Category: Philosophy
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Tab Cola and a Magician’s Politics
Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Wait, nope, that’s not correct. Those who learn history choose to repeat it because it keeps those in the know in the status quo which equates to having more power and wealth. It’s a simple magic trick really. One hand distracts while the other…
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Source Prove
The very idea that fact checking facts has become a thing is a clear indicator that we are on a slippery slope and probably headed off the cliff and into the abyss. Who knows? Maybe the bottom of the abyss is carpeted with marshmallows and the only hardship will be the freefall like the ride…
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Tubes of Tolerance
Identifying problems are easy. Finding solutions can take more time and more effort. I have had to learn this the hard way a few times. A while back I lived in Grand Junction, CO which is next to Fruita and Moab which are two of the mountain biking meccas in the world. I remember I…
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Slow Suicide
Sometimes there are moments at which it becomes clear that capitalism, religion and government are in cahoots. Tobacco is one of those intersections. Now, I understand smoking. I was a smoker. I loved the process of buying the pack. Packing them. Pulling one out. Letting it dryly linger on my lips before lighting it and…
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Bailing out the Ship
Scientists don’t disagree about global warming like an atheist and a christian disagree about god. It’s similar to the differences between Judaism and Christianity. Both believe in the same foundation and both believe that Jesus was a man. It’s at that point that the divergence takes place. On to Global Warming; it is happening. Scientists…
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A Math's Book Cover
I have a limited understanding of math. Past algebra and pre-calculus it gets very fuzzy, but up until that level, I have it down pat pretty much with the exception of buying things I want and how many cups of coffee I should drink daily. That being said I am always a bit confused by…
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All in the Balance
Those who make money have the ability to predict the future. Those who are rigid in their thinking cannot. Money is not the most important thing though. The predictor knows this and can see and figure out solutions to problems and/or clearly see what the solution to a problem will be in the future. I…
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The Adults in the Room
Is it me or have the adults left the room. I read a Twitter post recently in which the writer asked if the political system had always been this crazy or are we at a different place. My thought, a different place. Wherever I look, I see entitled whiny wimpy scared uncertain angry people who…
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Quick Quips
Churches: The setting of Star Wars when we meet Obi One Kinobi for the first time is 100 meters away from a 2000 year old cathedral built into the rock. Obi One is a more realistic embodiment of the church than any of its learjet flying, Vatican living, mega church versions that we have today. …
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Peace, Love, Hope for More
I was brought up Catholic and to believe in the J man. I was also taught about the resurrection and the crucifixion and world history. How in the Middle Ages we fought the Holy Wars to promote faith. What Robin Hood was based on. And how in WWII Adolf Hitler wanted to create a race…
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