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  • Are You Perfect? … August 27, 2013

    Perspectives are generated by one’s own mental faculties. They are formed and come into being as a product of past observations and derivations based on even older observations and derivations. That is the way the brain works when encountering new objects or concepts, it compares to past observations and conclusions. Mental faculties are shaped by…

  • Without a Care in the World … August 21, 2013

    People say things and do things that hurt worse than any knife. Incidents happen that embarrass to such a degree that you wish you could crawl away and hide. Small things occur in life that are magnified by careless words, sharp criticism, from blunt unthinking people. Then there are people, people like me, perhaps like…

  • The Need For Speed … August 14, 2013

    I enter the ramp for the freeway and accelerate. My trusty steed, my Honda Silverwing, does not hesitate to answer my call. As I enter the freeway I have reached the posted speed limit. Soon, I notice, a car approaching. It passes, well, perhaps they are in a hurry. Then, however, another and another cruises…

  • Racism and Reverse Racism… July 31, 2013

    rac·ism/ˈreɪsɪzəm/ Show Spelled [rey-siz-uhm] Show IPA noun 1.a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others. 2.a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.…

  • The Race-Baiters … July 17, 2013

    There had to be several thousand people in the street where George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin. Maybe the figure is closer to several million when you see how everybody’s so sure what happened there as expressed on Facebook. The media, using a photograph several years old, have portrayed Martin as an angelic child. There is…

  • Well, Bread Doesn’t Stay Fresh Forever… July 10, 2013

    Racing forward, pedal to the metal, a Nickle’s Bread Truck surges on. It doesn’t matter if life and limb is at risk, all that matters is that this juggernaut attain a position at least one car length ahead of where it was. Racing up State Route 13 South, towards Mansfield, sitting nearly on the bumper…

  • Tight Circle … June 10, 2013

    Cliques, a small exclusive group of people. You can be pseudo friends to these people individually, but when the group gathers, you … disappear. Have you ever had a friend, someone at least that you thought a friend, who, when you are talking to them alone was as much a friend as friend could be,…

  • Why No One Matters

    Each individual is a world. Each has their own concept of the ways things should be. Some base them on fantasies, others on reality, others on a mixture of both fantasy and reality. One individual’s world does not necessarily interact or depend upon another’s world. Realities are separate and neither affects or is dependent on…

  • Assisted Death

    Compassion… humans have a great capacity for compassion for their fellow human beings. Sympathy for another’s suffering and a desire to alleviate that suffering helped to make socializing and the forming of groups possible for the human animal. An ability to put oneself in “another’s shoes” and understand the viewpoints, desires, etc, of another is…

  • The Myth of Race

    No creature on Earth is more infatuated with race than human beings. There is no other area that generates needless angst to the same degree, unless it be religion. Yes, there are things about which humans concern themselves like politics, or social issues, but not without at least some real reason for the difference in…