Category: Philosophical
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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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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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Headings for a Non-Mathematical Paper in Progress
Advertisements It is, in fact, political. The Manipulation of a Nation How America’s Prosperous Established a De Facto Ruling Class, Corrupted Government and Politics, and Got Churches, Broadcasters, and Internet/Web Media to Help By J. Calvin Smith, jcsbimp.com Introduction: Where Are We, and How Did Manipulation Get Us Here? Some History: Manifest Destiny and the […]
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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 […]
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After Much Delay, a Personal Update Post
Advertisements In the month or so since my mathematical studies have more or less taken a breather, partially by my choice in connection with the return of my wife from extended grandmotherly visits to the kids in Maryland and New York, I fell out of the habit of daily blog posts, mainly because I also […]
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A Proposed Letter
Advertisements I hope to print out something along these lines, in many copies, and send it to societal leaders of many different stripes, all politically influential in America, in the coming weeks. Methods, Motives, Manipulation and Morality An Open Letter Appealing to Leaders of the United States Government, As Well As America’s Political, Societal/Cultural, and […]
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A Belief/Unbelief System in Search of a Name
Advertisements What do you call someone who believes that everything that is genuinely real, is real regardless of what they (or anyone) believe? I.e., they do not believe that what/whether/how they believe has an influence on what truly exists. Because I sometimes think such a belief/non-belief system appeals to me intellectually, but there are still […]