The Squint

The Squint taking a skewered look Painting by Peter Cheevers

YOU AND YOUR BRAIN

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  For most of history, the software of the mind, the brain, has been a deep mystery. True, people have for long suspected that the brain, th...

God is a synonym for Physics and Physics is a synonym for God

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 eg Shut is a synonym for close

communication media has transformed the spatial and temporal constitution of social life,

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What role have communication media played in the formation of modern societies? How should we understand the social impact of new forms of c...

SHAKESPEARE A MAN WHO MINGLED COMFORTABLY WITH PAUPERS AND PRINCES BUT DEEP DOWN

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 WAS DEEPLY PRIVATE AND  INSCRUTABLE (IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND) THAT MAN WAS  SHAKESPEARE

tHE iRISH LANGUAGE IS INEXORABLY APPROBIATED, ANGLICISED AND CORRUPTED

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 bY GUESS WHO? THE ENGLISH

PUTIN'S ARMY LIES DROWNED AND SOAKED IN THIER OWN BLOOD

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Your best protective Armour is SILENCE

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 IN SHAKESPEARE'S DAY CIRCA 1599 WHEN THE NOBLES WERE SETTING OFF TO WAR, THEY WERE ADVISED  BECAUSE of ALL THE PLOTS AND INTRIGUES THEY...

HOW TO BUILD SELF ESTEEM

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Log in You said: HOW TO BUILD SELF ESTEEM ChatGPT said: Building self-esteem is a process that involves changing how you think, feel, and ac...

onBeing self-conscious

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 v You said: on being self conscious ChatGPT said: Being self-conscious means being excessively aware of yourself, especially how you appear...

Obsessing about your health

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Obsessing about your health—often referred to as health anxiety or hypochondriasis —can be mentally exhausting and emotionally draining. It...

Belief in the metaphysical blief in the metaphysical

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  Belief in the metaphysical refers to a conviction or acceptance that reality extends beyond the physical world—beyond what we can perceiv...

Is NOISE ideological?

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 You are what you eat.... More than 90% of the body's serotonin lies in the gut, as well as about 50% of the body's dopamine; the du...

PEOPLE WHO SAY iT CANNOT BE DONE SHOULD NOT INTERRUPT

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 PEOPLE WHO SAY iT CANNOT BE DONE SHOULD NOT INTERRUPT  THOSE DOING IT OR ATTEMPING TO DO IT

OvYOU DON'T STOP EXERCISING BECAUSE YOU GET OLDN YOU DON'T STOP EXERCISING BECAUSE YOU GET OLD

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 YOU DON'T STOP EXERCISING BECAUSE YOU  GET OLD YOU GET OLD BECAUSE YOU STOP EXERCISING g

HOW TO SIT ON THE FENCE IN ARGUMENTS

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 ....WELL, I THINKYOUR  POINT OF VIEW SHOULD BE CONSIDERED...' INDEED  YOUR PROPOSED ACTION MIGHT BE EFFFECTIVE.'

How do we understand anxiety?

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 “How do we understand anxiety?  ANXIETY IS A BREAKDOWN in our everyday ability to engage meaningfully with the world, it lets us notice wha...

MESSAGE FOR PATHOLOGICAL PUTIN

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MESSAGE FOR PATHOLOGICAL PUTIN  Peace is the only battle worth waging. PATHOLOGY A MENTAL ESCAPE MECHANISM  TO ESCAPE THE SYSTEM

the future lies in giving all to the presen

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  “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

n In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger o matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger

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  My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an i...

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  Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. Albert Camus

'TO BE OR NOT TO BE - WHEN THE VOID BECOMES ELOQUENT

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tHE BEGINNING OF INFINITY....THAT HAS NO END

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— "Infinity turns out to be the opposite of what people say it is. It is not 'that which has nothing beyond itself' that is inf...

"Does the Multiverse Really Exist?",

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As skeptical as I am, I think the contemplation of the multiverse is an excellent opportunity to reflect on the nature of science and on the...

Astronomers work very hard to detect what might have happened shortly after the Big Bang. Just days ago, they detected signals that carry an imprint from some of the first stars ever born. Still, I can't help having detected over the years that humans are far less bright than they think they are. There's too much we don't know, because there's too much we haven't experienced and we tend to look at so many things from a human-centric perspective. Perhaps, one day soon, aliens will descend upon us to inform us that our ideas of physics are laughably rudimentary and that we don't understand the existence of another thousand dimensions of life, the universe and everything. Then again, another famous physicist, Michio Kaku, believes we should steer clear of aliens entirely.

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VVAstronomers work very hard to detect what might have happened shortly after the Big Bang. Just days ago, they detected signals that carry ...

wHAT EXISTED BEFORE THE BIG BANG

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THINGS THAT ARE NOR UNDERSTOOD (SAY) rELIGION AREMYTHOLIGISED

It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.

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Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is so...

The Universe is completely self-contained, therefore it does not need a creator

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So long as the Universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the Universe is really completely self-contained, it woul...

Wittgenstein’s most basic conception of grammar

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Wittgenstein’s most basic conception of grammar is that it consists in rules which govern the use of words and which thereby constitute mean...

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We are trapped by language

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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words. Niels Bohr

There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.

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THE PROBLEM WITH EDUCATION IS A PROBLEM WITH THE EDUCATORS

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I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done on...

Fall in love with some activity, and do it!

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Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world...

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt

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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quant...

iS nATURE AN ARTIST

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The equine beauty ofa horse a gARDEN FULL OF VARIOUS FLOWERS SUNSET DAWN

OUR ENTANGLED STATE OF BEING

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VThe existence of pure entangled states means that, if we consider a composite system consisting of spatially separated parts, then, even wh...

what is observed is totally distinct from the person observing it.

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If it were necessary to give all parts of the world a completely quantum-mechanical description, a person trying to apply quantum theory to...

Was the big bang really the beginning of time? Or did the universe exist before then?

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French: D'où venons-nous ? Que sommes-nous ? Où allons-nous ? vhe Myth Of The Beginning Of Time February 1, 2006 The Myth Of The Begin...
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