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Free Range: February 2014
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For those of you who haven't been reading since the beginning, most of the non-fiction posts really need to be read in sequence as they tend to build on each other. Thursday, February 27, 2014. The universe is derived from an ultimate principle of spiritual consciousness, the one and only existent from eternity. Frank Herbert, Destination: Void. This is from Orson Scott Card’s Xenocide, playing around with similar concepts. This way it makes a weird kind of sense. 8220;No size at all. 8221; said Grego.
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Free Range: RE: Ignorance is Bliss
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For those of you who haven't been reading since the beginning, most of the non-fiction posts really need to be read in sequence as they tend to build on each other. Wednesday, July 16, 2014. RE: Ignorance is Bliss. So Nate, at first your comment wasn’t showing and now it is, but I’m reblogging it here with some thoughts. But suppose I had just watched families turn into clans, tribes, nations and empires on the strength of violence, ambition, and networks- and that I wanted to write an Origins story that...
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Free Range: May 2014
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For those of you who haven't been reading since the beginning, most of the non-fiction posts really need to be read in sequence as they tend to build on each other. Wednesday, May 14, 2014. A long time ago, a silly, little boy tried to write a silly, not-so-little book. In that book he wrote about two trees. The writing is clumsy, but some key concepts are there…. 8230;Two tall silhouettes, their branches slightly swaying in the night breeze, caught his attention and he forgot about all else. And yet he ...
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Free Range: July 2014
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For those of you who haven't been reading since the beginning, most of the non-fiction posts really need to be read in sequence as they tend to build on each other. Friday, July 25, 2014. I'm on vacation this week so I have a little extra time for things like reading the Bhagavad-Gita and throwing these ideas back and forth. Sure do love that you found that Salinger excerpt. I forgot about that one. Which story was that? Salinger's story is called Teddy. Teleology is right on. They stand out, however, be...
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Free Range: Teddy
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For those of you who haven't been reading since the beginning, most of the non-fiction posts really need to be read in sequence as they tend to build on each other. Monday, July 21, 2014. Talk about timing…. I just finished re-reading Salinger’s Nine Stories. A couple days ago. Here’s an excerpt from the last story. It’s a 10 year old genius talking. 8220;Okay,” Teddy said. He was sitting back in his chair, but his head was turned toward Nicholson. 8221; He asked. 8220;You know what was in that apple?
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Free Range: April 2014
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For those of you who haven't been reading since the beginning, most of the non-fiction posts really need to be read in sequence as they tend to build on each other. Friday, April 18, 2014. Here' my latest version. A VERY COMMON QUESTION WE GET THESE DAYS:. SINCE YOU ARE A GRASS-BASED, FAMILY FARM CONCERNED ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH ISSUES, WHY DON’T WE USE NON-GMO GRAIN? And foremost, we want to support our local mill and surrounding grain producers. Non-GMO can be price-prohibitive. While the resea...
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Free Range: August 2014
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For those of you who haven't been reading since the beginning, most of the non-fiction posts really need to be read in sequence as they tend to build on each other. Sunday, August 10, 2014. Musings on Origins (and Destinations). I’ve just started a book called Brilliant Blunders, by Mario Livio. He brings up a point that I thought I’d throw out there. He says that “natural selection does not have any long-term ‘strategic plan’ or ultimate goal. It is not teleological.)”. In other words, we’ve gotte...
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Free Range: Re: Teddy
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For those of you who haven't been reading since the beginning, most of the non-fiction posts really need to be read in sequence as they tend to build on each other. Friday, July 25, 2014. I'm on vacation this week so I have a little extra time for things like reading the Bhagavad-Gita and throwing these ideas back and forth. Sure do love that you found that Salinger excerpt. I forgot about that one. Which story was that? Salinger's story is called Teddy. Teleology is right on. They stand out, however, be...
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Free Range: Musings on Origins (and Destinations)
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For those of you who haven't been reading since the beginning, most of the non-fiction posts really need to be read in sequence as they tend to build on each other. Sunday, August 10, 2014. Musings on Origins (and Destinations). I’ve just started a book called Brilliant Blunders, by Mario Livio. He brings up a point that I thought I’d throw out there. He says that “natural selection does not have any long-term ‘strategic plan’ or ultimate goal. It is not teleological.)”. In other words, we’ve gotte...
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Free Range: January 2014
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For those of you who haven't been reading since the beginning, most of the non-fiction posts really need to be read in sequence as they tend to build on each other. Friday, January 31, 2014. Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason…Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. In these cases it...
