Bøger af Robert Paul

Legends die and sagas arrise as Roibard, Tonja, and heroes from the First Holy Crusade attempt to forge a new kind of nation. Grow with Cait and bear witness to how swords were used for the glory of God far away from the Holy Land. Come and share in the adventures that might have changed history. We have only begun to travel, my patrons!

In the book I investigate distinctions between independent individuality and interactive relationality in physical phenomena. This common topic for modern physics and philosophy of science is explored using current research in those disciplines. Buddhism also focuses on relationships, proposing that independent things do not exist. In the context of physical reality, I take this Buddhist view as a hypothesis and examine it critically. We evaluate it's arguments and find them generally to be problematic when evaluated against modern standards for logic and physics. However, its fundamental principle-emptiness, or shunyata-is still test-worthy. Contrary to many books on Buddhism and science, this one takes a positive view of science. The book begins by defining 'science'. While we discuss, explain and justify many views of science, and present the standard elements of science, physics and physics theories, I argue extensively for one perspective: pluralism in a synthesis of my own design: physics pluralism. I show Buddhist 'emptiness' (shunyata) to be quite consistent physical pluralism. When we test shunyata with physics within that knowledge framework uncovers the relevance, importance, and some truth in the Buddhist relationality ideas. This Volume 1: Non-Technical Summary provides a brief introductory treatment of the topic designed for the general audience. You may read Volume 1 independently from Volume 2: Scholarly Edition. Both volumes provide background and develop concepts from a non-technical and non-specialized starting point. However, this Volume 1 stops there, while in Volume 2 we examine extensive treatments of controversies, complexities and technical details, plus elaborate explanations and examples. Volume 2 contains hundreds of citations and footnotes, while Volume 1 has no footnotes and few citations, although both have complete bibliographies. The series Buddhism and Modern Science will include books that examine links between Buddhism and the life and social sciences, e.g. neuroscience, economics, and geopolitics. For four decades, Robert Alan Paul has studied physics, had a career as a physicist, and both studied and practiced Tibetan Buddhism. He holds a bachelor's degree in physics, and separate master's degrees in philosophy; philosophy of science & mathematics; and physics (abd). He holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in four disciplines: philosophy of science, Western analytic metaphysics, Buddhist philosophy, and physics. His Ph.D. dissertation was the foundation for this book.

The celebration of Christmas may be almost universal, but the traditions are not necessarily identical from one country to another. What this holiday has in common is that it brings families together, awakens generosity, and is a time to indulge. That's why children love it. Discover how families around the world celebrate Christmas. In popular culture, this celebration evokes three elements in the first place: the gifts, placed at the foot of the tree by Santa Claus (for the youngest...). These traditions are followed by a large number of people all over the world, whether they are Christians or not. In reality, the first Christmas celebrations took place over several days, between November and January. This book provides insight into how different countries around the world celebrate Christmas.

Robert Paul had a best friend... (The boy-girl with the dangling earring), they were truly best friends. They used to live walking distance away and would hang out all the time. But times change as people do and people move as well...geographically. Robert did not see his friend as much as he used to but they stayed in touch. They considered each other brothers. Every time they would meet Robert would have a new story for his "e;Brother"e;...One day his "e;Brother"e; yelled at him and told him to just "e;shut up"e;. He then went on to tell Robert that he simply had too many stories to hear at one time and that he needed to write them down and then he would read them. That is exactly what he did and this is what he came up with, there is no word of lie in anything he wrote even though he was extremely intoxicated while writing. There is much more to be told.