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Ir al Cielo es lo natural
Estamos diseñados para el Cielo. Es nuestro lugar natural. Por lo tanto, si nos portamos naturalmente, es decir éticamente, allí es que acabaremos.Read More »Atheism is a religion
A religion is simply the answer to the “ultimate questions” in live: 1) where do we come from? 2) where are we ending?, and 3) how to behave to enrich …Read More »Let's trash privacy
Let’s give up privacy. In the electronic age; when every move gets recorded, trying to keep our tracks hidden is a colossal waste of energyRead More »La mayor parte de una familia son sus muertos
En el mundo Moderno, cada persona es un átomo aislado que tiene que buscar la felicidad para sí. Con esta visión individualista, hemos perdido el sentido de ‘linaje’, de que somo …Read More »Si tienes casa, no tienes agallas
La fijación que hemos desarrollado desde finales del siglo 19 para que cada uno sea dueño de su casa, puede ser una causa de que la gente se haya vuelto tan mansa …Read More »Cuál es el núcleo del mensaje cristiano
El núcleo del mensaje cristiano no es un código moral sobre cómo tratar bien a los demás. Es el anuncio de que el Dios de este mundo no quiere, como …Read More »Subsidizing health is unhealthy
The potential demand for health is infinite: I’d do an MRI every week, just to check, if it is free. This infinite demand does not exist in food, education, or …Read More »El principal producto del trabajo es el trabajador.
El trabajo es la actividad humana cuya finalidad es hacer un mundo mejor. Poco importa si es remunerada o no. El valor de un trabajo depende de cuánto ayude a …Read More »
Wars of religion never existed
/in Bullets, History, History of Ideas, Religion /by Bobby A LopezWars of religion never existed Wars of religion are wars of politics where the label to differentiate the parties is religious.
Voluntarismo es engañarse
/in Bullets, Epistemology, Philosophy /by Bobby A LopezVoluntarismo es engañarse El peor invento del segundo milenio: voluntarismo: creer que la parte del espíritu que conecta más a lo real es la voluntad; no la razón.
Man against human specie
/in Anthropology, Bullets /by Bobby A LopezWays the man can go against its own specie: warfare; destroying his environment; choosing not to reproduce
Two sources of Wealth
/in Bullets, Economics /by Bobby A LopezIn economics textbooks there are three sources of wealth: land; work and capital. But they are actually two: energy and information
Vida interior es recomenzar
/in Bullets, Religion /by Bobby A LopezVida interior es recomenzar No es que en la vida interior “haga falta” recomenzar muchas veces. Es que la vida interior “es” (consiste en) recomenzar.
Should we look for knowledge or certainty
/in Bullets /by Bobby A LopezDeduction (steping on previous truths and making an inference) is the only way to be certain of a proposition. But certainty is not the same as knowledge.
Induction, on the other hand, is the proposal of a general principle, based on the regularity of a some observations.
Deduction (the use of logic) makes me very certain, but adds very little knowledge to me: the deducted truth is already into the previous ones (the premises).
Induction let me jump on completely new truths. But, who can guarantee that “swans are white” just because all that I have seen, happen to be white? Induction gives me joy of novelty, but, seldom, the comfort of certainty.
The moral of this story is: knowledge, as any human growth operation (like love, or virtue) can on be achieved “dialectically”, zigzaging between opposites. Forget about finding an optimun.