Category: Personal
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Practice: What Makes It Perfect?
Advertisements DISCLAIMER: In what follows, I can tell that my Christian religious background heavily flavors the material and my perspective expressed therein. I have tried to make the focus more general, to turn it into a subject from which different followers of religious or spiritual traditions can benefit. But again, my thoughts are shaped by […]
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Systemic Privilege and Impostor Syndrome: A Weird Balance in My Life
Advertisements I am a White Male Heterosexual Cisgender Christian. This means a lot in American society. I am of the political view – and I recognize there are disagreeing ones – that that means I have five tickets punched in terms of systemic privilege in the Land of the Free. Life has been easier on […]
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The Pan-Continuum Gateway
Advertisements Sometime in the 1990s, I placed, in a work of pop-culture fan fiction, a rainbow-y, swirly device that seemed original to me, a Pan-Continuum Gateway between all fictional universes, with rules and even an enforcement organization, to keep bad things from happening, bad things caused by creators of fiction who were unscrupulous. These creators […]
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My Self-Destructive (but Goodly Intentioned) Skepticism
Advertisements Looking back on my life from the vantage point of being 65, it occurs to me that I have been quite skeptical, for what I still believe to have been good reasons, at the exact times such skepticism would hurt me most. It does not help that at least as frequently, I faced life […]
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My Integer Factorization Study: A Visualization Anomaly
Advertisements Or: The Asymmetric Behavior of the Ceiling Square Remainder My Inspiration Process has been more active, more related to working on thought processes, than it has been something spontaneously occurring, which is especially noticeable during my wife’s current extended absence from our residence (to help care for grandchildren), compared to how the Process seemed […]
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Another Visual Metaphor
Advertisements Thanks to an artist on DeviantArt, fernandofaria, and their wonderful illustration “Space Bus”, I have a new visual metaphor for my swiftly-arriving inspiration process of late, for which I am also quite thankful. I have added the logo on the side of the bus simply as a modification to use here for the purposes […]
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uh poem
Advertisements Maturity is not genuinely overrated. It’s more when its assumptions are to you stated, You realize some of us who do it – loved or hated – Are just behaving as we’ve been manipulated. #OneNationUnderIndoctrination
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Newsflash: Prosperous Propagandists Thrive on Exacerbating (Even Justified) Alarm
Advertisements Propagandists thrive on alarm, and on the fear and anger that come from that alarm. It hardly matters their ideology, although one can usefully note which ideologies and social classes are more likely to perpetrate, or to fall victim to, the more pervasive and manipulative propaganda. I thought of this as I was considering […]
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Is It Supernatural, or Just Unknown?
Advertisements A Post About Magick, Mysticism, Revelation, Inspiration, Consciousness, and Your Secret Self NOTE: In this post, I will use words like “just” or “simply” in the sense of “this is all that might be going on here,” or “there need be nothing more elaborate at work here than this.” Do Not Be Fooled: That […]