Category: Ethics
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Trust and Instincts – Yes
Do you trust your instincts? It took me ‘a while’ to trust my gut (instincts, if you will). Everything in our social conditioning from education to social gatherings infused me with the idea that everyone else’s opinions were more important, more ‘reasoned’, more real than my own. Therefore, I should listen to them and not…
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First Impressions
What’s the first impression you want to give people? This is not today’s prompt, but I finally decided how I’d answer it…; -) First impressions are just another name for the masks we wear. Why do we wear them? We wear them because we’ve been trained, conditioned by society’s gatekeepers (our parents, teachers, social, religious,…
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Deconstructing Sin
Deconstructing Sin What is sina fopauxintentional or notanother kind oftransgressionegregious or nota crime againstsocial individualmurder theftdeceit in other wordsis it puttingyourself firstin all thingssurvival ofthe fittestbeating breakingthe systemplaying byyour own orno rules sin is a wordan idea some finduseful and appealingin feeling betterabout themselvesfor their mis-perceivedconceivedlack thereofand thereforemore worthy oflife’s gifts andpleasuresrationalizationsfor turningblind eyes toperils…
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Small Decisions
Small Decisions small decisionscombined withproximity inspace/time’s flowestablishthe groundworkthe foundationsof social andpsychologicaledifices which house ourmajor crossroadsturning pointsand end points that ultimatelydefines eachhuman’s life –LE – 11/12/25
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Save Our VA Protest – 11/14/25
Our little group sported seven of us for this morning’s protest at the Ajo gate of the Tucson VA. Responses today were similar to last Friday’s, from 70-75% of those entering and leaving for the morning shift change (we were there from 6:30-8:15 am) responded. There was only one blatant negative response. All the rest…
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Delilah
Delilahby Tom Jones I saw the light on the night that I passed by her windowI saw the flickering shadow of love on her blindShe was my womanAs she deceived me I watched and went out of my mind My, my, my DelilahWhy, why, why DelilahI could see, that girl was no good for meBut…
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It’s Just Your Standard Mental Fog
The past few years have been filled with ‘mental fog’… Here’s hoping that some of it is finally starting to lift or at least dissipate a little. The protests of the last few months and recent elections would seem to suggest as much… I guess we’ll just have to wait and see … time will…
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Understanding The Universe
Or Universal Understanding, perhaps? Understanding The Universe No human mind can comprehendin all its complexitiesthe entirety of reality Even our tinyremote sectionin this far flung arm ofour relatively smallMilkyway is bekyondour ken And thenthere’s that quantum‘subgum’ If you think youunderstand the ‘subgum’then you don’tto paraphraseFeynman Add it all up andwhat do we find No ‘human’…
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Who, Indeed?
Who is the most famous or infamous person you have ever met? I once met Jimi Hendrix, so I’m told. I related the tale in my memoir section on the ‘New York Commune’: https://cynop.xyz/2023/07/19/the-new-york-commune-memoir-continued/ I did, however, meet Buckminster Fuller of geodesic dome fame at Publix bood store, at Playhouse Square, Cleveland, for a lecture…
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Can Your Hear Them?
Stifled Cries From time-to-time the stifled criesof our most honored lies Come spinning up from the depthsof my unconscious mind, The closest thing to connectionwith universal lives, Whispering a compelling storyof need and greed, Of hypocrisy that softens the mind’till the lies succeed. Sometimes, night or day,as I lounge and let my mind stray, I…
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