This is a very important line of thought and research which underlies this short article: The Ties That Bind: Grandparents and Their Grandchildren. Knowing that research in traditional societies in the undeveloped world had shown that children’s health and longevity were improved greatly when they were under the care or supplemental care of grandparents — … [Read more…]
You have weight when you’re not in free-fall, that is, you have weight when you are kept from traveling the shortest path, or geodesic geodesic, from your current location to the center of gravity of whatever system you’re in. When you’re weighed down, by your own bodily mass or that of other entities you are … [Read more…]
There is an argument of sorts being conducted in the Catholic Church between those who think the Fathers of the Vatican Council II erred in claiming God grants religious freedom to human beings and those who think Truth must always be served by…well, by serving some established view of the Truth. See Religious Freedom. Was … [Read more…]
Not only do I claim that the proper study of mankind is Creation; I also claim that the priority in that study for Christians in this mortal realm is the Body of Christ as it is developing in this mortal realm. This doesn’t mean that every human being should be a philosopher or physicist. It … [Read more…]
I’ve recently reread Kenneth Minogue’s The Liberal Mind and might be publishing some articles over the next few weeks on thoughts that book raised. For now, I’ve got to address the question in the title, “What is politics?” from the viewpoint of my effort to enrich and expand our understanding of the Body of Christ … [Read more…]
I’m so confused. Not long ago, I quickly read an article about a study which cast doubt upon the idea that we have grammatical structures, as conjectured by Noam Chomsky, built into our brains. Didn’t pay much attention, but I think the news article might have been about this study — Evolved structure of language … [Read more…]
In Brain Performs Near Optimal Visual Search, we read of some interesting research on the power of visual search techniques used by human beings: In the wild, mammals survive because they can see and evade predators lurking in the shadowy bushes. … This ability to recognize target objects surrounded by distracters is one of the … [Read more…]
Paul Gottfried is a political scientist always worth reading, his books and his short writings on the Internet. In this article, What Drives the Religious Right , he made some good points about the nature of the religious right, predominately Evangelical Protestant though I know some Catholics who’ve taken up with their way of thought, … [Read more…]
This is just a short addendum to an earlier blog article: Freedom and Structure in Human Life — What is a Conspiracy?. At the time I wrote that earlier article, I was looking unsuccessfully on the Internet for some overview articles I’d read, articles written by Murray Rothbard, a good, thorough, and reliable scholar so … [Read more…]