Beware The Violent Ones When we envision no-man’s/no woman’s land, we gradate toward areas teeming with drug abuse, sexual violence and distrust of outsiders: Beverly Hills, Martha’s Vineyard The entire NBA The media is here to (constantly) remind us who the bad guys are…what with all the riots, looting and violence of Baltimore and other impoverished zones...
Continue reading...Chaos Playground We let them out to play or there's Chaos to pay
Practical Unloyalty
Ideology Gone Wild Have An Ideology? Chaos suggests it is time for the concept of “unloyalty” to rise into the conversation. The Theory of Unloyalty, Chaos reminds, only resides in the shadow of the Theory of Ideology, therefor completely unknown Control other than a notion to categorize into the sacred algorithm. Unloyalty, not disloyalty, Chaos insists. The...
Continue reading...What is a CAD?
And How to Deal with One Definition (in addition and besides all the foul misogynistic pervs recently filling the news pages)… an individual who acts with deliberate disregard for another person’s feelings or rights A rogue, or bounder. A cad is a man who will not quite live up to codes of conduct. Cads disguise themselves as...
Continue reading...Cure Glossophobia Through Visualization – Mind Maps
The Brain The primary function of the brain is to ensure survival of the host…you. Cognition From infancy, parents, community, tradition, religion, science, ists and isms and politicians, our brains acquire cognition: knowledge and understanding through learning, experience input from the senses: Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. Fear / Phobia controlled through the process of cognition....
Continue reading...Constitution Eat Thyself
Wolves have convinced the Sheep to Lay Off their Guard Dogs As chaos of knowledge all things Constitution, civics, how branches of Government work together and observe, once a public school staple, erodes into decades of irrelevancy to near traitor status, how may shadows of “We” may be expected to recognize the ramifications of what is requested...
Continue reading...Speech 3-D Thinking
What is 3-D Thinking? Critical thinking is 3-D thinking. Critical not in the sense of movie critics and bad reviews, but critical as in asking questions and pondering data. Critical thinking happens when you question your own positions and beliefs on issues and events. Most of the time humans operate on auto-pilot, 2-D fast-thinking. This is a...
Continue reading...The Perfect Storm with a Side of Morel Mushrooms – Speech
In our 30’s, we loved to fish and bake our brains in the hot sun in a boat on a lake while playing guess and by golly with striped and bugle mouth bass. It’s a thrill of the hunt sort of exercise. Most of our catches we would apologize to the fish for the trouble and throw...
Continue reading...Hilarity Harvest – Speech
Activities for the Fall Harvest Season – Speech Our 5 to 7 minute contribution to the Hilarity Harvest No-Contest Toastmaster affair back in October 30, 2018. For this speech, we researched to find a few of the more common activities people partake in the fall/Halloween season. Then we envisioned ourself partaking in such activities as an out...
Continue reading...What Is Funny – Speech
Philosophy of Funny, aka Humor Gets a Bad Rap When people are asked what’s important in their lives, they often mention humor. Sense of humor nears the top of the most wanted traits couples want most in a partner. Since ancient times, over 3,000 years, philosophers have claimed dominion over all that is important in life, but...
Continue reading...What is Funny? Table Topics
What IS Funny These table topic questions below accompany our speech: Philosophy of Humor. According to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s, Philosophy of Humor, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/humor/ ‘When people are asked what’s important in their lives, they often mention humor. Couples listing the traits they prize in their spouses usually put “sense of humor” at or near the top. Philosophers...
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