Sadly, there is no mechanism by which this civilization can rethink the way it apportions wealth and power. As suggested at left, this is the reason for the ever-widening gap between rich and poor, not to mention the deterioration of …
Category: Sustainability
Tolstoy on Being Human
Here’s another way of defining “woke,” i.e., feeling the pain of others.
If God Is Good, ……
To answer the reader’s question at left: People have been talking about this since the dawn of the spoken word. The usual argument is that God gave us free will, which means that it’s up to us to choose one …
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Some of Us Are Adamant that the Winter Holiday Season Is About Christmas
A reader notes about the meme here: Merry Christmas brings an awkward silence when I say it. Oh well, too bad. The holiday IS Christmas. Yes, the holiday is Christmas, except for the dozens of other religions that celebrate holidays …
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In Terms of Spirituality We Separate Ourselves from Other Animals, But Why?
Most adherents to the world’s religions believe that human beings are, in essence, souls that go on to some form of afterlife when they die. Yet, as far as I’m aware, there are no such provisions made for our fellow …
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A Message of Peace from the Great Pythagoras
Living in peace is a skill that most of the modern world has not developed to any significant degree. Yet that doesn’t mean it can’t happen.
Kurt Vonnegut Was Among the Best of Us
If I were to name the ten most intelligent and morally wholesome people who ever lived, Vonnegut would be on the list. At left is my reasoning.
Music that Transports Us Can Be “About” Something
In my own less-than-sophisticated words I would say that program music is music that is about something. From Wikipedia: Program music or programmatic music is a type of instrumental art music that attempts to musically render an extramusical narrative. The narrative itself might be offered to …
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Our “Indecent Society”
It’s hard to know exactly what Kurt Vonnegut was referring to when he used the word “indecent” here. Maybe it’s just an amorphous combination of war, poverty, denial of healthcare, lack of clean water, and injustice. He was also a …
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