Category: Personal and conceptual

  • A few thoughts on reincarnation.

    A few thoughts on reincarnation.

    I still tend to think, a soul is physical in the sense, it exists, in the physical body and has no sense after the physical body is dead biologically. Its an abrupt end to the soul or the spirit. By spirit I mean something that’s perceived by ourselves only and not by others. Because others…

  • Employ-ability of the spirit….and the spirit of science…

    Isn’t scientific pursuits a bit like that? It’s gainful as long as its pleasing, to our spirits, and as long as we pursue our quests to know. The motto seems to be “Aspire to know and perspire to share…” The scope of employ-ability with something as arcane as spirit is therefore infinite. It’s not only…

  • Employ-ability of the spirit….and the spirit of science…

    Isn’t scientific pursuits a bit like that? It’s gainful as long as its pleasing, to our spirits, and as long as we pursue our quests to know. The motto seems to be “Aspire to know and perspire to share…” The scope of employ-ability with something as arcane as spirit is therefore infinite. It’s not only…

  • A few thoughts on religion and science

    We don’t need monasteries, but we need laboratories and libraries and universities and downtowns with a lot of bars. Without the laboratories we will be tyrannous to our families, without the universities and libraries we will be wonderers but without the bars and hang-arounds our creativity will be like a dead man’s dreams. Science is…

  • The scientific person

    September 27, 2008 A physicist is not a person in the sense that a physicist is more like an imagined person. Its not just a concept. We do experience him in our imagination. But not like we experience a scientist. We experience a scientist directly, who is a person like any other. But a physicist…