Category: Broad Generalizations

Man Has Created Life

…but this is not a big deal. (News to which this post refers) The name of this post would be more accurate if it was “Man Has Finally Figured Out How to Copy Nature, A Little.” An organic being is still a mechanical one, just as much as a robot on a plant assembly line [...]

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On Rights

When people talk about rights, what they’re really talking about is power. Rights are an expression of freedom, freedom from the restricting influence of others.

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Interests and Options in the Healthcare Debate

Here I undertake a broad analysis of the different interests and perspectives of the healthcare debate, including: Cutting Costs (why healthcare is so expensive and what can be done about it), Health in America (the forgotten yet centrally important issue),  The Two Moralities Concerning a Right to Healthcare (briefly, on account of the esoteric nature [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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