religion by another name

The Religion of Science
Main Branch: Evolutionism
 

a stupid theft thwarting

the two Caucasus men who walked into the Starbucks at the Moscow Europeiski Shopping Center did not look or act at all like they were there for coffee.

one nodded to a third man already inside, and all three were just milling oddly around...
they observed everywhere...for a table at which to sit? unlikely.
was the tall one going to the back for the restroom?... no.

then, just beside the counter in the very center of the shop, at a stool, a Russian fellow sat absorbed in his laptop world.
the smaller thief, by chance a yard from me, lifted the arm strap of the shoulder bag, and was getting ready to walk out. I reached for the arm strap, took it from him, and put it back.
to his surprise and mine.
he then ambled out...

the bigger one spun a small pocket knife in his hands as he looked at me.

no one else even noticed that all this occurred, including the man in his computer world.
(though there was a ceiling camera directly above this.)

closer to impromptu stupid than courageous.

music saves

not in human cathedrals...
nor sublime peaks...
nor lakes districts...
nor "paradisaical" forests...
the communicating gods have retreated into music.
 

a Southern bell

living inside a semi-conscious sleep of received ideas.
 

so, what's the story?

who in all of human history has lived without any story?
even if it were that there is none.
 

the play must go on

dreamy marionettes of social traditions' ideas, ways, beliefs, mores, manners, attitudes...
 

gnothi seauton: Fukushima

it is not just that men and women of Man overestimated their knowledge and capabilities to manage dangers such as "nuclear energy", but that once a deadly example of their inabilities is shown, like Chernobyl, now like Fukushima, they refuse to take realistic and consistent notice of it, and to thereby learn from it
homo insapiens, again.

Godrise, Godset?

the gradual believing...
and the gradual disbelieving...
of "God"
 

an old gods' home?

old folk's home?
old god's home
Zeus
Thoth
Baal
Jehovah
God the Father
...
 

anno Nietzsche?

BN: before Nietzsche
AN: in the year of Nietzsche
 

the ongoing, living world of traditions and ideas

waking in the ongoing living world...
discovering one is out of it, lost...
not in the clear physical, natural, even social, worlds...
but in medias res traditional beliefs, ideas...of religions, mores,...in and by which
-- as one can increasingly clearly realize --
most dream and move and have their beings...
and then seeking and studying for years to find one's position therein...
inside the ongoing, living world of traditions, beliefs, ideas...

the United States Congress: sic transit gloria mundi?

watching the US Members of Congress this week has lead to a new idea:

sic transit trivia mundi

above their natural element

mediocrities in high places are literally above their element
 

dated parochial politics in DC

provincial mediocrities in power,
on a global stage
   

what does it matter?

why would, or how could, merely evolved matter need meaning?
 

sic transit gloria mundi?

Darwinian vs Dantean

Most men here are on the ape side of the angels. They will prove it you doubt their "dignity".

Many women closer to copying magazine-dressed dolls.
 

"In the beginning...

matter...."
 

man: the immeasure of all things

the deepest fact(or) about human knowledge -- be it in what is now divided into and called eg the sciences and the humanities -- is not that man is mostly talking to himself, but that he so little recognizes this.
 

floating mid-Pacific in Moscow's Metro

Kon-Tiki, chapter 5...

the smile in history ; )

the polite smile...
though it might hide scorn, boredom or hate...
may (have) help(ed) prevent wars.
; )
a study of the influence of the smile in history, as also in art history, in literature, is needed.
 

TV commercials...

pollute the person
 

the sunset proof of God

when he quietly said of the rather extraordinarily colorful mid-August sunset with unusual clouds, something to the effect that 'it showed there is a God', he in fact merely voiced a vague version of the idea that Nature reveals the work of God...in a way traditional in his region and social group
 

unconscious history

as there is intellectual history, and the history of ideas, so there should be a history of un- or semi-conscious assumptions about the "nature of the world"

   

"life, liberty, and the pursuit of..."

insight
 

dispersed responsibility = ?

= 0 responsibility...
in Nazi Germany, and "Greed is good" USA.

A criminal court should be set up in New York, London, other capitals, to prosecute the 2000s'
Economic Crimes Against Humanity
 

ergo

Some year or so ago, President Barack Obama, amid some recurring problem with the United States Congress to fund the government, said something to the effect that 'this is not how the greatest country in the history of the world should act'. But it did so act, ergo...