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I will not go quietly into the night!
Category: Reason
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Many would like to claim or would like to say that a life led by logic and reason devoid of emotion would be a better one. Logic and reason are cold, and without emotion, callous. For example, the Iranian leaders proclaimed that they will destroy us. If only logic and reason were used and it…
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To start… there has never been a patriarchy. There was a group of rich people that suppressed and controlled everyone, but… they were not all men… and they weren’t all white. The KKK was a rebellion against those who sought to end slavery. It sought to demonize black people to make those black people seem…
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Just like humans there lurks within me a hidden monster. That monster has thoughts foreign to that which people aspire and must be constantly suppressed and stifled in order for civil behavior to exist. There are those that exhort for others to be yourself, not realizing that the façades they all maintain and have on…
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Why do humans exist? The basic answer is Evolution. Chance? No, evolution is not about chance at all. The creature best able to survive continues to exist… there have been many more become extinct than survived, as you would expect. It just so happens that a creature with a large brain, arranged in the proper…
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What good has anger rendered to the species called human? Like worry, anger imparts more damage to the holder than problems it relieves. It no doubt stresses the host in such a fashion that many minutes if not hours of life are subtracted from the original total. Anger not only is detrimental to its host,…
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You can, if you put the effort into it, put yourself into a calmer state of existence. I suppose one might call the method a form of meditation. You simply do what Yoda asserted that Skywalker had to do to attain Jedi status. Concentrate on where you are, what is happening around you…. try to…
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I am tired of people that make repeated, perhaps eternal, claims of victimhood. They have played the role so long, so loud, that I have become numb to them. I will no longer hear them. I will throw the claim back in their faces. I am tired of those crying racism… because in the act…
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Emotions must have an evolutionary advantage, otherwise, why are they? It is true that emotions create some division between peoples, in that, emotionally, you are most apt to reject differences between groups because of “gut” feelings. These emotions cannot be simply turned off. They are there regardless of over-riding reason. They remain and gnaw at…
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I do not support the gynocentric state of society in the United States. Having everything oriented to serve and support women is extremely sexist. From education to health care the nation is slanted toward the benefit of women. All the schools have been feminized. Boys are treated as if they are incomplete girls. Many times…
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