I hear a lot of roaring these days in emotional arguments. Emotional argument is an oxymoron. Argument is done with reason. Nothing comes from emotional roaring but annoying sound, signifying nothing
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I hear a lot of roaring these days in emotional arguments. Emotional argument is an oxymoron. Argument is done with reason. Nothing comes from emotional roaring but annoying sound, signifying nothing
In times of old - like twenty or thirty years ago - knowledge was held in esteem. Now it's not nearly as important as going viral on Tik-Tok.
Back in the late sixties I thought I might like to move to Denver. You know, the wild west, the mountains, maybe even a little of the old-time cowboy life.
Insurance is a gamble. You bet you'll win back the money you put in the Insurance pot. The Insurance company bets they'll keep most of it.
Psychological labels are benevolently intended. Too often the labeling results in people being treated with less respect than the respect accorded everyone else
Yes the person you're listening to may prattle on about nothing important. That's not the important part.
The important part is that you're listening. Someone else cares about them. Someone gives a damn. How amazing.
The one-world, no-more-war crowd has been taught that the only people who support war are war-mongering adventurers and stupid patriots.
What you’ve been trained to see inhibits you from seeing all that you could. That may be changing.
A few researchers have been looking into the possibility that the brain may not be doing all the thinking.
What if some zeros started plotting to become ones, twos, threes, or even more?
Humans chase fame, glory, riches, or any other achievement that might make their lives count to memorable purpose. If this human oddness could be explained to animals struggling to stay alive they would laugh in disbelief
There are many “good ole boys like me, neither city or country but somewhere between.I’m happy enough being somewhere between. I think it’s a blessing.
I guess we all agree that voting is the best way to truly guarantee the people's choice.
Betting doesn’t interest me. I have no enthusiasm for games of chance or for games in general.
Life allows me no escape from taking chances. I’d rather it didn’t. I certainly wouldn’t take chances for fun.
Great events, conversation, and
much else, drift where they will in unnoticed currents that move us to actions and places we never planned.
In my lifetime the America spirit of confident self-determination has been steadily eroded by ever-increasing acquiescence to, “experts”, “the-powers-that-be?, and useless thinking like, “It is what it is”.
News reports on judicial rulings constantly mislead; they regularly declare that some Court approved or rejected this-or-that policy. The judiciary is not empowered to decide whether a law is good or bad. They can only decide if a law is legally permissible