One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.

The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments ... and the appeal to the emotions ... and especially the freedom to cease when sated. The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask 'what mistake am I making?' before assuming 100% of the experts are wrong.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing