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The sleep of reason produces monsters by Francisco Goya | Ricardo Milkowski
Friday, January 10, 2014
Reincarnation
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Many religions believe that a part of us lives on after
we die. Some people are convinced we are actually
born again to live a new life in a new body. There is
no real evidence for reincarnation, but there are many
instances of people claiming to remember past lives
including details they couldn’t possibly know. Many
cases of reincarnation feature famous people; others
are much more obscure, but are often more intriguing.
Bard reborn To be or not to be
William Shakespeare, that is the
question for many people who claim
to be reincarnations of the famous
English playwright. It’s not hard
being the bard though. So much
is known about him already, there
are no details that only the “real”
Shakespeare reincarnated
could reveal.
DNA denial A lot of stories of
reincarnation are attached to the
Romanovs, the Russian royal family
that was assassinated in 1918.
American Donald Norsic claimed
that in his past life as the
Russian czar, he escaped to
the Sahara. But his claims
were disproved in 1994,
when DNA tests showed
the Romanovs really did
die in Russia.
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Fact or fiction Welshwoman Jane Evans recalled
seven past lives under hypnosis. In one, she claimed to be
a Jewish woman living in 12th-century York in England.
She described details of life then—and also of being killed
in a church crypt during a terrible massacre of the Jews.
A history professor testified as to how accurate her
knowledge of historical details was, but the church she
described, St. Mary’s Castlegate, did not have a crypt.
Then several months later, during renovation, a crypt was
discovered. However, it was found that Jane’s story resembled
a historical novel she had read in school. At least she
learned something there.
All in an accent Some people believe that in a past life
they were on board Titanic, the great ocean liner that hit an
iceberg and sank in 1912. American William Barnes claimed
he was the ship’s designer Tommie Andrews. Barnes
spoke in a Scottish accent when “remembering”
it, but Andrews was, in fact, Irish. Oops.
182 183 Reincarnation
Going under
One way of trying to find out
if you’ve lived past lives is by
hypnosis. While in a trance,
some patients tell stories of
past lives. Most experts think
the mind is making it all up.
we die. Some people are convinced we are actually
born again to live a new life in a new body. There is
no real evidence for reincarnation, but there are many
instances of people claiming to remember past lives
including details they couldn’t possibly know. Many
cases of reincarnation feature famous people; others
are much more obscure, but are often more intriguing.
Bard reborn To be or not to be
William Shakespeare, that is the
question for many people who claim
to be reincarnations of the famous
English playwright. It’s not hard
being the bard though. So much
is known about him already, there
are no details that only the “real”
Shakespeare reincarnated
could reveal.
DNA denial A lot of stories of
reincarnation are attached to the
Romanovs, the Russian royal family
that was assassinated in 1918.
American Donald Norsic claimed
that in his past life as the
Russian czar, he escaped to
the Sahara. But his claims
were disproved in 1994,
when DNA tests showed
the Romanovs really did
die in Russia.
..........................
Fact or fiction Welshwoman Jane Evans recalled
seven past lives under hypnosis. In one, she claimed to be
a Jewish woman living in 12th-century York in England.
She described details of life then—and also of being killed
in a church crypt during a terrible massacre of the Jews.
A history professor testified as to how accurate her
knowledge of historical details was, but the church she
described, St. Mary’s Castlegate, did not have a crypt.
Then several months later, during renovation, a crypt was
discovered. However, it was found that Jane’s story resembled
a historical novel she had read in school. At least she
learned something there.
All in an accent Some people believe that in a past life
they were on board Titanic, the great ocean liner that hit an
iceberg and sank in 1912. American William Barnes claimed
he was the ship’s designer Tommie Andrews. Barnes
spoke in a Scottish accent when “remembering”
it, but Andrews was, in fact, Irish. Oops.
182 183 Reincarnation
Going under
One way of trying to find out
if you’ve lived past lives is by
hypnosis. While in a trance,
some patients tell stories of
past lives. Most experts think
the mind is making it all up.
The Price of Freedom: The Unfinished Diary!
Saturday, October 20, 2012
The value of a thing is not determined by what you can do with it, but by what price you are willing to pay for it.
Freedom means that we take full responsibility for ourselves, our people, and our country; freedom means that we maintain the distance that separates us from others; freedom means that we are no longer afraid of hardship, difficulties, privation or death: he who has learned how to die can no longer become a slave or a colonial subject.
He who wants to be free must always be ever ready to go to war and to die for his freedom.
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The Battle For God-Karen Armstong
Friday, October 19, 2012
Armstrong's central case rests on the confusion between mythos and logos, using these in the technical sense suggested by Johannes Slok.[2]
Myth concerns "what was thought to be timeless and constant in our
existence...Myth was not concerned with practical matters but with
meaning".[3]
By contrast "Logos was the rational, pragmatic and scientific thought
that enabled men and women to function well in the world". In religion,
logos appears in legal systems and practical action. By the eighteenth
century, "people in Europe and America began to think that logos was the only means to truth and began to discount mythos
as false and superstitious." Armstrong suggests that fundamentalists
have turned their mythos into logos using the mindset of the modern
scientific age.[4]
The first part of the book, "The Old World and the New", compares the
progression of the three monotheistic faiths between 1492, when Columbus discovered America,
and 1870, when "The Franco-Prussian War had revealed the hideous
effects of modern weaponry, and there was a dawning realisation that
science might also have a malignant dimension."[5] It traces the way Jews and Muslims modernized during this period.
This leads to the modern period described in part two, “Fundamentalism”, when there was a growing adoption of a literalist interpretation of scripture in the United States, which eventually gave rise to The Fundamentals, a series of 12 volumes refuting modern ideas published shortly before and during the World War I,
of which 3 million copies were distributed to every pastor, professor
and theological student across America by the largesse of oil
millionaires. Though this led to a distinctive ideology, it was not till
the 1980s that it emerged as a political force.
In Judaism, the growth of Zionism was given its biggest boost by the Holocaust which led to the establishment of the State of Israel
in 1948. Although many traditional Jews migrated there, the most
conservative rejected the secular interpretation of Zionism and it
wasn't until the emergence of Gush Emunim after the Yom Kippur War in 1974 that fundamentalism emerged in Israel as a political force.
In Islam, fundamentalism did not emerge until modernization had taken hold, first in Egypt with the creation of the Muslim Brotherhood by Hasan al-Banna. Armstrong traces the development of Sunni fundamentalism under Sayyid Qutb and Shia fundamentalism under Ayatollah Khomeini.
A Brief History of Time-Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time attempts to explain a range of subjects in cosmology, including the Big Bang, black holes and light cones,
to the nonspecialist reader. Its main goal is to give an overview of
the subject but, unusual for a popular science book, it also attempts to
explain some complex mathematics.
The 1996 edition of the book and subsequent editions discuss the
possibility of time travel and wormholes and explore the possibility of
having a universe without a quantum singularity at the beginning of
time.
The author notes that an editor warned him that for every equation in the book the readership would be halved, hence it includes only a single equation: E = mc2. Early in 1983, Hawking approached Simon Mitton, the editor in charge of astronomy books at Cambridge University Press,
with his ideas for a popular book on cosmology. Mitton was doubtful
about all the equations in the draft manuscript, which he felt would put
off the buyers in airport bookshops that Hawking wished to reach. It
was with some difficulty that he persuaded Hawking to drop all but one
equation.[4]
In addition to Hawking's notable abstention from presenting equations,
the book also simplifies matters by means of illustrations throughout
the text, depicting.
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Roberto Mancini hails 'incredible' Joe Hart after Manchester City draw
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Roberto Mancini hailed an "incredible" performance from Joe Hart after the England goalkeeper produced a string of exceptional saves to keep Manchester City's Champions League hopes alive on a night when the Italian conceded his side were fortunate to pick up a point against an excellent Borussia Dortmund team.
Mario Balotelli's late penalty, awarded harshly after Neven Subotic was penalised for handling Sergio Agüero's close-range shot, earned City a 1-1 draw that Mancini believes could be vital come the end of the group.
Yet it was Hart, rather than the Italy striker, who was hailed as City's saviour, after the 25-year-old made eight superb saves in a pulsating game that had chances from the first minute to the last. Hart denied Mario Götze on three occasions in the first half alone and, at times, it felt as though he was single-handedly keeping Dortmund at bay. He was so impressive that there was even acclaim from Old Trafford. "Have to say Joe Hart has been incredible. For me best keeper in the world," tweeted Wayne Rooney.
Mancini had expressed his frustration with Hart less than a fortnight ago, after the goalkeeper criticised his team-mates for allowing a 2-1 lead to slip over Real Madrid. On this occasion, however, there was only praise from Mancini, who recognised that he was indebted to Hart for preventing Dortmund from being out of sight by the time Balotelli scored in the 90th minute to cancel out Marco Reus's opener. "Joe Hart is incredible because he saved everything and we should say thank you to him," Mancini said. "He did a fantastic performance. I don't know if it's the best performance in football history but he did very well."
Hart admitted that he could not recall being so busy in goal before. "It could have been 10-all tonight. I thought their keeper was fantastic," he said, acknowledging the contribution that Roman Weidenfeller made in the first half, when the Dortmund keeper made a hat-trick of saves to thwart Agüero. "Off the top of my head, I can't remember making as many saves before. I thought Dortmund were different class tonight. It took a good defensive effort by us to keep it to just one. I hope this result is important and that it is not a waste of effort."
It remains to be seen whether that will be the case, although City will clearly have to play much better if they are to have a chance of reaching the knockout phase and avoid a repeat of last year's elimination at the group stage. Third in Group D with one point from two games, they have not kept a clean sheet since the penultimate game of last season and there was little doubt that Dortmund were going to extend that record on an evening when City never got the balance right between attack and defence.
"The Champions League is totally different from every championship," Mancini said. "When you play, you play against the best players, so when you have a chance you have to score. If you don't score, and after you concede, like we conceded this evening, it's difficult that we can win.
"First half we had three or four incredible chances and I don't know why we didn't score but this can happen. The problem was our performance. This is the problem. In the Champions League we can't play with all players that attack. We need to defend with all players. If you don't defend, if you don't run like Borussia Dortmund did this evening, it's difficult."
City lost Javi García to a thigh strain in the first half and it seems certain that the midfielder will miss Saturday's league game at home to Sunderland. Yaya Touré also appeared to be struggling and was well off the pace in the second half in particular, although Mancini claimed there was nothing wrong with the Ivorian's fitness. "Yaya didn't play well. He is not injured. But it was not only Yaya; all the team played a poor game. We didn't play well. We didn't deserve to take this point, but in the end it could be important. Borussia Dortmund played better than us and at this moment they are a better side."
Mario Balotelli's late penalty, awarded harshly after Neven Subotic was penalised for handling Sergio Agüero's close-range shot, earned City a 1-1 draw that Mancini believes could be vital come the end of the group.
Yet it was Hart, rather than the Italy striker, who was hailed as City's saviour, after the 25-year-old made eight superb saves in a pulsating game that had chances from the first minute to the last. Hart denied Mario Götze on three occasions in the first half alone and, at times, it felt as though he was single-handedly keeping Dortmund at bay. He was so impressive that there was even acclaim from Old Trafford. "Have to say Joe Hart has been incredible. For me best keeper in the world," tweeted Wayne Rooney.
Mancini had expressed his frustration with Hart less than a fortnight ago, after the goalkeeper criticised his team-mates for allowing a 2-1 lead to slip over Real Madrid. On this occasion, however, there was only praise from Mancini, who recognised that he was indebted to Hart for preventing Dortmund from being out of sight by the time Balotelli scored in the 90th minute to cancel out Marco Reus's opener. "Joe Hart is incredible because he saved everything and we should say thank you to him," Mancini said. "He did a fantastic performance. I don't know if it's the best performance in football history but he did very well."
Hart admitted that he could not recall being so busy in goal before. "It could have been 10-all tonight. I thought their keeper was fantastic," he said, acknowledging the contribution that Roman Weidenfeller made in the first half, when the Dortmund keeper made a hat-trick of saves to thwart Agüero. "Off the top of my head, I can't remember making as many saves before. I thought Dortmund were different class tonight. It took a good defensive effort by us to keep it to just one. I hope this result is important and that it is not a waste of effort."
It remains to be seen whether that will be the case, although City will clearly have to play much better if they are to have a chance of reaching the knockout phase and avoid a repeat of last year's elimination at the group stage. Third in Group D with one point from two games, they have not kept a clean sheet since the penultimate game of last season and there was little doubt that Dortmund were going to extend that record on an evening when City never got the balance right between attack and defence.
"The Champions League is totally different from every championship," Mancini said. "When you play, you play against the best players, so when you have a chance you have to score. If you don't score, and after you concede, like we conceded this evening, it's difficult that we can win.
"First half we had three or four incredible chances and I don't know why we didn't score but this can happen. The problem was our performance. This is the problem. In the Champions League we can't play with all players that attack. We need to defend with all players. If you don't defend, if you don't run like Borussia Dortmund did this evening, it's difficult."
City lost Javi García to a thigh strain in the first half and it seems certain that the midfielder will miss Saturday's league game at home to Sunderland. Yaya Touré also appeared to be struggling and was well off the pace in the second half in particular, although Mancini claimed there was nothing wrong with the Ivorian's fitness. "Yaya didn't play well. He is not injured. But it was not only Yaya; all the team played a poor game. We didn't play well. We didn't deserve to take this point, but in the end it could be important. Borussia Dortmund played better than us and at this moment they are a better side."
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