Category, Ramblings

We had some family over for dinner the other night and got into some religious discussion. Some one said “there isn’t one truth” to which I replied, “there is, but we don’t know it yet”. That statement is also incomplete. The truth is, there is one truth, just one. The problem is, words and thoughts are not capable of explaining it. Like a little car that cannot tow a bed of trees up a hill. At some point words break down, and you need equations to explain things. Even worse, our memories are also insufficient. You would start to explain something but it would have some many interl...

I've just finished reading Felix Dennis' book "How to Get Rich". Brilliant. Finally a guy who's done it explaining how - not just in vague terms and endless passages of subtle self-praise but in real concise strategy and mental approach. As Dennis points out, many of the books on the market are written by those who have not attained any staggering wealth and are abound with all too obvious tips such as "be good at what you do" or "be a leader" (ok, he mentions these too, but goes into lots of juicy detail). Dennis also airs some distaste for the feel-good strategies of cooperation and partners...

Sometimes, you start with a title and go from there. Although I specify writing, this pertains to all forms of art. "Writing" just happened to be in the sentence that was floating through the cosmos. The artistic and technical types (like me) can be jealous of that small percentage of guys that women drool over. But those guys can be jealous of the artistic for their wealth of creativity and ability to satisfy cultural urges...that is, if those guys can feel jealousy, they probably feel nothing at all, those pretty boys with their square jaws and accentuated Adams Apples walking up to any wom...

It's Charlie D's birthday, so I thought it fitting (pun intended) to do a quick review of the wonders of evolution. There's been a lot of mud-slinging in the past 150 years, and one cannot escape the irony that evolutionary theory itself is involved in the very struggle for survival that it attempts to explain. And of course, understanding why religions fear and denounce evolution can be explained by evolution. Now that's a theory! Let's have a look at some of the finer points and what they mean for you.  Evolution takes place on the gene level None of this "survival of the fittest". It is n...

The lines of the new age and scientific communities seem to mirror those of the US political parties, the Democrats and the Republicans. On the on hand you have a group of New Agers who are approaching health and life and fulfillment from an almost religious point of view. Heavy on the "heart" and easy on the "brains". On the other hand you have a scientific community who approach the same topics dressed in lab coats and engulfed in methodology. No scriptures, just journals. No transformed lives, just experiments and data. Heavy on the "brains" but lacking the "heart". If you're into mental h...