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Second Chance
The year was 1989 and on a faraway island in the east of Africa was Noah Griffith, an unhealthy-looking 16 years old guy attired in a torn, filthy white shirt and a pair of jeans turned into shorts. Noah has had a terrible life ever since his parents passed away in a horrible car crash, at the age of 12 while coming back from the hospital with their new-born baby; his little sister. His parents left him with nothing but debts, and now he had to be responsible to pay off the house mortgage and all the other bills. Being only 16, he felt like he was already a full-grown adult with enormous responsibilities, little education, and no one to seek for guidance or support. He was an apprentice in a boat trying to be a fisher and thereafter be prepared to sell seafood for a living. When he was not on the boat, he worked in a diner, washing dishes. His life was deeply miserable until one day, an incident twisted his life around.
By Keshav Aubeeluck5 years ago in Futurism
Life is Just One Thing After Another
During this pandemic, I have watched eagerly as the experts understand and communicate, how the virus is structured and how it behaves. I have been attempting to understand a little more, although it fair to say that my understanding will make no difference.
By Charles Leon5 years ago in Futurism
Augmented Reality
It takes a special sort of optimism to bring children into the world, particularly in times of trouble. The more educated you are, the more you know about the world at large and the forces crashing around it like icebergs speckled with political lice, the more daunting it is to try and project for the future. My parents started with me and my siblings in the early 1980’s, so they didn’t have the Internet to feed them a constant flow of doom and contrast, but since both of them had had parents with military and intelligence backgrounds reaching back to the second world war, they had enough to go on to know that the world at large was neither safe, nor sound, and that interesting times were ahead.
By Shiv MacFarlane5 years ago in Futurism
Time as a currency
This is a story from my contemplations of time as a currency. Its seems that time is itself nothing but a way to calibrate quality of movement in space. Time as a currency would be a dependent variable because speed of movement through space determines relative unit value of time, and therefore the total units needed to get to your destination.
By Quip Circus5 years ago in Futurism
A Snag Named Hindsight. Top Story - January 2021.
Most people can't perceive the accurate results of a future circumstance before it happens because there might be plenty of variables in your formulation for the prediction, which might change with time. You only know the constants which plug into your brain to perceive a future event, but you don't know anything about variables. No one can sense a situation beforehand because all its consequences are only revealed after its occurrence, right? Let's try to answer that.
By Saral Verma5 years ago in Futurism
The Actualization of The Self
Friedrich Nietzsche was not only influential in the 19th century, but also the most influential philosopher of the 20th century. The German thinker wrote in the prologue to Nietzsche's Thus sprach Zarathustra that man is something that must be surpassed. In it he explains that "man is the rope that connects the animal and the superman" (Nietzsche, Nietzsche et al., 1864).
By Musonius Latoyah5 years ago in Futurism
Where Do We Find Wisdom?
The word wisdom is more than knowledge, more than experience. The American Heritage Dictionary defines it as "the ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting". The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary expands this thought by saying "the combination of experience and knowledge with the ability to apply them judiciously".
By Dan Sarver5 years ago in Futurism
Freelance Society
" FREELANCE SOCIETY " THE NEW SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCE, The new enterprise technology for future humanities: "Sociologically reinventing the science of freedom." Total FREELANCE innovative business development for future generations and societies...
By Queen of the New Republic: Raquele Weathersbi, Esq.5 years ago in Futurism
Who Gives A Hoot !
As the day ends and a new one begins ,We are a confused and perplexed people. Where do we go from here ? Today is a day to embark upon as a daunting task one that is filled with instructions,unfamiliar to some and accepting by others. As funny as it all may seem, I hear words spoken from our leader, words that seem scrambled, and misunderstood as if he is speaking in terms of a riddle. ones such as these "The nations is under threat" "I do not engage in violence," and "I promote peace towards our neighbors". let me ask a question ,Do you really care what the written schedule of things call for ? As we are well aware of the agenda that is written for us to follow in and trust, and believe to the extent that we believe in order to achieve unfamiliar grounds as we mature away from the foundings of old territory, just as we plan our days coming we always want to love and be at peace with ourselves and others. Some things hint at an unsettled way, almost back to the paths that we or our ancester once trodded upon in lands that were untrusting and unsettled while living in away that demeaned who they were. They no longer are familiar with the waterways from which they came or the real loves of their lives. A nation lost and never to be returned. What I find today to be very interesting is that he spoke about nothing and yet the people became so disturbed by his presence. Why were they truly annoyed are they looking in the wrong direction are we focusing on a tyrant of a man or is the message he has tried to give un deliverable? Are we going to be under an extreme attack or invasion one that will try and dismantle the world from where it began, and for what nothing more than that of Power over another, I have asked a question in its darkest hour. Its here we know it as the land of the free. I hear a silent language, a silent message, one that gives meaning to the same. Only for the Brave. Who Goes there? if you shall march on in victory , Yesterday meant justice for equality ,
By Yvette Grissett5 years ago in Futurism
Where are you?
Many questions arise when the subject of mortality comes uncertainty. Out of fear, we have jumped to many conclusions concerning the obligations of life and remain submerged in the midst of confusion. Perhaps every little detail of our lives are judged by an all powerful being, whose agenda is to trip off His own perfection at the lack of ours. Consider a life that has such incredible meaning in itself, simply due to the fact that after this, exists nothing. Not one soul can know for a fact, in full detail, the blueprint to this existence.
By Getyourmindright5 years ago in Futurism
