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November 12, 2020
Conversations in Mathematics, Physics, Cosmology and Philosophy
I compiled this list of broadcasts in the BBC R4 series 'In Our Time', which has now been running for more than 20 years, and is moderated by the author Melvyn Bragg. The full list of broadcasts is now around 900 shows. I'm gratetful for whoever compiled the full list of shows, which made this compilation fairly straightforward to do.
Why did I make this compilation? I wanted to assemble a body of discussion for the purpose of comment. I will provide this as and when I've listened to a particul...
November 11, 2020
Ten Articles and Chapters on the East in the West
The West and the Other https://shrineinthesea.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-west-and-other.html?spref=tw #Abstraction,#Definition #East, #Paradox #Philosophy #Religion #Taoism #Theology #West
Wikipedia page on Indra's Net. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra%27s… It is one way of characterizing the plenum underlying physical reality. The idea may have found its way into Kubrick's 2001.
The Age of the Lord Buddha. Does he belong in the middle of the first millennium BCE, or at the beginning of the second m...
November 10, 2020
On Infinity and Creation (Seven Discussions)
Featuring Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, Arthur C. Clarke, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, Carlo Rovelli, Helen Czerski, Adrian W. Moore, John D. Barrow, and H. Peter Aleff.
'Something from Nothing' A narrow understanding of reality plus a limited knowledge of the history of ideas can make idiots out of otherwise really bright people. A conversation with Richard Dawkins & Lawrence Krauss. youtu.be/q0mljE9K-gYvia @YouTube #RichardDawkins#LawrenceKrauss#SomethingFromNothing#Athe...
October 10, 2020
October 8, 2020
Can't find my stuff on Amazon? Here's why.
Armando Ourique
Why your books are not available at Amazon?
Just nowArmando, hi. I don't sell via Amazon for several reasons, but the main reason is their terms and conditions, which are not very friendly to authors and publishers. A friend of mine runs a small-scale poetry press (....). Almost everything they have published in the past ten or so years is commercially available. They try to sell via Amazon, but often their books are listed as 'not currently available.' If they don't like you, th...
August 31, 2020
Jump Cut: The Pursuit of Knowledge, God and Reality in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
Clarke and Atheism
The more times I see 2001: A Space Odyssey, the stranger the movie gets. Arthur C Clarke said a couple of things about the film which illuminate what it is about, and a number of details in the film offer further clues. Other work he became interested in much later, also casts light on the real subject of the film.
Firstly, there is Clarke’s famous statement that Kubrick and Clarke had persuaded MGM to fund an enormously expensive religious movie (he actually meant a theologica...
Jump Cut: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
Jump Cut: The Pursuit of Knowledge, God and Reality in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
Clarke and Atheism
The more times I see 2001: A Space Odyssey, the stranger the movie gets. Arthur C Clarke said a couple of things about the film which illuminate what it is about, and a number of details in the film offer further clues. Other work he became interested in much later, also casts light on the real subject of the film.
Firstly, there is Clarke’s famous statement that Kubrick and Clarke had persuaded MGM t...
July 11, 2020
Today's most popular readings (July 11, 2020)
The Greek Ontological Model in the 1st Millennium ...Jul 19, 2018 19 Before the Ontological Argument (Writing to Alvin ...Mar 6, 2020 15
Pharaoh Akhenaten, the Aten, and the History of Id...Feb 17, 2019 12
I Go To Die (The Death of Socrates)Sep 30, 2017 10
Frazer and the Association of IdeasOct 3, 2017 10
Plato and...
June 22, 2020
12th Annual Smashwords 2020 Summer/Winter Sale!
July 1, 2020 - July 31, 2020
Four of my books sold through Smashwords will be discounted during the month of July, so this is a chance to pick up a bargain! The catalog for the sale goes live at one minute past midnight on July 1 Pacific time, and expires 11:59pm on July 31. Clicking on the image of each book's cover below will take you through to the Smashwords page for it. Clicking on the title will taken you to a blog page giving further details.
During the sale period the price at Smashwords ...
April 29, 2020
The Flavian Hypothesis
Titus Flavius Caesar Vespasianus Augustus (30 December 39 AD 13 September 81 AD)
John, ...
Im going to freewheel through this, which is often a good way of developing a frame for a more detailed discussion. Hard to know where to start, since there are several possible starting points.
Ill start with Eusebius. You suggested to me that we did not know why Eusebius wrote his works. But we do know why he wrote what he did, since the texts contain the motive and purpose of his writings, from...
