"Heaven is only people you met"1000Kitap
"Sum," is a collection of stories about the afterlife and the possibilities are endless. The author, David Eagleman, uses the far reaches of his imagination to create forty unique takes on afterlife. Death and what follows is, to many, a mysterious subject and the author capitalizes on that mystique. Eagleman presents his many scenarios of what might be or what could be in the afterlife. The author takes the image of the creator to the extremes. In one narrative, "The Microbe," he describes god as the size of a microbe, so small that he does not know that we exist. In another tale, the reader is told that god is a Giantess who is so large that it is virtually impossible to communicate with her.
Many of the stories focus on the consciousness of those entering the afterlife. For example, in "Graveyard of the Gods," afterlife is for man and for everything created or made by man. Therefore, anything that man invented has an afterlife. Everything from toasters to grand pianos have a place in the afterlife. But afterlife is also for the literary and mythic creations of man. All the gods that man ever created in stories have a place in the afterlife. In another story, those arriving in the afterlife are met with the daunting challenge of meeting versions of themselves - what they could have been - in comparison of their own filtered views of themselves.
In several stories god, or the creator, is seen as anything but all powerful. In "Reins," god is perplexed when a committee, urged on by angels, finds him incompetent of deciding who should go to heaven and who should go to hell. In "Narcissus," the creators are called Cartographers. These creatures are smaller than man and equip man's eyes with high-resolution cameras. During their time on earth, humans are to take photos
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The consolation of philosophy is the most I read after a long break
I can say a good book.
The book consists of 6 chapters
1-Socrates, the consolation of not being accepted by society
2- Epicurus, the consolation of not having enough money
3- Seneca, the consolation of disappointment
4- Montaigne, the consolation of feeling inadequate
5- Schopenhauer, the consolation of a broken heart
6- Nietzsche, the consolation of having difficulty
The author solves the aforementioned problems by supporting the daily lives, teachings and views of philosophers with today's narratives. The best thing about the book, which includes art history, personal development and biography, is that it strengthens the expression with pictures. The author's language is also very clear and clear. Although it is a philosophy, it is a flowing book that does not tire.
📚🔔 Tatil zili çaldı!
Bir yıl boyunca verilen emeklerin ardından şimdi dinlenme, keşfetme ve yeni maceralara atılma zamanı. 🌞
Bu yaz bol kahkahalı, bol anılı ve elbette bol kitaplı geçsin. Tüm öğrencilere keyifli tatiller diliyoruz! 💙📖
Yani tam bir vakit kaybıydı. Dertsizlikten dert üretmiş şımarık birinin saçmalamaları ve onu para kaynağı olarak gören psikiyatristin saçma konuşmalarından ibaret. Bir seansta çözüle bilecek bir şey. Ciddi bir sorun yok. Doktorun bu kadına sadece "hepimiz böyleyiz, ben de dahil hepimiz zaman-zaman insanları kıskanırız, insanları yargılarız, kendimizi üstün ve ya ezik görürüz, aklımızdan başka şey geçerken başka türlü davranırız, bunlar tamamile insani şeyler. İnsan olmak böyle bir şey" demesi gerekirdi. Sürekli kadına ilaç dayayıp durdu. Son zamanlarda popüler olan ve ismiyle dikkatimi çeken tüm psikolojik, kişisel gelişim kitaplarında dertsizlikten dert bulan insanlarla karşılaşıyorum ve bu, beni aşırı sinir ediyor. Tamam her kesin derdi kendine, sorunun büyüğü küçüğü yoktur da, ortada sorun yok be. Şu an ismini tam hatırlamadığım ve bitirmediğim bir kitapda da terapist bir danışanından bahs ediyordu - bir anneymiş ve kızı düğününü kendi istediği gibi yapmak istiyormuş. Derde bak. Yani bunlar neyin kafasını yaşıyorlar ya. Böyle bir tarafından dert üreten insanları gerçek dertlerin olduğu yerlere göndereceksin 15 günlüğüne, hemen iyileşi verirler. Aşırı sinir oldum, aşırı.
Aydınlatıcı bir makale olduğunu düşünüyorum:
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Clinicopsychological investigations of local brain lesionsNörobilim
Professor Luria’s book thus marks a further and decisive step toward the eventual coalescence of neurology and psychology, a goal to which only a few laboratories on the East and West have been devoted over the last decades. The book is unique in its organization. The first half deals with observations and interpretations concerning the major syndromes of man’s left cerebral hemisphere:
Those grievous distortions of higher functions traditionally described as aphasia, agnosia, and apraxia. There is also a detailed and brilliant analysis of the syndrome of massive frontal-lobe involvement. The entire second half of the book is given over to a painstaking description of Professor Luria’s tests, many of them introduced by himself, and set out in such detail that anyone could repeat them and thus verify Professor Luria’s interpretations. The two halves of the book are equally challenging and original. In the first, more theoretical, section, Professor Luria gives an account of the major syndromes in terms that reject with the same force the traditional localizationist view -the notion of discrete centers for different aspects of language, of calculation or writing- and the opposite view of holistic function of the cerebral hemisphere, a view clearly incompatible with clinical and experimental fact. In a similar way, Professor Luria’s re-analysis of agnosia and apraxia reveals inadequacies of these clinical shorthand expressions, he points out that more elementary sensory and motor changes shade into the allegedly isolated aspects of distorted “higher” function, whether of recognition or skilled movement. As a result of this balanced approach, a further traditional distinction falls by the wayside—the traditional opposition in the description of aphasia between the
History Lovers should bot have missed to read it1000k
Dictatorship and Decline
Many historians and citizens criticize Abdulhamid II’s reign for:
Authoritarianism: The 1878 suspension of the constitution and parliament, ruling via censorship and spies
Heavy surveillance and suppression of dissent (especially against reformists)
Massive territorial losses, such as:
Cyprus (to Britain, 1878)
Tunisia (to France, 1881)
Egypt (to Britain, 1882)
Kars, Ardahan, Batumi (to Russia, 1878)
Later, under his weakening rule, increasing control lost in the Balkans
Blocking of internal reform movements, such as those led by the Young Turks
So, it’s valid to see his legacy as mixed or even damaging depending on your historical lens.
How to Think About It Historically
Both views can be partially valid — here's a neutral framing:
Positive Legacy Negative Legacy
I was unsure as to my rating of the book. It truly flowed very easily, and it was written in a simple but good language. I liked the way chapters were connected but also far apart in time and still everything in the story itself made sense.
The characters and plot is a whole other story. At the start what promised to be a good character development failed for me. Connell’s story and portrayal was quite realistic, with nice scenes that helped the reader understand him. However, I cannot say the same for Marianne. I love her, truly, and that’s why I was even more disappointed. By the end it seemed to me that she was solely created for the purpose of shaping Connell’s life. At times it is as if she is not a human even, just a random object to hold together his feelings and emotions.
She is at first intelligent, and has strong political opinions. Then all that is gone. I understand what is trauma, and it would be perfectly fine her stopping to express her views, but trauma doesn’t make things vanish. Your feelings, your opinions, whether muted or strong they are still inside you. One moment Marianne is full and intelligent, the other moment she is blank like a robot reset. And the whole situation with the family abuse and hate, but them still supporting her financially, allowing her to use their homes and summer villas, was even more unrealistic. It’s my first time seeing such supportive abusers.
This is just my personal opinion, and obviously at the end I was quite unsure whether I liked the book or not.
