Killing schoolchildren is wrong. Let's start with that for today's comment on this war. (This is the first of a set of four comments on the US and Israeli war with Iran this week, looking at it from four different points of view: economic, political, constitutional and, today ... human. ) As the war began, children at the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School were already in the two story building dedicated to their education, a building in the town of Minab, one with walls painted with pink flowers. A missile slammed into that building midmorning, leaving rubble and dead bodies. Survivors of the first strike gathered in a hall, and there became victims of a second strike. In all there were apparently 175 people killed, 108 of them children. The first response of the President of the United States was, "In my opinion and based on what I've seen, that was done by Iran. They're very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions." The secon...
" Time as a whole and in its parts bears to Space as a whole and its corresponding parts a relation analogous to the relation of mind to its equivalent bodily or nervous basis; or to put the matter shortly that Time is the mind of Space and Space the body of Time....[We] are examples of a pattern which is universal and is followed not only by things but by Space-Time itself." Let this be your random quote for the day, from ... Samuel Alexander, SPACE, TIME AND DEITY (1927). Like other great books, that one began as a set of Gifford Lectures ... specifically as Glasgow Gifford lectures. The Gifford lectures were established in 1887 by the will of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford. The will requires that they "promote and diffuse the study of natural theology in the widest sense of the term." They are given are four ancient Scottish universities: St. Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. To be asked to give a Gifford lecture has become in the fullness of time a signa...