The correspondence below (using pseudonyms) is part of a longer correspondence that took place within Facebook during the summer of 2024. The original topic was the definition of “life”. John: There is also an artificial intelligence that knows how to replicate itself or will know soon – robots that produce robots, software that produces software. […]

This analogy was built to explain why there is [sort of] life after death. The story goes something like this: Two twins grow in the womb of a pregnant woman. They talk to each other using baby language inside their mother’s womb. One day, one of the twins says to his brother: “I heard that […]

We heard the intriguing truth not long ago, in one of the Islamic demonstrations in favor of the Hamas terrorist organization: “You believe that death is the end, we believe that death is the beginning!” – cried the brainwashed protester. How can you convince someone, given that they believe that death is a beginning – […]

Do you want to live forever? Have you wondered if science may one day enable you to live forever? Well, first we must ask what is “life” anyway. Are bacteria “alive”? Bacteria, in many cases, do not die – they simply divide into two, and now we have two new bacteria. There are also creatures […]

“Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me? Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?” — 1 Samual 21:14-15 “The whole religious […]

Israel, Tel Aviv. A few years ago, I took a taxi. The [male] driver did not wear a “Kippah”. There were no religious papers visible around. Not even the common religious stickers you can find on many cars in Israel. The busy Ayalon Highway 20, however, inevitably established the necessary atmosphere for a driver-passenger conversation. […]

Many religious people recognize the fact that the human mind is very “limited”. In fact, they even promote this fact, to “sort of” demonstrate how we cannot fully understand “God” and his processes of reasoning. At the same time, their limited minds seem to know very well that there IS such a “God”, and they […]

The word “logic” is used quite hastily nowadays. We tend to assign it to almost everything we think. We often blame others that they’re logically mistaken if they don’t think like us. Mathematically speaking, “logic” is a very well-defined area. If B is derived from A and A is true, then B is true. This […]

Some twenty years ago, Israeli media showed a large women conference, organized by ‘Shas’ – the Haredi religious political party in Israel. During the conference, there was an “on-line blessing” transmitted by cellular means from the late Rabbi Kaduri – a renowned Mizrahi Haredi rabbi and “kabbalist”, considered by many ill-educated religious people as some […]

The Amazon rainforest is on fire, while many world leaders are troubled by customs wars, local disputes or elections propaganda. This just demonstrates the short-term thinking of the human mind. We generally don’t perceive the risks of global warming or overpopulation for the same reason we don’t really perceive animals’ and plants’ evolution. Ironically the […]