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The preoccupation with drug usage in the 21st century has rocketed into cosmic proportions. It seems that no matter who you ask, everyone is on something. But this is normal. The anomalies are those who do not consign themselves to the ranks of the population with depression, anxiety, bipolar, OCD, ADD, ADHD (for these are
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A question on a seventh grade history test asked students to “Explain how the great leaders of the ancient world gained power over such vast territories?” The answer, put simply, is war. The next question asked, “Why do empires fall?”1 What a loaded question, certainly more than a seventh grader of today may have the
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Another dissonant symphony, arrogant soliloquy, From the conquerors of homogenized pseudo-literacy,Don’t roll your blind eyes at me, menagerie, With your unimpressed, hyper-obsessed, self-repressed sordid pleas. Poor neurotic pampered pets, Fingers primed to post, with staged sincerity, every aspect of outrage before the feed refreshes,Burying the burden of your cross under the oblivion of your emotional-support
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h their colorful plastic panels; with our plastic bags stuffed with our favorite chemically enhanced package food, and our fresh mountain spring water in chemically crafted bottles; perhaps, if we’re of the healthier sort, with the tasteless imported produce sometimes genetically altered, or if we can afford it, not; maybe some farmed, previously frozen, fresh
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In response to Philosophy Now article Nietzsche wrote: lack of a historical sense is the original error of all philosophers, though I would add, it is the problem of all people. We, as humans, are myopic and single-focused. We think we have accomplished so much, that our time here is of some great importance, but
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(Response to an article published in issue 139 of Philosophy Now) I feel that there is a fundamental oversight in Dr. Leben’s presentation of the argument pertaining to whether or not Artificial Intelligence should continue to be explored. The entire premise overlooks the philosophical inquiry—Why? Thus, the question is not whether the scientific community should
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Change begins with the individual You’re in the middle of a story. It’s a story about You, a person, living somewhere on a planet. You have a family…a mother, a father, perhaps they are living, perhap not; they may have raised you, or maybe not. You may have a spouse, or not. Some children, or
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Why do we label? Why do we consistently seek to segregate ourselves from the rest of humanity by categorizing one another every chance we get? Black, White, Latin-American, African-American, Pacific Islander… Gay, Straight, Bi, Trans… Female, Male… We use labels to differentiate every aspect of “who” we are, how we feel, what we believe, where
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I’m not a spiritual leader. Not an intellect. Not a public speaker, or a self-help guru. I’m just a human among other humans, and from this position there is so much wrong happening here. It’s a sad day for the human race when we complain about everything around us and do nothing to change it;
K. Banks 