Sweden is among the least religious of countries in the world along with Estonia, Denmark, Czech Republic, Norway and Japan. So, naturally I balk at associating it, clumsily though it might be, to this concept of ‘falling’ in love with an oppressor as is the requirement for any of the fastidiously religious. Religious folk vehementlyContinue reading “The Religious Stockholm Syndrome”
Category Archives: Skepticism
71 Million Americans Can’t be Wrong! Or can they?
As I write this, the still on-going 2020 US elections has shattered the mirage of safety that Americans, and the free world by extension, had built around themselves founded on the principles of democracy. People in their personal, official and social capacities interpreted current affairs in polarizing variability, not as Republicans and Democrats but asContinue reading “71 Million Americans Can’t be Wrong! Or can they?”
The Memetic Imperative
Every living thing around us is a ratcheted, evolved response to support the immortality of the original form of life – a self-replicating arrangement of chemical molecules as a packet of information. If this arrangement happened about 3-1/2 billion years ago, most likely near deep-sea hydrothermal vents, all that happened at that moment of theContinue reading “The Memetic Imperative”
Knowledge is Gold
I have only recently begun to celebrate ‘not being sure’. It is a tremendously liberating experience – uncertainty! Gone are the rigorous truths and the mendacious confidence when faced with questions that belie simple knowledge. “Is now a good time to invest in real estate?” “What’s a quark?”, “Should I change jobs?” “Is there lifeContinue reading “Knowledge is Gold”
‘Sapiend’ing Perception
Have you considered the distance between two galaxies? How about the empty space between electrons zipping around the nucleus? When a scientist says “I don’t know” to a question can you measure the depth of knowledge required make that proclamation? Can you articulate the magnitude of synaptic firings that begin as you attempt to recallContinue reading “‘Sapiend’ing Perception”
Otherbrainly.
Many a superstition, belief system, worldview, and dogma has taken root from dreamlike stages of a brain – an influential brain – somebody convinced strongly enough of the illusion and able to convince others of its truth by pure assertion. I can conjecture two natural causes for this phenomenon: one, the cerebral-cortex-involved entanglement that happensContinue reading “Otherbrainly.”
Zeitgeist – The Spirit of the Times
I have always felt its vector. Have had a subtle sensation of its singular yet collective tug. I rely on it for my daily confidence in society (law makers, bureaucrats, movie makers, newspaper editors, writers, judges, politicians, artists, directors, editors, producers, bloggers, scientists, teachers) but fear for it too! I recognize how fragile it is.Continue reading “Zeitgeist – The Spirit of the Times”
Can’t be bothered…
My aversion of theistic or atheistic labels affixed to myself is based on a desire to go through life’s situations using logic/reason as opposed to faith-based leaps as much as possible (the ‘as-much-as-possible’ could be considered a cop-out because I don’t claim to possibly have enough data/information to make every real-life impromptu decision logically.) UnlikeContinue reading “Can’t be bothered…”
Goldilocks
Originally recorded 2019-09-12 1:13 PM Ever since I was a child, teenager maybe, I was aware of this thought that ‘life’ was simply a product of the current physical, chemical, biological state of our universe/environment. The limited view of scientists who keep searching for life or postulate the probability of life based on the smallContinue reading “Goldilocks”
The Bleerbet…
Science, pseudoscience and irrationality compete for a chunk of our worldview at a memetic level. There is a sociological Darwinian utility for irrationality because its inherent quirkiness allows for profligate variations of genetic options. If behavior was binary, based on true logic, then there is a limited outcome of inter- and intraspecies dynamics. The downer,Continue reading “The Bleerbet…”
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