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HUMAN BLINDNESS

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 Subscribe  When we hear, read or talk about “blindness,” we are usually referring to, or meaning, the state or condition of being unable to see because of injury, disease, or a congenital condition; ignorance; or the lack of perception, awareness, or judgment. But although this definition makes a lot of sense when seeing or hearing it for the first time, blindness’s breadth and scope can be much comprehensive if we were able to understand the types of human blindness and what they really mean. Let’s start by distinguishing between the three types of human blindness: physical, intellectual and spiritual. Physical blindness is the first form of blindness, the least important form of the three, but the one that we prize the most due to the human reliance on sight as the dominant sense. As described above, it has to do with the state or condition of being unable to see physically for any reason. We are built to collect information primarily with our eyes, so even reduced vi...

LIFE AND DEATH

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 Subscribe  We have been living all of our lives with an erroneous idea of what life and death are. Life has been presented as the time that passes from the moment we are conceived or born to a certain point at which we die. In this concept, death is basically a destination, the last step in life, the act of stopping living or being alive, the final point. But these ideas or concepts of life and death cannot be more erroneous. There is no difference between life and death. One cannot exist without the other. Life and death are so intertwined that if we look really deep into them, we cannot know with certainty if we are living or dying at any specific time. Therefore, life and death are not two separate events that just occur once. We are constantly living and dying. When we are conceived or born, according to what we have been told, life starts. But exactly at the same time, we can argue that death starts. Every new second, minute, hour, or day of living after the initi...