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What’s better, being right, or pleasantly surprised by being wrong? A choice between having your conceptions reaffirmed or being shown something different that defies your perception. People are going to do what they are going to do. There is no real concrete way to know what that is until it actually happens. There is no…
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Human history is not earth history. We have encapsulated what we think we know about the earth and called it history. History defines time and is defined by time. Earth is the land before time. And humans can’t conceive of a world without us. It’s what I call “Masters of the Universe” mentality. The origin…
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I was a preteen hanging out with two of my older sisters. We were just sitting around the table talking, laughing, munching on chips and drinking soda. Absolutely nothing atypical for a Saturday afternoon. We could occasionally hear our Mom talking on the phone in her room, or watching TV or whatever else a single…
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I have been spending a lot of time thinking about where we are as a society and I have come to the conclusion that the last 25 years or so has been all about the staus quo hanging onto the rules that made them the staus quo. The status quo being the people who designed…
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Abject fear is hard for a grown person to process and put into a life affirming perspective. Imagine a child trying to do it. A child without the mental facilities to understand that what made them afraid was not their fault. Children only know how to internalize. That’s why having them explain their emotions is…
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An epiphany. Moment Mine For one momentWhen time moved with unerring precisionAnd the moon shone with the sun’s brillianceWhen the thick fog clearedAnd heaven and earth shared one essence For the momentWhen a heart felt all it couldAnd a spoken word said it allWhen my existence became the worldAnd moved into eternity With the momentThe…
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Another one from 1989. I had seen a news story about the children of the Smoky Mountain in The Philippines. The smoky mountain was a trash heap and the smoke was from the occasional methane fire that would erupt in the decomposing trash. Small children would shift through the trash looking for anything that could…
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