When I divide piles of fruit flies into sexes, I am not “assigning their sex”, but recognizing it based on sexually dimorphic characters that are nearly perfectly correlated with biological sex. (Remember biologists define sex by the nature of the reproductive system that produces either large,...
and this is a smaller male. This species of Mantidfly grows up by living and feeding inside the egg sacs of spiders, and there are always jumping spiders on our shed and that is where I find Mantidflies:
Thus "metaphysics" would be about spiritual things, God, the soul, ghosts, etc. Unfortunately, the Greek preposition meta does not mean "beyond"; it means "after." This might be thought to amount to the same thing, but it doesn't, because of the actual origin of the word. Metaphysics...
unusually skilled thinkers will realize that war is stronger than any warrior and love is stronger than any lover, which in turn leads to the belief that the physical human world is governed by a pantheon of abstractions — very real entities, but not physical; very real spiritual entities. ...
Brutality is what, sadly, has most often swayed the course of history. For instance in Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding on a group of children stranded on a desert island, the slightly overweight character cruelly dubbed ‘piggy’ get’s killed because of his lack of physical ...
Have you ever had a sudden swarm of flies in your house? What did you do about it? Let me know in the comments! The meaning of flies in the house There are some old wives tales and myths about flies representing evil and having a spiritual or symbolic meaning. Flies can symbolize a ...
To me, Jesus incorporates the Holy Spirit as opposed to his opposite; the spirit of the Devil for anyone who has an affinity for him. Not all do. They don’t comprehend the light just like the Bible says. There are other Kingdoms away from the light but not the utter spiritual darkness...
only instruments are allowed. In the soft decor of fabrics hung on the walls and stools and cushions on the floor, we settle in for a night of playing. The music is free; it rises and falls, stays still and flies like a hooked beak bird to great heights, evolving without plan or v...
Adding that step in the process causes me to have to take some time to really soak it all in and get the most out of the book. I read on a lot of heavy topics with deep meaning that requires me to think through what I really feel about the book in order to write a well-informed...
where only spiritual things can be found before the throne of the Most High. We must reserve this prerogative wholly to God. If any man state that God is not Creator, we call him infidel; if any man entrench upon this doctrine, that God is the absolute Maker of all things, we hiss ...