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Timeless
Posted Jan 4, 2017
Derek Parfit died a few days ago. He wrote 'Reasons and Persons', a fascinating investigation of ethics. His method was to consider imaginary scenarios, or thought-experiments, with a science-fiction tinge. For instance, what if you got into your Star Trek transporter and were sent to two different locations at once?
He invented a character he called Timeless, to whom past and future are equivalent. Timeless doesn't fear future events, nor does he feel relief because past tribulations are over.
Here's a 2011 article about him, from The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/09/05/how-to-be-good
I take off my hat to Derek Parfit.
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Rejoice with me
Posted Dec 22, 2016
I had my bike nicked yesterday in town.
Today I got a message from a facebook friend saying he'd seen one like it locked outside Tara St Station.
Lo and behold. We are reunited. Hallelujah!
Moral: have a distinctive looking bike. A recumbent will do nicely.
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Recumbentman's Naj
Posted Nov 2, 2016
Ah yes, that's how you do it. You say:
My 2016 Najopomo is at A87879929
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Idle thought
Posted Sep 21, 2016
If a tree said "I think, therefore I am", would it matter?
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Quiz No. 4
Posted Sep 6, 2016
1. Etymologically, does 'world' refer to the cosmos, this planet, all the people there are, or the age of mankind?
2. When was the ukulele introduced to Hawai'i? 1665, 1798, 1879, or 1910?
3. Lewis Carroll's muse Alice Liddell's middle name: Pleasance, Daisy, Verity, or Petunia?
4. Which year was 'Utopia' published?--in 1516, 1631, 1767, or 1890?
5. The name 'Vanessa' was coined in the 18th century--by whom?
6. Sophie is sent a birthday card addressed to Hilde. She is stupefied because she knows nobody of that name, yet Hilde has already received it. How?
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