In the previous post about intelligence, I briefly mentioned the term ‘brain squashing’. As far as I can tell, I am the one who came up with this phrase, so in this post I want to delve into it a bit deeper and explain how it’s different than the good old-fashioned brainwashing. The way to […]
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Warning: The following post contains spoilers the first season of Westworld. Reader discretion is advised. My feelings towards Westworld are somewhat complicated. I absolutely loved the first season and thought it was brilliant. The second season was also quite good, but for obvious reasons it could not replicate the magic of the first one. The
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In these uncertain times, I find myself thinking more and more about the word ‘snake’ in Hebrew and what it represents. The word for ‘snake’ in Hebrew in נָחָשׁ (nachash). It’s a masculine noun so its plural form is נְחָשִׁים (nechashim). There is something very intriguing about the shoresh נ-ח-ש (Nun-Chet-Shin) which forms the word
Serpent of Uncertainty – The word snake in Hebrew Continue Reading
