It is a strange aspect of our existence that we do one thing because we hope for the exact opposite. In fact we do the thing for that reason; so we go to war, so that we can have peace. At least that is what we do these days. But in other times that was…
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Radix
Radix is the Latin name for a root, any root, and in English it is used in words that describe the fundamentals, the foundation, the essentials of a particular subject. Everything begins with a root that feeds the rest of the plant, that is a fact of life. The Earth grew out of a Cosmic…
Learning By Infusion
Babies of all species have to learn from their parents and their peers. We used to simply have to learn the art of survival, which berries to eat, how to hunt, how to cook, where it was safe to sleep, but the learning experience has become far more sophisticated over the millenniums. Yet like all…
The Possession Of Justice
The greatest possessions a human being may ever have are those for which we pay no money. They are not the only possessions worth having: it is good to have a safe and warm home, it is healthier and we live longer because of it; it is pleasurable to have the ability to move around…
The Financial Crisis
The planet earth and every single atom of organic and inorganic life on it, was a free gift to humanity. In fact pretty much a free gift to all sentient beings. The biggest free lunch we could conceive of before we conceived of blasting off into the wider Universe where the only thing that will…
An Ancient Task
It isn’t so much getting up in the morning, as wanting to get up in the morning. Bringing yourself to the day and the day to yourself. And it isn’t so much not wanting to face the day, as not wanting to face what you have come to fill your days with, the chains of…
The wide, wide world
When I was a teenager I had to stop thinking about the terrible suffering and torture of animals around the world. I found the sheer weight of the feeling of the immensity of it all crushed me. Now when I read humanity still chasing after money in their billions, still converting the free gift of…