Tag: Ideas

  • Is the future determined by our beliefs?

    Is the future determined by our beliefs?

    Think of belief as a future destination.  Yes, there are beliefs of such nature.  All beliefs are ideas, and ideas can travel through time.

  • Does justice emanate from belief?

    Does justice emanate from belief?

    Human beings are unique among creatures on this earth, for we have even deeper than the conscious, the very instinct of justice.  Even without thought or much deliberation, a human can have the instinct for justice.  This sense of justice brings rivalry among brothers, it brings favoritism, it brings inequality between the genders.  On the […]

  • The future of human society is predicated upon our perception of justice

    The future of human society is predicated upon our perception of justice

    The featured image: Weighing of the Heart Book of the Dead written on papyrus showing the Weighing of the Heart in the Duat using the feather of Maat as the measure in balance. What is justice?  Is personal justice and justification more important than social justice?  Is human intelligence capable of offering satisfactory justice?  Is divine justice the only possible hope […]

  • The flawed and biased employment of critical thinking

    The flawed and biased employment of critical thinking

      The website, “The Critical Thinking Community” carries this definition of critical thinking, on one of its pages: Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In its exemplary form, […]

  • The section of the world, we want to see…none see all!

    The section of the world, we want to see…none see all!

    When you put a query into a search box of an engine like Google or Bing, are you not already directing what kind of information will be presented?  The direction you put yourself in contact with connects you to a stream of information.  That stream of information and what flows to your eyes and ears […]

  • Lesson from Solomon – Continuity and finality – opposite worldviews.

    Lesson from Solomon – Continuity and finality – opposite worldviews.

    Do you have a worldview?  Even though you may have never sit down and enunciated what it is, or taken pains to explain it to others, most surely you do have a worldview.  In the globalized world where, even the knowledge of distant galaxies is available to the boy on the street, potential for knowledge-based […]

  • Short thought – 3 – the language of ideas

    Short thought – 3 – the language of ideas

    With gestures and with words, He tried to convey his thoughts. But the people he spoke with, Looked penetratingly at the light on his skin.

  • Short thought – 2 – the space and place of life

    Short thought – 2 – the space and place of life

    I saw war and I saw peace, I saw time and I saw space. I saw the needle’s tip and a strand of hair, I saw the butterfly’s wing and a hungry bear. Experiences vanish and memories cease, Man’s woes will grow as knowledge will increase.

  • Short thought – 1 – Public introspection on social networks

    Short thought – 1 – Public introspection on social networks

    Words of a moment, Flash of an idea, Like the twinkle of  a distant star, Or the breeze from a falling feather.

  • The adoption of a thought

    The adoption of a thought

    The adoption of a thought is a uniquely human trait.  With exposure to so much information which, clearly exceeds any human’s ability to process, it becomes difficult to be certain of anything.  A person could be asked to question the validity of any thought, even those dear to him.  Where a person is himself unwilling […]