2023 Incoming Year. Make a resolution to be Yourself Question: Are New Years resolutions reasonable? Question: Is it reasonable, or possible to ‘be yourself’ regardless the situation? Question: What “Be Yourself” decision may have changed your life path? Question: What are you going to do to be yourself when you retire? Question: On your Be Yourself island...
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Define Right and Left
Define Right and Left – My How They Have Changed History of right vs left dynamics: “The terms right and left refer to political affiliations originating early in the French Revolutionary era of 1789–1799 and referred originally to the seating arrangements in the various legislative bodies of France. As seen from the Speaker’s seat at the front...
Continue reading...Chaos Asks: Quora Questions
We Ask the Wicked Questions These are among the many things Chaos ponders. Whether ‘rightly’ or ‘wrongly’ only the Shadow knows… At this point, Chaos distrusts the Quora social platform entirely. When we were invited to take part in the forum to earn pennies for our thoughts, Chaos believed the forum wanted our input. After several hundred...
Continue reading...Where Oh Where Did Liberty Go?
We have a lifetime of hearing the words of French writer, wit, and philosopher Voltaire as drilled into our head, like at the meetings for Free Thinkers… “I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Voltair’s ‘common sense’ crusade against superstition and prejudice...
Continue reading...Wicked Issues – Table Topics
Wicked Problems, Issues Wicked problems, issues or questions, are problems that are difficult or impossible to solve. Efforts to solve wicked problem usually create new problems additional problems combinations of problems Questions in the Wicked Problem category are not for the faint of heart. Many a kind, emperor and politician has tried and many have died upon...
Continue reading...Meaning of Secular vs Religious Charity – Table Topics
Charitable Giving – Religious VS Secular Meaning of Charity The practice of charity means the voluntary giving of help to those in need, as a humanitarian act. Secular Charity: Foundation Beyond Belief is a humanist charity that promotes secular volunteering and responsible charitable giving. Guided by the principles of secular humanism, The Mission: Unite the humanist community...
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Shied Away from Morality Because Mikey Made Them Do It? “Democrats and progressives tend to shy away from morality, given how right-wing evangelicals have used it against abortion, contraceptives and equal marriage rights. ” says Robert Reich General Kala Investigated This pronouncement with a resounding WTF!? Whereas Chaos, looked on with anticipation over the oncoming row. “Morality (from Latin moralitas ‘manner, character,...
Continue reading...Gender Equality for Women by Country
It has been several years since we presumed to write this opinion article and wondered the logic and reason of it all. While the plite of women seems a noble enough cause to ponder, we now ask where did this all go so wrong to the point males now claim to be female to the ludicrous point...
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Insecurity of the Walking Dead Vampires/Zombies Replace Aliens to infect Earthling brains. (sarcasm alert!) We insist Chaos is impressed with the propaganda machine’s handling of the emerging disease du jour Zika. Since first percolating a few short months back the hyper-coverage has exponentially focused toward the realm of ebola hysteria but, lesson learned, with subtly this go...
Continue reading...Women’s Rights/ Men’s Rights – Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
Women’s Rights movement of the 1850’s was sparked, in part, by women who chose to wear pants and not adorn themselves as tradition dictated. It didn’t take long for the women’s rights movement to drop their drawers, however, to disassociate themselves from popularity of bloomers as a competitor for attention. The connection stuck tho, and bloomers are...
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