A Personal Wiki http://www.xiongnu.org/wiki/ Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:02:07 +0000 FeedCreator 1.8 http://www.xiongnu.org/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg http://www.xiongnu.org/wiki/ http://www.xiongnu.org/wiki/doku.php?id=philosophy:fear Fear There's no poetic exaggeration when people say that Fear is mankind's first emotion. The amygdaloid complex, a tiny bundle of neurons found around the ears that is in charge of the feeling of fear, is the earliest biological “specialization” anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Thu, 23 Aug 2018 00:11:39 +0000 http://www.xiongnu.org/wiki/doku.php?id=philosophy:love Love One of the surviving works of the Sicilian pre-Socratic sophist Gorgias (a former pupil of Empedocles) and of the examples of Epideictic rhetoric is the Enconium of Helen, which subverts the traditional notion that Helen of Troy -a folkloric personification of lust and beauty- was the one to blame for kickstarting the Trojan War by running off with Trojan prince Paris, leaving her husband Menelaos behind (If you were ever impregnated, even though momentarily, with ancient literature, you w… anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:33:22 +0000 http://www.xiongnu.org/wiki/doku.php?id=philosophy:theology Theology Theology (from the Greek θεολογία, “theologia”, Θεός/Theos = “God” and λογία/logia = “sayings/oracle” and not from the suffixed λόγος/logos, “the study of”) isthe study of religion, religious belief and its underlying mechanisms, the history and philosophy of religion, divine revelation, and the divine and its nature. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:04:30 +0000 http://www.xiongnu.org/wiki/doku.php?id=philosophy:universe_as_simulation The Universe as a Simulation I don't particularly believe in this but it's a fun thought to entertain. Or rather, the idea itself that the universe is the product of a simulation created in a higher plane of existence is perhaps not as fun to entertain as the arguments that support the so-called anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Thu, 13 Jun 2019 19:05:05 +0000