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Luat Tran Van's Articles in Death and Dying

  • I Prefer The Trial Of Zurvan Rather Than Talking To A Despicable Judge
    One of the things that humankind has to get rid of in order to continue its progress is the concept of justice in the hands of the state.
  • Religion And Survival
    Regarding survival and religion we can see several different aspects and issues because these two concepts of human culture and development are more related than we may foresee initially; instead, we can say that they are very related to one another: - We also should understand religion as a survival tool for perilous and dangerous situations, catastrophes and all sorts of disasters, for it is one thing that individuals can cling to whenever they have lost everything else. Religion should not be underestimated as a factor to motivate survivors.
  • Creationism, Odds, Biology And Games
    Many people without education in mathematics find it hard to understand how odds and probabilities shape our world, and how it is that seemingly impossible things happen.
  • The Purple Of Tyre
    If we ponder a little about those animals that have proved to be very valuable to humans we would probably think about cattle, horses, or pets, but few know that a couple of rather smallish gastropods from Mediterranean shores have been as valuable as gold since ancient times.
  • Comments On Political And Religious Fanaticism
    Religion is belief: you can believe in revealed words, in divine lessons, in holy books or whatever. All religions have significant belief components - albeit they are generally more complex philosophical entities - and they are all respectable indeed, at least because no one can say whether one religion is better or more rightful than any other: but even considering this, which is pretty rational, there are individuals that can thing wrongly about religion and induce intolerant attitudes.
  • How Private Property May Kill You
    If we take a look at pictures made by artists like Hieronimus Bosch about death and the plague, specifically about the Black Death that ravaged almost the whole northern hemisphere between 1333 and 1352, the impression that death is the great equalizer of social classes, pocket depths and religious beliefs becomes immediately apparent.
  • The Story Of Rype
    Life has some surprises in store for the most unlikely individuals, and as Borges would have it in his Lottery of Babylon, you get the prizes that come to you, and you can't refuse them, good or bad as they might be; one day you may be living a splendid childhood, and the next one, you may watch everyone around you pass away; you may survive as a savage, and then become a millionaire.
  • Learning Survival From Historical Mass Destruction Scenarios
    Survival techniques related mass destruction weapons or WMDs are based on both practical cases - which are relatively few and far between - as well as theoretical knowledge; some tests have been conducted on this matter also, but the whole body of knowledge related to WMDs in general is rather scarce because despite that they have been used for warfare in some occasions and the lethality that they have displayed, the number of real-life scenarios as well as survivors to those menaces is rather scarce.
  • How Ingenuity Saved The Life Of A Pope And The Political Structure Of Europe
    The Black Death that affected almost the whole northern hemisphere between 1333 and 1352 was the result of environmental and climatic changes that took place because of natural causes; Greenland became much colder, central Asia suffered long drought periods, famine and migrations, both of people as well as animals, and it was near the lake Issyk-Koul where the first cases of this particularly virulent occurrence of bubonic plague took place.

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