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Spencer
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  • North Richland Hills,Texas
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Natural talent vs. Learned Ability

Started Aug. 22, 2008

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Just wrote a blog post as a riff from yr post above... I'm not sure the world does get better as people get more efficient. It works better, but what it's working toward ain't necessarily the 'better'. Though I do sympathize with yr final point --...
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. You can put the resources in people's hands, but you can't make them connect the question to the answer. You can outline, step by step, exactly what the truth of the situation is, based o...
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Are you an Info-Sci or a Socio-Sci type?
Info
What's better for saving the world: websites, shovels, meditation, or jokes?
shovels
Name some of your specialities and interests.
sociobiology, asian government, pragmatism

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The Need For Leadership

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
You can put the resources in people's hands, but you can't make them connect the question to the answer.
You can outline, step by step, exactly what the truth of the situation is, based on the research and facts, but you can't make them believe you.

I sincerely believe that the easiest way to do something is always most likely the best way to do something. I see people wasting my time and theirs by making things much more diffic… Continue

Posted on April 9, 2009 at 2:05pm — 1 Comment

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Secular Morality

Today is my son’s first birthday. This, of course, has forced me to take pause and evaluate the state of the world, and what I can do to improve it. Going around (and around) in my head is the only realistic thing I can do to change the world for the better- I must develop and record a complete secular moral code.

I have come, firmly, to the conclusion that morality without religion is no only possible, but necessary in order to positively advance global society. We have laws, yes, but these sh… Continue

Posted on August 26, 2008 at 12:01pm — 2 Comments

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