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13 Aug 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"While the rain drank champagne,my Estonian Archangel came and got me wasted"Rodriguez "The Weight" is a great song. In fact it makes me kinda sad. It reminds me what has been lost, and what has been thrown away. I don't really want to talk abou...
11 Aug 2023 2 minute read 1 comment Astroupdate
Happiness is a tricky concept. I feel it is equally abstract as the concept of "freedom", in the sense that it means something different for everybody. However, most times when we think of happiness, a very specific image comes to mind: you are somew...
4 Aug 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Hipness is death to the individual, andonly the individual is truly hip."Pablo Smog I feel the need to add a caveat to my last article. It's going to sound "negative," but it's only negative if it isn't true. If it isn't true, there's nothing to...
24 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Drew Binsky
A Persian Carpet for $100,000?! (Isfahan, Iran) Did you know that IRAN is the world's largest producer and exporter of CARPETS, producing 3/4ths of the world's total output?! And frankly, you cannot visit Iran without being completely immers...
24 Jul 2023 1 minute read 3 comments Drew Binsky
The World's FRIENDLIEST People! (IRAN) Out of all my travels in 137 countries, it is right here, in Iran, where I have found the most hospitable and friendly people. Complete strangers coming up to me on the street, from big cities to smal...
4 Jul 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Allen Taylor
Happy Independence Day to my American readers! If you have a digital wallet, you can collect this post on Paragraph for only 1 MATIC. Capture the Sasquatch and me in identical poses. Jefferson, Texas has a rich and interesting history. The town was f...
1 Jul 2023 17 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”Ephesians 4:29 I am in Mexico for every reason. Good, bad, and everything in between. Beautiful a...
1 Jul 2023 10 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
"He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty." - Lao Tzu Can we truly escape the demands of authority? "Master and Commander: Far Side of the World," a 2003 historical fiction film directed by Peter Weir and adapte...
28 Jun 2023 7 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse." - John Stuart Mill, "The Contest in America" Is war a game? The 1970 film "M*A*...
27 Jun 2023 16 minute read 3 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
Continued from Part I – Bitcoin v/s Ethereum (and Other Crypto) Culture Part II – Key Opinion Makers and Cultural Influencers Part III – Lexicon and Memes In Part I we asked if terms like GM, GN, WAGMI, HODL, DYOR, probably nothing, ser etc. sounded...
