Posted on July 24, 2021
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On July 2, 2021, I joined about a hundred-million other Americans and partook in a medical practice that has occurred for more than two centuries, I received my second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, specifically Moderna. I didn’t want to get the vaccine right… Continue Reading “Vaccination?”
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Posted on June 22, 2021
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Should You Go Back to School? Table of Contents Introduction An adult or independent non-traditional student is typically defined as a student attending a college or university who is 24 years old or older and has surpassed the usual age of a college or… Continue Reading “Should You Go Back to School?”
Category: All, Kephen's Commentary, Miscellaneous, ScienceTags: *See All Posts, Adult College Student, Adult Student, Can someone in their 20's go back to school?, Can someone over 30 go back to school?, Independent Student, Is College Worth It, Returning to College as an Adult, Returning to University as an Adult, Should I Go Back to College?, Should I Go Back to School?, Should I Go Back to University?, Should I Quit My Job and Go Back to School
Posted on May 6, 2021
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These past several years I have really been noticing a significant rise in bravado, grandiosity, self-aggrandizing, and a false sense of social importance, particularly among young American men. This pretentious view that one is special and important, and that the choices they make have… Continue Reading “The Privilege and Risks of Pretentious and Delusional Self-Importance in American Youth”
Category: All, Behavioral Health, Human Condition, Kephen's Commentary, Miscellaneous, ScienceTags: *See All Posts, Adulthood, American Youth, Behavioral Health, Bravado, Delusion, Grandiosity, Humble, Humility, Hype, Hype Beast, Hype Culture, Legend, Lessons on Living, Mental Health, Pretentious, Reality Check, Self-aggrandizing, Self-awareness, Self-esteem, Self-Importance, Self-worth, Temperance, Youth
Posted on July 24, 2020
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I see/hear a lot of debate about wearing masks and whether or not they are worth wearing. I see people sharing posts on social media from randomly named quacks they don’t know, or worse the poster is clearly a fake account but the sharer’s… Continue Reading “To Mask or Not to Mask”
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Posted on January 21, 2019
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“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” ~Gary Snyder Liberation and a Return to the Sacred Buddhism has a long history with the forest. Siddhartha Gautama fled the comforts of the Shakya Kingdom and immersed himself with the lands beyond to… Continue Reading “Liberation and a Return to the Sacred”
Category: All, Atheism, Religion and Spirituality, Behavioral Health, Environment, ScienceTags: *See All Posts, Behavioral Health, Buddhism, Ego, Forest Bathing, Forests, Four Noble Truths, Liberation, Mahayana, Mental Health, Nature, Nature Therapy, Pan, Pantheism, Sacred, Self, Siddhartha Gautama, Taoism, Woodlands
Posted on September 20, 2018
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According to the American Psychiatric Association Foundation, employees with depression miss on average 31.4 days per year and an additional 27.9 days of unproductivity when they report for work, but are unable to focus due to the symptoms of depression. Various studies show that… Continue Reading “U.S. Behavioral Health and the Workplace”
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Posted on August 7, 2018
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Moments in Time A moment is more than a measurement and more than a memory, it is a place in time. A static point in the timeline of the Universe, never lost and never changing. Every moment that has ever come to be and… Continue Reading “Moments in Time”
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Vaccination?
Posted on July 24, 2021 by Kēphen
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On July 2, 2021, I joined about a hundred-million other Americans and partook in a medical practice that has occurred for more than two centuries, I received my second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, specifically Moderna. I didn’t want to get the vaccine right… Continue Reading “Vaccination?”
Category: All, Kephen's Commentary, Miscellaneous, Politics, ScienceTags: *See All Posts, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 Vaccine, Ivermectin, Moderna, Moderna Vaccine, Vaccination, Vaccine, Vaccine Hesitancy