The Workers Who Make the Clouds Hardly a day goes by without news of the multi-sided impact of the digital world, how it shapes our individual lives and our collective future.
Immolating Parental Rights and Overruling Truth Abstract: There are important parallels between the 1963 case of the self-immolation of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức and the recent case in British Columbia (2021) of a father who was forced against his will by the court and the state to facilitate the pharmaceutical “sex reassignment” of his
Why Do People Gossip? 6 Science-Backed Reasons Are you a gossip? I admit I’ve gossiped about people I didn’t like in the past.I’ve even been aware of it at the time.
Jab-erwacky (or, Why Are People So Crazy about Being Guinea Pigs?) Seek thou the Covid Jab, my son! The genes that morph, the fraud that hypes! Let Pfizer have its way, but shun Those frivolous skeptic types! (Big Brother has said, ‘Tis good, ‘tis good, And so the sacrifice is just – Submission now is hardihood, In Big Pharma we all trust…
Brazil: Open Letter by Human Rights Watch to the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) Dear President of the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) Marcelo Augusto Xavier, I write on behalf of Human Rights Watch to respectfully urge you to revoke Resolution n° 4/2021, adopted by the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) on January 26, which states, among other provisions, that the recognition of an individual
Qatar: Male Guardianship Severely Curtails Women’s Rights (Beirut, March 29, 2021) – Qatar’s discriminatory male guardianship system denies women the right to make many key decisions about their lives, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 94-page report, “‘Everything I Have to Do is Tied to a Man’: Women and Qatar’s Male Guardianship
A Symbiosis of Humans & Technology – Changing The Conversation Have you ever noticed that discussions about transhumanism tend to focus on technology more than humanism?
Former CDC director Robert Redfield believes COVID-19 escaped from a Wuhan lab and started spreading since September 2019 The former director of the CDC, Robert Redfield, says he believes COVID-19 escaped from Wuhan lab in China and may have been circling as early as September 2019.
Giving up on the ghost of consciousness Consciousness refers to the private, subjective experience of being aware of perceptions
Is Real-World Activism Part of our Spiritual Journey? People have varied opinions about whether or not activism in the world, like participating in demonstrations promoting human freedom, is a part of a their spiritual journey.
You Know “We’ll Never Know,” Don’t You? In his new, six-part, seven hours plus documentary – “Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World” – the celebrated English documentary filmmaker, Adam Curtis, who has worked for the BBC for decades, tells us that nothing makes sense anymore and it is… pointless to
Epicureanism vs Stoicism: Two Different Approaches to Happiness An Epicurean and a Stoic enter a bar.
The REAL “Lunatic Fringe”, and where to find it On Sunday, an irate Irish society finally said ‘no more’.
Thinking vs Feeling: What’s the Difference & Which of the Two Do You Use? Here’s an exercise in Thinking vs Feeling.My friend called me the other day.She was upset with her manager.My friend works for a car dealership.