and, what is more important, its thoughtful commentators, each of them greatly appreciated. But as we went along,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Naut on Religion…XXIX (Islam), Partial Response to Ciel...

This series of mine, like others before them, has been far too ambitious. I guess I am a slow learner. But it has helped me clarify my own thinking, not least because it has elicited some interesting responses, particularly from lindo, and lately, from Ciel. Two of my posts have been direct replies... Sign in to see full entry.

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