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The Science Delusion

The Science Delusion
Been trying to decide which Sheldrake book to read next – saw some good videos that led me to this one. Haven’t read much of it so far, but it seems to be more to my taste than the previous book of his that I read.

Having got to the end, this is a marvellous book – it will enter my own personal Hall of Fame – that is for sure. Do I believe everything he writes? I don’t know. Do I understand everything? Almost certainly not. However, the idea that Science should be treated as fallible in, in my view, perfectly reasonable. There is no good reason why there should be special rules to protect Science.

I will, once I have digested the book, post something in the main blog.

Exploring a Grey Area

The leap from doing good to doing evil is often no more than a tiny step. Those of us who try to be ‘good’ might want to think that we are almost immune from the ‘dark side’ unless we make a mistake – but the reality is that (at least in my eyes) in many aspects of our lives there is a continuum stretching from ‘perfectly good’ at one end to ‘perfectly evil’ at the other – and the nature of continuums is that somewhere along the line we step over from one side to the other!

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The Other Side of “If Only”

When you start to think about it, it is sobering – no – downright scary just how many people and events may be affected in the future by the decisions we make, individually and collectively, today.  I may believe that I have some idea of the immediate effects however, given the way that the world is now connected so much more than ever before, it is next to impossible to determine the totality of the effect of each and every decision we make.

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If Only

I have had personal and harrowing experience of the “if only” thoughts – I find it hardest to deal with in respect of how my actions (or my inaction) affects other people.  I don’t mean directly – since that is ‘usually’ understood at the time – at least to a certain extent – I am talking about decisions that have long term repercussions that are far from what is envisaged.

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A Word That Deserves A Better Press

There are some words that fall into disuse.  There are other words that people are scared of.  There are words that change their meaning over time.  We all use too many words without thinking.  Words play a huge part in everyone’s life.  I’d like to talk about an adjective that we seemingly try to avoid – vulnerable.

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History Is What We Make It

The fact that our memory is nearly 100% fallible (note that I am not saying 100% wrong) means that to some extent we need to doubt what we have really experienced in the past. Our own personal life story is full of bits and pieces that our minds have made up to “fill in the gaps” between the reality that we actually do remember correctly.

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Daring Greatly

Daring Greatly
This book is definitely on my wish list. I have been very impressed and encouraged by the author’s TED talks on vulnerability and would like to read more. There is little doubt that the topics covered here are in many ways central to the way that I feel about my ‘connections’ to others.

It is, of course very closely linked to the next book down – “Being Wrong” – since the ability to admit to wrongness is an admission of vulnerability.

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