Just me, and an empty, unfamiliar house. No people, no furniture, no noises. No yet. Just the bare walls, floors, windows.
Even if it was only for a few minutes…
Peace. I felt the air I drew in. I heard. Inhale. Silence. Exhale. Silence.
I felt like I could cry. The emptiness made me happy. I was happy [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2008’
18 floors high
The house is a maze
We’re moving again. 9th move in Singapore. What fun. What a mess. My nose is dead.
Say it in equations
I was watching the telly, and saw the trailer for the TV series Eureka.
The taglines went:
Science – Ethics = Murder
Emotions – Logic = Faith
Life – Dreams = Job
I wonder.
Moral conflict
Paul Ehrlich, the distinguished Stanford University biologist who won the prestigious Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, believes that every ethical system originated in the human mind, a biological entity. He does not think, like many dualist philosophers, that there are moral truths out there, waiting to be discovered, that are distinct [...]
Suspending suspense
Tomorrow we’ll be far away…
Tomorrow we’ll discover…
Will it be release? Or will it harbour the beginnings of yet another onslaught?
Until then, I shall wait. Let that classic tune from Les Misérables echo in my mind…
One day more…
If only we could manifest that same fighting spirit shown of the revolutionaries…
One more day before the storm!
Montaigne, "On Presumption"
When I lack the wordmanship to form my thoughts into a legible form, and when quotes from other books and authors fall short of what I want to express, I turn to Michel de Montaigne.
Montaigne and his Essays have never failed to soothe my soul:
Not being able to control events I control myself: if they [...]
Human behaviour, a chaotic system
Just as the speck of dust is at the mercy of many forces, so is human behaviour. We are pushed and pulled in all directions by many different biological, cognitive and cultural forces. Some of these may oppose one another, and some may pull in the same direction. It is entirely possible that two instinctual [...]
