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I will not go quietly into the night!
Category: Musings
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Forgive thine enemy. What? Are you crazy? Well, in any case, such forgiveness would be pretense, nothing more. You could state it clearly as loud as you want. You could claim it true and genuine forgiveness, but it would be a lie. Once deceived, once treated badly, you will forever be wary of the person.…
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Black’s Law Dictionary defines loitering as remaining “in a certain place for no apparent reason.” The Freedictionary defines loitering: loi·ter (loi′tər) intr.v. loi·tered, loi·ter·ing, loi·ters 1. a. To stand idly about; linger without any purpose. b. Law To violate a law or ordinance that prohibits persons from remaining in a given location without a…
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“Are emotions irrelevant to morality? If you have a gut instinct that something is wrong, is it really wrong, or is the emotion just an echo of what you believe, rather than what is real? Is not intuition in fact simply an emotional response? Does this mean that intuition should be disregarded? I imagine many…
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There is nothing new under the sun. It’s all been thought of and done before. There are times when this seems the distressing reality. In fact the times that it seems untrue grow shorter as my time upon this earth continues. Just when I think I have an original thought, a unique idea, I find…
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As the world and its inhabitants decay into decadence and inevitable extinction, I watch. I really thought I would feel more sorrow at humanity’s demise. Even knowing that my own existence depended upon many of those degrading before my vision failed to raise the level of empathy within me. After watching, decade after decade,…
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Persistence is the key to publishing within a vacuum. When you see that many people have visited your site yet there are no comments what are you to assume? ► Do you assume that people are not interested? ► Do you assume people are stricken by awe at the subject matter? ► Do you assume…
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I do not think we will ever have computers, robots, or androids that will be able to pass for human under close scrutiny. Emotions will be the stumbling block of all machines. Software, I think, would be unable to simulate a realistic emotional behavior. Firmware, closer, would still fail, I think, because even though humans…
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Of what value are all these comments that land in my spam folder? Do they get seen by anyone? Do they generate traffic somehow? I dispose of them, just did 18, and they are gone, but are they really? I have noticed a hefty upsurge in these spam type comments. Has anyone else?
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