April 15th, 2020 - Week three of our countrywide lockdown. The South African economy is in free fall and with it, the subsistence of millions of lives.
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The Good Samaritan
It’s been almost four years since I owned a car. I’m lucky to live in the one city in South Africa where you can survive on public transport, granted you live in the city bowl!
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Christie Peruso.
Photographed by Pierre F. Lombard.
From Sicily, with love. | Part 1
Christie Peruso.
Photographed by Pierre F. Lombard.
Of course you have free will, or do you?
What did you do to deserve where you were born? Did you choose the U.S. over North Korea? Paris over Riyadh? What did you do to deserve the parents whom you were born to? What about the school you attended or the teachers you were subjected to?
The answer to all of these factors is an emphatic, ‘Nothing’.
Read MoreBullshit-detection toolkit
What is faith? It is belief in something without sufficient evidence. Billions of people pride themselves as being people of faith. Conversely, the atheist prides herself in being skeptical. I.e. she withholds faith until sufficient evidence presents itself…
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