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Feet of Clay
Is anyone truly surprised when it is revealed that a person of some celebrity, be they a performer, politician, athlete, religious leader...
Doug Weiss
Feb 13, 20223 min read
Exceptional
The 1920’s were known as the roaring twenties while the current decade might best be described as the lying twenties. The era of the big...
Doug Weiss
Feb 6, 20223 min read
It's About Time
A perception of time is unique to human beings among all creatures. While animals have been shown to react to the frequency with which...
Doug Weiss
Jan 30, 20223 min read
Crystal Ball
Last week I wrote about an empirical study originally done in 1972 and recently updated which forecast a possible global collapse by...
Doug Weiss
Jan 23, 20224 min read
Entropy
The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy always increases with time or in simpler terms as it applies to our universe, our...
Doug Weiss
Jan 16, 20223 min read
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
Do dreams really come true? Perhaps for some people they do, at least those conscious dreams that we might better describe as hopes. ...
Doug Weiss
Jan 9, 20222 min read
Memories
Well, it finally happened, I forgot something that I’ve known and recited routinely most of my life. I could call this sudden moment of...
Doug Weiss
Jan 2, 20223 min read
Patience
It is rather a gloomy day as I write this, rainy and cold outside. Fall leaves fill the yard looking less a colorful celebration of the...
Doug Weiss
Dec 26, 20213 min read
Why write?
An acquaintance asked me the other day why I continue to write these posts. It is a valid question and I hope not an editorial comment...
Doug Weiss
Dec 19, 20213 min read
Self-aware
At the dog park the other day I watched as my grand dog, Lewis, a day glow green football gripped firmly in his mouth, galloped from one...
Doug Weiss
Dec 12, 20214 min read
The Gift
As I write this post we are fast approaching another one of those holidays that has been transformed by retailers into an absurd...
Doug Weiss
Dec 5, 20213 min read
Apocalypse
Not long ago a group of people gathered in anticipation of an apocalyptic event—though in this case, the Q'anon prophesied second coming...
Doug Weiss
Nov 28, 20213 min read
The View From the Top
It has been a year or two since I last climbed to the top of a mountain. The location was Arizona, outside Phoenix and the day was...
Doug Weiss
Nov 21, 20214 min read
Metaverse
You’ll be hearing this word a lot over the next few months and quite probably longer. It’s not just because the social media site...
Doug Weiss
Nov 14, 20213 min read
Sisyphus
Most of us are familiar with the story of Sisyphus, the tragic figure of Greek mythology sentenced by Zeus to roll a rock to the top of a...
Doug Weiss
Nov 7, 20213 min read
Job
As any reader of these posts knows all too well, I am not a theologian nor am I as widely read as I would wish. Perhaps that I why I...
Doug Weiss
Oct 31, 20215 min read
Reality
One of the more fascinating yet bizarre theories to emerge over the last decade or so suggests that human beings are in fact living in a...
Doug Weiss
Oct 24, 20213 min read
Destructive Hyperbole
A recent photo of an anti-vaxx protester offered a perfect example of the corrosive rhetoric being employed to galvanize public opinion....
Doug Weiss
Oct 17, 20213 min read
In Conclusion
Along with a life-threatening pandemic, we are afflicted with an equally insidious malady these days, widespread disinformation and...
Doug Weiss
Oct 10, 20215 min read
Fighting Mother Nature
In the 70’s I worked for a company that was testing the idea of renting a new home video technology we now know as video cassettes (VHS...
Doug Weiss
Oct 3, 20214 min read
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