Thoughts
Friday, May 23, 2025
When people tell you they doubt science, they think science is an institution like religion. It’s not. It’s a method for determining physical reality. So if someone opposes, or even doubts, what science has uncovered, they are also questioning the scientific method.
Observe Hypothesize Predict Test Predictions. This step is the reason why a hypothesis or theory has to be falsifiable. Reproduce
The scientific method is a process. Those 5 steps must be taken in order to assert something as reality.
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Friday, May 23, 2025
Many of us feel this way but have always been accused of being lonely or anti-social. That’s not it at all. We don’t have to be isolated from people all the time, but the time we enjoy most is when we’re alone with our thoughts, ourselves. We’ve accepted and embraced who we are.
“Isolophilia, a term that might sound unfamiliar, refers to a unique and often misunderstood phenomenon: a deep passion for solitude.
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Saturday, May 17, 2025
One negative aspect of having lived this long is that I’m tired of dealing with the same shit over and over again. On a personal level as well as the national and international level. Seventy years isn’t long enough to see radical social reform, so I just keep seeing the same reality repeated daily.
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Saturday, May 10, 2025
If the past and future were as real as this moment, you could be there, like you’re here now. But you can’t, you can only imagine you’re there. So evidently they only exist in your mind, in your memories and your imagination. They are not real. They can be relevant for teaching or planning, but they will never exist like this moment exists. This moment is what life is. Live this moment to its fullest.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Despite dealing with lifelong depression, various addictions (cocaine was the worst), and a life that had no direction and thus no accomplishments, I’ve never been suicidal.
I’m too curious about tomorrow.
But when I see where this world is headed, I almost, almost, wish I could be.
I’m an old white man. This world has been ruined by old white men. Our country is being torn apart because white men are losing their privileged status.
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Thursday, November 28, 2024
I can’t imagine anything to be thankful for this year. Trump was elected, the democratic republic appears doomed, humanity still can’t live in harmony with nature, and to top it off I’ve just learned that I have to move in 6 months from the living arrangements I’ve enjoyed for a decade. I’m not pitying myself, just assessing reality.
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Sunday, May 21, 2023
All my adult life I played in a stage production called “My Working Life”. At work I wore a uniform (costume) and acted according to a script (the expectations of the job/my employers). I wasn’t me at work, I was a character in a play which earned me money that was used to enjoy my real life. In fact I took great pains not to mix my professional and private lives.
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