Urbanization causes more and more people to become disconnected from nature and its values. This is evident in many situations and places. When it comes to understanding the human body, people living in cities naturally adapt to their (less natural) urban environment.Despite having access to various types of movements, products, and tools, the majority of […]
Read MoreOnce upon the time there was an early human not believing in death as an ultimate end. There must be something of me remaining! Am I just what I see what I am? I feel there is more! How can conscious work just because of the dirty physical world?How could I exist without some sort […]
Read MoreThe anti capitalism movement is not bringing more fairness to the people because capitalism is not the sole cause of inequality and exploitation. The same applies to the environmental movement. The new world we live in is a mix of several different system flaws. Just to name some of these “challenges”: Banking and consultancy industrie […]
Read MoreDreaming of other worlds or places, especially if it is about space, is easy. Literature and movies make it even more easy to fade away into “possible” other ways of life. The thing is, no place exists as an alternative we could reach. The biggest space off earth is the international space station and this […]
Read More(no, not suicidal, just a romanticizing of the leaving)In the last millennium as rather younger man I thought of me leaving for good is better with the decision on my own with a jump into a crevasse as a very old man. With global warming this glacier thing is obsolete. Ignoring many aspects of reality, […]
Read MoreTheoretically, 0,1 % of the world population of humans survives an unknown global disaster, what would they do?These roughly 7 to 8 millions people would be spread all over the world, so different types of survivors would exist.1) The islanders: well, no necessary on actual islands but those isolated to a certain level that the […]
Read MoreCurrently, in the year 2020, it is really hard to see overall indication that we will last as humans a longer time on earth, comparing to earthly time standards.Astonishing is also the fact how we actually are aware of many basic problems but are unable to adjust accordingly and in a timely manner despite the […]
Read MoreThe way citizen live together changed over the last thousands of years. We moved away from systems where religion or power were put into the center. Other ideas were tried in history. Putting people or a commonly shared possession into the center revealed the weakness of economical strengths as well as putting own advantages over […]
Read MoreWhen I see the stars at night in the sky I see not just dots of light moving in a fixed pattern. The stars are on the one side our origin as they formed the material we are made of but on the other side the ultimate guidance. The stars are also like a reminder […]
Read MoreThe common understanding of human rights is to ensure humans live together in an appropriate manner. It is a moral system among us humans. The point is not to place us into the world or earth or universe or however the place for us is defined. The point is to give rules and standards for […]
Read MoreOlder we get every day and we change and age and change and remember a lot of earlier times.What I write here applies probably to many people: Time travel personality?I like music which was created before I was born. (early seventies: Hello!)I admire people who existed in times very different from anything in my life […]
Read MoreOne the one hand the human race has no given destiny but one the other hand there are in our universe given basic conditions. The universe expands and the distances between the galaxies are increasing. It may be argued the overall life cycle of the universe is unknown to us and it may expand until […]
Read MoreDo we as humans own earth? Does a country own the part of earth which is generally accepted to be part of this country? How much sovereignty does a country actually have? To answer these questions, first of all a reminder the concept of owning and possession: A car I rent I possess for the […]
Read MoreOur existence is young. We exist for a third of a million years and start seeking the big picture of all since a tenth of a million years. These all are short time spans. We are still far away of finding out the last secret of earth. We cannot image the time after. This time […]
Read MorePhase 1 As a new person you are a baby and you are used to be together with your mother. It is the habit to stay with her most of the time. Then you grow up and you are a child with the desire for independency. You slowly get used to your own. You have […]
Read MoreWith fundamental questions like “Who am I?” or “Where do I come from?” humans are questioning the own existence. The universe gives each of us a ticket calls life and we can use it to participate to the big game of to be. Each of us has not only the responsibility of our own life […]
Read MoreA child grows up to an adult and eventually an adult does not grow anymore. Around the age of 25 years a person is actually just keeping healthy and our complex organism is overall considered more dying as living. This being said in a philosophical sense and to point out that for instance our teeth […]
Read MoreOver the years more and more things which are shown on TV are not real. With the internet and online media this is in fact increasing. Shows and soap operas drifting more and more towards a world of illusions and ultimate trivial matters for the watchers. These shown things are impossible or improbable. Is that […]
Read MoreWith our eyes we see only light points on the sky with a mystified meaning. With the power of our brains and the culture of our science we see a 3 dimensional space we call universe. It contains not only stars but the stars are are like meals of our kind. We don’t like all […]
Read MoreIf there is no infinite velocity, is there unlimited slowness?If there is no infinite space, is there endless littleness?If there is no infinite beauty, is there infinite ugliness?If there is no infinite good, is there endless evil?If there is no infinite freedom, is there infinite slavery?If there is no infinite wealth, is there endless poverty?If […]
Read MoreThe discussions with animal ethics and particular animal rights almost cover all possible perspectives. Ancient Greek philosophers are taken into account as well as the most modern activists. Most of the arguments focus to animals rights as rights of an individual. A horse has the right to not unnecessary suffer. Already this rather simple appearing […]
Read MoreA person not knowing about it would assume it would take several months for an average city to completely discontinue as a controlled society in the event of the collapse of the supply situation. The truth is, it would take a very few weeks that your neighbor might not value your life anymore. A person […]
Read MoreImagine far away and separated a small village of about 1000 people exists somewhere. Even isolated being, life was good. The life in the small village was a bit boring and if someone would had been asked how happy life in this village is, everybody would express only a medium level of happiness. Then one […]
Read MoreWe are born with a selfish wish to survive. We grow up for fighting our own way. Then we are able to stand on our own and try to see the world clearly. This time is when our will is free and unbroken. Our free spirit enables us to do anything. Our environment sets certain […]
Read MoreWhen imagining being in space, peaceful feelings arise. Powerful it is to be there. The strengths to withstand the harsh environment of space gives the confidence to master our existence. Watching our planet and other parts of space we can see from here proofs our superior being, well – ignoring the fact we mess up […]
Read MoreTo describe in what stage we exist in the moment, the political sector is the best to take analogies for. Regardless if a single entity or individual or a group of entities or individuals, the simplest way to deal with the real world is to react in a straight way to the environment. If a […]
Read MoreA longer lasting isolation of an ethnical group is within the globalisation becoming a rare condition nowadays. Shifts and changes happen very fast currently. We all can feel it. Either it is from the fact of buying a cheap t-shirt made for instance in Bangladesh or of the fact the products being produced here are […]
Read MoreArtificial intelligence (AI) in general (not just intelligent agents) is without doubt not achieved yet. It is still just a dream and by now in 2015 the achieved level of artificial intelligence is just a joke comparing to the overall expectation about AI.Beside of this being said, if it would be achieved it still has […]
Read MoreThe title “The invention of the question” may raise the question: “What question do you mean?”. Well, here in this article I write about the concept of a question (the linguistical concept calls “question” which is in question now – a fun way to say it). At first, an analogy to it: the number 0 […]
Read MoreWith the imagination of going very much forward in time, incredibly much in time, I wonder about the story of us human beings. The story which could be told after our existence. We will change and what we will be later will be probably pretty different. After, the beings after us will change again and […]
Read MoreIt is 4 o’clock in the morning and I woke up. 1 hour later I realize that I have something which I usually never have: sleeping problems. With lying in my bed my thoughts go up and down and then I remembered the dream I had this night. As it is a very strange dream […]
Read MoreMay be our origin, our planet, will be also our final grave and there will be even never at anytime anyone else finding out about us. Space and especially time may do. Energy is weak. May be what will ever left of us is our own memories. But may be not at all. May be […]
Read MoreAs we sail into a future of too many people with too many problems, we unwillingly set course to painful and dramatic changes. We read about shifts which are and will be happening. Shifts are what we have today and tomorrow. Dramatic changes are what will come after. The fuel of the current global growth […]
Read MoreI want to go to a hypothetical journey with the idea that there is no meaning in life, no god or gods and no nothing which explains why the universe exists and how. First of all, the name universe reminds me of the word atom. That means unsplittable and was used as a word to […]
Read MoreWithout watching closer, we as human beings have better chances of survival as all the other beings we know. We are more intelligent (and really “brighter”?), are able to live a kind of everywhere (except in the large ocean space or out of space), we are able to create tools with created tools to make […]
Read MoreI explored recently my first time the (the?, just mine only or every-bodies?) 2 levels of my “I”. May be better said, the 2 “I”s interacting with each other. I even don’t know if others think like this. I also did not (yet) check books and sources about the current scientific believe. I felt it […]
Read MoreMankind is like a very large house. A house which is build with history and it is so large that nobody actually knows the whole house. The basement is super small and the house looks a kind of funny as it gets bigger as higher it growths. Underneath the earth is the very beginning of […]
Read MoreAfter buying another MP3 player for sport activities, I realized that selecting not a brand product did not make me happy (usually I even avoid brand products because the ration between price and product/service is with brand products bad, meaning expensive). I came across something which I came across over a decade ago with my […]
Read MoreIf I would be an alien watching and analysing human life on earth (the only place where we probably ever would be), I would come to the conclusion that the RESOURCES the planet offers a) are being split in different forms and the most important form is in virtual values represented of what is there […]
Read MoreI walk down the street after work. The sunset is already over but the sky is illuminated by the suns indirect reflection in the sky. It is dark but colourful and mystical. The late February brings here in Kanagawa a gently breeze of air. I need no hut anymore as the temperature became mild and […]
Read MoreEvery human has its limits. Every person could extend and push limits. You don’t speak Chinese? You can learn it. It is easier for some and harder for others and of course related to the subject. There is another thing from a society point of view: the “learning horizon“ of a group of people. This […]
Read MoreAs a child I did not understand the reason for the many occasions where good health is wished. Now as an adult, I know very well why I did not understand it: I was not able to imagine of having a problem with health. A cut in a finger was forgotten after 2 days. The […]
Read MoreWhen dust happens to be caught by the gravitation of our little planet and this dust is speedy enough, we can see a known light effect: falling stars.Do I like so see it? Yes! … and this is not so because I believe in special luck coming after. I just like it.Are there people existing […]
Read MoreAfter a company paid health check I am proud of my eyes. I got 1.5 on both of them. That is pretty good and above average. Yes, I am the man. Well, honestly, I started thinking of this kind of testing. Could it be that this test may be false or untrue? It is pretty […]
Read MoreI come back from work and it is August. I leave the train station and watch the sky. The moon. There he is. Half as I was watching him growing the past days. But something is different. The sky is black instead of blue. In my memory it is just some days ago when I […]
Read MoreI imagine luck is like something alive; a being. It has a kind of personality. Luck is by themselves not very lucky. That sounds like irony. But let me watch this strange being a little closer. Beside of the fact that luck is perceived very rare, it is actually pretty common. I mean for us […]
Read MoreWe humans are one of the most complex things we know in the universe. Not only the biological and biochemical processes in us appear to be in terms of understanding a huge task for understanding but also the psychological processes are a kind of an eternity story and incredible complex. The interaction between new knowledge […]
Read MoreIn the internet, the social network Facebook is in a phase of downsizing by its users (unwillingly). I read of many reasons but one I don’t read, the main problem of this kind of virtual social network. A real physical social network has the same problem but it is not as severe caused by the […]
Read MoreThe modern (mostly western) world has the simple idea of democracy. The common people elect politicians. This may be done for the president or certain politicians but also for a political party which then chooses the figures who play the game. The main factor of this system is the care of the politicians and political […]
Read MoreOne of the biggest problem of harassment or sexual harassment at work is the lack of awareness of people who are not actively involved but also lack of awareness of the active harasser. Before I write a few words about the lack of awareness themselves, I describe an environment of harassment. Here one simplified example […]
Read MoreI saw 2 birds flying together. These ducks are common birds and there is nothing so special about it. But I think about it deeper. They can not speak. The communication is very limited. Thinking on higher abstract levels is very limited and certainly there is no bird who can express to his friend or […]
Read MoreThere is no such thing as being in general normal for any person. Everybody is different but the same. We all have many things in common but each of us had an unique life. Growing up and living for years provides, within the complexity of our world, to each of us an own distinguishable path. […]
Read MoreLong ago and when I was still pretty green I remember a nice but unsuccessful meeting with a girl. I was going by train in the late night to the city where I was studying. There were not many people in the train and at this time only local people. This train had cabins where […]
Read MoreWhen it comes to “big“ questions like where are we human beings from, the fact that we appear to have some kind of design is always mentioned. Indeed, we have a design. We all had grown from just 2 cells and this safely in our mother. What is difficult to understand is that in the […]
Read MoreThe big bang theory concludes to 4 different possible scenarios. I want to explore one of them. Before I start, let me list the 4 different types of outcome, if I may say so. Type A: the universe (the name I actually already don’t like, because of the word “uni” in it – we just […]
Read MoreI meet from time to time people who don’t understand, why people copy music illegally. Usually, these people buy music legally. Here a short essay about my thoughts. People grow up with music everywhere. Music is commonly used to show things. Many times for the purpose of selling products. Music is a product and is […]
Read MoreEverybody agrees nowadays that we are having many problems unsolved. On top of it we know of the problem growth. Our way of life seems to base of principles of growth. But growing does not work out forever. Again my Petri dish thought: we act more like bacteria without any symbiosis instead of a form […]
Read MoreWe people in the western world have freedom to the point of hurting others. We have global trade beyond the point of hurting the local economies. We have economical systems most of the people agree are a million miles away of meeting our expectations. Our world is as sustainable as 1 kind of bacteria in […]
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