Strega

@strega – that’s a fantastic story.  The thing about pre-industrial people is their strong community ethos.  It shows how good it is for us.

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This is after clearing cache and data for the site in Chrome didn’t change anything and switching to DuckDuckGo after clearing cache and data and clicking on the Forum link on the main page.

The first time you mentioned this, I checked and didn’t have the problem. This time, I signed in as a normal user, and I DO see the p…[Read more]

@Strega – next “time” someone says that, you should reply that “A clock is not a time detector; it is a controlled physical process used to compare spacetime intervals”. That you get you a free lunch 🙂

@Strega – I promise not to ever ask A.I. if Entropy can be reversed. 🙂

I have William Blake’s “Ancient of Days” tattooed on my back shoulder and the first stars were his daughters….which often reminds me of Multivac and “Let there be Light”………

@Strega – I feel less weird about it now 

I don’t think you have ever written anything that was not well reasoned and on point.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@strega – Everyone else wrote “Individuality”, and she wrote “Conformity”. I had a summer relationship with a goth girl in the mid 1980’s. My style at the time (if style is the word to use) was t-shirt, jeans, sneakers and a packet of Rizla. She was full goth, all the time. She was trying to persuade me to “change…

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@Strega – Everyone else wrote “Individuality”, and she wrote “Conformity”.

I had a summer relationship with a goth girl in the mid 1980’s. My style at the time (if style is the word to use) was t-shirt, jeans, sneakers and a packet of Rizla. She was full goth, all the time. She was trying to persuade me to “change my lifestyle choices” or whateve…[Read more]

@strega – isn’t there a difference between individuality, and individualism?  Individualism can be a social situation, the opposite of communitarianism.  People rely on themselves and a small circle of people, while in communal societies, people rely on the whole community.  Community societies are “shame” cultures where the community governs th…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@strega, I agree with you on ‘Fracture’. It has a clever plot with a decent twist to it. He is one of those actors you are compelled to focus on, whatever his role in any specific scene is, even when he is silent.

Yeah, that was a good one. Kinda like a modern, upscale “Colombo” episode.

@Strega, I agree with you on ‘Fracture’. It has a clever plot with a decent twist to it.  He is one of those actors you are compelled to focus on, whatever his role in any specific scene is, even when he is silent.

@Strega – Yes, I was thinking of that when I read it.

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

@Strega, as always you are very welcome. Any break in the weather there?

@Strega, Thank you! But 3 times got me thinking…….

The Divine Comedy and Jesus: The Hidden Power of the Number 3
Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy is infused with the number 3, and when analyzed numerologically, it reveals undeniable proof of Jesus Christ’s divine plan. Let’s break down this mystical pattern and show how Dante’s masterp…[Read more]

@Strega Just catching the temperature where you are…..17F but feeling like only 8.6F……….Yikes, stay warm!!

@Strega – Too many people are afraid to live on their own for even a short period of time. I highly recommend it.

Maybe just don’t start writing a novel about what can happen to Jack when he spends too much time at work and not enough time playing. 🙂

@Strega I’m sorry to hear about your divorce. Acreage in the woods  sounds lovely though. Glad to hear you’re feeling positive about the future in 2025!

@strega – that way lies madness.  There are all kinds of things we could do recursively, but we don’t, because it’s too much effort.  To Babs, 12 hours and 2 miles away was like standing on top of a hill and looking around over the countryside.  Maybe the story was centred around me because I was there.

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however, it’s hard to see an earth shattering event that’s more earth shattering than a school shooting could be – but even that has passed the frequency level of being newsworthy for more than a day.

School shootings are dreadful, and as headline-making as they are, they are rare enough that the average parent and child shouldn’t becom…[Read more]

@Strega – Yep, Brexit has a lot to answer for.