“Heaven’s Gate!”

“What?”

“Look, honey. It’s them, circling that asteroid!  They made it after all!”

“What on Earth are you talking about?”

“Nothing.  Nothing. On. Earth.”

“Sometimes even YOUR strangeness amazes me.”

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“How can you keep a hermit in suspense?”

“How?”

“Give him sixty dollars and promise you’ll stop by four days later, after church on Sunday, to buy two vehicles from him…but don’t show up.”

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Conceived by them and being near them for 50 years, I amazingly have only a few samples of my parents’ voices.

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If I perform manual, physical activities such as cutting back the vinca vine that constitutes our front lawn, washing/cleaning the 1962 Dodge Lancer and 1992 Chevy S10 4×2 pickup, repairing the door to the crawlspace to eliminate entry points for critters, and cleaning flower beds along the front sidewalk, I reduce the energy readily available for mental calculations.

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Who owns the businesses around me?

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What pebbles and crumbs am I scattering here in preparation for future blog entries?

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Are any parts of a money-based/barter economy evil to atheists?  How do people with a system of faith-based beliefs respond to inequity?  If condemning those who treat us unfairly/dishonestly to eternal damnation/hell is not enough while we’re alive here together on this planet, how do we create a distribution network that’s less unfair/dishonest?

How do those who hold true belief in a no-holds-barred competition for resources compete against and cooperate with those who hold true belief in sharing everything as if we’re one big family/community of quasi-equals?

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I dropped my habit of checking a social media site at the same time its employees admitted that the site uses various methods to censor free speech.

If everyone shares the public square and no one owns it, is free speech protected when the square is surrounded by adverts and CCTV?

What of one’s views and perceptions that are shaped before one enters the public square?

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When is an uprising the twist of a pressure relief valve and when is an uprising the start of large-scale social change?

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Can technological change travel backwards in imaginary time?  What is the new formula for entropy/complexity intersections?

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There is a chilling sensation in the back of my thoughts, as if I’ve remembered and forgotten something I wanted to say to you tonight.

Too many interruptions lately, distracting my thoughts.  I want to be alone but I am a social creature, a people pleaser, who doesn’t like being alone for very long.

Time to relax and fall back into my dreams, let the -ology of choice find me when I least require its presence.

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The carrier of a million-year message can afford to be patient.

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Repetition.  Repetition.

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Repetition.

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