Month: November 2024
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Four in the Morning
It’s too dang early for me to be awake. It’s too dang early for me to start arguing online. And I really shouldn’t have Little Debbie’s for breakfast. Yet here I am with lights mostly off typing away and eating an oatmeal cream pie. I am an unrepentant sinner. Not sorry at the moment for…
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Do Nothing Day
I need a do nothing day. I don’t want to even try to be productive. I need to consider how America’s choices will shape my destiny. But not today. Today I’m staying at home and in my pajamas.
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Election Day 2024
I voted. The turn out seemed good. My civic duty is fulfilled for the day. It will be a welcome relief to not have waves of political advertisements hitting me from all sides. Of course the USA might descend into riots tomorrow. No matter who wins there will be some very angry people, and angry…
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Freewill and Power
Some people have more self control than others. Some people have power over others. We are not free in an absolute sense. But if we only have the illusion of self control then that would be a strange twist of evolution. If we believe we are sentient and have the freedom to choose we are…
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Zero Mobile Games
Yesterday I deleted the last mobile game I had left on my phone. Theoretically that should give me more time to do productive things. And yet it’s taken me until 7pm to do this blog post about theoretically being more productive. I still need to work on some digital art tonight. I sit here stoned…
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Doing Enough Good
There’s an LDS hymn called, “Have I done any good in the world today?” It includes a line that implies that only when people are actively doing good can they help others to live. No set amount of good is required, but doing good is a duty. John Stewart Mill wrote something to the effect…
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Political and Emotional Blackmail
There’s an election coming up in the USA. It’s the big one. Next Tuesday we will decide who becomes president for the next four years. My personal world is inundated with political messages. If you don’t vote for our guy the country is doomed and this will be the last presidential election we will ever…
Latter Day Sinner 