Monday, February 24, 2025

St. Paul and the Evolution of the Soul

 

Druckenmiller last year dumped all of his Nvidia shares, and in the fourth quarter, opened a position in another top artificial intelligence (AI) stock, Amazon.

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Writers such as Henry James and Charles Dickens burned their personal papers while they were still alive.
In December 1999, Joan Didion began writing a journal about her sessions with a psychiatrist. She addressed these notes – detailing her struggles with alcoholism, anxiety, guilt, and depression, a sometimes fraught relationship with her adopted daughter Quintana, and reflections on her childhood and legacy – to her husband, John Gregory Dunne.
These post-psychiatry notes, discovered by Didion’s literary executors in an unlabelled folder shortly after she died in 2021, are to be published in April has raised questions about the ethics of posthumous publishing.
Didion left no instructions to her trustees.

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St. Paul and the Evolution of the Soul

It's fun to examine the opinions of thinkers before the revelations of the crucial thinking necessary to reach a reasonable discussion. It leads to talk of aliens.

Cormac McCarthy has a scene where a character debating quantum mechanics references in Kant where he writes: "...that which is not adapted to our powers of cognition."

Here is Paul in his letter to the Corinthians on biology, evolution, and amphibian man.

Letter of St. Peter to the Corinthians
1 Corinthians 15:45-49

Brothers and sisters:
It is written, The first man, Adam, became a living being,
the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
But the spiritual was not first;
rather the natural and then the spiritual.
The first man was from the earth, earthly;
the second man, from heaven.
As was the earthly one, so also are the earthly,
and as is the heavenly one, so also are the heavenly.
Just as we have borne the image of the earthly one,
we shall also bear the image of the heavenly one.

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