by Atticus Atlas | Feb 16, 2022 | Medicine, Reflecting about Science
Who in the West sits up at the name of Ms Youyou Tu? Malaria is a killer epidemic with records in traditional Chinese medical literature dating from the Zhou Dynasty. Three thousand years ago Zhou Lia published his findings. Youyou Tu took from them what she...
by Atticus Atlas | Feb 16, 2022 | Reflecting About Society
The spending bill is actually the creation of a national debt so massive that it has the means to destabilize a democracy dependent on a functioning economy. – Lawrence Kadish The above quotation arrests attention, as do thousands and thousands like it. Serious...
by Atticus Atlas | Feb 16, 2022 | Reflecting About Society
Questions below are simply a few suggested subjects for debate Truth is buoyant – it will surface at some point and become obvious to all. Chinese proverb For Aristotle, there was a wisdom that brought people closer to divine rationality, ‘sophia’. This wisdom...
by Atticus Atlas | Feb 8, 2022 | Mysticism, Spirituality
Mysticism comes in many guises. Only a taster is provided here. As for the unseen world of ESP, faith healing, clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences, even ghosts, and the rest! True, it is passing strange that ‘so many’ people see it? If there is nothing to be seen,...
by Atticus Atlas | Feb 8, 2022 | Spirituality
Thinkers about our societies and our belief systems wield power over the future. Not for them the cut and thrust of countless political decisions a day with a nod at this lobby and a bow at that staunch supporter. Thinkers are creating the Public Opinion of tomorrow,...
