Entries by tag: humanism
"Rats and roaches live by competition
under the law of supply and demand;
it is the privilege of human beings to live
under the laws of justice and mercy."
--Wendell Berry
under the law of supply and demand;
it is the privilege of human beings to live
under the laws of justice and mercy."
--Wendell Berry
My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
~ Edward Abbey, Confessions of a Barbarian
Is there anything more dangerous
than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods
who don't know what they want?
--Harari in Sapiens, the very last sentence
than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods
who don't know what they want?
--Harari in Sapiens, the very last sentence
As a student of nonverbal communication, I'm always fascinated when a new tidbit comes along. It appears that there is one more universal microexpression to add to the current list of seven, and that is the "not" face, or the face that says "I don't agree". It isn't completely unique, instead it borrows from the expressions of digust, anger and contempt. The other four previously identified microexpressions are fear, sadness, surprise, and happiness. Here's a good explanation of all of this.
I have been increasingly conscious, for the last 10 years or so, of deaths among my contemporaries. My generation is on the way out, and each death I have felt as an abruption, a tearing away of part of myself. There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.
--Oliver Sachs
(New York Times, Opinion, “Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer,” Feb. 19, 2015)
( This from the FFRF blog:Collapse )
--Oliver Sachs
(New York Times, Opinion, “Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer,” Feb. 19, 2015)
( This from the FFRF blog:Collapse )
*Created tags for reason and humanism.
SOURCE
http://ffrf.org/news/blog/item/23735-remembering-oliver-sacks
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