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skipper wrote a new post, What kind of a person are you? 3 years, 10 months ago
When mariner was young his father was attending seminary. His father was entertained by pop psychology, a term that implied, through simplistic descriptions, the behaviorisms of human beings. Mariner has carried […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The truth shall make you whole 3 years, 10 months ago
As part of his Great Culling Project, mariner was thumbing through an old college book about philosophy when he came across the word ‘epistemology’. The definition from a philosophy book reads: Epistemology is the […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Have you heard the (ugh) news? 3 years, 10 months ago
World news, US news, local news, human news, environment news – all are disturbing. Is it the disorganization of global humanity? Perhaps it’s that there is nothing that is improving or that so much individual suf […]
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I braced myself for a diatribe about the news of the world, but this was a surprisingly uplifting post. “We have only our faith in ourselves, our ability to remain humane and courteous, our tenacity at remaining sane even in a social vacuum, and our commitment to accomplishment–if only to survive.” That is a great statement of the human spirit and relevant to the large and small challenges of every age. Thank you for this humane, courteous and inspiring post!
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skipper wrote a new post, It’s a strange world 3 years, 10 months ago
There is a legitimate scientific theory that we live in multiple universes. Not each one separate from the other but conjoined in the same physical space. This theory exists because it is a way to solve certain […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Some of this, some of that 3 years, 10 months ago
֎ Strolling about on the search engine, as is mariner’s wont, he came across an infrequent word that took him back to college/preacher days when he was reading about religion, philosophy and logic and as a pr […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Keep a Close Eye – things are changing 3 years, 10 months ago
Mariner submitted a post yesterday warning of a political tendency toward authoritarianism saying that it was a prominent movement in local jurisdictions across the nation. In this morning’s mail Nate Silver at 5 […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Yes, Virginia, one day Santa may have to move to Antarctica 3 years, 10 months ago
֎ Mariner has written in past posts about Earth’s polar magnetic field flipping erratically in the Bering Sea and the southern Atlantic. The following summary is copied from the current Science Ma […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Do you have a degree in economics? 3 years, 11 months ago
Do you have a degree in theology? Do you have a degree in history, sociology, and political science? If you have these degrees, you have the tools to fathom the depths of world and U.S. circumstances.
Mariner […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The good old, old, really old days 3 years, 11 months ago
Mariner officially retired from his professions around the age of sixty-seven. He can’t speak for other retirees but he has drifted away from modern innovations and new technologies. Each year he finds himself r […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Hero Children 3 years, 11 months ago
It was Joseph Campbell, an unusually gifted anthropologist and sociologist that described our lives akin to traveling the hero’s path. Our life experience is an experience similar to that of the hero Jason, king o […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Life in a moment 3 years, 11 months ago
This post is provided by Mariner’s wife. All her life she has been a poet extraordinaire. She has the skill to express insight and create association but at the same time her poems dig deep into the reader, l […]
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I read To a Mouse–and did not remember the famous lines ‘the best laid plans of mice and men…’ were from that poem. I had to read it side by side with an English translation! Thank you for reminding me of that poem, and for your interest in seeing more of mine. I should use these long winter days to organize my papers!
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skipper wrote a new post, Cleaning the archives 3 years, 11 months ago
Mariner still is culling through old documents, deleting many and moving others, long lost, to the appropriate folder. The following is an old item written by Derek Thompson of The Atlantic. Mariner wonders […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Repurposed Churches 3 years, 11 months ago
The following article was in a November 2018 copy of The Atlantic magazine. Mariner thought it may be an interesting read. In the Methodist denomination if a church closes, church buildings and property revert to […]
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Thanks or no thanks to the pandemic, this is becoming more relevant all the time. But the pandemic also complicates things because you can’t use the available space to bring people together. Our church fellowship hall has been repurposed as a classroom during the covid crisis, which might lead to creative thinking about other uses for that space when the school district doesn’t need it anymore.
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skipper wrote a new post, As the World Turns 3 years, 11 months ago
One of the characteristics of life today is that there is a sense among people around the world that something just isn’t right. The global nature of this uneasiness makes it difficult for each citizen to i […]
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Meanwhile the population grows and the phosphate rock dwindles. Small miracles: forget the chemical warfare and thank God for Fritz Haber and his process. Nuclear fission, glorious pinnacle of immediately-post-colonial Science that it may be, cost us a lot more and gave us a lot less.
Speaking of nuclear weapons, the major drawdown of U.S. and Soviet/Russian stockpiles (and the major financial strain facing both of us, somehow) has resulted in a serious deficiency of the versatile, critically-important isotopes tritium and helium-3 (only obtainable by the decay of tritium, or mining the surface of the damned moon, which is apparently even more expensive than waiting for reactor-bred tritium to decay.) That the global fleet of CANDU reactors is approaching end-of-life doesn’t help the situation one bit. An argument for rearmament? Of course not, but without that spur it seems the U.S. has little interest in continuing investment in the H3/He3 supply chain. Which is too bad, because we’re the only source the Western world has for that stuff.
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skipper wrote a new post, Life as a Supernumerary 3 years, 11 months ago
Is the reader familiar with the word ‘supernumerary’? Mariner first read the word in his college days reading about ancient Japanese culture instead of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. In ancient Japanese cultu […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Meanwhile 3 years, 12 months ago
Because of the anthropological tumult in today’s world, mariner hasn’t visited the world of the sciences for a while. Here are a few updates:
֎ Invest in European real estate now before the rush
In the […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Do you remember that time when . . . 3 years, 12 months ago
There is an advertisement on television at the moment that shows a group of young people doing the limbo at night under the colored lights of a hamburger shack. Seeing this caught mariner’s full attention. He h […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The long and short of it 3 years, 12 months ago
This one is long: The first ‘human’ to evolve was Homo habilis who appeared 2.4 million years ago and survived for about 1 million years. A similar neighbor who came along about the same time was H. rud […]
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skipper wrote a new post, It IS our Nation 3 years, 12 months ago
It was a long, relaxing day as the nation witnessed the transition from King Donald to President Biden. One sensed that a great sigh of relief blew across the United States; even the hardened press corps seemed to […]
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skipper wrote a new post, January 6 4 years ago
The attack on the US Capitol was violent; it consumed news organizations, social media, professional politics, corporate behavior and fringe organizations primarily associated with white supremacy. Five people […]
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I think I’m a “why” person. When I first started at my last job I was obsessed with understanding how my responsibilities and tasks fit into the larger picture. I may have a little “how” blood in me as well. I’m definitely a squiggly line guy!