It's an art to be optimistic for the right reasons and pessimistic for the right reasons (by "right" I mean "right" according to you, of course, and I guess I'll let "right" according to others slide in there as well).

Costs and benefits are inherent in all phenomena that involve more than one person or one outcome.
It's often easier to express one ( Read more... )

The holiday season, Christmas, whatever you may call it, tends to mention a lot about notions of privilege. Charity. Those who are "less fortunate."

Suffering: that which comes with privileged life, and that which does not.

Suffering: that which comes with unprivileged life, and that which does not.

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When we say "unprivileged", most of the meaning ( Read more... )

God is a feeling that has emerged through time since humans have inhabited this earth. Religion cultivates it, science de-cultivates it.

A wave is a feeling. A wave does not "exist" in and of itself, but it is an emergent property of particles in motion. Electric fields, magnetic fields, and other vector fields do not "exist", but they do come to ( Read more... )