MARRIAGE

The convention of "marriage" is most unconventional, as reflected in diverse cultures around the world now or heretofore. Example: Take the antebellum slave "marriages" where either 'spouse' or their issue was subject to sale. These relations were those from which most African Americans sprang; were no less acceptable in the sight of God, or the realm of culture of that time and place, and their offspring no less human, valued, vibrant, righteous, than any others, anywhere, who observed those elaborate state-sanctioned ceremonies or rituals, which today conform to acceptable custom.

"JUCHE" NOT JUDO

Learned today of this "Juche," this uniquely North Korean philosophical and cultural accretion to their former Marxist-Leninism which used to guide North Korea, prior to Juche's promulgation by Kim Il-Sung in the 1950s, which arises from North Korean facts, sensibilities, historic circumstances, values. I find it to be similar to the Pharaonic mode of governance, so familiar to ancient historians. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche

facts--freight or fuel?

Facts are freight to some, fuel to others. Freight or fuel, dead weight or living energy. Each must choose, decide and abide

leaping lessons

LEAPING LESSONS Lessons are learned all kinds of ways. School is one way. Religion is another way . Observation and comparison is another way . Personal experience is another way. Book learning , video-viewing and movie and television viewing are other ways. There are as many ways to learn as there are persons willing to learn, amenable to learn. Explore the ones that suit you best. Closed minds lag behind; but, opened instead they leap ahead!

FREE THINKER & RELIGIOUS THINKER

GREETINGS FELLOW EARTHIANS

GREETINGS FELLOW EARTHIANS ! Would we even be here on Earth but for the pull and tug of those uniquely specific life forces that conduced, induced and produced us in this space and time precisely? Among the many millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions , quintillions of inert possibilities and permutations inhering in and around that question, that warrant reflection, study or consideration, our being here, just here, is primal and fundamental ! Good day, Earthians! How are you ?

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE From the known comes the unknown. From the pre-existent comes the existent. Mankind incrementally acquires new knowledge from prior knowledge. Without at least a minutiae of prior knowledge, there is neither reason nor incentive to seek new knowledge. This general principle would appear to apply to all things now known. If the above statements are true, then, prior knowledge is the basis of all new knowledge. The need for prior knowledge does not diminish nor deprecate the prospect nor appearance of chance, luck, grace, good fortune, or peradventure. These random events of unexplained etiology have too commonly occurred historically, allegorically, in mankind to discount or to deny. Instead, prior knowledge enables, enhances, prepares us for, even identifies, the prospective presence of these unusual, inexplicable occurrences. Prior knowledge, then, even celebrates, utilizes, rejoices in the presence of these now-recognized gifts of unknown origin, which derive from that divine, eternal archive of all prior knowledge, of all things period.