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A Hope Filled Think Tank Combats the Negative Feelings of Superficial Intelligence

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Steve Simms

To combat negative feelings and tormenting thoughts I keep my think thank filled with hope. What’s in your think tank? Superficial intelligence cold and hard like an iceberg. It will produce an artificial life. Get real. Fill your think tank … Continue reading →

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Make political discussions kind again!

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Steve Simms

The measure of people’s intelligence isn’t how much they agree with you. Politeness is not being a doormat. It’s being powerful enough to be kind even when you don’t feel like it. Compete at something that really matters. Win first place … Continue reading →

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Are we literally livin’ in cyber space?

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Steve Simms

I recently saw a PBS documentary that suggested that if we were living in a video game we would be convinced that we and everything around us is real. However the only real thing about cyber space is the information and directions … Continue reading →

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Aiming For Your Heart

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Steve Simms

Television and movies aim to reach your desire to be entertained.  Advertising aims to for your emotions.  Negative political advertisements aim to reach your fears.  Classes, seminars, and even sermons aim for your mind.  Love, however, aims to reach your … Continue reading →

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Footprints Of Mystery (Fill The Natural World)

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Steve Simms

Footprints of mystery, spread across nature, baffle the best brains of mankind.  There is so much about our world and our universe that we humans (even those of us with the best scientific minds) cannot understand or explain by natural … Continue reading →

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Logic Can’t Show You Love

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Steve Simms

Intellect can’t inspire you.  Inspiration is a matter of the heart. Logic can’t show you love.  Love comes from the heart.  (It’s even symbolized by a tiny heart, not by a tiny brain.) Mind can’t make mysticism.  Only insight in … Continue reading →

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Would Chance Produce These Words? Or This? mbvpp[s fji03 n jfn9a- JFJ

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Steve Simms

If the symbols that you are now seeing on your computer screen couldn’t have happened over billions of years by a self-produced process of time and chance, but were instead, intentionally designed and built and posted by intelligent beings; how … Continue reading →

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