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Life and Death
I have written before on the subject of consciousness and new theories about what it means to be conscious. The other day I spent a few...
Doug Weiss
Apr 21, 20243 min read
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Toxicity
Undoubtedly, you’ve heard the phrase Toxic Masculinity, but toxicity isn’t limited to the male gender.  I’ve titled this post ‘toxicity’...
Doug Weiss
Apr 14, 20244 min read
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America doesn't need to be saved
Hear me out. We have our share of challenges as we always have. America was born out of challenges and with very few exceptions we’ve...
Doug Weiss
Apr 7, 20243 min read
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Manipulation
One of the earliest lessons we learn in life is the art of manipulation, even my grand dog knows how to practice it. On early mornings...
Doug Weiss
Mar 31, 20244 min read
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A Ripe Old Age
I am at the point in life where I am more conscious of the decisions I make, as well as those I made in the past regarding my potential...
Doug Weiss
Mar 24, 20246 min read
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The Right Thing
Life is constantly presenting us with choices, sometimes benign ones which require no moral struggle but other times weighty and...
Doug Weiss
Mar 17, 20245 min read
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Peace Out
A recent post on a social media site expressed sadness at the decline of the hippie generation. Remember Woodstock, Haight Ashbury,...
Doug Weiss
Mar 10, 20244 min read
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100 Years of Solitude
If you have not read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece I would commend it to you. I just finished reading it again after a twenty-year...
Doug Weiss
Mar 3, 20243 min read
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Déjà vu
Walking through the National Holocaust Museum a few weeks ago was a somber and disturbing experience, not just for the reasons one would...
Doug Weiss
Feb 25, 20244 min read
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Catastrophizing
I learned a new word today, catastrophizing. It describes a mental health condition, a thought pattern if you will that leads people to...
Doug Weiss
Feb 18, 20244 min read
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Principles
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about the divisions in our country. It is hard to remain objective, to see the other...
Doug Weiss
Feb 11, 20247 min read
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Exemplars
If you spend any time at all on social media—and I confess I do, you have undoubtedly seen your fair share of posts displaying some...
Doug Weiss
Feb 4, 20243 min read
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Parody
One of my favorite Saturday afternoon Television shows back in the early 90’s was a Science Fiction comedy that lampooned truly horrible...
Doug Weiss
Jan 28, 20243 min read
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What's Cooking?
A recent post on social media asked the question, who inspired you to learn to cook? I learned two things from the comments in reply. A...
Doug Weiss
Jan 21, 20244 min read
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Adaptations
Not long ago I had the pleasure of engaging in an online debate about the feasibility of adapting a certain literary work to the screen. ...
Doug Weiss
Jan 14, 20243 min read
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Rhetoric
In the early 1970’s a Stanford University Psychology professor, Phillip Zimbardo, conducted a now infamous experiment that examined the...
Doug Weiss
Jan 7, 20244 min read
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Irresolutions
As we usher in the New Year it is once again that time when many of us make promises to ourselves to turn over a new leaf—to remedy past...
Doug Weiss
Dec 31, 20233 min read
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The Grinch
We are nearing that time of the year when spirits benign and malevolent tend to make their presence known. Perhaps you think me Grinch...
Doug Weiss
Dec 24, 20238 min read
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Redux
In the lead up to the holidays I found myself a little short for time so I have decided that it might be fun to repost the very first...
Doug Weiss
Dec 17, 20234 min read
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What Sets Us Apart
Regardless of where you stand in the current political divide, and assuming it isn’t at the extreme ends of the spectrum, what sets us...
Doug Weiss
Dec 10, 20234 min read
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