Category: New Ways of Thinking
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Living Inside A False Narrative Is Stupid… So Why Do We Persist In Doing It?
A woman who doesn’t know the man she loves is cheating on her lives inside a false narrative — that her relationship is on solid ground. A man unaware that a tumor is metastasizing inside of him is living a false narrative that he’s healthy and not doomed. As they slept in their beds at…
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Integrity’s An All Or Nothing Proposition – You Either Have It Or You Don’t
In the movie Princess Bride, Wallace Sean’s Vizzini, confounded by their inability to outrun Cary Elwes’ Westley, repeats the word “inconceivable” with increasing consternation until, at one point, Mandy Patinkin’s Inago Montoya responds famously — We have the exact same problem with the whole concept of INTEGRITY — never mind the word. A Democratic system…
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Donald J Trump Is EXACTLY What We Mean By “The Banality Of Evil”
The truth is even Hitler had to overcome his own core mediocrity to become “HITLER”.
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Can Twitter Be Fixed? Or Has “The Fix” Always Been In At Twitter?
When I turned on my computer this morning, I learned that I am now banned from Twitter for a week. The offending tweet (I sooooo wish I had taken a few more moments before responding and screen captured it) was mild to put it bluntly. I said I wished that Donald Trump – with his…
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Some Perspective On Perspective
As much as I might want to see the world through another person’s eyes, it’s a physical impossibility. The best I can ever really hope for is to imagine what the world literally looks like as they see it. It’s a fact — we all experience “experience” differently. Imagine a cube sitting alone on a…
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Life Is Like Standing In A Batter’s Box — And The Pitcher’s A Sadist
I’m not the first person to visit this analogy. But I feel that analogy every day like I’m standing in a batter’s box and whatever’s out there pitching at me is seriously off their meds. As metaphors & analogies go, life compares best to baseball (as opposed to football, basketball, soccer — or archery even).…
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It’s CRIMINAL That Cannabis Was Ever Criminalized
I believe — actual life experience being my data set — that my life is better in myriad ways with cannabis IN it than WITHOUT it. If I separate my personal experience with cannabis from cannabis’ story here in America (its demonization and prohibition for entirely racist reasons), I see a natural product — minimally…
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America’s Love Affair With STUPID: Part 4 — We’re ALL Stupid & That’s A Fact
The sign of a really stupid person is they’re convinced they aren’t and have never been stupid. Boy, are they wrong. And stupid. America is filled with people — almost all of them men — who are completely convinced that 1) they have never been wrong because, 2) that would be stupid and, 3) they…
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The American Museum Of MSM Mediocrity Is Open For Business… Care For A Tour?
The bad news: America’s news media has not lived up to its Constitutional obligation to be the final check on power. But, on the bright side, there’s now a brand-spanking-new museum to highlight every bit of their crushing failure: Welcome to the new AMERICAN MUSEUM OF MSM MEDIOCRITY. Now, meet your tour guide — the…