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Sidelines

Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, tagged , , , , , , on February 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Don’t let me sit on the sidelines. Never let me watch others make the world go round. Never let me watch others dance the night away. Never let me see the band play on without me. Never let me… wait for others to suck it all in. This is all there is.

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This Life is All There Is – The Mother-Son Debates

Posted in death, religion, speculation, tagged , , , , , , on January 11, 2010 | 8 Comments »

Is this existence the only life we have?  no after life… no heaven… no hell?  is there karma? is there reincarnation? is there soul? Is there anything other than the 80 or so years most of us will “live”? What are the implications? Russell’s (Son) position: This is it.  My 28,105 days are all that [...]

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog Review and Questions

Posted in Book Reviews, anthropology, behavior, biology, determinism, philosophy, social science, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I completed my Elegance of the Hedgehog experience.  Indeed, this is a heartbreaking story.  It’s more than your average outcast meets cool stranger finds redemption. The story asks the big question: does life have any meaning? The book does the only thing you can do with that question… contextualize it, swirl it around, test it.  [...]

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Conterfactuals Continued…

Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Whenever an excuse or a wimpy explanation was offered to my Dad for anything adequate or less than adequate he would mumble in an aside… “If-shit-rabbit.” My brother and I went years well into adulthood before coming to know he was expressing exasperation with his unique short-hand version of a counterfactual: “If the dog had [...]

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Dry mouth personal epic spike – queue the music…

Posted in analysis of behavior, media, tagged , , , , , , , on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Have you ever had a period where the events and your surroundings conspired to mash together perfectly to take you away from your ordinary, usual, rarified and all too cool reality you live – transporting you to a level that is literally “whelming”?  …You ever had that?  I have.  I am doing it again; perhaps [...]

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