Recently, I watched the TV crime series Dalgliesh, SE03 Ep5+6, in which a bartender made the remark that some villagers viewed the nearby nuclear power station as a "necessary kind of evil". Necessary referred to jobs and money (eg, villagers). Evil referred to nuclear (eg, radiation, waste). "A necessary evil is an evil that someone believes...
“The notion that genius is only thinly separated from insanity goes back at least to ancient Greece. Aristotle linked the two when he said, “There is no great genius without a touch of madness.” Source: PsychologyToday (2020). A recent comment by former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, on an alleged genius and tech billionaire, calls him a “truly evil person” (eg,...
Yesterday's blog finally mentioned something that has been on my mind, ever since watching some episodes of the TV-series Evil, rated at #7.8 in IMDb. In episode 1, the concept of connectors appears: "There are people in this world who are... connectors. They influence people. They have day jobs. Uh, teachers, stockbrokers, uh... expert witnesses. They pretend to be...
My previous blogs were about dimensions that are familiar to us: Space (Length x Width x Height) and Time (eg, yesterday, today, tomorrow). In my view, there is also an Energy + Matter dimension. Matter is only considered matter when sunlight reflects on it (source). Hence, dark matter would be invisible to us. "In astronomy, dark matter is a...
Everyone understands the meaning of my blog title. Nevertheless, it’s hard to explain the how, what, when, who, and the why. Perhaps, the benefit of the doubt relates to a conflict between consciousness (eg, ratio) and subconscious (eg, emotion). Probably, doubt is settled once a side has “won”. The benefit of the doubt relates to all three domains: Love, Knowledge,...
Whenever we look at things from a (long) distance, we are generally just observers, who do not judge. Our attitude changes when we focus on the details of what’s happening. Suddenly, we must judge. Relevant history is suddenly deemed irrelevant. Recently, I heard an interesting related remark on TV in the crime series Lewis, (#8.2 in IMDb; see Se7Ep6). Detective...
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