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skipper wrote a new post, Jesus scrolled 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Mariner’s local church is having difficulty sustaining its congregation. This is a common phenomenon across the nation. But the inevitable has happened – Jesus, meet Chatbot. Mariner cries in his heart as the true […]
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skipper wrote a new post, He is back 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Mariner. Nobody special, just mariner. He has been visiting for a few days with long-time friends who live on a gorgeous property among the mountains of Arkansas. One could write tomes about the differences […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Sailing 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Sailing is an excellent metaphor for many of life’s experiences. There are the times when preparing to sail is overwhelming in its endless detail and distractions; there are times, while underway, when the weather […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Paint your lifetime in a picture 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Isn’t this an interesting thought? Imagine you are in a class of some kind and the assignment is to present your life experience in a painting. What would you paint? Perhaps some of your major events either of […]
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skipper wrote a new post, How long since you foraged? 3 months ago
If one isn’t sure that evolution is at play in the way Homo sapiens is evolving, consider foraging.
Many of us are familiar with the nomadic model of foraging. Most kinds of animals forage today. In parts of […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A gift from Politico 3 months ago
What an outstanding interview with Julia Angwin. Julia Angwin is a veteran investigative reporter and publisher known for groundbreaking, data-driven stories on the power of technology over our lives. She founded […]
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skipper wrote a new post, There's a weed in the garden 3 months ago
If the reader has ever had a garden, they know the real trouble spot is weeds. Weeds sneak into the lawn or garden as tiny, well behaved plants; they may even have flowers. But gardeners know very quickly the nice […]
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I’ve been watching this year’s World Series. You’d be amazed at the number of AI “services” (apps, whatever the term is) that have been advertised.
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skipper commented on the post, Whither we goest? 3 months ago
A cogent response – evolution never learned to use scissors so shifts in history are always vague and take lots of time.
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skipper wrote a new post, Whither we goest? 3 months, 1 week ago
This post shares some of mariner’s concerns for the future of Homo sapiens. In order to take a full measure, the first item is about Homos the way they were bred to be – properly balanced with requirements […]
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Aldous Huxley had a lot to say about Savages in Postmodern Society back in 1932 and I think he had a finger on the pulse of humanity even then (and how much has happened since?)
My hot take: there’s no such thing as an uncontacted tribe and hasn’t been for a couple decades at least. Traditional Amazonian tribes have known civilized South American poachers, loggers, rubber harvesters, slash-and-burn farmers, fishermen, soldiers, pilots, and God knows who else for generations. There’s no unexplored corner of the globe. Low-earth-orbit satellites map those “real, unsynthesized” jungle huts and foraging spots hourly.
I’m sorry, but real, unsynthesized humanity is launching the satellites and burning the carbon and dynamiting those aborigines from above. Allowing the 196 tribes to live in peace would be a very human gesture, but it seems unlikely. Assuming those tribes even prefer to avoid contact in the long term … I mean who doesn’t want a car and some antibiotics, even in the depths of the Amazon?
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A cogent response – evolution never learned to use scissors so shifts in history are always vague and take lots of time.
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skipper wrote a new post, The thin line 3 months, 1 week ago
Gardeners are well into autumn, planting new bulbs and plants to bloom next Spring, clearing out finished stalks and annuals – and weeds. Potted plants must come into winter shelter as well as garden plants that […]
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Nice writing elder bro’ .
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skipper wrote a new post, YIKES! 3 months, 1 week ago
Mariner went online today to check his email, where he has links to news and culture sources not contaminated by the distortions of broadcast television or the free-wheeling imagination on social media gossip […]
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skipper wrote a new post, More about self containment 3 months, 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? 3 months, 2 weeks 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 3 months, 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 3 months, 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? 3 months, 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? 3 months, 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? 3 months, 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 3 months, 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 3 months, 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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