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Month: December 2022

What’s holding you together?

If I tell you you’re a self-aware, inter-dimensional wave form of densely packed spacetime will it change your life? I’m not saying you’re not you; I’m saying you’re more than you think you are. Or less. Or maybe, both. Just sayin’.

We’re all subject to the physical laws of universe, although there’s … Read the rest

Larry Barnett Metaphysics 1 Comment December 26, 2022December 27, 2022 2 Minutes

Free speech: the end or the beginning?

The first amendment to the U.S. Constitution famously bars congress from infringing on personal free speech or that of the press. In other words, it bans government from preventing expression but does nothing to constrain private enterprise from doing so, however.

The public often complains when… Read the rest

Larry Barnett Politics Leave a comment December 19, 2022December 19, 2022 2 Minutes

It’s a loud, loud, loud, loud world!

As the years flow by I’ve slowly been losing my hearing, mostly in my left ear but also in my right. I found myself saying “what” more often, and with my wife’s encouragement I went to an audiologist for testing and evaluation. I’m now wearing hearing aids.

“It will take you a while to get used to them,” the… Read the rest

Larry Barnett Environment 2 Comments December 12, 2022December 12, 2022 2 Minutes

Our place in objective reality

Objective reality; prove it to me! What seems obvious is strange; proving objective reality can only be accomplished subjectively. It’s like the old saw about whether a tree falls in the forest if nobody’s there to hear it; without a subjective observer, objective reality may not exist.

Objective … Read the rest

Larry Barnett Metaphysics, Philosophy 2 Comments December 5, 2022December 27, 2022 2 Minutes
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