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Fantasizing the Wrong Heroes

Yesterday I cam across a friend after almost four years. The thing is we both live in different cities, and he is a cousin of my friend. So through this friend,

Are You Really As Good As You Think You Are?

Brief context. To fully understand what I mean in the title of this post, we first need to understand the origins of our most basic behavior. Do we choose to be

El problema del perfeccionismo extremo - Reflexiones filosóficas de un pensador nocturno: 31/03/2026

En ocasiones me considero una persona demasiado perfeccionista a nivel general, y aunque a veces eso puede ser visto como algo positivo, la más de las veces creo

Life, Country and Everything in Between You Were Once Is Gone, Period!

A small clarity arrived the day I stopped naming the losses as tragedies and began treating them like furniture I no longer needed in the room. I am not speaking

Hopium and Copium...

I suppose the term "Hopium" is often used in crypto circles, but it really applies to the broader world, as well. Speaking purely from a personal standpoint,

Crypto: Bright Future... or a Slowly Closing Noose Around Our Necks?

And so, another month has come to a close, mostly with a whimper. Well, it's at least a "whimper," if you've invested yourself substantially in Hive, as

The Lost Art of Dreaming

Perhaps life became so heavy on us when we stopped setting our dreams free. With every step we took deeper into the field of maturity, we denied ourselves the right,

If Cryptocurrency isn't MONEY, What is it?

I use US dollars. That makes sense because I live in the USA. When I walk into a store, a loaf of bread, can of cat food or a bottle of milk costs something in dollars.

Web 3.0 Speculations: Harsh Tangible Reality vs. Wishful Dream Reality?

About 100 years ago (that's a lie, I'm not THAT old!), one of the takeaway lessons from college psychology classes was that there were certain ways in which I was

Bitcoin Spot ETF Begrudgingly Approved

So yesterday I get a text. It's from my brother who isn't even into crypto that much. Just likes to try his hand at day-trading stocks and such. He tells me the

Nostalgia and Looking Backwards — When, What, and Where do We Look?

With the holidays around the corner, many people start to wax nostalgic about times gone past. We remember childhoods, or happier times, or maybe desperate times

Monday Musings: The Depressing Landscape of Politics, Social Commentary and YouTube Talking Heads

Even though I typically start off my week with the good intentions of being productive and getting off to a running start, I must admit that I sometimes fall into

Critical Realism as An Alternative Epistemology

Prompt: worldview and epistemology, by Thomas Kinkade Source I still have one day left to meet the deadline. Unlike the first two chapters, I want to be short in

Attacks on Instrumentalism and Idealism

Prompt: postmodernity, Art by Makoto Shinkai Source This article concludes the second chapter of Paul G. Hiebert's book and the discussion on two post-positivist

Instrumentalism, Idealism, and Christianity

Prompt: Christian mission in foreign lands, natural light, landscape, dark, Studio Ghibli Source In my previous post, I discussed how postmodernity has been influenced

Instrumentalism, Idealism, and Postmodernity

Prompt: postmodernity, painting, a landscape, HDR, UHD, 64K Source In continuing the second chapter of Paul G. Hiebert's book, I am thinking to skip his discussion

Integrating Theology and Anthropology on the Epistemological Foundation of Critical Realism

Prompt: critical realism, theology, anthropology, mission Source This last book by Paul G. Hiebert, Missiological Implications of Epistemological Shifts: Affirming

Morning Thoughts: Too Many Pots on the Stove, Part 247-a-6b

Sunday May 21st, 2023 Once again, we have "morning thoughts" in the evening because... this is the first moment I have had to sit down since starting this

Have you figured out your limitations?

I'd normally agree that there are some limitations we face as humans and that's the truth, but the interesting part of this discussion is that having in mind that

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🙘 As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this