For example, If ghosts could really cause any damage, they wouldn’t mess around with measly ole’ spooking, but instead they’d go straight to creating bona fide ghostly havoc. We should have learned this lesson from watching Scooby-Doo, which is that ghosts always must rely on good special effects to be successful. But they’re phonies… merely ghosts of their former selves. I don’t know what that has to do with this next point, but I just thought I’d bring it up. Life is so serendipitous that the s...
Dearest erstwhile Mama Kat (or Ma-Ka for short, which is Swahili for ‘One who scrawls with mighty pen and cuts through chaff with incisive levity’): Let us pause to reminisce about a bygone forgotten time, waxing so nostalgic that one could place a wick on me and start a flame. Like a faint voice from a distant past, yours echoes through the catacombs... We met during the Mesozoic Era, as it was, so you’re certainly forgiven if that has slipped from your memory. Sometimes I mistake a few details from...
In determination of what is apropos for how religions should function… an interesting preliminary factor in comparing different denominations of a religion, such as Christianity, is that one denomination does not have authority over another and cannot claim superiority based on political or social posturing. Ideas of heresy for differing outlooks in terms of doctrinal interpretation have no mortal arbiter, for it’s all subjective from any reasoned outlook. The matter invariably comes down to they said/th...
Astronomer Carl Sagan laid out a litany of essays in his lifetime regarding the expanse of the stars, and in the awesome backdrop of outlining for us the wonders of the cosmos he likewise assumed corresponding license to posit materialistically, which methodology will be challenged here. Sagan has provided his own set of evidence from a physics standpoint, and there’s no basis here for taking him to task from that angle. However, the extended logic used in his arguments is still subject to deconstruc...
Books written in English two hundred years ago often need to be translated somewhat for the benefit of English readers for the sake of comprehension, since much of the lexicon over time becomes outmoded. Which then causes one to ponder regarding two hundred years from now a) how successful that enterprise will be for what we're writing now, and more importantly, b) if they'll even bother. After scanning the internets for a time, the evidentiary how-to articles swarm over one like a horde of albatross lo...
• For some reason I discontentedly find that my expectation invariably exceeds realization when it comes to food items labeled as 'zesty'. • One nice thing about having blurred vision is that I get more bars on my wireless connection. • I'm not procrastinating today. It's only 9:00 a.m. and I'm already worn out. • I am absolutely incredulous..... Not about anything in particular, but just as a general hobby. • If you can read this, then you're too close. I'd appreciate it if you'd stay at least t...
Once somebody has convincingly pulled off a role and we've gotten used to it, it'snigh impossiblefor anyone else to fill in sufficiently afterward. For those accustomed to Sean Connery, Roger Moore wouldn't do, blah-blah-blah. For those accustomed to Moore, no others that followed would do, and et cetera. Or ask yourself this one: could there be any other Indiana Jones? Other than maybe Ben Stiller perhaps... but you get my point. For me, Batman is Adam West. Or maybe he's Bruce Wayne first from stately...
Things I've attempted to ponder so you hopefully won't need to... NOTE TAKING Whenever I jot down a note, I make sure to carefully preface it with the words "Note to self:". That way, I won't think that it was a note to someone else, because sometimes I'll be thumbing through my notes and I'll think, "Who did I write this for?" TRUTH TELLING Partial honesty technically contains honesty, and it isn't such a bad policy either. If I dent someone's car in a parking lot, I dutifully put a note on their...
We all have different occurrences in our lives that shape our perspectives, either gradually or drastically, often known as watershed moments. Such a moment can potentially be something that transcends your whole world, turning it upside down and challenging every notion you had on a given subject. These don’t have a pattern, but are manifested all over the map. When you had an epiphany, when surreal takes over the real, when the Twilight Zone theme song became your soundtrack, or maybe when you had an a...
• Something’s gotta be first, so it might as well be this one. • Can’t quite wrap my mind around cogito ergo sum. Feels like someone else doing the thinking. • I’m really busy the next three days. After that, I get the rest of my life off, as long as nobody schedules anything else. • Nobody is impressed anymore. I made eggs this morning, and no one cared. Do you know how hard that is to do, particularly for a mammal? • Once in a while when it’s first-and-goal from the 1-yard line, you should just pun...
