What It Means To Be Human. 2013 Program. School HARDWARE. Questions. NASA. Poetry. Library Genesis. Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio: The Mythicist Case. All religions employ mythology to express their more sublime doctrines, but the Gnostics came the closest to weaponizing it.
The use of myth in Gnosticism has always been part of its nuclear arsenal against the steel curtains of artificial realities and oppressive systems. They deconstructed, reconstructed and sometimes just totally destructed myths in their endless quest to decode the mysteries of existence. The church father Irenaeus in the second century harshly criticized the Gnostics for constantly inventing new gospels as a means to attain some form of divine revelation (Against Heresies 3.11.9). Their protean scriptures were akin to psychedelic space operas teeming with Jewish, Greek, and even Oriental themes.
Simon Magus placed on his grand stage Homeric characters before the cinematography of the Garden of Eden (The Great Declaration). But why did the Gnostics, and other religions to a lesser extent, rely so much on mythmaking for the purposes of spiritual evolution? Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio. Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really says. TED talks on psychology. The Brain. 42 Mind-Blowing Photos Of Space From The Hubble Telescope. A teacher in social media - Pearltrees - 10 tips for teachers. A (Finnish) teacher's dive into social media - "I discovered pearls in Pearltrees!
" + 10 tips for teachers This time I thought I could write about Pearltrees from a teacher's perspective. I started to use the web curation tool Pearltrees during my autumn holiday (in 2012) and I'm still amazed by the possibilities it has to offer.It was the head teacher of our upper secondary school Kari Rajala who first introduced me to social media. I started using Facebook and soon got friends from my fellow teachers. In a week, I was already in Twitter following all kinds of discussions and weaving my personal learning network. Pearltrees for teachers. Year 2012 last post is a guest post from Finnish teacher Tommi Viljakainen.
He is a teacher in Elimäki lower and upper secondary school. He teaches English, French and P.E. He is also interested in social media, iPad and the future of education. You can find Tommi also in Twitter under name @tommiviljaA (Finnish) teacher's dive into social media - "I discovered pearls in Pearltrees! "Tips for teachersThis time I thought I could write about Pearltrees from a teacher's perspective. 10 tips for teachers: 1. The new social media tools make it possible for us to take the learning to the next level. Links:The program: app (iPad, iPhone) Rewinding reality: How you can change the past. MacGregor Campbell, consultant Does objective reality exist?
Is there an underlying truth that doesn't depend on the observer? According to quantum physics, there may be no consistent reality. Not only do we change the outcome of experiments by what we choose to measure, but we can alter those results after they've already happened. Peter Singer on SENS and Radical Life Extension. Earlier this year, bioethicist Peter Singer chaired a seminar on "The Science and Ethics of Eliminating Aging" at which Aubrey de Grey of the SENS Foundation put forward his vision for rejuvenation biotechnology: building ways to reverse the root causes of aging, fixing cellular and molecular damage so as to extend healthy life spans, prevent aging in the young, and rejuvenate the elderly.
It has to be said that I'm not in favor of bioethics as a profession - medical ethics, its predecessor, has in recent decades has lost its way and evolved into an institution that stands opposed to its original goals. Medical ethicists tried to make medicine better, aiming to obtain, on average, better outcomes from the many unpleasant and difficult circumstances that can occur in the practice of medicine.
Bioethicists, on the other hand, nowadays seek to empower themselves as general naysayers, able to put barriers in place of the path of development and invention. Haiku ideas. Inbox (8,289) - cklafas - Gmail.