Category Archives: philosophy

So Much Older Then

June 18, 2018 – 8:33 am

“Why do men die before women?” “Because they want to.” It’s an old joke but very truthful, for yesterday afternoon I visited my father in an Alzheimer’s hospice. My father was the only male in the renovated mansion. The rest of the residents are women. No one has any idea where the hell they are. […]

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Chicken or the Egg

June 14, 2014 – 11:03 am

The question ‘which came first the chicken or the egg’ has befuddled mankind for centuries. Philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato have pondered this mystery of circular cause and consequence without satisfaction. Darwin had argued that the chicken came first and lately Stephen Hawking has backed the egg. DNA testing on ancient fossils have failed […]

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Angels On The Head Of A Needle

June 9, 2013 – 5:46 pm

Gallnippers or mega mosquitoes have invaded Seminole County in Florida. According to entomologists at U Fla are about twenty times larger than the local mosquitoes and have a hall of a bite. Judging from the photo I can faithfully answer an ancient query which pesters medieval scholars. Thomas Aquinas wrote in Summa Theologica, “Can several […]

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The Past Present and Future

October 2, 2012 – 1:02 pm

Never view the present without looking at the past to see what the future had been once.. – Pascha Ray

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Obsession with Possession

September 17, 2012 – 5:34 pm

obsession, nothingness, james Steele Materialism is a fleeting desire of possession and all spiritualism is nothing but an attempt to explain nothingness to justify our obsession with possessions. – Pascha Ray

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