Category Archives: observations generally

Morals and machines

This text is about guilt. More about that in the end. Cars move alone, drones kill alone, robots are about to make their own decisions and AI goes shopping for us. Whenever I read about this kind of stuff the … Continue reading

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evolution… please move on!

It is late 2019, the summer comes to an end and a new chapter for mankind is going to start. The scientists and politicians changed their ideas about what was going on and what needed to happen to stop it … Continue reading

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Developing story

A few weeks ago I was talking about what could be a general rule for humans to be able to deal with one another. If we start with the idea that humans can do whatever makes them feel good as … Continue reading

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The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Brief Introduction

The Arab-Israeli conflict is a 100-year-old issue. It all started when Britain took over Palestine after the Ottoman Empire was defeated in WWI. Palestine was in fact inhabited by a Jewish minority and an Arab majority, but the tension between … Continue reading

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Inside Lalish: The Mountain Valley and Holy Sanctuary of Iraq

Let’s start this article with a question, what’s the first thought that pops into your head when you hear the word, Iraq? Let me guess, Saddam Hussein? oil, explosions, death, trauma, it can really be anything. Iraq has been only … Continue reading

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not to be

life passes. in times pretty fast. Some believe in an afterlife, some say that they don´t care. The ones who don´t care usually say that it did not hurt before they were born so why should it hurt afterwards. The … Continue reading

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being alive. or so.

We think so we are, someone said. But what are thoughts? And even if we think are we what we think we are? Are humans as special as they think they are? On the one side I think surely yes. … Continue reading

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once we are not

…and the short time in between we are. There are aeons before and aeons might follow. And we did not care before nor will we care afterwards. It is said. This would mean that back then there was a me … Continue reading

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ping and pong…

trend and antitrend… there is no way to predict the future but to expect that things might change against the temporarily existing trend. The world is complicated and therefore it is difficult to predict any kind of further development. We … Continue reading

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me?

This text questions the idea that there is such a thing like an individual identity. The thoughts hereby are based on the authors observations (for many things one just needs to LOOK…) and the work of Tim Ingold, Ernst Mach, … Continue reading

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