The pre-Socratic philosopher Parmenides (c.500 BCE) had a disciple named Zeno who worked at proving Parmenides’ theories to be true. He offered four paradoxes with which to prove that the idea of change and sense perception are logical fictions. His main contention was that the idea of motion is illogical. See what you think of…

It began when I married my wife, Mari Sorri, back in 1982. A couple of years later we visited her family farm. Since then I have visited Finland 29 times!! The home is located in the tiny village of Topeno, of about 100 people and two yield signs and about 100 miles north of Helsinki.…