First, I am a Jew, a now secular Jew, and Esperanto was created by a Jewish polyglot of the Haskalah, Jewish Enlightenmet, period. As such, modern Hebrew and Esperanto naturally appeal to me. But, further, let’s look at the history of this time period and better understand why I am Read more…
There is not a day that goes by where I am not intimately aware of death. It’s been this way for me for over ten years. I wake up each day not knowing but expecting to find out who has died now in my sphere of living awareness. Will it Read more…
mi wile mute e ni: tenpo suno ali la mi toki mute e toki pona. mi kama sona ali e toki Epelanto. mi kama sona ali e toki Iwisi. toki pona li toki nanpa wan mi. toki Epelanto en toki Iwisi li toki nanpa tu. tenpo suno ali la mi Read more…
Tell me, United States citizens, how many more children must be murdered before we take legislative action? While other nations worry about international terrorists, U.S. Americans have to worry about their own citizen terrorists. White, male, indoctrinated homegrown *domestic* terrorists have caused more pain, suffering, and deaths in this country Read more…
Do you know what science is? Are you sure? Can you tell the difference between what is honest well-researched science that is based on verified evidence, and what is philosophy and religion dressing itself up as legitimate scientific research? If you can’t the difference, because you are not sure what Read more…
‘‘It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.’’ – Mark Twain Imagine being born and raised in a world of humans where, most of the time, everyone looks just like you. Imagine being taught incessantly that all Read more…
Modern religious Creationists of both Haredi Jewish and, especially, Christian fundamentalists persuasion (the Young Earth Creationism types) would have us believe that the earth and universe is about 5,500 years old (and no greater than 10,000 years). Modern scientists tell us that the earth is about 4.5 billion years old Read more…
“Pirke Abot, chapter 5, section 10, states: “There are four attitudes among men: He that says, “What is mine is mine and what is yours is yours” – this is the average attitude; but some [Sages] say that this is the attitude of the Sodomites….” A Sodomite is described here Read more…
On this Yom Kippur 5777: I regret all the years I’ve been absorbed with who I am, and not enough being focused on what I am. For this, I apologize. I intend to be more consciously aware of this, daily, from now on. I am a member of the human Read more…
I was taught from youth, indoctrinated really, to believe that religion is the reason for morals. That without religion, societies would be without morals and egregiously decadent. For much of my life, it did not even occur to me to question this taught in youth belief. I went through life Read more…