Meandering Monday about What We Really Know

We do our best to understand the world around us. Assuming our understanding is true, our thoughts are happening inside our skulls, pretty much isolated from everything else. We rely on information coming to us from outside… of whatever it is we think we are on the inside. We have to trust that information, but … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Virtue Signaling

I get so tired of the symbolism over substance society we seem to live in nowadays. People climb on board of causes with armbands, hashtags, pat phrases and expressions designed to show that they’re on the proper – or politically correct – side of an issue. Virtue signaling – it seems more a tribal signal, … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Wheat and Chaff

We just celebrated Easter Sunday – a pivotal day for Christians. The more I think about it, it’s amazing how Christianity spread across the world. Consider the communication methods of the time – no printing presses, radio, television, major media, or internet to disseminate the information, and yet it spread across the world. There are … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Spotting the Insanity

How do you know if you’re crazy? And if you know, then are you? Usually, we determine whether someone is crazy by comparison – are they seeing the world the same as the rest of us? Is their concept of REALITY a match with what we KNOW to be true? That’s how echo chambers and … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: “Anti-Social”

“Anti-Social” came from thinking about how we are losing personal contact as the internet and social media evolve. We’re also creating ridiculous quantities of data. What if in the future all data is transitory – statisticians determined that there will always a copy of anything somewhere (a PC, a server, a phone), so permanent storage … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about the Reality of Perception

Are you a glass half full (optimist), or a glass half empty (pessimist)person? Or as George Carlin used to say, “The glass is too big” (complainer?) kind of person? Or maybe you’re a “The glass is half full of hemlock” one (a realist, perhaps?)? So much of life is ruled by how you choose to … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: “In Robert’s Memory”

“In Robert’s Memory” started out with the idea of a sort of Titanic in space, awaiting rescue after a calamity. The pun of a title may have been the germ of the story – but I’m not sure. This is a story about a ship’s computer whose memory becomes contaminated by human inhabitants. In a … Continue reading →