Archive for the 'Thoughts' Category



Chaos

Published on March 30, 2009

Chaos is order so complex that it cannot be grasped or understood. It appears as disorder because our finite minds cannot see far enough to view it all.


Tyranny on a small scale is still tyranny

Published on February 5, 2008

When restaurant owner Danny Falcone wanted to put up an awning with the colors of the Italian flag, the Edmond Planning Commission voted against it. The city council then voted against it. They didn’t object to the awning itself. They objected to the colors. The awning at Falcone’s is now a single shade of red. Below it, the lower-quarter of his [...]


The Light Bulb Goes Off

Published on January 11, 2008

An energy bill signed by President Bush eliminates the incandescent light bulb from our store shelves in 2012, four years from now. It has had a long life since Thomas Edison invented the first practical one in 1879. That invention was described by Paul Harvey as the day when Edison “turned off the dark.” As [...]


Proselytizing

Published on November 27, 2007

Religions get a bad rap for their attempts at converting others to their beliefs.  They see nothing wrong with it; they believe they hold special truths not understood by others, and desire that others consider their beliefs.  The idea is that the other person, once they consider this new argument, will find it persuasive and [...]


Free Will vs. Determinism

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If you haven’t seen the various articles showing interest in Free Will, you  may want to view these links: See these: The Economist (two articles there) New Scientist NY Times Scientific thinking since Newton tells us that everything is cause-and-effect. There are quantum physical explainations for anomallies of unpredictable cause & effect, but in principle, the [...]