The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
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The Positivity of Understanding

Now more than ever, there is a tremendous positivity in understanding. Unfortunately, 2020 has shown that people are frighteningly good at being unreasonable. For example – those who consider mandatory mask orders and social distancing to be violations of civil liberties. What they are telling me is that efforts to keep more people safe in the middle of an incurable pandemic are unimportant? Do they have some form of immunity so that they can walk around without a mask or

What’s Your Opinion?

Everyone is capable of having an opinion. Being entitled to an opinion, however, has frequently been carried to a dangerous and unhealthy extreme. What’s the difference?  Let’s say that it is my opinion that the moon is made of green cheese.  We know of course that it’s not.  We have physical evidence returned from the moon to disprove me.  When you show me a moon rock, and explain to me that the composition of the moon is not cheesy, I

Pathwalking 153

How do you Pathwalk in the face of cynicism and skepticism? These two concepts are often confused and mixed, but still amount to much the same thing. In the simplest of terms, a cynic does not believe in selflessness, whereas a skeptic questions the factuality of a given thing. Given today’s society, it should come as no surprise that these two notions are so prevalent, and that they are easy to confuse. And when it comes to Pathwalking I can