Questions About Death

Life and death are two sides of the same coin that have puzzled humans since the beginning of time. While science has made incredible progress in understanding how the body works and what happens during death from a biological perspective, there are deeper questions that remain beyond the reach of microscopes and lab experiments.

Everyone thinks about death at some point, and these thoughts often lead to profound questions about existence, consciousness, and what might happen after our final breath. 

Modern science gives detailed explanations about the physical process of dying, but just like ancient philosophers, today’s brightest minds still grapple with the mysterious and philosophical aspects of death that seem impossible to solve through scientific methods alone.  READ MORE...

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Black Friday

 

BLACK FRIDAY is that day when retailers, on their ledgers and accounting books, move from red ink (indicating a loss) to black ink (indicating a profit).

It is that simple and has nothing to do with African Americans or any kind of RACIAL SLUR...

This day, the day after Thanksgiving, the retail stores usually have long lines on the sidewalks waiting for the stores to open.

Yes, there are usually good sales, but there is also a "tonne" of people in the stores that are all fighting (sometimes) for one item.

I would never be that foolish, myself, to shop on this day even if I was able to save money.  However, there are a lot of people that do not share my sentiments and are out there waiting before sunrise to get a good place in line.

Many people have scoped out the store(s) the day before and know exactly where the items are located that they want to purchase.

I am home, in my flannels, warm and cozy drinking cappuccino and dunking a cake doughnut in the hot liquid, just long enough to be a little mushy but not falling apart.

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Possible Alien World

Possible alien world bubbling over with volcanoes detected deep in space

It’s thought that there is at least one planet for every star in the galaxy. That means that there are billions of planets in our galaxy alone, and many of these could be in Earth’s size range. So far, researchers think they have found 5,000. But now, one research team has possible evidence that they have found an exoplanet [meaning a planet outside the solar system] with a sulphur-rich atmosphere deep into space (Picture: Getty)     READ MORE...

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THANKSGIVING

 

Thanksgiving has always been a special day for me, especially when I was young.

Our family lived in Alexandria, Virginia until the summer of 1962.  Every Thanksgiving, we would pack up the car and drive to NC, specifically Winston-Salem, the tobacco capital of the USA.

The trip lasted about 5-6 hours as I recall and as we got closer to Winston-Salem, when the windows of the car were rolled down, you could actually smell the tobacco in the air.

Thanksgiving in Winston-Salem was a real treat.  We all sat at a long dining room table that held all the Thanksgiving dishes in the middle.  One by one these dishes were passed around while my grandfather, my dad's father, cut the turkey.

We had everything that you could imagine in terms of side dishes to go with the turkey like casseroles, rice, mashed potatoes, gravy, biscuits, peas, lima beans, salad, sweet potatoes, etc.

The day after Thanksgiving, all our relatives would get together and rent a meeting hall in a nearby park and all the families would gather there and bring their leftovers.

While my memories are a little foggy, I would suspect that about 150 relatives would show up, most of whom I had no idea who they were.  These relatives would represent both my mother's and father's side of the family.

It was a very memorable time that our entire family/relatives lost sight of as we all got older.

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