I moved out of Maitland, which I have described as the purgatory of my life.  However, now that I’m back in downtown Orlando, I happened to come across this old draft in my blog archives which I thought I’d launch.  I thought you might like it. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- I got a note today, in this office building [...]

Charles Darwin created a theory of the development of species and natural selection without any clear comprehension of genetics. That notwithstanding, he got it ostensibly correct. He had no idea that genetic codes were as unambiguous as they are turning out to be, but he nevertheless realized that there was a powerful force, functioning in [...]

Significance usually produces success, at some level. . .and at some moment in time, and maybe even more; but not vice versa.  Success does not necessarily produce significance! It’s always been my great desire to produce both, even if not simultaneously.

Suffering requires the peeling away of the illusions we have about reality. Reality is the constant. Reality doesn’t change. What changes through our life’s experiences is the stripping away of our illusions about reality.  In the process, we need to be left with reality; not with illusions about it.

It occurred to me that, at a certain point in one’s life, you go from crafting your own originality in your earlier younger years to being concerned about being trapped by that originality years later. It’s as if the early originality becomes your personal prison if you can’t break free of it later. The French cuffs and [...]

To the extent our fingerprint is a manifestation of our individual identity, so too can we think of the the universe as God’s fingerprint.  The universe is the fingerprint of who God is and how God manifests: in science, in math, in art, in music, in language, in human evolution, and in all their components and derivations. [...]

Definition of God as the set of all sets; namely infinity.

Kosmos:  The totality of all that is.

Trade, travel, tourism, and technology have globalized the economies of the world.  So, our economy is global but our politics are national, which means that they are clearly mismatched.  Not a great revelation, but one worth noting!

As I was pouring over the various news clips this morning about Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, and so forth, a thought occurred to me. Monotheism took over in Israel when Josiah, the King of 7th Century B.C. Israel, stamped out worship of any other god except Yahweh.  That, by the way, was by force–total force. [...]