Offbeat Ponderings

I have no idea what peoples lives were like centuries ago. Say in 1300 or whenever. Were the common people mostly hungry all the time? Const...

I read the following article: The Cult of Busy-ness The author says: [Steve Jobs] was a man who lived a life almost completely devoid of any...

Imagine if you went back in time to 1770 and showed Isaac Newton a modern smartphone (obviously can't make calls, but the camera, torch,...

I've heard it claim that two-thirds of human conversation is gossip about other people. Surely not?? Anyway, I scarcely ever talk about ...

I really have no idea what the future might be like in, say, 400 years time or so. What will the world be like in 2404? What will have happe...

What would the world be like if I had never been born? Exactly the same as very few people have known me and even those that have never list...

I was just thinking. Suppose I went into a supermarket, a large one to shop for my groceries. It's fairly quiet as it's early evenin...

The fact that you can’t see your eyes doesn’t mean that you don’t have any. Likewise, the fact we cannot see the self doesn't mean that ...

  Yes, precisely. The issue of rights and the associated notion of pursuing one's own self interests is often to the detriment of socie...

I wonder what the world will be like in 40 years time in 2061. Be interesting to travel forwards in time to that date, although not so good ...

It has been said that indoctrination and education are polar opposites and absolutely incompatible. In an ideal world, but certainly not in ...

It's bizarre enough that we find ourselves existing on the surface of a huge ball floating in the midst of an eternal nothingness. But, ...