Recent content by iBrian

Is it really that hard to love your neighbour?

Ok, we keep straying into politics and current events here. Let's leave all that for the rest of the internet to deal with and focus on the topic of this discussion - Religion of love?

It's surprising how often you can find this in many areas of academia, let alone the science disciplines. :) I read reports that apparently India focused on using well-tested anti-viral medication to battle covid, rather than the Pfizer/Moderna vaccines, and did well for it. I mention that...

I liked the comment about the difference in psychology between staying up late into the night, vs getting up early each morning to watch the sun rise.

I keep getting short clips about David Bowie appearing on my YouTube feed, and I couldn't help but think of the wisdom and insight from this one about why he stopped taking drugs and drinking:

Oh, you mean the former head of health, Fauci? The one who greenlit illegal experiments on covid viruses in China, then tried to cover that up after the covid pandemic co-incidentally started just outside of that lab? :)

Blasphemy and Free Speech are one of those things that are culturally ingrained in different ways. You only have to look at how Muslim women were attacked in France for wearing burkas that covered their bodies, because it was seen as "un-French" - even though French nuns also cover up for the...

At least if you're an atheist - the more common forms of Hinduism and Buddhism both subscribe to literal reincarnation, do they not? :)

Science is a metaphysical system, like any other - it has its own internal logic and rules of association, and requires a person to subscribe in it. Similar applies to animist systems - cause and effect may not follow the same scientific ideals we know of now, but within that metaphysical...

We've always been the same smart - but the problems our ancestors had to solve were often more challenging with the technology they had at their disposal. Hence how often we're amazed by what they achieved.

The irony is there was a piece on the BBC news website earlier this week saying that there were too many nurses and not enough vacancies! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39ddjv09vvo

These are gorgeous - thank you, @Nicholas Weeks . :)

BBC "fact checking" is what they used during covid to "prove" the vaccine prevented infection and helped stop the virus spreading, and to completely denigrate any opinion that said otherwise. As that all proved false I would be careful about trusting it, especially as a lot of the political...

I wouldn't even begin to try, I don't have the knowledge or authority. :) It would be tempting to apply a modern interpretation like the post I made above, but I've been reading a lot about the origins of ancients mythologies, and it's clear that spiritual journeys are a tradition that goes...

Here in the UK the National Health Service (NHS) has problems. To their credit, they'll rush you into hospital for any suspected emergency, but then rush you out of any bed as quickly as possible to make room for the next person, leaving you to wait around for a lift or taxi back home. If you...