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skipper wrote a new post, Dry Rot 7 years, 10 months ago
Do you know what dry rot is? Have you ever seen old wood that looks like wood but is hollow because there is no pith left? Have you ever lifted what seemed to be a piece of cloth but it crumbled into a dry powder […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Yes, Virginia, there is more than Donald 7 years, 10 months ago
One grows tired of reacting to a failed democracy – especially when the faithful electorate hires a demolition expert to finish the job. Yet, we must be diligent; there is no second inning in this ball game. N […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Wisdom of Frugality 7 years, 10 months ago
The Wisdom of Frugality is the title of a second book in a group of readings that may provide a general understanding of today’s world, its philosophical, financial, social, and moral incentives.[1]
Harari w […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Emerging Worldwide Government of Oligarchy. 7 years, 10 months ago
Ever since the Illinois Governorship was bought effortlessly by five billionaires…Ever since the Koch brothers manipulated the 2016 campaign…Ever since Donald came on the scene…and looking back, ever since the 2 […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Rise of Authoritarianism. 7 years, 10 months ago
Chicken Little is whimpering in the henhouse. He whimpers more loudly when another indication of encroaching authoritarianism occurs. Online access to the press already is shut down. Now it’s the knowledge, d […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Here and There 7 years, 10 months ago
The mariner attended his county’s off-year caucus a few days ago. There were about 80 or so in attendance. As he told a friend, the room was full of millennials – from the last millennium. If the Democratic Par […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Samples that confirm Harari 7 years, 10 months ago
A few posts ago, mariner introduced the writings of Yuval Noah Harari, a renowned futurist who has provided books, articles, lectures and opinions about how to interpret today’s reality and project the i […]
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Maybe human history is mostly made up of ‘nice days’, and you only see the catastrophes when you take the long view. Maybe there is much to be said for the short view!
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skipper wrote a new post, Wait, the Taxes are still being Audited. 7 years, 10 months ago
Adam Davidson, a freelance journalist associated with PBS, wrote an article for New Yorker magazine that exposes neatly why Donald didn’t want to give up his taxes. When Donald was unexpectedly elected P […]
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skipper wrote a new post, About the Future of Voting 7 years, 10 months ago
The latest impact of the election is just beginning to trickle in. It is hard to glean from the mismanagement of the administration compounded by the old Republican Congressional machine (which includes many […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Yuval Noah Harari talks about the Future 7 years, 11 months ago
Frequent readers know the mariner has three alter egos: Chicken Little, whose fears are a response to imminent events, Amos, a skeptic and critic of human ethic and behavior, and Guru, a futurist, generalist and […]
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Good advice! When I had a desk job, a chiropractor told me that she could tell by my spine that I “needed to look up more” and it struck me as sort of profound…
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skipper wrote a new post, Emolument Clause Grows Weaker 7 years, 11 months ago
Mariner was depending heavily on the Emolument Clause in the Constitution to be the baseball bat that would make Donald sit up and make a decision whether he was a business man or the President of a Democratic […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Generalisms 7 years, 11 months ago
Mariner has been writing often about myths. Myths are a legitimate, indeed critical part of religious understanding; without myths, the indescribable spirituality we draw from our faith would not be possible. From […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Can Love Create Matter? 7 years, 11 months ago
Today, religious folk are having a hard time with spiritual icons. Viewing the main religions over two thousand years, it is obvious religious institutions have inserted disciplined belief systems which largely […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Are You Willing to have sex to pay for Education? 7 years, 11 months ago
Sharyl Attkisson is an independent, somewhat conservative news journalist. She covers stories that are one step away from “Big News” stories that often are more telling than splashy headlines. Attkisson unc […]
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skipper wrote a new post, For Richer, For Poorer 7 years, 11 months ago
Recently, the liberal economists and the conservative economists began expressing growing concern about the same thing: inequality. Virtually every validated and respected futurist, economist, even international […]
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This is why I voted for Bernie in the primary. I’m not sure he could have changed much, but he was shedding light on the issue. He called it a political revolution and if inequality continues to grow, eventually there will be revolution. The video mention the Arab spring as one such example.
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skipper wrote a new post, If One Loves, One Loves Alone. 7 years, 11 months ago
A couple of readers commented that the mariner has not written much about Donald and the Federal and state Governments. That is true. Mariner has written pointed letters to his Senators and Representative and […]
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Not alone! There are many of us! Sending love to your red state.
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skipper wrote a new post, Religion Starter Kit – III 7 years, 11 months ago
There are a few satanic religions and a few pragmatic religions, for example, capitalism, communism, socialism, Nazism, etc. But many hundreds of standard religions have the premise that a religion is here to do […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Why a Starter Kit is attempted. 7 years, 11 months ago
As mariner suspected, suggesting the definition of pieces that together comprise a base for religious practice is challenged by many who have unique beliefs already in place. Mariner has no business disturbing […]
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skipper commented on the post, Religion Starter Kit – II 7 years, 11 months ago
Robert, you appear already well founded in your faith. That is an advantage over the Starter Kit. You can imagine the mariner trying to put together a skin-and-bones instruction manual on how to reintroduce religious values into one’s daily life. If any premise thwarted your faith or theology, it was not intended. Religion is a very personal…[Read more]
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skipper wrote a new post, Religion Starter Kit – II 7 years, 11 months ago
Review your accomplishments.
You are aware that there is a different kind of existence than you know in your current life; your current life exists in a state of duality. The different existence is a state of […]
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I can accept God as a singularity, but I cannot accept that that Singularity is a mindless aimless thing. I have to believe that this Singularity is headed somewhere and we are part of this movement. That being said, I feel it is right for us to respect this Singularity. I feel that I can get in touch with the Singularity through prayer, ritual, and music. Religion without these is, for me, a dry sterile thing.
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Robert, you appear already well founded in your faith. That is an advantage over the Starter Kit. You can imagine the mariner trying to put together a skin-and-bones instruction manual on how to reintroduce religious values into one’s daily life. If any premise thwarted your faith or theology, it was not intended. Religion is a very personal construct. The Starter Kit attempts to lay a road to positive ethics that will hold the course in one’s life while oppressed by the negative abuses we experience in the present.
Singularity is an important concept that often is not addressed in traditional afterlife – instead being pushed aside to paint a three dimensional heaven with nothing but reunions. Even this image is accepted if that anticipation represents perfection and is a reward for living a positive life. The bottom line is none of us living folk have experienced singularity as a holistic life experience but as you anticipate, it is a dynamic perfection, not a static one.
Look at singularity as a glorious experience that will be meaningful to you, not a communist ward of blandness. Look at singularity as a state of continuous bliss with duality left behind.-
You didn’t thwart my faith or theology, in fact what you’ve been saying is, I think, right on the button. It’s good stuff. Keep it up. Your latest post about love, seems to me, says it all. Love must be the big “antibiotic” for the “germs” (racism, selfishness, bigotry, xenophobia etc., etc.) that infest our current society. But it’s really really hard for me to manifest any love for some of the characters on today’s landscape. I do try, but I constantly fail.
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True, Marc but how many learn to be dumb then fade into dry rot?
You mean we get too soon oldt und too late schmart? I’m sorry, but I don’t think of myself as a piece of dry rot. I believe that we must be heading toward something better even when there are speedbumps (e.g., Attila the Hun, Cromwell, Hitler, ISIS, T****, et al.). It seems to me that, on a strictly biological level, evolution slowly moves toward something better simply to survive. I have to believe this is happening on a spiritual level too. But I’ll admit it’s really hard to see nowadays.
Trust me, Robert. Dry Rot is virtually invisible and is insidious. That’s the tricky thing about it; everything still looks normal and appears to be working fine. A book collection may be full of information that promotes growth, newness and vitality. Then one discovers it’s just a piece of plywood with spine covers attached.
The path to biological improvement and spiritual wisdom is not automatic or predetermined. Each of us must cut our path as we go. It’s like living in a fine old house for many years then deciding to refurbish it. When mariner lived in Westport, he experienced the task of removing ancient wallpaper from the walls. No one likes provoked change – not even old houses.
I appreciate this post because it is a practical warning and a call to action. I like how you describe that everything seems normal on the outside, but dry rot is insidious–it hides on the inside. Thanks.