Fret, worry, anger, anxiety, your emotions are on automatic. Your memory, mostly images, or thoughts without form, seem to initiate emotional reactions in the same degree as actual reality. Naturally, memories are desirable in order to learn, and to not make the same mistakes over and over.     The flaw, I think, is that the memories…

    A fervent believer considers his/her god the one and only. As a result, all other gods of other belief systems are looked upon as abominations. A religion expects a believer to support and spread its particular dogma. It usually condemns the followers of any other belief system as being lost souls headed toward a nasty…

The world is celebrating. A crazy man has been thwarted from creating another Reich. Trump will not get a second term. Now, just what could cause a man to behave so childishly, so foolishly? What do his creditors hold over him? Who are his puppet masters? Notably, Russia is not happy. Is it their bidding…

Is the United States going down? Despite the efforts of the GOP that has not been decided yet. Trump has used the GOP and religion in what has been a very successful effort to divide the nation. In the United States the glue that holds us together has never been very strong. So many factions,…

    The stage is set, the players are poised, the script has been forced upon us all.The audience is the world.     All that is left is for the puppet masters to begin the show.

Not only is time travel possible, you do it every day. Your body moves forward in time each day. Your body supports your travel forward through time. How far forward you travel depends on many factors. It depends on the location on earth where you are situated, genetics, your wealth, your care. The support mechanisms…

►The requirements of being a human being are too difficult. ►Feelings are an impediment to serenity. ►Conflict from misunderstandings is too frequent. ►Socialization is becoming frantic as some demand more and more “diversity”, meaning conflicting cultures, in groups. ►The discipline of human beings is highly questionable. They know what needs to be done but prefer…

Due to harassment by a former Facebook friend I will now approve comments before they appear. So sorry for the change but I can find no other way to block this fellow.

Originally posted on Freethinker's corner: How do you punish a murderer? Someone takes a life, whether remorseful or not, is still a murderer. Do you take the murderer’s life? Does this bring back the murdered? Does this do anything but make a murderer out of the whole of society? If you think a life…