A lack of evidence is not evidence of something lacking. Regardless of how informed we think we are, the fractal nature of life prevents us from ever knowing the past and interpreting what we think happened as a law.
Category: Philosophy
Reverie – The desert of life or Alice and that pesky hole
We think we are at the top because we place ourselves there. The tree of life is not the right example. The tips of the branches beings the furthest does not mean it is the most advanced stage of the tree. Branches are cut often, the universe is really good at killing things that want …
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Reverie – The importance of the story
Ancient myth is a building block of humanity. We tell stories so that we can pass on information. As time moves on, the context for the stories changes or disappear, making it easy for them to be dismissed as "those old silly stories." We have dismantled those stories one by one thanks to science. If …
Reverie – Some pasted tweeters
Until one of these so-called political representatives can actually solve even one of the ancient problems of humanity, such as poverty, or famine, or even basic protection for the citizens who fund it; I will not believe in it. For it is the great lie. You fund your own demise. Simply attacking your opponent is …
Quote – This unfortunate race
“This unfortunate race, whom we had been taking so much pains to save and to civilize, have by their unexpected desertion and ferocious barbarities justified extermination and now await our decision on their fate.” President Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, December 29, 1813
Quote – Where the devilfish waits
“An indisputable event, my gallant Ned. Accordingly, people have proposed naming this devil fish Bouguer's Squid. And how long was it? the Canadian asked. Didn't it measure about six metres? said Conseil, who was stationed at the window and examining anew the crevices in the cliff. Precisely, I replied Wasn't its head, Conseil went on, …
Quote – Extirpate these Savages
“If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these Savages in order to make room for cultivators of the Earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means.” Benjamin Franklin, from his autobiography, 1750s
Quote – Capricious equilibrium
“From a caprice of nature, not from the ignorance of man. Not a mistake has been made in the working. But we cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.” ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Reverie – The talking stick
Some of our favorite characters of the last few years have been a rolling ball that beeps, a talking Stick that says one short phrase, and a sarcastically awesome anti-authority robot that was reprogrammed from being a now former authoritarian enforcer. We have yellow evil pills that get into shenanigans and do not speak. We …
Quote – The strange race
A long time ago my father told me what his father told him, that there was once a Lakota holy man, called Drinks Water, who dreamed what was to be; and this was long before the coming of the Wasichus. He dreamed that the four-leggeds were going back into the earth and that a strange …
