Life
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Am I mine?
It’s easy to act within accepted moral expectations when your circumstances are comfortable, but this breaks down easily when those circumstances change. Imagine a circle, where we start at any point and work our way around until we arrive back where we started. Let’s say we begin at the point where we ask “what would Continue reading
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Three Chairs
I caught this radio show on BBC Radio 4 called Word of Mouth – 23.01.25 Word of Mouth with Jackie Kay talking about the Scots language, and as usual I started thinking about what she was saying. Her perspective was that the maintenance of a local language ensured the survival of a local culture, and Continue reading
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Do what you can
My partner Em worries about things she cannot change, at least not by her small participation in them. Problems with humanity, problems that can be solved but never are, mainly because nobody with the power to is willing to take the steps, or exert the influence, that could make a difference. I often think about Continue reading
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Slow changes
I have been thinking about a career change, not immediately, but over a period starting soon, I would like to learn and do something else. I’m a computer technician at the moment, but that is just what I do, it is not what I am. I face an uphill battle to continue to do what Continue reading
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Keep people as pets?
People are not property, or are they? A person cannot own another person, but they can control another person through processes of coercion or manipulation. In every situation, your choice to participate is based on a negotiation in the form of an offer that meets your wish, a manipulation that meets some need, or in Continue reading
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Off culture
People go hill walking to achieve something very distinctive. The goal is to step out of culture space and discover what defines us in nature, where we are a part of, and in tune with, the earth and the sky, and all the animals. It might sound like I’m about to get spiritual, purge that Continue reading
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Facade
“This is what real police men look like, this is what real policemen smell like” – Whitechapel, TV series Soldiers don’t polish boots and iron clothes and clean rifles and paint tanks because they need to go into battle looking good, it is for 2 distinct reasons that this tiresome drudge of never ending attention Continue reading
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The enemy of now
“Every man who is not helping to bring about a better state of affairs for the future is helping to perpetuate the current misery, and is therefore the enemy of his own children” – Robert Tressall, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. I love the now, I’m happy and I love my life, love my wife in Continue reading
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Gawking
Forgive me for this one, I am just wandering with a thought as I write it, there is no purpose but to think out loud. Everything is arguable… So, let’s say I am a woman, I’m not and don’t claim to be, but let’s imagine I am, just long enough to examine a theory. Can Continue reading
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Get ahead of it
I don’t know if there is a word for it, the infuriating effect of where a person challenges you not to challenge them. Specifically by using the first conveyance of information between you both to set a barrier up to what can be said. Often now, the first thing you know about a person is Continue reading
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