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Disasters Manmade and Natural

My friends in the Northeast tell me Irene wasn’t so strong as she was just full of rain with some wind. Local flooding and power outages abound, but it sounds like the utilities are coming back pretty well. Meanwhile, we … Continue reading

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Pragmatism and Opting Out of Apocalypse

Just because you are opting out of the Apocalypse, it doesn’t mean there are no practical measures you can take to prepare. Continuing the theme of the last two posts, I wanted to tie up the loose ends hanging between … Continue reading

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Profundity in Short Supply

I’m out of gas. The spring allergy season has struck and stuck. Being ill makes me depressed, and depression makes me ill. So my ADD flares up and I can’t keep focused on much of anything that matters. At least … Continue reading

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Mixed Signals: Boredom

Most people have no idea how to interpret boredom as a symptom. I’m quite sure the audience most in need of reading this will not read it. For most people, boredom is a constant complaint. That’s because they are so … Continue reading

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For the Children

Because of our cultural truculence in rejecting biblical values regarding children, I felt this required its own article. In the West generally, and in the America particularly, we do everything backwards with our kids. Start here: Your first duty it … Continue reading

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Persimmons and Pears

This year my family has been studying wild foods here in Central Oklahoma. We started off the season this summer with blackberries and sand plums, both native to our area. I got four gallons of berries and one of plums. … Continue reading

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The Other Side: 7 – Ripeness

There is no success, no failure. There is only commitment and persistence in the process. There are no real goals, no winning or losing, only engaging your imperatives. There is no frustration because you don’t expect to have control over … Continue reading

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The Other Side: 5 – Process

There is no goal; there is only process. As commonly conceived, there is actually no such thing as “objective reality.” We can approach it, but the closer we come, the more uncertain it becomes. In Particle Physics, for example, we … Continue reading

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The Other Side: 4 – Take Time Away

In some ways, the prison itself is a living entity. It is most certainly composed of living beings, since no system of life can organize itself without life. A fundamental defining characteristic of the prison is denying that it lives. … Continue reading

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The Other Side: 2 – Capacities

Recent articles point to the notion humans as they are will likely evolve. If not, surely science will find enhancements, ways we can meld with the seemingly ideal intellectual capacities of the computers on which we have come to depend … Continue reading

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