CollegeBinary's Channel Paul Root Wolpe: It's time to question bio-engineering. The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things. The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things is a painting attributed to Hieronymus Bosch, completed around 1500 or later.
The painting is oil on wood panels. The painting is presented in a series of circular images. At the centre of the large circle, which is said to represent the eye of God, is a "pupil" in which Christ can be seen emerging from his tomb. Below this image is the Latin inscription Cave Cave Deus Videt ("Beware, Beware, God Sees").
Above and below the central image are inscription in Latin of Deuteronomy 32:28-29, containing the lines "For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them," above, and "O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! " Discipulo[edit] Study[edit] End time. End time (also called end times, end of time, end of days, last days, final days, or eschaton) is a time period described in the eschatologies of the dominant world religions, both Abrahamic and non-Abrahamic.
The non-Abrahamic faiths have more cyclical eschatologies regarding end time, characterized by decay, redemption and rebirth. In Hinduism, end time is foretold as when Kalki, the final incarnation of Vishnu, descends atop a white horse and brings an end to the current Kali Yuga. In Buddhism, the Buddha predicted that his teachings would be forgotten after 5,000 years, followed by turmoil. A bodhisattva named Maitreya will appear and rediscover the teaching of dharma. The ultimate destruction of the world will then come through seven suns.
Jonbar Hinge. A Jonbar Hinge (also referred to as a Jon Bar Hinge or change-point[1]) is a science fiction concept derived from the Jack Williamson novel The Legion of Time.
Specifically it comes from the short story John Barr, when picking up one of two objects (a magnet and a pebble) is a major turning point in history: choosing one will lead to a utopian civilization named Jonbar, while the other to the tyranny of the state of Gyronchi. Background[edit] Jonbar hinges often refer to small non-descript events that had an important effect on history, but because of time travel the outcome of the choice or event was changed leading to a different future or an alternate history.[2][3] It can, however, refer to any kind of change in history without having to deal with time travel, as Paul Di Filippo used the term when reviewing S. M. Jonbar Hinges are often the subject of professional, journalistic, and amateur speculation.[7] See also[edit] References[edit] Brain in a vat.
A brain in a vat that believes it is walking The simplest use of brain-in-a-vat scenarios is as an argument for philosophical skepticism and solipsism.
A simple version of this runs as follows: Since the brain in a vat gives and receives exactly the same impulses as it would if it were in a skull, and since these are its only way of interacting with its environment, then it is not possible to tell, from the perspective of that brain, whether it is in a skull or a vat. Yet in the first case most of the person's beliefs may be true (if they believe, say, that they are walking down the street, or eating ice-cream); in the latter case their beliefs are false. Since the argument says one cannot know whether one is a brain in a vat, then one cannot know whether most of one's beliefs might be completely false. However, if one accepts a utilitarian or some logical positivist ethical philosophy, then one should behave as though the external world is real.
§Cultural references[edit] Philosophy. Evil demon. The evil demon, sometimes referred to as the evil genius, is a concept in Cartesian philosophy.
In his 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes hypothesized the existence of an evil demon, a personification who is "as clever and deceitful as he is powerful, who has directed his entire effort to misleading me. " The evil demon presents a complete illusion of an external world, including other minds, to Descartes' senses, where in fact there is no such external world in existence. The evil genius also presents to Descartes' senses a complete illusion of his own body, including all bodily sensations, when in fact Descartes has no body. Most Cartesian scholars opine that the evil demon is also omnipotent, and thus capable of altering mathematics and the fundamentals of logic.[1][2] It is one of several methods of systematic doubt that Descartes employs in the Meditations.[1] Deus deceptor[edit] However, this was not the view of Descartes' contemporaries.