Time Odyssey

A journey into the weird.

7
Jan 2012
Posted in Education by ktfeenan at 12:28 pm | No Comments »

Labels They are all around us. Our sense of reality is based in a large degree on the ways in which we can classify objects around us. The success of our species has been based around the ability to quickly categorize an object and come to some conclusion as to whether it warrants further attention. [...]

28
Dec 2011

What type of species are we? Seriously – think about this for a moment. Are we the type of species that could, knowing full well life existed elsewhere in the galaxy, resist the temptation to meddle? Almost all of our explorations throughout history have been with the express purpose of finding and returning with something [...]

26
Dec 2011
Posted in Business, Economics, Ethics, Law, Philosophy, Politics by ktfeenan at 1:08 pm | No Comments »

Three years ago I had said that we were in the opening engagements leading to the next global war. Specifically, I mentioned that It is not going to be fought over territory, or politics, or religion. It will be an economic war, a cultural war, a global war, and one in which the civil populations [...]

24
Nov 2011
Posted in Education, Philosophy, sociology by ktfeenan at 8:43 am | No Comments »

What I’ve come to realize is that there are some lessons that just can’t be taught. They need to be experienced in order to understand the truth of the matter. The knowledge to be gained is context sensitive and as such there is no amount of formal academic training that will prepare you for the [...]

15
Nov 2011
Posted in Just plain weird by ktfeenan at 1:10 pm | No Comments »

If you are like most people in North America that make 5 digit salaries, you probably have at least one piece of Ikea merchandise in your home. I mean really – who can resist the temptation of 10,000 tea candles for $5.  Sure you have to travel 35 miles through every single department with no obvious [...]

25
Sep 2011

The future is composed of three separate and distinct properties: those manifestations of the universe that occur whether we as humans exist or not, those manifestations of the universe that are the result of the aggregation of individual choices by all life, and the act of free will to make a choice when confronted by [...]