Entries by Solomon
ሓንሳዕ ንደማመፅ እሞ!!
ብሓየት ሰጋር (ካብ ማሕበራዊ ሚድያ) እዚ አብ ሓደሓደ ኸባቢታት ትግራይ ሎሚ ንርእዮ ዘለና ተቃውሞታት፣ ቀደም ህወሓት/ኢህወደግ አብ ስልጣን እንዳሃለወን፣ ገባሪ ሓዳጊ እንተሎን እንተዝኸዉን ነይሩ ከመይ ጽቡቅ ነበረ። ዂናት፣ ፅንተትን ዕንወትን ዝብሃሉ ነገራት አይምተፈጠሩን። ኮታስ እቲ ስርዓት ትኽክለኛ መስመሩ ክሕዝ ተገይሩ፣ ዓድን ህዝቢን ቀሲኑ፣ ምናልባት እውን ናይ ልምዓት ተረባሒ ኾይኑ ምነበረ። ሎሚ አብዘይቦትኡን ጊዚኡን ፃሕበርበር ምባል […]
Great Ideas E04. Liberation, Then Reflection
A few rungs down. One level of education, itself a very high one, has been reached when man gets beyond superstitious and religious concepts and fears and, for example, no longer believes in the heavenly angels or original sin, and has stopped talking about the soul’s salvation. Once he is at this level of liberation, […]
Great Ideas E03 – The Median Isn’t the Message
By Stephen Gould My life has recently intersected, in a most personal way, two of Mark Twain’s famous quips. One I shall defer to the end of this essay. The other (sometimes attributed to Disraeli) identifies three species of mendacity, each worse than the one before—lies, damned lies, and statistics. Consider the standard example of […]
Great Ideas E02 – Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World
By Steven L. Goldman It is easy to fall into one of two traps in dealing with ideas: either to dismiss them as abstractions and, thus, of less consequence than concrete things, such as swords, plowshares, and factories, or to glorify them as abstractions, as creative inventions of the mind, and thus, praiseworthy independent of […]
Great Ideas E01 – I, Pencil
By Leonard E. Read I am a lead pencil—the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write. Writing is both my vocation and my avocation; that’s all I do. You may wonder why I should write a genealogy. Well, to begin with, my story is interesting. And, next, […]