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Divisive Presidents
Everyone can see how strong the political currents are flowing today; our president can’t even tell kids to stay in school without a major brouhaha in the media and among the American people. But why this upsurge in political activism and outrage?
It’s easy to make ignorant speculations without really knowing anything (RACISM!), but a little [...]
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Not the Only “Pessimist”!
Here’s a link to a financial company which predicts a global period of economic, social, and political upheaval beginning in the next few years.
People with bad news tend to be labelled pessimists and ignored because most people prefer feeling good to having a realistic perspective. Of course, this is only a temporary good feeling, because [...]
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Experiments
“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” -Emerson
I’ll go one step further and say that all lives are experiments. There are endless infinities standing before us, paths leading through life in every possible way; each of us is here to try one of them. There are two [...]
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McLimey
English
Proud, thoughtful, refined, moderate, communicative and articulate.
Dishonest, cold, distant, passive-aggressive, sensitive (especially to conflict)
Irish
Passionate, honest, humble, musical, welcoming, trusting, self-conscious yet eager
Sensitive, compulsive, morbidly obsessed with suffering, self-abasing (shame), confrontational
Faced with the task of rationalizing conflicting impulses, I’ve married refined English taste with the Irish’ passionate thirst for life, conquered Irish excess with English moderation, [...]
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Image and Party Politics
The Democrats: Party of intelligence and compassion.
The Republicans: Party of down-to-Earth realism and common sense.
If we truly want to be realistic, then we should face the fact that the two parties are fundamentally indistinguishable and in practice follow the same flawed policies, with only superficial differences designed to feed the image which the parties respectively [...]
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