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By the Encaffeinated ONE, on August 3rd, 2010%
 Man's Mechanics Exposed How does life become complicated? Why does it happen? How do we fix it?
These questions occur to me once and a while. I’m not always lucid enough to remember just how complex life is — or perhaps I’m blithely unaware of it.
In either case, I think I prefer those times when it does occur to me, because it also highlights my own problematic patterns. And when a problematic pattern is highlighted, you can address it. Its visibility is its weakness, as you can change or slay that which you see.
In this case, there are a couple of patterns that come to mind. First, I have a great desire to learn things. Not quite everything, but certainly a substantial list of things. I’m constantly frustrated by my lack of knowledge of history, or the limits to my scientific understanding. Lumped in with this is the desire to explore those great works of fiction and philosophy that inform our society. Not knowing those means a break in the universe, a separation between the foundations of how the world is and the understanding of how it came to be.
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By the Encaffeinated ONE, on September 13th, 2008%
Show Notes for TWS098: Home Is The Building You Come Back To After You’ve Left
On the show this week:
- Life, But Not As You Know It
- Architechnology and Engineerance
- Rapid Apocalyptic Matters (EXTRA)
- Whipped Celery and Onions (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Are things like the elf-friendly opera house just wastes of money, time and energy? What about “frivolous” PhD’s?
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By the Encaffeinated ONE, on May 24th, 2008%
Show Notes for TWS086: little things
This week, all the little things seem to be on the collective news mind.
On the show this week:
- Small things of importance
- Importance of small things
- Important things that only look small (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
What’s the societal “things” humanity no longer needs and should get rid of? What’s our vestigial societal norm?
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By the Encaffeinated ONE, on May 3rd, 2008%
Show Notes for TWS083: The World is Out To Get You (Sick)
A small personal note: this week I bid a sudden farewell to Chuck and Kreg of Technorama, on of my favourite
podcasts. They’ve decided to call it complete for the regular show, leaving me a bit in the lurch. I’ll survive, but it still hurts. I thank them both, and wish
them all the best in the future.
On the show this week:
- Life Will Go On..
- The birds and the bees do it: mysteries of sight unsound…
- Evilization?
- The other 90% of the show. (EXTRAS)
This week’s Challenge Question:
What one things are you going to do to change the future for the better?
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By the Encaffeinated ONE, on April 26th, 2008%
Show Notes for TWS082: Outer Sight, Outta Mind
On the show this week:
- UFOney
- Cray Matter
- Stories covered at 30000 ft (and falling fast)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Can you truly have mind over matter? Or do you really just shut off senses?
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By the Encaffeinated ONE, on January 26th, 2008%
Show Notes for TWS070: Good, Ugly, Bad: They’re all WEIRD
On the show this week:
- Rainbows and Kittens (Good)
- Madness and Phantoms (Ugly)
- Death and Destruction (Bad)
- Unclassifiable
This week’s Challenge Question:
Should we attempt to save all endangered species — or let “nature” take its course?
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By the Encaffeinated ONE, on January 4th, 2008%
One of the promises that I gave to myself just following the turn of the year was to try to write more.
No… Really to write anything.
Continue reading Be it resolved…
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