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The Door that has No Key
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Faith is Fundamental
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The Hole at the Center
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The How and the Why
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The Empirical Standard of Knowing - Faith Misplaced
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My Personal Journey Through Empiness to Faith
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The Tip of the Spear
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My Personal Journey Through Empiness to Faith
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Is there a Spiritual Significance to the number Phi?
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February 15, 2021
Reflect, Redirect and Renew | Spiral Inquiry
The past year has been incredibly challenging: globally, nationally and individually. These challenges provide the opportunity to...
July 1, 2020
PLEASE VOTE – AND VOTE WISELY
The current polarized political environment and the pandemic are bringing the importance of our electoral choices into sharp focus.
June 10, 2020
GOOD NEWS – BAD NEWS
I’ve been thinking a lot about the distant future. It is scary, and exhilarating, to wonder how my choices, when added to all of...
May 10, 2020 • 2 Comments
WHAT DO WE REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE WORLD?
FQXi continued to probe at the frontiers of knowledge in their 2020 essay contest on Undecidability, Uncomputability, and...
March 29, 2020
DENIALISM BECOMES LETHAL
In the past two weeks I have been shocked by statements from some pundits and politicians that seem to deny the reality of the COVID-19...
January 16, 2020
EMPATHY AND HUMAN THRIVING
I gave the following 5-minute talk titled “The Secret Sauce of Human Thriving” at the Long Now Boston Flash Talks event January 6,...
We often say that we go backward one step for every two steps forward. It is more accurate to describe the process as a spiral. We revisit each question, each challenge, and each unresolved struggle time and time again. As they come back around, we have, hopefully, learned and deepened our understanding. That trajectory is one of an outward, and infinite, spiral.
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