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Bother The Cynics
Sometimes, it can be easy to let the cynics and naysayers of the world get you down. The algorithms of the world amplify their nonsense and make them seem more numerous than they are. But you know a secret? They’re never the ones that get the final word. That honor belongs to the doers. History…
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Community Is All of Us
I have a confession that I think we can all make: There have been times that I have taken community for granted. I have thought of it as simply something that’s “there”, that somebody else takes care of. But that’s wrong. Community is a living thing that we all have a place in. There are…
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Dependability And Mea Culpas
I strive to be dependable, both to others and to myself. For others, I think I have a pretty sterling record. For myself, not as much. Back in 2024, I wrote this article about dependability and why it’s important. I also stated there that one of my goals was writing an article a week. Whelp,…
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Normal Is Just A Word
We have this odd tendency to think that being normal is a good thing, and being weird is a bad thing. If you think about it, deep down we’re all pretty weird, and it’s impossible to define normal anyway. Being weird or unusual isn’t a sin. It’s not even a flaw. If God had intended…
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You’re Not A Victim, You’re A Hero
I get extremely tired of listening to people try to paint themselves as victims. It seems like all political parties in this country routinely operate on this identity of victimhood. And if I may say so, it’s pathetic. Have some of us been wronged? Certainly! Some of us have been abused. Some of us have…
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Don’t Be A Slave To Fear
Unfortunately, as human beings, we are highly susceptible to fear. Fear plagues us. It probably goes back to our ancestors. Sometimes, being a coward probably helped them to avoid getting eaten, to survive, and to reproduce. I for one, am glad my ancestors weren’t eaten by tigers before reproducing, but I’m not a fan of…
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On Not Being a Tool
It seems like nobody should need to be told this, but sometimes, some people need to hear it: Don’t be a tool. It seems a sad waste of a life to spend it as a cog in someone else’s machine. Are all men not born with an innate purpose? Why should anyone live and die…
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Maxims I Would Like To Inspire In The Young (At Heart)
As many others do, I look out over our society. I see plenty of things I like, but I also see plenty of things going wrong. I see us not living up to our full potential. I’ve thought about some of the patterns of thinking and conduct that hold us back. The causes of some…