OtakuMako

There has been a great deal of conversation in the States over the last week concerning a court case that has been on-going over the last year.  A Latino man was accused of the murder of a young African American teen whom he had suspected of suspicious activity.  After a year of deliberation in court, the man was acquitted of the charges as his actions were deemed to be in self defense.  Opinions have since been radically split from acceptance and defense of the verdict to outrage and complete objection to what seems to them a severe social injustice.  And whether the verdict is just or not remains generally elusive, since only the accused...

Complete this sentence: "Life is ______."I could try to compile a list of what your answer might have been. Life is beautiful. Life is a journey. Life is a challenge. Life is diversity. There are a multitude of words that one might use to try to sum up what observations could culminate a simple definition of one's experiences concerning life.  So many in fact that an attempt to list them all would be pointless because it hits us all a little differently.We have all mused at this quandary from time to time.  What is it to experience life?  What is its essence?  What does it mean to live?  And we could go on and on trying to come to a verdic...

There is a lot of stuff to know these days.  Today's is an age where information comes easily.  Very easily.  Remarkably easy.  So easy in fact that at this moment, you can come up with 360,000,000 ideas in under half of a second.  I just did this on google, simply by typing "ideas" in the search bar.  Information is easy to come by.  But I find that the tension comes in determining the legitimacy of information and is this information truly fact or is it simply knowledge?Now let that question hang for a moment: is all knowledge fact and are all facts knowledge?I have a friend that I used to work with; a young guy who was getting ready to ...