Category Archives: Kephen’s Commentary
How To Research Your Family Ancestry
How To Research Your Family Ancestry So you’ve decided that you want to research your family ancestry, but you don’t know where to begin. Genealogy, the study of family ancestry, is both immensely rewarding and incredibly time consuming. For most … Continue reading
Ben Tre: Keep the Loneliness Warm
Ben Tre: Keep The Loneliness Warm I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands … Continue reading
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What the Story of Hiro-Kala Teaches Us
What the Story of Hiro-Kala Teaches Us If you’re not familiar with Hiro-Kala, I’ll give you a brief glimpse. He is a Marvel Comic Universe fictional character created by Greg Pak and Ron Garney, appearing from 2008 through 2011 in … Continue reading
The Passenger
The Passenger: Commentaries on the Nature of Consciousness What is consciousness? It is defined as a subjective experience, an awareness of self or one’s surroundings and the ability to react to it. Right now, as you are reading this, there … Continue reading
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His Light Carries On
“The mind withers and the soul may fade, but the heart will always beat in sync with the one who carries it.” – Colin Madsen February 18, 1991 – April 04, 2016 His Light Carries On: The Life, the Loss, … Continue reading
Posted in All, In Loving Memory, Kephen's Commentary, Miscellaneous
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The Macrocosm Perspective
The Macrocosm Perspective Siddhartha Gautama taught that in order to see what matters we must first remove the ego from the equation. Nothing rips apart my ego or sense of self more than the Universe. The above photo is a … Continue reading
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Nationalism and Police Brutality: The Deafening Sound of Ignorance
“The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established… It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The … Continue reading
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Tagged *See All Posts, America, Confirmation Bias, Constitution, Continental Congress, Divided States, Facts, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Identity Politics, National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund, Nationalism, Oath of Enlistment, Opinion, Police Brutality, Politics, Roland Fryer Jr., Silo Effect, The Washington Post, Truth, United States Marine Corps
Identity Politics and the Slow Death of the American Moral Landscape
Identity Politics and the Slow Death of the American Moral Landscape I used to watch Fox News, and then I switched to CNN, and then I stopped watching network channels for daily news and commentary because they are all so … Continue reading
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The Algorithm Specs Behind Facebook’s “People You May Know” Suggestions
The Algorithm Specs Behind Facebook’s “People You May Know” Suggestions We’ve all seen it, that horizontal scroll pane in our Facebook news feed titled People You May Know. I’ve always found it odd why it would list people I have … Continue reading
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Tagged *See All Posts, Algorithm, Facebook, GPS Location, IP Address, Mutual Friends, Online Privacy, Online Stalking, People You May Know
The Darkest Corners of the Cyber World: Sexual Predation and Exploitation
The Darkest Corners of the Cyber World: Sexual Predation and Exploitation Sexual predation and exploitation is the topic of this article, more specifically it’s about catfish who use social media and social apps to seduce and trick young men and … Continue reading
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Tagged *See All Posts, Apps, Baiting, Catfish, Facebook, FaceTime, Instagram, Kik, MeetMe, Omegle, Online Safety, Parenting Advice, Sextortion, Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Predation, Sexual Predator, Snapchat, Social Applications, Social Media Sites, Straight Baiting
The Wall, Illegal Immigration, and the U.S. – Mexican Border
Photo credit: Mike Blake/Reuters The Wall, Illegal Immigration, and the U.S. – Mexican Border The U.S. and Mexican border is 1,954 miles long. As of last year the U.S. only had enough border patrol agents to securely patrol half the … Continue reading
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Lemmings and Other Things
October 8, 2011 I was talking to a friend of mine this past week about how fear and misunderstanding lead to a negative impact on minority groups. About how inequality and ignorance still run rampant in our society and about … Continue reading
Execution
July 4, 2010 Execution is vengeance. It always has been and always will be. There is no justice in execution. People allow their emotions to over take them, they are blinded by retribution and revert to a primal state of … Continue reading
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Tagged *See All Posts, Death, Ethics, Execution, Human Rights, Morals
The Inexplicable
The Inexplicable Have you ever stopped to think for a moment how incredibly rare your existence actually is? The odds that you would ever come into being are literally on average a million to one. That’s literally a 0.000001% chance … Continue reading →