Category: Philosophical
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Assorted Incorrect Thoughts
Advertisements “You see, I learned something today. Throughout this whole ordeal, we’ve all wanted to show things that we weren’t allowed to show. But it wasn’t because of some magic goo. It was because of the magical power of threatening people with violence. That’s obviously the only true power. If there’s anything we’ve all learned, […]
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The Law
Advertisements He said to them, “Therefore every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.” – Matthew 13:52 NIV I thought of this as I compiled a table for thorough […]
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CONVINCED
Advertisements What does it take to win someone over to a point of view? Observation can do it, certainly. Our ability to look at behaviors and come up with ways to describe or characterize them is a useful and common talent. It accompanies sound mental processes in harmony with reliable senses. Reason and science take […]
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The Evil(s) of Religion
Advertisements A friend of mine, who was a professor and director of plays in which I participated at the college I attended in the 1970s, posted on Facebook a black-and-white photograph of a happy woman in attractive attire cutting a birthday cake slice for herself. This woman lived, just a couple of years before the […]
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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