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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
(An Atheists View of Religion) Religion is one of the few remaining barriers to humanity’s advancement at this time. Perhaps it had a purpose once, when we were all closer to apes in mental development, but we’re not anymore. We are living the Reign of Man. We’re effectively Gods here now. Relying on mysticism to […]
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Parental ADHD
My cousin has two children. Her oldest, 15, was diagnosed with ADD when he was nine and has been on Ritalin since. He’s failing out of the private high school he attends in Manhattan. He lies, cheats, and steals when it suits him. He is volatile (way beyond normal teenage angst), and often violent with […]
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The Layering of LIFE
Hiking on the Matanuska Glacier in Alaska a few weeks ago, I was trying to capture the iridescent blue/green light coming through the ice below my feet with my Canon Digital SLR. I took a few shots, with different apertures, from different p.o.v.s, but knew when I put them on the computer the picture would […]
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Ch 1 – 10 of The Power Trip is UP!
READ… New dytopian fantasy of 4 Stanford students who create an MMORTS game that gets others to do what they want. Chpt 1 – 10 of THE POWER TRIP is up:https://lnkd.in/gb7Bywc2 …
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Chapter 3 — The Power Trip
The Power Trip (the first novel in the upcoming dystopian series) follows the misanthropic adventures of four Stanford students that implement an MMORWS game in which players manipulate each other using predictive modeling. Due to release summer 2022. Chapter 1 – 3 is now online here: https://jcafesin.com/read-the-power-trip/
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Marketing and Religion
Do you believe in God? Why? Likely because your mother taught you to—marketing to you throughout your formative years the benefits of belief: Community Solace Salvation Your beliefs were marketed to you through holiday celebrations, and maybe Sunday school and prayer. Even if mom, and/or your dad, didn’t directly push their beliefs onto you, they […]
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The Power of Love
My son’s guitar teacher was freaking out the other day over the impending arrival of his first child. Beyond a healthy birth, he was consumed with anxiety over the care and feeding of an infant, all the way up through guiding his teen. So I told him the secret of parenting, what makes the sacrifice […]
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Technology and Choice
I was 17 weeks pregnant, with my first baby, when the results of an amnio told me that the wanted child I was carrying was not healthy. I have always been pro-choice, and never considered it a moral dilemma to terminate a fetus with severe Down’s Syndrome, or other life threatening, or debilitating abnormalities. Although […]
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LOVE Defined
My sister is dead, I told the bank manager. But she isn’t. She lives in Washington with her husband, having moved from L.A. where we were both born and raised. The bank manager expressed his condolences and accepted the paperwork from our lawyer to remove her name from our Trust. My sister was to be […]
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