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Thought For the Day: H. Sapiens Is the Species That Invents Symbols In Which To Invest Passion and Authority, Then Forgets That Symbols Are Inventions
“H. sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.” – Joyce Carol Oates, writer (b. 16 Jun 1938)
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Tagged Authority, Forget, Homo Sapiens, Inventions, Invents, Invest, Joyce Carol Oates, Passion, Species, Symbols, Thought For the Day
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Trees Are Overrated
Trees Are Overrated by Michael DoyleSpeaking of paradigms outdatedIt turns out trees are overratedThis thought comes I am knee-deepIn a prairie’s secrets to keepIn the verdant landscape, songbirds singProviding a soundtrack to the blessed thingsDancing blue granma and sand dropseedTrace … Continue reading
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Tagged Aboreal, Decline, Forest Floor, Grass People, Homo Sapiens, Knee-Deep, Outdated, Overrated, Paradigms, Poetry and Poems, Prairie, Prairie Dogs, Preserve, Protection, Savanna, Secret, Shoots, Sign, Soil, Songbirds, Soundtrack, Steeple, Toil, Trees, Tug-of-War, Tyranny, Velds
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Thought For the Day: Homo Sapiens Is the Species That Invents Symbols In Which To Invest Passion and Authority, Then Forgets That Symbols Are Inventions
“Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.” – Joyce Carol Oates, writer (b. 16 Jun 1938)
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Tagged Authority, Forget, Homo Sapiens, Invent, Inventions, Invest, Joyce Carol Oates, Passion, Species, Symbols, Thought For the Day
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Mind Games Played
Recent developments in science and in a virtual environment I spend some time on has led me to question a few things pertinent to ethical behavior or actually the lack thereof on the part of certain people I have come … Continue reading
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Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Audio, Behind, Best, Bilogy, Blood, Boundaries, Brain, Child's Play, Clear, Cognition, Cognitive, Common, Computer, Computers, Connect, Control, Cybernetics, Define, Different, Elite, End, Engage, Ethics, Evolution, Faith, Far, God, Good Man, Hallucination, Heart, Homo Sapiens, I, Interface, Interfere, Level, Limit, Loss, Mankind, Mark of the Beast, Mind Game, Minds, Modernity, More, Name, Outcome, Path Forward, Philosophy, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Precise, Process, Processing, Quantum, Quantum Connection, Question, React, Real, Reality, Restrain, Science, Soul, Spatial, Sure, Tears, Technology, Theology, Transcend, Transfer, Transparency, Unification, Virtual, Wonder
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Skeletons In Our Closet
In biology, we are taught that there is an almost linear path of the forms of mankind. Reality is it was a bit messier. Six species of man existed probably concurrently or at least overlapping. One still stands…. Is … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Anthropology, Back, Biology, Book, City, Clean Line, Closet, Cousins, Descent, Die Out, Explanation, Eyes, Fallacy, Family, Fossil, Fratricide, Homo Sapiens, Humanity, Incrimination, Invent, Linear Path, Memory, Neanderthal Man, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretentious, Pride, Rise, Sibliings, Singular, Skeleton, Species, Supress, Test, Tests, Think, Tree, Vanity, Whisper, Wish
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Leading Toward Significance In Free Verse
Poem A Day #12 is to be written in Free Verse. The word prompt is ‘echo’. Free Verse is: From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/free-verse and https://literarydevices.net/free-verse/: “Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech. A regular pattern of sound or … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Animal, Baby, Chimp, Civil, Closet, Cognitive Revolution, Culture, Early History, East Africa, Free Verse, Games, Great, Handprint, Hominid, Homo Sapiens, Human, Lead, Mankind, Memory, Milkwood, Mother, Mystery, Poem, Poem A Day, Poetry, Science, Secret, Separated, Signature, Significance, Skeleton, Thread, Time, Uncivil, Vers Libre
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