Category: Collective Life
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The Illusion of Religion: Understanding Faith vs. Organized Belief
Faith is and never will be religion. Faith is an individuals journey and relationship with the intersections and the mystic of life. Religion is a manmade tool used to ensure that when we look up, we look up in awe not in disdain. For if we looked through the lens of disdain to those above,…
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How Automation Threatens Our Sliver of Power
The Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment were man’s response to societies move from conservativism to liberalism. These periods gave more people freedom. It was not perfect but it was better than the period before where few had any.
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Navigating Life’s Dead-End Roads: The Hidden Addictions of Society
All words have been constructed by man to have a common language. My wonderment is around the word addiction and what it defines. Is is possible that many of our larger societal constructs are actually addictions created by those with power forcing those without down dead end roads?
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Homeschooling and Indoctrination
Many students these days are being homeschooled by parents and/or guardians. My question then becomes why do licenses, certificates and education exist?
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AI Chatbot and the Printing Press
When things are too good to be true, it behooves us to try to uncover the why and connect the dots. AI Chatbot is too good to be true and will only help those with power to gain more.
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Magic Numbers and Homework
Busy work is a waste of time in the classroom and out. Repetive work is not. It’s sometimes just what the doctor ordered. It helps us keep pace with our peers. And today in 2022, we are moving quickly towards a smaller more specialized global workforce in which those that are hired are the most…
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Academia is like the Dominoes of Pizza or the Kraft of Cheese
We are watching daily a trial that for all extensive purposes is occuring because an Academic viewed herself as a Teacher. Academics are not teachers. They live in a place that is inaccessible by design by most. Politics is one by those who speak to the people, not above them.
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The Death of the Library
We should learn a lesson from libraries, the place where we seperate fact from fiction. There is a line that demarks what is real and what is not. Without it, we all just become users of fancy believing that stories are real and real is a lie.
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Artificial Intelligence vs. Artificial Sweetner
We are living in a period in which there is very little truth or fact. All is up for debate. I do not agree. Nature does not agree. Nature was perfect. Is perfect. Will continue to be perfect long after we are gone. We should listen to her lessons. They are clear.
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Wildfires and the Virus
Wildfires very quickly get out of hand just like a virus and left unchecked, will leave nothing but scorched Earth in its path. Every year, thousands of heroes risk life and limb use the tools available to them to stamp out wildfires. Why are we not as colletively interested and diligent towards Covid?
Observations From the Spectrum 