Full Circle: Lessons of the Lost City in the Sands of Time

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

This post will be a little “outside of the box” so to speak. It’s more of an afterthought, really.  Therefore, it may not tie into current events and, specifically, the upcoming midterms and aftermath.  Or, in a roundabout way, it could be exactly about those coming events. Regardless, as always, it is the reader’s choice to tag along while simultaneously, and at your whim, possessing the power of the click.

Of course, that’s just one of the bonuses of being an internet animal.

Another includes the occasional morsels discovered when hunting and gathering online. These may often be feel-good stories that reassure one’s belief in humanity. Other examples might include new scientific breakthroughs that, at the time, are only reported on the shadowy fringes of the interwebic blogosphere.  Or maybe the tidbit is about a social, or health, tip that enriches one’s life. And, oftentimes, other postings are historical; even connecting antiquity with modernity in ways that resurrect the imaginations of childhood.

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RIP SPOCK

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Leonard Nimoy, the actor best known for portraying the character Spock in the television and movie series Star Trek, has died at the age of 83, The New York Times reported. Nimoy had been hospitalized earlier this week.

Some pearls of wisdom from Spock

Without followers, evil cannot spread.

Change is the essential process of all existence.

Insufficient facts always invite danger.

Vulcans never bluff.

It is curious how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.

Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.