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Angst Chapter Two: Walking Behind Slow-Walking Women
I would very much like to move more quickly to my destination, but I must get around this beautiful creature sauntering at such a below-average pace.
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Angst Chapter One: Race
What I learned during my grade school days in the 70s was anything but racist. In fact, the newly minted public education system, in an effort to make us “not racist,” introduced the concept of “racism” to us.
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21st Century Communication Theory
Parroting dramatic language on social media (and therefore, like it or not, in real life) is diminishing our motivation and—to some extent—our ability to choose precise words. The pool of original ideas based on self experience is slowly and subtly being replaced with words relating to how the experience of others is constantly communicated via…
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The Dog Children
No, your dog is not “your child.” Keeping a pet, you are a steward of another lifeform. Such pets as dogs and cats, however, come with clear sets of do’s and don’ts. You can fool yourself about selfless time spent caring for them, but such frivolity involves very little self-sacrifice, and even less personal risk.…
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faith is not comfort
the path toward attainment is fraught with doubt and loneliness. simplicity makes so little sense to those caught in opaque illusions. self mastery means changing one’s mind (often, at a certain level of detailed free thinking). this is mistaken for “being wrong” by most (rather than “growth of consciousness”). so they avoid honing their awareness.…
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