As I write this I consider myself a Baha’i but the administration of my Faith has every right to include or exclude me from their roles based entirely on their own internal reasons. Nothing I can say or do should influence the decision of the Baha’i Faith as who is or is not a member. […]

The way animals and non-rational humans deal with our surroundings is based upon emotions. There are simple rules: pain, sickness, tiredness, lust, happiness… when we feel these things we act upon them. In a rational world, however, emotions cause us problems. They don’t make sense. My favorite example is when we owe someone. That person […]

Studying languages in college I came across Noam Chomsky’s famous sentence “colorless green ideas sleep furiously”. His point was to show that native speakers of a language can tell whether or not a sentence conforms to rules of grammar regardless of whether or not the sentence has meaning. One of the many inspirations leading to […]

The existence of God is easy to prove, accept and comprehend, as easily as proving the existence of any sort of order in the universe.  The question is what attributes God encompasses. My way of comprehending existence, form, ideas and relationships separates the material from the non-material.  Humanity lives in a non-physical or rational world. The […]

Platonic Forms, metaphysical reality, transcendental, supernatural, “above” nature,  all of these are interpretations.  They are propositions of meaning to help humans understand philosophical and theological assertions.  These are not proven, existent “places” or “worlds” or even words with fixed and specific definitions.  They are rather interpreted meanings of philosopher’s words. My most controversial proposal with […]

Refurbish the plumes on our bird October 2, 2014Philosophy, Rational Existence, Religioncompx2 The prize is spirit, however you define spirit.  We all have different memories, understandings, agendas and influences, but we recognize spirit as referring to the highest, best, and brightest of our aspirations.  We all need more of the spirit in our lives. Keep your eyes […]

Conceptualizing our worlds is Rational Existence.  And of all the concepts we make value is paramount.  Love, encouragement, the comfort of our loved ones, even fame and fortune have value. Depending how deeply we delve into Rational Existence it quickly becomes apparent that encouraging others is one of the easiest, most effective and direct ways […]

This dream catcher is several months old, but it has served well.  Only recently I have started having dreams again.  I have always enjoyed my dreams.  This one had my brother in Costa Rica, having bought a camp ground, was running it and a little deli restaurant by himself.  I noticed how much happier he […]

We don’t take the time or effort to understand beyond the headlines.  Headlines suggest and we fill in the gaps without any input.  It just SHOULD be easy to understand, so we make it easy.  It isn’t true, but it is truthy and easy to put in a headline. Truthiness and its relation to Climate […]

The guy behind the counter at a coffee store just glowed.  I mentioned it to him.  He acknowledged it, then went to the next customer.  He was competent, smiling slightly, open and “on”.  I said “you positively glow today” and he nodded. Last night I had a dream.  Parts of it were extremely lucid, especially […]