1 — if you believe the story that it was passed to humans via a creature being eaten, explain why it just happens to occur now when the USA has been engaged in a culture and economic war with China? Why not decades ago? The Chinese have been eating all sorts of things you might find strange for a very long time … why now?
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It’s interesting when I meet random people over coffee at a cafe, strike up a conversation about a mutual point of agreement, but then the conversation strays into territory where it’s obvious they’re out of their depth, and yet still hold fervent beliefs despite their clear lack of ever having really contemplated the issues with any great depth beyond that which they were raised to believe — and which seems sensible to them, because it is a narrative told, usually when they were young, by those they trust ( parents, friends, relatives etc. ). Continue reading “On THINKING”
Psychic prediction
Ok, this isn’t really psychic, but I thought that was an apt name for the article.
hypothetical:
A hypothetical rock starts rolling down a hypothetical mountainside, slowly at first, then gathering speed it rolls through some mud which completely cakes the rock in an inch thick layer … and on this strange hypothetical mountain, it then encounters a patch of small broken sticks, then rolls across ice which freezes the mud and traps the sticks in it, then it rolls across gravel that gets stuck between all the sticks;
Superbugs and flesh eating bacterium
I was reading an article the other day about a woman who died as a consequence of flesh eating bacterium, and it made me think a few things which prompted this article.
Firstly, I will guarantee you that the world will continue to take the wrong approach to this unless they think in the way I’m about to suggest — hence the motivation to educate them before they make matters worse as they’ve been continuing to do so far … secondly I’ll bet a lot of people will deny what I’m about to say, and then it will later be proven correct.
Why is a vegan diet healthier?
Just a quick article to share what is ( to me at least ) a statement of the bleeding obvious that for some reason people just don’t seem to get.
Imagining waste
So you’ve just done Christmas with the family eh?
- How many presents were bought by one family member or friend of the family for another ( on average )?
- How much wrapping paper, synthetics, sticky-tape, ribbons, and other superfluous package was used per gift?
- How many component parts of the present, and how much of the packaging & wrapping were biodegradable?
- What is the lifespan of the utility of the gift?
What happens to greed?
There’s a lot of valid questions I’ve been asked about my work and the vision it expresses, although these questions are usually asked in a very poor – even invalid – format, so I have to reinterpret the question, in order to help the querent understand their own question, and therefore understand the answer.
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Gender pay gap and negotiation confidence
I was just looking at a Linked In profile after sending a happy birthday message from the reminders, and the person in question had a project about closing the gender pay gap. So thought I’d share something with you that I wrote to them ( edited ). Continue reading “Gender pay gap and negotiation confidence”
MY DREAM – if I had the money to do it
If I had the money, I’d do the following: Continue reading “MY DREAM – if I had the money to do it”
Capitalism: the junkie needs an intervention
Capitalism is like a junkie silently screaming: “PLEASE HELP ME! I CAN’T STOP!” – and I say silently screaming, because on the surface it still refuses to admit it has a problem; but the truth is getting even worse than that, and more like the serial killer saying: “someone stop me, because I’m going to keep killing”.
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