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skipper wrote a new post, More about self containment 1 month, 1 week ago
Mariner felt good reading the AXIOS piece about analog bags referenced in the last post. In his own romantic naturalist mind, he can see a correlation between a mindset focused on self survival in an AI world and […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Did you catch this? 1 month, 1 week ago
The latest must-have accessory is a “stop-scrolling bag” — a tote packed with analog activities like watercolors and crossword puzzles.
Why it matters: We pick up our phones 100+ times a day and spend hours g […]
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skipper wrote a new post, At the bottom of it all 1 month, 2 weeks ago
In October 2024, mariner wrote a post in response to a challenge to describe ‘Armageddon’, a frequent term he uses to describe the future. Copied from that post, though not fully annotated, are the four elements […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A deeper interpretation 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Pondering here could balloon into an uncontrollable pile of useless words. Nevertheless, mariner will take a shot at a large question he has that has interpretive references going all the way back to the Assyrians […]
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skipper commented on the post, What is faith, really? 1 month, 3 weeks ago
I agree that faith is a real squirrel as society changes. I always try to tie it to a humanistic behavior. Otherwise, it has no shape.
Clearly, to me, hope is a prayer for grace while faith defines the grace. -
skipper wrote a new post, What is faith, really? 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Faith is a brain function that helps humans survive. Faith is a decision maker that is necessary for human survival because humans can imagine anything – reasonable or not – and claim it as real. Without faith, […]
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I agree that faith is a real squirrel as society changes. I always try to tie it to a humanistic behavior. Otherwise, it has no shape.
Clearly, to me, hope is a prayer for grace while faith defines the grace.
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skipper wrote a new post, Remember liberal arts? 1 month, 3 weeks ago
As regular readers know, mariner spends a lot of time in Nosey Mole’s tunnels, thereby avoiding broadcast TV news. He spends his time reading and watching more cogent and thoughtful reports in professional […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Homo sapiens is like a garden 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Mariner is a gardener. He has a Masters from Junk University (YouTube). So right off the top, he will acknowledge that most Homos are weeds. To give credit where credit is due, some weeds can be useful and […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Alone at last 1 month, 4 weeks ago
It’s one of those times again when mariner’s wife has gone visiting for a few days. There are several related responses to his sudden isolation. On the first day, there is a sense of free space where decorum is […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Bits from home 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Mariner’s philologist friend and he have a special dictionary of stressed or highly truncated words that are intriguing. His friend’s latest contribution is ‘supwier’. Usually, mariner gives the reader time to […]
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skipper wrote a new post, He is a sick man not fit to represent me 2 months ago
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid in the United States.
The cancellations began in mid-May, when over 100 orders of 2% milk bound for 31 states were halted.
The records show 4,304 canceled […]
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I would also point out that the “Trump Bibles” are missing the 11th through the 27th amendments from its version of the US Constitution. I guess he found the amendments regarding slavery’s abolishment and removal from office for mental incapacitation cumbersome.
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skipper wrote a new post, Education in an AI world 2 months ago
Walton Family Foundation and Gallup’s latest Teaching for Tomorrow report finds that while most teachers engage in professional development, the most beneficial opportunities — like peer collaboration — are oft […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Local Press 2 months, 1 week ago
Really LOCAL press. That is, press coverage if it were about YOUR life. Some examples to set the pace: first, mariner traveled a lot in his career; second is the never ending discounting of women’s […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Age Shift 2 months, 1 week ago
Anyone who studies ancient history of any kind runs into a phenomenon called an Age. Ages are slow – really slow. Depending on which field of history one is studying, for example Earth science, Ages can last as […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Where the West began 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Mariner’s normal inclination is to see the world through the eye of a sociologist. The core of sociology is the study of results from human social patterns and aspects of culture associated with everyday […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Wow! A real religion debate 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Salvation versus Grace. Both are defended by the Bible – Grace especially by Father Brown on PBS when he’s hearing confession from a murderer. The idea of Grace traces back to Cyrus The Great, King of Persia from […]
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skipper commented on the post, Judgment Day 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Only Marty could turn mariner’s premise of self-earned salvation into the opposite theology that only God can grant grace! Well done!
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skipper wrote a new post, Judgment Day 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Everyone talks about the day when Jesus will return to gather his deserving flock. Most of today’s Christians have a ‘good deed’ savings account to make sure they will be included. But mariner has a sugge […]
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It is true that we in the pews do not always represent the best of Jesus’s teaching. However, that is a very high bar. Who among us can achieve Christian perfection? I, for one, am counting on grace!
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Only Marty could turn mariner’s premise of self-earned salvation into the opposite theology that only God can grant grace! Well done!
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skipper wrote a new post, Tuvalu 2 months, 3 weeks ago
A fascinating report in the AOL news strip gives an insight into the future of nationalism. Within this century, the Island nation of Tuvalu (9 coral atolls in the Pacific) is about to go under the ocean and […]
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skipper commented on the post, The deep side of knots 3 months ago
Wow! You are a knot expert. Does it take a lot of knots to fly an airplane – rope knots, not door knots.
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