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Posted by on Dec 26, 2014 in Blog, Movie Reviews, Politics | 1 comment

How One Man’s Being “Abnormal” Saved 14 Million Lives (Movie Review: “The Imitation Game”)

 

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There’s no such thing as “normal.”  We all look and act differently.  Each of us perceives things separately.  All of us think in unique ways.  Each one of us must contend with the influences which shape our lives and mold us into becoming individuals.  No one’s single experience, nor a reaction to it, is quite the same.  Hence, being “normal” becomes an apparition.  

Normality does not exist.

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Posted by on Dec 25, 2014 in Blog, Personal | 2 comments

A Christmas Night Manifesto for Secular Humanists (Part 2)

 

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By the looks of me and the things that I do, one would assume I’m a Christian believer.  Every year, I put up a Christmas tree and hang up pretty lights and decorations.  I’ve committed most of the verses of popular Christmas songs to memory.  I attend Christmas shows, even those held inside churches.  I send out Christmas cards to friends and family.  I buy presents.  My heart is filled with joy.  I even get sentimental.

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Posted by on Dec 24, 2014 in Blog, Movie Reviews | 2 comments

We are never prepared for what we expect (Movie Review: “Wild”)

 

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We are never prepared for what we expect.  So wrote novelist James A. Michener.  That thought sums up the life-transforming excursion in pursuit of self-awareness, some might even say an identity, ventured by writer Cheryl Strayed back in 1995, when she embarked upon a grueling three-month, 1,100-mile journey entirely by foot, along the Pacific Crest Trail.

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