“The ultimate truth is not to be found in space but in time. God is closer to time than to space. Do you hear me? An important beginning for religious reflection is to ponder the meaning of time. And I suggest to you that in Judaism, time is very important, tremendously important. Now what is […]

“I have always seen him (Abraham Heschel) as a kind of intellectual father. And whenever I get a little down or depressed, I go get one of his books and I read the prophet Isaiah and what he has to say about Isaiah. Because Isaiah was written at a time of the desolation of Israel, […]

“Alan Baddeley has added a fourth component to the model for Working Memory, the episodic buffer. This component is a limited capacity passive system, dedicated to linking information across domains to form integrated units of visual, spatial, and verbal information with time sequencing (or episodic chronological ordering[27]), such as the memory of a story or […]

“In everyday life, there are certain rules we take for granted: cause-and-effect, for instance. Something occurs, and that causes other things to occur dependent on what happened at the start. Different causes lead to different effects. But in the case of quantum physics, the standard rules are fundamentally different. You can’t define even your starting point […]

The second person didn’t try to develop a plan for solving the puzzle because, “you don’t know until you get there.” She simply leans into her own special skill. She has a highly developed sense of pattern recognition. So for her, unusual combinations of shape and color are quickly noticed and easily remembered. She picks up […]

Two people have been given identical 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles to assemble. One of them has a plan that is logical and sequential.  Find the edge pieces and the corner pieces.  These pieces are easily identifiable because the edges have one straight side and the corners have two straight sides. Locate other obvious pieces by looking […]

It was a bitterly cold night in January 1935, when the mayor of NYC walked in on night court in the poorest part of the city. He dismissed the judge for the evening and took the bench himself. Within a few minutes, an old woman was brought before him, charged with stealing a loaf of […]

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Escape Karl Marx famously said, “Religion is the opiate of the masses.” No, let’s be more accurate. What he actually said was, “Die religion ist das opium des volkes.” Before I continue, let me say that my belief in God is a choice not based on argument or evidence. I freely admit that I choose to […]

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I grew up believing that everyone had equal opportunity, and what we made of that opportunity was up to us. I believed I was the product of my choices, and you were the product of yours. People struggled only because they made bad choices. I continue to believe in the vital importance of individual choice. […]

We are feeling unsettled again. And when I say we, I don’t mean me, I mean all of us.  Unsettled feelings are ominous.  We act as though we have heard the dissonant tritone that precedes every unexpected attack in a movie, and in our unsettled condition we are making big decisions with too little information […]

The image is “Build a Rocket, Boys,” drawn by Black-doe at www.deviantart.com. I received a lot of happy email when I posted “Lippy Kids” by Elbow a couple of weeks ago, so I decided to post it again for those of you who missed it. – indy@WizardOfAds.com