God must already be a person

 The universe began 13.7 blllion years ago in an explosion of hot gas.  By 380,000 years later it had cooled sufficiently for nuclei and electrons to start combining into atoms.  It seems nonsense to say they just happened to...

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Reflexivity and the individual encumbered by fallibility

 Reading George Soros’s The Crisis of Global Capitalism with great profit.  Reflexivity and the individual encumbered by fallibility  are marvellous concepts.  Indeed, I think I might add it to my personal list of great books:  Adam Smith’s Theory of...

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The new discoveries science makes…

 The new discoveries science makes are sometimes so astonishing, so overturning of everything that had previously been in the mind, they cast all previous discoveries in so different a light it is almost as if those discoveries had never...

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Hey the Spanish Armada is in the Channel…

Hey the Spanish Armada is in the Channel !!We are reviewing the situation every five yearsHey Hitler is in France !!There are more important issues.  the economy for exampleHey we've only twenty years to halt climate change !!Let me...

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We all look through conceptual windows, mostly square…

 We all look through small conceptual windows, mostly square, and only see what these limiting mental frameworks can show us.  For example, I was educated in the humanities and much exposed to the way Plato and Aristotle think during...

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Most problems in the world go back to Mrs Thatcher (that’s a joke)…

Most problems in the world go back to Mrs Thatcher (that’s a joke) but just a few to Shirley Williams. I’ve nothing against  comprehensive schools per se.  There is much to be said for large institutions that can command...

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How strange that the foundations of reason should be so unreasonable

The discovery of nonlocality tells us that two subatomic particles that are entangled (i.e. have been generated in such a way that they cannot be described independently of each other) can communicate instantaneously with each other even if, physicists...

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The last thing fervent advocates of free trade want is free trade.

The last thing fervent advocates of free trade usually want is free trade free from government interference - at least not the kind of government interference that benefits them.  This is true from the British sending round soldiers to...

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The heart of the universe cries out in love.

 To think that wild geese are calling as they pass overhead in order merely to regulate their flight formation (which they are)  and to maintain that birds sing simply to warn other birds off their territories (which they do)...

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