Dave’s Blog
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Please Make The Sane Choice On Election Day
Please make the sane choice on Election Day (Tuesday, November 5, 2024). Choose a competent woman who cares about everyone, including you, not a deranged fascist who cares only about himself. And please pass it along. If you need evidence that Donald Trump is the wrong choice for president, please see these examples (there are… Read the post…
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Intelligent Life
One of the vexing questions in science today is, why do we seem to be the only intelligent life in the universe and, if we’re not, where is everybody else? Maybe the answer is that intelligent life is a very common occurrence in the universe, but so is the inability of intelligent life to survive… Read the post…
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Christian Values
I think that most people, religiously-minded or not, can appreciate that the values that Jesus taught and then commissioned Christians to spread around the world boil down to: love, forgiveness, truth, reconciliation, inclusion, love of neighbors, and love of God. I also think that most people, politically-minded or not, realize that the values Donald Trump… Read the post…
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Junk DNA
In 1984, a guy hired me to write 8051 code for a product he was developing to track real-time automobile milage and expenses for tax purposes – he did the hardware, I did the software. In a few months, we had a working prototype. Right about that same time, the laws that had made record… Read the post…
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New Life in Christ Post
I put up a new Sermon: https://fairlywelldone.com/sermons/sermon-on-the-new-life-in-christ/ Read the post…
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Memory Refresh
It’s been reasonably well established that dreams are glimpses into the process of our brains converting short-term memories into long-term ones, rather like dynamic random access memory (DRAM) in computers can be committed to hard disk for long-term storage. I don’t think anyone knows for sure why some of our short-term memories become long-term ones… Read the post…
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The Spirit
I personally believe that the Spirit (that some people call God and other people call other things) is all-encompassing and that the Spirit binds humanity and draws us all toward good, constructive, and fulfilling lives. Or would, anyway, if all humanity accepted the Spirit. But, what if I’m wrong? What if the Spirit is, in… Read the post…
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Is It There Own Damn Fault?
Regarding the homeless and other impoverished people in the US, please don’t try to use the tired old “it’s their own damn fault” excuse. First of all, to keep upward pressure on wages low, our country requires some level of unemployment and will do whatever it takes to maintain that level, even if it means… Read the post…
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Four Spatial Dimensions
If we lived in a universe with four spatial dimensions, would we have three arms? Read the post…
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Is Donald Trump Fit For a Second Term?
Is Donald Trump fit for a second term as president of the United States? You be the judge: Read the post…
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Following Jesus
Ever since the time of Jesus, people have believed that our mission is to follow him as though he were our master and we were his servants. But I’m quite sure that’s not really what he had in mind. Perhaps it’s more like we should follow Jesus as though he were a master and we… Read the post…
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Older Posts
Posts earlier than this one are older ones from the last time I was actively feeding this blog but that are still appropriate. Some reflect on the inequity of the U.S. economic system – inequity that has not gotten any better. Others are from the 2020 presidential election. People tend to block out traumatic experiences, including… Read the post…
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Save Christianity – Dump Trump
It’s mind boggling how many people who claim to be Christians can support a man who is so antithetical to true Christian values. Here are a few images. Read the post…
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The Donald Trump Show
It’s remarkable that the most important job in the world, president of the United States, has no job requirements attached to it other than native citizenship and a minimum age – no educational requirements, no experience requirements, no demonstrated competency requirements, no health or psychological requirements, no substantive job requirements at all. That’s what’s allowed… Read the post…
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Donald Trump’s Law and Order
Donald Trump, we’re told, is the law-and-order candidate for president. Unless he wins another 4 years, the country will be overrun by crime and lawlessness – or so the story goes. At the Republican National Convention, Mike Pence said, “We will have law and order on the streets of this country for every American –… Read the post…
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Save Law and Order – Dump Trump
Many people seem to have forgotten how much turmoil there was during the Trump administration. Here are a few images to remind you (and this was even before the turmoil resulting from Trump’s amateurish response to the coronavirus). Read the post…
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US Capitalism Is In Trouble, Part 7 of 7 – Solution 2 – Capped Capitalism
From the above discussion, it is hopefully clear that a large part of the problem with US capitalism is that we allow wealth, scope, and power, for both individuals and business entities, to become unduly concentrated, and that the concentration benefits the few to the detriment of the many. In order to correct this, we… Read the post…
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US Capitalism Is In Trouble, Part 6 of 7 – Pillars Need to Crumble
To get to an alternative solution, we need to make a set of related arguments that are sure to be wildly unpopular because they go against sacrosanct pillars of our modern economy. The arguments are that the benefits of maximum economic efficiency, ever-increasing labor productivity, and rapid economic growth have come to an end. Labor… Read the post…
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US Capitalism Is In Trouble, Part 5 of 7 – Solution 1 – Operate in a Mature, Just, and Equitable Manner
When you think about it, there are four main things a company can do with its profits, assuming it doesn’t just stuff them in a mattress overseas somewhere to avoid paying taxes: (1) expand, (2) offer lower prices, (3) pay employees more, or (4) pay themselves more (by simply keeping the money, in the case… Read the post…
