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skipper wrote a new post, Beyond the Glory of America 1 year, 5 months ago
Officially, mariner has returned home from Chicken Little’s hen house. He did watch the democratic convention. News is show biz. The actual participants in the convention, however, really put on a professional […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Mariner lied 1 year, 5 months ago
Watched the democratic convention. How many times did you hear someone say ‘existential’? Did they mean:
Meaningful? Emotional? Positive? Real? Empirical? Spiritual? achievement?
Let’s face it. ‘Existential’ […]
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I heard existential at least three times, always with threat. Is an existential threat a threat to our existence? Wouldn’t it be more powerful to say “a threat to our very existence?” if that is what was meant. Otherwise, existential threat sounds like a philosophical idea.
Mariner can sure get a lot of traction out of one word!
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At least we didn’t hear “self fulfilling prophecy” . What the hell does that mean?
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skipper wrote a new post, Existential-3 1 year, 5 months ago
Isn’t it great that we have a new hobby – the meaning of existential? Marc’s observations are a true experience; when we hear folks use the word, we tend to feel they really don’t have a substantive argument. Marc […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Existential-2 1 year, 5 months ago
Mariner expected the common response to be “Doesn’t this guy have anything else to do?” The feedback from friends and readers was varied. Two responses to the post are examples.He admits his detailed meandering […]
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Well, now I need another walk!
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All I know is this. When I’m talking to someone who presumes themselves an expert on the issues of the day, they use terms like “existential threat” and “self fulfilling prophecy” to add gravity to their illogical position. At that point, I know not to discuss the subject any further.
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skipper wrote a new post, Existential 1 year, 5 months ago
When is something existential? Defining this word can be a hobby. Its origins, going back to classic Latin, suggest it is an essence or a state of continuous ‘being’. Today, it has many applications as a moral […]
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I had an existential experience on my morning walk. The trees and flowering weeds were there whether I saw them or not. Perhaps I should rephrase that. I think the trees had the existential experience, and I had a thought while on a walk in reality. Isn’t every walk a walk in reality? I wonder why the term existential came into use when the word reality is more clear. There must have been an existential need for another word. Or to put it another way–there must have been a real need for another word.
I did enjoy this existential moment, and also my morning walk–both were a real pleasure!
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skipper wrote a new post, Forget search engines 1 year, 5 months ago
Mariner recently read an account of the next phase in AI: Merging corporate data with personal data taken from one’s own computer or smartphone. It is an attempt to “read the interests of the user” in order to […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Being natural to one's self 1 year, 5 months ago
Recently mariner and a lifelong friend have been sharing contemporary experiences. Since childhood, both have had an interest in the smaller creatures of nature in its undisturbed state. Walks in the woods took […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Where will you move? 1 year, 5 months ago
Mariner feels compelled to address the immigration issue. Amid all the other pressures in a rapidly changing society and a rapidly changing planet, immigration serves as the most dependable barometer of progress […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Adding to the smoke 1 year, 6 months ago
It is 94 degrees with humidity at maximum levels thanks to Iowa corn which sweats as much as humans do. Dare not go outside. What to do … what to do … Alright, mariner will write a post.
It is too bad […]
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skipper wrote a new post, So the Oak tree said . . . 1 year, 6 months ago
The animal kingdom always has looked down on the plant kingdom. Plants are around for animals to use for food, housing, entertainment, protection, etc. Plants do not respond to treatment by animals; they don’t […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Task List for Armageddon Fighters 1 year, 6 months ago
1 – Go 100 percent Vegan. Cows and sheep are exceedingly wasteful in terms of Armageddon (or the Sixth Extinction, they are the same thing). Too much land, too much processing and not the best regimen for general […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Excess Time-2 1 year, 6 months ago
Greetings.
Mariner has no doubt that many consider him a naysayer and far outside the norm. No, he says, his thinking is drawn from various sources all of which are credible if perhaps, not properly associated […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Excess time 1 year, 6 months ago
Yes, mariner had signed off. There is no new insight into Armageddon; it is moving along as expected. But mariner suffers from empty time as a very hot weather pattern hangs around making gardening and any […]
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Welcome back Brother! Misery loves company.
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skipper wrote a new post, Goodbye for awhile 1 year, 7 months ago
Greetings Readers –
As you may know, mariner has been staying in Chicken Little’s henhouse for several months. Not watching television news has been a blessing but getting his news from equitable online […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Define Armageddon . . . 1 year, 7 months ago
Oh my! Mariner has been challenged to define his vague threat of Armageddon. That would be like describing life in Hell – not fun, not positive, not provable. A short list of variations is provided without […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Population update 1 year, 7 months ago
Mariner’s apologies for a rough-to-read post yesterday. Just to make things simple, economic models, like we’ve had since 1800, are an invention of human creativity while population – of any creature – is subject […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Relationship between population and economy 1 year, 7 months ago
This is an unplanned post motivated by the conflict mentioned in the post title which was covered by the latest issue of The Week magazine (June 21 2024). Journalists have begun to report on a liaison between […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The fluid state of Education 1 year, 7 months ago
Mariner mentioned in a recent post that several institutions in the United States are in worse shape than they may seem. One was education. Just very briefly and broadly, education has shifted as social change has […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Filling the vacuum 1 year, 7 months ago
This is another of those days when the mind is blank. It’s one of the side effects of living in Chicken Little’s henhouse where TV news broadcasts and political documentaries are not allowed.
One is forced to […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Not who but what 1 year, 7 months ago
First, take a test:
Spend a 24-hour day without access to any and every electronic device the reader has. The ONLY exception is ‘phone calls’, an outdated term for when two people were able to have a […]
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