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How Imagination Creates Reality
Imagination is commonly understood as the opposite of reality. We typically define the ‘real’ as what can be perceived by our senses and the ‘imaginary’ as what ...
Can you Play Backgammon?
Since you are reading this story, I assume you are more likely than not to have never played — or even heard of — the game of backgammon. I am not ...
A Short History Of Humanity Within A Geographical Context
In our age of free and wide distribution of information, it saddens me to observe how poor the average person's understanding of history is. A century and ...
The Origins (and Essence) of Racism
Racism in the 21st century is as pressing a topic as ever. In order to understand its essence, discussions on racism often attempt to pinpoint its origins ...
Why Time Feels Faster As We Age: The Perceptional Relativity Of Time
The feeling that time goes faster as we grow older is universal among humanity. “Every day is getting shorter”… “Last year flew by”… “Ten years ago feels ...
The Good Old Days: thoughts on the nature of human pessimism
The good old days, les bons vieux jours, los buenos viejos tiempos, die guten alten Tage, старые добрые времена, οι παλιοί καλοί καιροί... all human languages I ...
Most Striking Contradictions in the Gospels among the Four Evangelists
This article is not concerned with any contradictions to be found between the Old and the New Testament; nor any between the Gospels and other, subsequent books ...
The Abolition of Thought Privacy: The Singularity
We are humans raised under an all-enveloping system of humanistic ideals which has taught us to appreciate and worship our privacy and individuality. A lot of buzz ...
Why do People go Vegan… Should EVERYONE go Vegan?
Veganism, year after year, is growing into an increasingly hot topic. During my multitudinous encounters and miscellaneous conversations with people around the world, veganism, aside from it ...
The Universe: A God in an Egg
Out there... Someplace amidst the vast oceans of possibilities; somewhere and somewhen that where and when do not bear a meaning; in some fiddling, eerie corner of ...
Russia and the Heritage of the Steppe
Russian warmongers have heavily adduced history in justification for their invasion of Ukraine. Not only have they constructed such a fantasy as a historic mission, but they ...
Why did humans develop large brains? – Bipedalism, hands, and data processing
Why did humans, out of all the vast variety of living creatures on earth, become the only species to develop such large and complex brains? Though somewhat ...
Are you always happy?
How! Are you always happy? I don't know what to say... What you are now saying makes me feel a bit uneasy, kind of disappointed of myself ...
Two Mornings
Remember that morning?… Well, it’s not really a morning, technically. Darkness is still prevalent and absolute. If it wan’t for that gigantic mass of concrete with the countless tiny holes ...
The moving of peoples and the migrant crisis
Human belongs to the animal kingdom, members of which differ from plants in one main point: their motility, or their ability to move. Unlike plants, which can feed themselves stationarily through ...
Alone in the Unknown
There is a feeling of such an inexplicable essence. A feeling so bizarre, that it could not possibly be given a name. Neither could one call it borrowing a name from ...
Moveo ergo vitam gusto
Verbal Confirmation To be, to have, to think, to move — which of these verbs is the one you feel most connected to? Or is there another verb that characterizes ...