5. “I don’t want to live in the kind of world where we don’t look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I can’t change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.”– Cha...
A. meaningB. practiceC. mattersD. radios8.(部分区期中)Nothing is more ___ than going to the beach for a picnic on the weekend.A. dangerousB. enjoyableC. naturalD. possible9.(河西区一模)—___?—Nothing serious. I just feel very tired.A. Is there anything elseB. What's thisC. ...
Why does the Universe exist? These ancient questions do not yet have an answer, but compared to our ancestors, our current knowledge of the laws of physics allows us to describe the events that, starting from Planck time (1043s after the origin of the Universe), led the Universe to ...
In this regard, the mind is not just the subjective mind but also the ontological universal mind. Nothing exists outside the mind, not only because all things are interconnected with the subjective mind, either practically, cognitive-linguistically (as per Liu), or through the mind’s meaning-...
For the world to be created is for it to exist instead of nothing. And we can have no concept of nothing. We can have no concept of creation (any more than of God), but this will not, I trust, prevent us from talking about them.35 As an apparent super concept, Creation emerges ...
the perspective of an individual character on a journey. Unmanned is a comparatively simple game, and it does not allow me to directly touch the sliders that embody the relationships between those higher order concepts – but it does enable me to feel that those sliders exist and are ...
CCM: I don’t know if it really rocked my world but I rediscovered libraries! In Bogota every time one of my friends would get a new book in English, we’d all pass it around like it was the greatest thing in the world. It didn’t matter if it was pulp fiction – it was a bo...
We should not forget, however, that philosophy is not the same as wisdom itself. It is, rather, the “love of wisdom.” Philosophers exist right in the middle of a process of aspiration. They are striving toward understanding and wisdom. But when one strives there is the recognition that ...
This often involves shifting attention away from questions that matter, to questions that are in the vicinity but that in fact do not matter at all. […] When I worked as a TA in grad school, some of the classes covered the Problem of Evil. […] Here is a possible response: maybe ...
But what turns that around is the assurance that perhaps by learning, observing, imagining (all qualities of Stargazing in my view)—and “believing in the persistence of memory” as a path toward discovering “order and harmony,” we can all bring meaning into our lives. Maybe, with faith...