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“A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity.”
Though it will make the Bill Mahers of the world wince, despair according to Kierkegaard is a lack of awareness of being a self or spirit. A Freud with religious categories up his sleeves, the lyrical philosopher emphasized that the self is a slice of eternity. While depression involves heavy burdensome feelings, despair is not correlated with any particular set of emotions but is instead marked by a desire to get rid of the self, or put another way, by an unwillingness to become who you fundamentally are. This unwillingness often takes the form of flat out wanting to be someone else. Kierkegaard writes:
http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009 ... -couch/?em]The Pursuit of What Matters in Troubled Times
Olivia Judson on Humans and Suicide
In her Wild Side column today, “A Long, Melancholy Roar,” Olivia Judson, an evolutionary biologist, writes about how the human species is its own worst enemy. In an essay that will surely be of interest to readers of this series, she writes:
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Do your genitals explode? Are you 200,000 times smaller than your mate? Do you drug your lover with a potion that keeps her faithful? You may not get up to such tricks, but some creatures do: sex is one of the most powerful forces in nature, and generates an astounding diversity of forms and behaviors. But why?
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation explores the science of sex, considering everything from why females of so many species are so promiscuous to why sex exists at all. It is a blend of wit and rigor, a fusion of science and natural history, that will entertain, amaze, and inform.
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In quantum mechanics, Gell-Mann's Totalitarian Principle states: "Everything which is not forbidden, is compulsory." Physicist Murray Gell-Mann borrowed this expression from T.H. White's "The Once and Future King" to describe the state of particle physics around the time he was creating the Eightfold Way, a precursor to the quark-model of hadrons.
The Totalitarian Principle