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Have a Nice Day
I was talking with my son today, and I started by asking him, “How’s life treating you?”. A rhetorical question like “How’s the weather?” launched us into a stream of consciousness discussion about things people say without really meaning it. Take the expression “Have a nice day!” you hear it many times a day from…
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When you burn your bridges behind you…
… it is unreasonable to expect others to rebuild them for you.
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Modern vs. Traditional Art
I’m watching a TV show looking at local antique shops. In one of them, the shop owner, “artist”, describes a wall he built along his property line. The wall is made up of old doors, windows, bicycle parts, wooden tables, and other junk. As he described what the wall “meant”, I realized that his approach…
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5 Ways to “win” an argument
Read a tweet this morning… Exactly! 5 ways to win every internet argument – what THEY don’t want you to know! 1. continually move the goalposts 2. make stuff up 3. never admit fault 4. ad hominem 5. strawman
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Crowdsourcing Wisdom
– Radio show: host picks topic, listeners call in and share their thoughts and wisdom
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Deniers
– the principle of denying oneself of their immediate desires (delayed gratification). – its impact on personal development. – its impact on happiness – can someone ever change? – how do you know what type of person someone is.
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“How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!”
Mark Twain Article in City Journal, spring 2022. By John Tierney
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Why G-d Created the Mosquito
Judy Rebacz and my dealings in Allentown.
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Givers versus Takers