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skipper wrote a new post, Vladimir 2 years, 8 months ago
Mariner often has made the argument that older politicians cannot properly interpret the broad picture of a world in which they did not grow up. It occurs to mariner that Vladimir Putin is a classic example. […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Checkpoints 2 years, 8 months ago
֎ The Iowa spring has been slow to start; the ground is still too cold for most vegetables. It rains three days out of five and the daytime temperature refuses to stay as high as the 60s. Iowa has had so much […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Who makes the decisions in your life? 2 years, 8 months ago
Lately mariner has been writing about truth – aka reality – especially as it applies to an environment of disbursed information not relative to local reality. Another form of truth-stealing is mariner’s old favor […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Truth shall make you Whole 2 years, 8 months ago
Is it right, either spiritually, politically or culturally, for one person (Musk, Zuckerberg et al) to own a conduit to the truth? Is this a new form of dictatorship? Do we already live in an oligarchical state? […]
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skipper commented on the post, Then and Now 2 years, 8 months ago
I share your anxiety, Robert. Interestingly, the college curriculum is a target in today’s chopped-up culture. As for us old folk knowing what we’re doing, I am reminded of a double jigsaw puzzle I had to solve. It was two different images with all the pieces mixed together. I gave up early on. To us codgers, the world social order is like that…[Read more]
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skipper wrote a new post, Then and Now 2 years, 8 months ago
From when he was five years old, mariner still has a few memories. The war was still on. He remembers city blackouts and fearing a bomber was coming until he could discern it was just the train at the end of the […]
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I share your anxiety, Robert. Interestingly, the college curriculum is a target in today’s chopped-up culture. As for us old folk knowing what we’re doing, I am reminded of a double jigsaw puzzle I had to solve. It was two different images with all the pieces mixed together. I gave up early on. To us codgers, the world social order is like that puzzle – does ANYONE know what the picture is supposed to look like? At least the planet is trying to push back.
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skipper wrote a new post, These are the times . . . 2 years, 8 months ago
֎ Illinois law bans schools from fining students. So local police are doing it for them, issuing thousands of tickets a year for truancy, vaping, fights and other misconduct. Children are then thrown into a legal […]
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skipper wrote a new post, If you’re past 50, pay attention 2 years, 8 months ago
As regular readers know, mariner has been an advocate of maintaining strength in the quadriceps, the leg muscles that lift us every day. The primary enemy is the chair. One must, must, must, must do a few reps of […]
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This is a great video! I will plan to watch it every day!
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skipper wrote a new post, A new definition for Musk Ox 2 years, 8 months ago
Yes, the subject is Elon Musk. The article below from Axios is an important read. His ascendancy and power remind mariner of the Edwardian Age in England when money and wealth controlled government, society and […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Fleeting thoughts 2 years, 8 months ago
Everyone has those moments when a totally irrelevant thought jumps into consciousness for no reason and just as quickly disappears. However that thought leaves a minor unresolved puzzle for a few lingering […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Fitting in 2 years, 8 months ago
Every one of us likes to think we have a romantic side. Being romantic is a soft, rewarding experience; we feel we are making the world a more cohesive and friendly place. Anyone with a serious hobby has a notion […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Another world on this world 2 years, 9 months ago
Mariner is judgmental about most things happening in the world today but every once in a while he discovers a different world. This time it is the Ashaninka indigenous people living in the Amazon River wilderness […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Hello? 2 years, 9 months ago
Mariner tries not to complain too much but the AI world makes it hard not to complain. Not only will Alexi eavesdrop, it will be able to advise callers about your mood. Alexi could say to a sales person, “No, d […]
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skipper commented on the post, Is it the Tower of Babel all over again? 2 years, 9 months ago
To make the answer really short, this event took place right after the flood at a time when God told his people to spread out and multiply. God stopped the Babel project by screwing up the languages. I found a good accounting at
https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/the-real-reason-god-had-to-destroy-the-tower-of-babel.html -
skipper wrote a new post, Is it the Tower of Babel all over again? 2 years, 9 months ago
Genesis 11:1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them […]
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I’m familiar with the tower of Babel story, but why did god confuse their language when they were building a tower toward “him”? I absolutely agree that the gods of social media have come down and confused many things for many people.
I coordinate programs for people 60 and better and most of them aren’t on social media so maybe I work in a last bastion where people exclusively connect face-to-face and hands-on the back of their Chair Yoga chair.
On the liberty and justice for all front, I’m on the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging committee at Hudson Guild so we’re doing our due diligence on a small scale. My aspiration is to make my little division, the NORC, a model Inner City NORC–one hands-on, mask-to-mask, interaction at a time.
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To make the answer really short, this event took place right after the flood at a time when God told his people to spread out and multiply. God stopped the Babel project by screwing up the languages. I found a good accounting at
https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/the-real-reason-god-had-to-destroy-the-tower-of-babel.html
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skipper wrote a new post, Puzzled 2 years, 9 months ago
Mariner’s three alter egos, Guru, Amos and Chicken Little, are apprehensive. It seems the entire world is a pot of stew about to boil out of the pot making a huge mess. Perhaps it is similar to a hot air balloon s […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Did you know? 2 years, 9 months ago
Not only can one make ghost guns, one can make ghost kidneys.
Denver, Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, El Paso, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix and San Diego may not be sustainable by the end of the 21st century […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Why? 2 years, 9 months ago
Mariner is a ‘why’ person. An intensely why person. He instinctively searches for the broadest explanation of why something is. Today’s world is an enigma. Why is democracy cracking around the world? Why are autoc […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Happy Easter 2 years, 9 months ago
Even if the weather isn’t cooperating, Spring is leaping forward. Mariner’s seed trays are full of little plants eager to be put in the garden. Just today he received red onion plants; they must go directly int […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Marching Forward 2 years, 9 months ago
֎ As if there weren’t enough disruption to what reality is, the age of cryptocurrency is coming to our governments. Cities and states, as well as other nations, already are at the stage of experimenting with bl […]
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