Tonight a bavarian dark weizen! :)
Friday, January 31, 2014
Sushi and movie night
Yesterday Tiago, Chais, Noar, Miguel and I went for some sushi at a place called RA, very nice! Afterwards we watched a movie at Tiago and Chais's place. Had a great time for sure!
Dinner time!
Tonight carrots and sweet peas with black olives, baby corn, water chestnuts and sundried tomatoes with quinoa and black beans. All organic, obviously. Awesome!
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Simple Living, High Thinking
Last Thursday Arnika and I participated in the simple living high thinking group meeting. We had a great time, saw old friends and enjoyed a delicious vegetarian dinner!
Beautiful day in Houston!
This was an excellent day, Ravi, Austin and I went for a racket ball game, followed by some awesome home made hummus sandwiches! :)
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Taking Arnika to the airport
She is going on a cruise with her mom, and this morning I drove her to the airport. The icy conditions on the road made the drive not so fun, but we made it ok haha
Friday, January 24, 2014
Icy day
Houston have freezing temperatures today, so I'm working from hone. Arnika got into a small accident due to a frozen road.. No injuries or anything, so it's all good :)
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Friday, January 17, 2014
Game night!
Tonight Arnika and I went for a game night with or friends from the hare Krishna temple. We had dinner and played games, was a lot of fun!
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Monday, January 13, 2014
Bicycles for rental in Houston
We have a similar system in Brazil, were you can rent a bicycle using a credit card. It works really well. Here you see the rental bikes in the Montrose station.
Awesome day!
One more time I decided to bike to work. Here is me coming out of the office and a view of one of the streets I take to go home.
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Cooking dinner
Arnika and I spent most of the afternoon in Hermann park, now it's time to recharge the batteries! :)
Friday, January 10, 2014
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Happy New Year!
The fact remains that not everything there is can be quantified or measured by science as it stands. As René Descartes once realized, the mind and the body are indeed separate. No need for superstition or magic to agree with that. It may very well be that the mind and our own consciousness is just a result of an immensely complex network of unpredictable states, each governed by one or more neurons, and that this complex network is what gives us the ilusion of being conscious and aware. But even that turned the case, such illusion still exists. Meaning also exists, but cannot be measured or quantified in terms of material composition. The fact that it exists, however, does not imply that it is material as the neurons that supposedly produced it. This in turn implies that the mind and the physical matter that produces it are indeed separate entities.
So what do we really want from religion? Therapy? Comfort? Reassuring fables? Or a means to glimpsing into our actual circumstances? And if our reality does indeed extend beyond our physical world, be it by our consciousness alone or something else, may religion be your open minded way of tapping into it.
Happy new year!