If I were ever to meet a celebrity, the first question I would ask is, “Who are you starstruck by? Who are the stars in your life?” Often you will hear in an interview, a…
Category: Weekly Enlightenment
It’s not quiet quitting. It’s standing up for yourself.
Kids today are spoilt and lazy. That’s a refrain that has been heard for generations and, the truth of the matter is, they are, compared to earlier generations. And, why not? After all that is…
The lost art of listening
One institution endorsed by The International Church of Solipsology is Toastmasters International. This outstanding organization was founded in 1905 by Ralph Smedley, primarily for improving public speaking. Famous Toastmasters include Leonard Nimoy and Tim Allen.…
The revolution of the instance
There were two huge boons in the computer industry that would change the face of our society forever. In 1961, in a bizarre coincidence of invention, Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce of…
The bonds of human entanglement
There is an interesting phenomenon in Quantum Physics. Light, as Einstein suggested, travels in little packets, or quanta of energy. These quanta can be divided and when they are, a very interesting thing happens. The…
The Myth of Yin and Yang
It isn’t that nature abhors a vacuum, it is that nature adores equilibrium. If anything gets out of balance, then nature will compensate. This is a basic law of chemistry and physics and a more…
Fixing the word of God
The Judeo-Christian tradition hold that the Ten Commandments are the oldest written laws, drafted by the finger of God. While this claim is almost certainly untrue – the earliest known codified laws predate the bible…
Are you on the hostile defense?
Just outside my window is a small grove of pine trees. A family of squirrels live in that tree and I often watch them. Often a boy squirrel will jump on girl squirrel without even…
Greed is good, until it isn’t
I have a cat. He mooches from me. I have to carefully coordinate my meals so that I’m eating at the same time he is, otherwise he will come up to me and beg for…
Thinking the unthought
A philosopher in Ancient Greece would speculate. Imagine a conversation where the topic was whether or not a particular species has teeth. The ancients may hypothesize that the animal requires teeth for some particular reason…