If you divide by nothing, in one sense, you get nothing. In another sense, you are left with everything. However much there is to divide, all of it remains—undivided. The remainder is everything. To count it all, however, you must divide it up into discrete quantities. Of course, you can keep dividing it into smaller...
Original publication: November 6, 2013 Re: University of Phoenix Online Associate of Arts in Business Bachelor of Science in Information Technology for Visual Communications I am the fifth of seven children, and was an advanced placement student in Art, English and Drama in High School. I have always had a knack for...
Original publication: December 7, 2013 Re: University of Phoenix Online Associate of Arts in Business Bachelor of Science in Information Technology for Visual Communications Article #1 Is your pay fair? Fair, But Not Very Fair There are dozens of great lines in “The Princess Bride” like “Never go up against a Sicilian...
April 6, 2009 ENG 340—Creative Writing Dr. Shari Muench, EdD. A pen and a piece of paper might technically be the only “tools” a poet requires, but there are many “literary” tools at his (or her) disposal as well. In addition to imagination and a little flirtation with the Muse, a poet uses many other elements of...
The best representation of a thing is the thing itself and yet there are things that we experience great difficulty recognizing in their true form. The truth is one of those things. In speaking of the truth, what we have is a word—and as a representation of a thing, a word provides a label for a concept that is...
Is it possible to divide a number by zero? Conventional thinking in mathematics declares this to be impossible, but this answer is contingent on a point of view. The problem here lies in the normal interpretation of the value of the number zero; a representation of “nothing” zero is seen as more of a place holder, a...
To a curious mind, gravity is a curious phenomenon. The more one pays attention to it, the more fascinating and mysterious it becomes. Today, we have the advantage of having had great minds ponder the mystery and define what can be observed and inferred by studying it. Newton pondered the question “why do objects...
There is a line in “The Matrix” when Morpheus confronts Neo about a wrongness in the world, “like a splinter in your mind.” It was caused by an instinctive apprehension of the artificial reality he was trapped in. It is similar to a feeling many people have about our own reality. There is a wrongness in the world,...
I normally avoid the first person when writing an article or essay, but in this case I need to begin with a personal story A year into my studies at Humboldt State University a mutual acquaintance showed up at my friend’s apartment while I was visiting and regaled us with his synopsis of a lecture on dimensions he...
Is there really such a thing as time? That is a question it is helpful to ask in order to address what we call the present. That is because our experience of time is completely subjective and because everything we are is dependent on that peculiar subjectivity. Time is what we derive from the ceaseless transformation...
Those moments in life when we are confronted with a new concept or idea can be life altering, seemingly setting the mind free to roam a new and undiscovered country or even knocking the world completely off its hinges. Sometimes that can happen even with just a new word or concept for something we’ve had an inkling of...
Posted on Helium under: The fundamentals of self-awareness The mind is an inherently fascinating and difficult subject to pin down. Philosophers have been musing over the mysteries of the mind for thousands of years but it is, without doubt, the scientists who find it the most frustrating to study. The subjective...
In asking about the purpose of religion, it is necessary to ask first if religion is not simply a product of our own search for purpose? The answer to the primary question depends on whether we perceive religion as having a divine origin or if we see it as the origin of divine thinking. Either way, religion comes to us...