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WHAT IS — THE STRANGENESS OF IT ALL

Rip Parker
6 min readJan 22, 2025

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I will be as truthful as possible, not yielding to the temptation to elaborate beyond my knowing.

We are blessed and challenged to live in a creative time. Perhaps at whatever time and place we find ourselves, it seems “special”, nothing like it before, uniquely creative.

The nature of reality at this time deserves, requires clear observation to be duly noted. The notes must be factually accurate, not influenced by personal preference or any non factual elaboration.

These thoughts are personal from my perspective. Your perspective may well be different.

What is:

Our society seems significantly influenced by several somewhat unique factors, amongst which are the following:

Today a controversial man was sworn in as our President, Donald Trump. Many see him a virtual divine gift, one to actually “Make America Great Again” (MAGA). About an equal number of citizens see him as a narcissistic, self loving, pathological lier hellbent on becoming our dictator, and eventually Emperor of the world.

While some see him as a virtual savior, others see him as one who divides people, stimulating hatred, intending to provoke violence citizen vs citizen, perhaps civil war. We will see.

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At this same time, more so than any time before, the people of our nation, and around the world, are increasingly accepting the reality that non human intelligence (NHI) is…

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Rip Parker
Rip Parker

Written by Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics

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