“Pilate could be the avatar of an entire class of folks in the post-industrial West, society’s so-called middle managers.”

“Do you remember when and why you stopped believing in Santa?”

“Kabbalah kept the pre-Socratic tradition alive until it could be born anew in the Age of Aquarius.”

“Our own number system is based on a highly specialized, and not necessarily privileged, concept of quantity.”

“What the Cross is to Christianity…the River is to Process Philosophy.”

“You’re the CEO of Self, Inc…What’s your mission statement?”

“Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, but children are from the planet Mercury.”

“'Be Here Now,’ cried Baba Ram Dass in the ‘60s. But was that good advice?”

“Reciting the alphabet is like peeling layers off of a prize-winning red onion.”

“I want to repeal all the fundamental laws of Arithmetic.”

“…Regretting your actions would mean disclaiming the entire forward course of world (cosmic) history.”

“If the physical world isn’t structured according to the rules of grammar, the social world certainly is.”

“Sturluson searched for the universal patterns that connect all times, all places, and all scales…and, Glory be to God, he found them.”

“What if there was an election where everyone was eager to vote…but nobody cared who won? It’s happened!”

“…We treat children…as pets, slaves, snuggle bunnies and proto-adults”.

“Parents dote on their royal highnesses…and rarely miss an opportunity to damage them in the process.”

“Every day for 80+ years, we imagine ourselves to be someone we are not, and we work tirelessly, and fruitlessly, to become that person. 'That' is Vanity.”

“…Will it surprise you to learn that not every bacterium is a team player?”

“Children and tank engines are not so different from the rest of us. They crave meaning! They only settle for pleasure when…they lose hope.”

“…then I am basically an automaton. I am carbon-based AI. I am the product of nature (inherited traits) and nurture (upbringing)…my parents’ mini-me.”

“We systematically suppress our actual experience and replace it with whatever it is we think we are supposed to experience, and we call that reality.”

“A recent headline in the 'New York Post' read: King Castles!”

“This is what we do on Sunday nights and Mondays during football season: we play 'what if' and 'if only'.”

“This one day converges mythology (Norse), cosmology (Pagan), theology (Christian) and ideology (Marxist) with ancient fertility rites. And for my next trick…”

“This movie includes a huge twist with cosmological implications.”

“Eat or be eaten, kill or be killed. It’s a terrible way to live! But we’re living it…(but) it wasn’t always this way, and it doesn’t…have to be this way.”

"What about werewolves, giants, trolls, and dragons? We don’t believe in them; they’re not real! Are they?"

“If a world can or must…self-annihilate…then that world does not exist, never did exist, never will exist, cannot exist.”

“At last, an opportunity to watch football in peace! … Just beer, pretzels and picking out the next Tom Brady.”

“Modern physics is right now living at least three lives and possibly a fourth.”

Every day is Halloween…Every day I get to make the decision anew: who am I going to be today?

If counting is such a powerful tool, how is it that for the most part, we don’t count?

Next time someone asks you for your ‘pronouns,’ try telling them, ‘you/you’…see what happens.

Ecbatan may share the seven-ringed pattern of the solar system, but Paradise shares the seven-ringed pattern of Ecbatan!

Why can’t a monarch wear whatever shade of nail polish she wants?

“Language Endures. We Don’t” – now that is a bumper sticker!

In Looking-glass world, there’s plenty of there and then, but not a whiff of here and now.

“John’s Utopia is a 20th century version of Friedrich Nietzsche’s flat universe.”

Land is imbued with holiness, which means that, like God, it is beyond human measures of usefulness or control.

So, what’s up with the Piraha? How can they get by without numbers?

The hidden grammar censor in our Euro-brains whispers inaudibly, “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Why did the speaker place ‘tall’ and ‘basketball’ in the same sentence, unless they are somehow connected?” A major fallacy that comes with a huge price tag.

“It is often said that victors write history. That is even truer when the war is cultural rather than political.”

If football is nothing else, it is a metaphor for life. The values of determination, responsibility, teamwork, flexibility, and focus apply to every aspect of life, not just football. This is a formula for success on a football field, but it is also a formula for success in life.

Schools will soon be reopening with kids returning to begin a new school year. Now is the time to begin thinking about the fall curriculum. In this article, we outline a 10-unit physics curriculum for grades four through eight, all based on The Yellow Submarine.

“We are co-responsible for the world. We are all always our siblings’ keepers!”

We’ve constructed a super-elaborate cosmology to explain how ‘it is’ arose spontaneously from ‘it is not.’ (If that doesn’t make any sense to you, trust me, it doesn’t make sense to me either.) How did the universe come to be? It just did! How did the ratios of the masses of subatomic particles get so finely tuned? They just did!

There is nothing more self-satisfying or self-aggrandizing than ‘taking offense’.

That’s conventional wisdom…and in this rare case, conventional wisdom is not wrong…but neither is it perfectly right.

Is it possible to write an autobiography of everyone, to somehow incorporate the wildly varying events of different people’s lives into a single story? Absurd, right? But not so fast!

We imagine that our world is made up of ‘things’ (nouns), their accidental qualities (adjectives), and the relationships between them (verbs). We imagine this because just such a classification system is embedded in our native tongue: modern English, for example, or most any other contemporary Indo-European language.

“I am stuck on Band-Aid ’cause Band-Aid’s stuck on me!”

So says the jingle for one of the world’s most iconic products. But more importantly, and quite unexpectedly, this slogan is one of the best examples of ‘middle voice thinking’ in American pop culture.

Antonyms. No such thing! Not-X includes the shadow of X. Example: ‘Pretty’ and ‘Ugly’. ‘Pretty’ refers to the totality (gestalt) of a person, place, or thing. ‘Ugly’ refers to those elements of the aforementioned that are not consistent with a ‘pretty’ whole. ‘Pretty’ and ‘ugly’ appear to be antonyms…but they’re not. In fact, they operate on two entirely different syntactic levels.
‘Ugly’ actually derives its meaning from the concept of ‘pretty’. Therefore, we can say ‘ugly’ includes “the shadow of ‘pretty’”; but not so the other way around.

So we were told that COVID-19 came from bats. By the summer of 2020, it should have been obvious that this was wrong. COVID-19 has behaved in some very unique ways that most probably reflect the effects of ‘human engineering’. Now the scientific consensus is shifting.

Amazon provides reliable, rapid, and inexpensive delivery service; and the US Postal Service? Well, to be kind let’s say ‘not so much’. So who is being sued by the feds? You guessed it…Amazon. Apparently, success today is automatically an anti-trust violation.