Why, if the human brain is infused with infinite potential beyond whatever science can discover and technology can achieve, is bringing the benediction so rare?
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thoughts on life
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There is a story, possibly apocryphal, of a Jewish woman exiting a cattle car at Auschwitz. She looks around at the hellscape, smells the burning flesh from the crematoriums, and…
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The beauty and quiet beside the stream at the upper end of the park that runs through town struck me immediately upon taking my seat. Sunlight bathed the water and…
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Monday was Labor Day in America, not Memorial or Veteran’s Day, but on my bike ride this morning I saw flag after flag flying from pillar to post on single-family…
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I’ve encountered many highly educated people who cannot tell the difference between an idea and an insight. To my mind, there is no more important distinction that a human being…
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Having things to look forward to is important, a central part of a healthy human life. But living entirely in terms of looking forward to things means never entering a…
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The Net is a favorite punching bag for the dinosaurs of mainstream media. They might as well be punching the air. Who can tell the difference between virtual and reality…
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Fifty years ago Will Durant, wrote, “We humans are the same trousered apes at 2000 miles an hour as when we had legs.” Given the consensus at present that the…