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Ontology - a branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature and relations of being;a particular theory about the nature of being or the kinds of things that have existence

A priori - relating to what can be known through an understanding of how certain things work rather than by observation
A posteriori - relating to or derived by reasoning from observed facts

But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.”
― Carl Sagan

“To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.”

believe in Spinoza's God who reveals Himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings.- Albert Einstein

To the North: Hammerfest, northern most town in the world, where the sun sinks into the arctic ocean and rise again after 4 weeks.

Sixty-two percent of the best performers said that their workspace was acceptably private, compared to only 19 percent of the worst performers; 76 percent of the worst performers but only 38 percent of the top performers said that people often interrupted them needlessly

"Somewhere in the past, reserve was the art of good breeding."
"Men courting in timid way were risked being thought gay"

When ads and commercials make people believe that by using beauty products and other commercial products, people will gain the looks standard to fit in personality-driven society.

Life is, by nature, highly interdependent.

Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality. Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players. They're not coming from the paradigm of interdependence necessary to succeed in marriage, family, or organizational reality.

The kind of reaction that results in people "throwing off their shackles," becoming "liberated","asserting themselves,"and"doing their own thing" often reveals more fundamental dependencies that cannot be run away from because they are internal rather than external-dependencies such as letting the weaknesses of other people ruin our emotional lives or feeling victimized by people and events out of our control.

The little understood concept of interdependence appears to many to smack of dependence, and
therefore, we find people often for selfish reasons, leaving their marriages, abandoning their children,and forsaking all kinds of social responsibility -- all in the name of independence.- Maturity continuum

Interdependence, Dependence, Independence

Like any natural force, gravity pull can work with us or against us. The gravity pull of some of our habits may currently be keeping us from going where we want to go. But it is also gravity pull that keeps our world together, that keeps the planets in their orbits and our universe in order. It is a powerful force,and if we use it effectively, we can use the gravity pull of habit to create the
cohesiveness and order

Like any natural force, gravity pull can work with us or against us. The gravity pull of some of our habits may currently be keeping us from going where we want to go. But it is also gravity pull that keeps our world together, that keeps the planets in their orbits and our universe in order. It is a powerful force,and if we use it effectively, we can use the gravity pull of habit to create the
cohesiveness and order

Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action,reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes. Habits are powerful factors in our lives. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns,
they constantly, daily, express our character and produce our effectiveness or ineffectiveness.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
-- Aristotle

"We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot

As Sherwin B. Nuland has put it: "Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.

All organisms are in some sense slaves to their genes. That's why salmon and spiders and other types of creatures more or less beyond counting are prepared to die in the process of mating. The desire to breed, to disperse oneв's genes, is the most powerful impulse in nature.

Bacteria can live long life unimaginable to us. Bacillus Permians, a bacteria that possibly existed since approximately 250 million years ago was said to have been activated from its millennium of hibernation after it was discovered in the ancient sea salt in New Mexico.

(whoa.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biologic...

We have almost the perfect distance from the right source of heat (star: Sun) which supplies us pleasant warmth enough to make life possible. Note that our star is young. Had our star been too massive and it might burn itself up too early.- Special Planet

We have almost the perfect distance from the right source of heat (star: Sun) which supplies us pleasant warmth enough to make life possible. Note that our star is young. Had our star been too massive and it might burn itself up too early.- Special Planet

We have almost the perfect distance from the right source of heat (star: Sun) which supplies us pleasant warmth enough to make life possible. Note that our star is young. Had our star been too massive and it might burn itself up too early.- Special Planet

The more I examine the universe
and study the details of its architecture,
the more evidence I find that the
universe in some sense must have
known we were coming.
-Freeman Dyson

The more I examine the universe
and study the details of its architecture,
the more evidence I find that the
universe in some sense must have
known we were coming.
-Freeman Dyson