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Thoughts Explained: April 2012
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I just wanted a space where I could write in a semi-academic fashion about topics that were bothersome or interesting. The scope of this writing will be within the topics of moral issues, science, skepticism or occasionally the sobering explanations of drunken tirades. April 14, 2012. It looks like I'm not the only one either, as there are songs. Entitled Jesusaurus Rex, a pretty funny youtube video. A Wikipedia style page. And a few pictures on Google images. This seemed pretty lighthearted and silly, a...
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Thoughts Explained: September 2011
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I just wanted a space where I could write in a semi-academic fashion about topics that were bothersome or interesting. The scope of this writing will be within the topics of moral issues, science, skepticism or occasionally the sobering explanations of drunken tirades. September 15, 2011. Margarine, Cheez Whiz and Plastic - Turning Gold Into Lead. Yet, before I deal with the actual question, is margarine and Cheez Whiz really chemically close to plastic? For anyone who could come up with a cheap butter s...
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Attempted Essays: The Sad, Mad World we Live in
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Ideas, philosophy, politics, current events and happenings, music, literature, art and simple incidents out of my everyday life; Reflections and observations which, I hope, might just get you thinking . Wednesday, 7 January 2015. The Sad, Mad World we Live in. Do you know the feeling, that feeling of anger and disgust at the amount of fucked-up stupidity, evil and hopelessness in the world? And the Front National. Here in Germany in the past number of weeks we’ve been treated to the dubious spectac...
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Attempted Essays: Complexity Meditation
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Ideas, philosophy, politics, current events and happenings, music, literature, art and simple incidents out of my everyday life; Reflections and observations which, I hope, might just get you thinking . Monday, 27 January 2014. I was in an aeroplane, more than seven miles up, when I started thinking about the complexity of things. I have never been very good at this. They don’t know my fucking hamster. He’s a persistent little bugger, and he enjoys the space provided by the initial phases of the me...
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Attempted Essays: October 2012
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Ideas, philosophy, politics, current events and happenings, music, literature, art and simple incidents out of my everyday life; Reflections and observations which, I hope, might just get you thinking . Wednesday, 24 October 2012. Little Kübra was pulled with forceps lifeless into this world; something having gone wrong with the supply of blood and life-giving oxygen through the umbilical at some stage of the birth. But the delivery team got working with all their collective expertise, and all the wo...
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Attempted Essays: May 2012
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Ideas, philosophy, politics, current events and happenings, music, literature, art and simple incidents out of my everyday life; Reflections and observations which, I hope, might just get you thinking . Saturday, 26 May 2012. 1987 - A Very Good Year? In her latest post. My fellow blogger, Lisa Golden, asks the question, “Imagine 1987 as the future and not the shrinking image in the rearview mirror. What do you see? One of the big hits of 1986 and one of the songs we used as the soundtrack for the perfect...
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Attempted Essays: Walking Slowly
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Ideas, philosophy, politics, current events and happenings, music, literature, art and simple incidents out of my everyday life; Reflections and observations which, I hope, might just get you thinking . Friday, 17 January 2014. I have started to practice walking slowly. At any rate that’s the way it happened with me. Walking was primarily a way from getting from A to B, and it was obviously advantageous to do so as quickly as possible. Brisk – walk. But even at the worst of the depression in September I ...
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Attempted Essays: Family Histories 1: The Cowboy
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Ideas, philosophy, politics, current events and happenings, music, literature, art and simple incidents out of my everyday life; Reflections and observations which, I hope, might just get you thinking . Sunday, 24 February 2013. Family Histories 1: The Cowboy. Lord Lorton doubtlessly would have seen it differently. Had he not accepted responsibility for the evicted tenants and given them an alternative, land reclaimed from the mountain in the townland of Cornameelta? Land where you could barely grow a fe...
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Attempted Essays: December 2012
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Ideas, philosophy, politics, current events and happenings, music, literature, art and simple incidents out of my everyday life; Reflections and observations which, I hope, might just get you thinking . Sunday, 23 December 2012. A Kind of Christmas Card . The (temporary) creative pause. So that communication between people who didn’t meet regularly was limited to pen and paper, envelopes and stamps, and a postman on a bicycle. I don’t know if people still decorate their living rooms in Ireland toda...