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Why Politicians Don’t Care About You

I could end this article by stating that politicians only care about their future—as politicians. In no realm is there so much competition as in politics. Even in typical sports, in which even the land of Lagom fights for supremacy in normal football, or in hockey—the country of Sweden—competitors have a modicum of honor. Politics [...]

Why Flat-Earthers, Creationists, and Global Warming Skeptics are Healthy to Society

Imagine if, from the time of Galileo and farther back, no one had ever questioned Creationism—the idea that a supernatural entity created the universe and everything in it in one “poof,” where nothingness disappeared and gave rise to everything tactile. Creationism skepticism—or, at that time, skepticism of Judeo-Christian-Bible-based Church doctrine—was important to arrive to our [...]

CARVING PATHS

I smoke but that is bad for my health. But I love and that is bad for my heart. And love makes me smoke, and smoke helps me to think and make circles in the air. I breathe, an easy thing. And breath makes a person hoard life and a yellowed-eyed Beast on the savannah Swell its lungs. I speak, but that gets me into trouble. But without speech I could not get out of it. A catch 22. My tongue and my lips have things to say. My mind and my heart have dreams to weave, lies upon the heart. I walk b...

EROS IS ALIVE. A LITTLE ABOUT “OTHER GODS.”

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A new Kindle book just made its entrance into the world. Other Gods follows the life—or a small piece of it—of Claire Montreal, Chloe Aldaine and Jared Tersios, three beings on a collision course with life as they never expected. Claire is a model who has everything a woman could desire: youth, beauty, a good job, and a handsome boyfriend (Jared). You could hardly go farther with “privilege,” or what it appears to be. Yet she is unfulfilled in many ways. She encounters a major first-world p...

Call of the Wild

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They expect us to love with our brains

Because we are not animals;

They expect us to paint the intricate sunshine,

Not hunt with our nostrils.

Because we have faces, not snouts,

Flat with shrunken jaws.

Because we have nails, not claws;

And hands and feet, not paws.

But the brain is the primate, it is the animal,

Not always savage, often tender;

The heart is a muscle, not a demigod.

We shed like a snake, our skin is leather.

The brain is flesh, not a ghost.

Skin is nerves and nerve endings;

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Trump: Will He End in Fire or in Ice?

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Donald Trump walked onto the stage for the first time like a suit-and-tie bull in a china shop. If there is anything in particular his horns aimed at was everything, from trade deals to tariffs, to bad, bad Ford, China, ISIL, Muslims, and Mexicans. He brought with him the aura of a self-assertive bully, of the one who would change things, of the champion and the doer, while everyone else was a clown. Like Alexander who knew he would conquer the Persians and end their empire, Donald Trump str...

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Hypotheses & Educated Guesses

From an old physics homework. (Essay). I got an A!

Hypothesis is an idea or a set of ideas, more succinctly a number of educated speculations on what “a something” is, and what its effect is on “something else.”  A hypothesis is the beginning stage of a theory, after observation, based on educated guesses.  An educated guess is a set of known information about a particular thing or scenario, gathered into a general prediction. Ex.: a car driving ten miles per hour hitting a stationary car wou...

Economics, Freedom, Environment

Another “ol’ gem.” Back when I was almost an anarchist. Nowadays, I am apolitical.

When self-called “Real-Liberal” conservative economist Milton Friedman said in 1971 that national forests should be sold off, people were aghast (Perc.org. Friedman’s Legacy to Freedom and the Environment, par 4). Like he, many people believe that governments should stay away from the business of controlling and regulating, and leave all in the hands of the individual and private industries. No truer is the emp...

It is wrong to be Atheist, it is better to be Agnostic.

This article is from an old blog–a blorticle? :D–that I wrote when I was in the middle of the faith argument. All of it still makes sense, in a way, except for the fact I no longer identify as an Agnostic.

Against a religious opponent an Atheist and an Agnostic will be friends of one mind. When alone, they’ll be bitter antagonists, one accusing the other of a closed mind and the second the other of a mind too broad to be of any use. Obviously, the latter charge is against the Agnostic. But it...