What is the role of education in our society – in any society? Right at the beginning i find myself in a mire of conflicting thoughts. How about considering those that quickly come to mind: Learning to understand the basics of language – how to say it, read it, write it and at some level, understand it. This helps us to communicate with…
Pondering Nietzsche… over a wine… on a holiday in Rome…
New Years Day, 2007. What else does one do for New Years other than book a lastminute.com flight to Rome for a brief visit? One did, and here are some of the notes from the diary kept by that one. ROMA – A Brief Visit By a Verbose Man While providing a local restauranti with fodder for its tourist-processing plan i managed to…
It’s quite difficult to take pictures of yourself…
There is a clear need for long arms when one is attempting to snap oneself… and any thought of actually attempting to snap the “good side” just isn’t going to work, now is it? On the subject of the photo itself… The Creator treading the hallowed steps of the Vatican. Nativity scene and bloody big Christmas tree put on by…
Free Will (y…)
Couldn’t help myself with that one. No, it is not a call to walk the streets unfettered by coverings of the groin. Nor is it a free plug for the whale movie. Free Will is apparently something that occupies an enormous amount of global philosophical pondering-time. And so it should. Are our actions (pre)determined or do we exercise some form…