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About this blog

As a retired college Anthropology and Death & Dying professor and a retired federal employee from various agencies I write about many subjects. My sole purpose is to stimulate and engage in conversation, similar to my blog mpardi.com  

I hope you will find the various materials interesting and worthy of your time to comment. 

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Attention: Humans

Attention: Humans       by Marco M. Pardi        mpardi.com  "People in our culture have a morbid tendency to avoid blame, because they do not wish to take the trouble to change their conduct in any way: blame-avoidance and blame-transference are therefore endemic amongst us. These are substitutes for repentance and renewal." BEHAVIOR RESEARCH PROJECT (Texas) 1951  "Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is

Marco M. Pardi

Marco M. Pardi

Enemy of the State

Enemy of the State      by Marco M. Pardi      mpardi.com "It is not enough for a prophet to be inspired by God; he also must be informed about the world. The world and its fate are very dear to him. There is no hostility to civilization, only to its abuses." Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) The Prophets, 11, 1962 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ All comments welcome and each will receive a response. ----------------------------------

Marco M. Pardi

Marco M. Pardi

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

"Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep..."     by Marco M. Pardi     mpardi.com Note: All comments are appreciated, read, and responded to accordingly.  I will certainly look forward to your comments.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "For those who took the initiative of killing themselves, the SS issued (Dachau 1933) a special order: prisoners who attempted suicide but did not succeed were to receive twenty-five lashes and prolonged solitary

Marco M. Pardi

Marco M. Pardi

Here's to Females

Here's To Females   by Marco M. Pardi      MPardi.com "Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap, the coffee, the rice, to iron the pants, to braid the hair, to pull the day's water from the well, to boil the water for tea, to wash the children for school, to pull the vegetables a

Marco M. Pardi

Marco M. Pardi

Mind the Gap

Mind The Gap       by Marco M. Pardi      mpardi.com "If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?" T. H. Huxley, "On Elementary Instruction in Physiology." 1877 All comments welcome. When I was growing up the term "know-it-all" was a pejorative.  Of course, God, being omniscient was a know it all, but that didn't count. Nonetheless, I wondered what is so wrong with knowing it all, and is it possible. What do people do when they don'

Marco M. Pardi

Marco M. Pardi

Natural Point of Aim

Natural Point of Aim                             by Marco M. Pardi                                    mpardi.com                                     "There are no precedents: You are the first You that ever was." Christopher Morley. (1890-1957). Inward Ho! 1923. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ All comments welcome ------------------------------------------------------------------------ True to the genre, self-help b

Marco M. Pardi

Marco M. Pardi

Not Just For Young Boys

"Not Just For Young Boys"     by Marco M. Pardi      mpardi.com Note: All comments are appreciated, read, and responded to accordingly.  I will certainly look forward to your comments. "I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity." Albert Einstein (1879-1955) In the mid-1950's I attended college prep school at Gilmour Academy, an all boys residential and day student school on 144 acres in Gates Mills, Ohio.  Bequeathed by a multi-milli

Marco M. Pardi

Marco M. Pardi

Decathexion

Decathexion                                                                                                  (from Greek: Letting go)                                                                                                   by Marco M. Pardi    mpardi.com   "Desire is the root of all suffering" Ascribed to Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. "In the grand scheme of things, the vast majority of humankind will never know you ever existed" Me ----------------------

Marco M. Pardi

Marco M. Pardi

Solvitur Ambulando

Solvitur Ambulando     by Marco M. Pardi      mpardi.com "It is solved by walking." Latin. Apocryphal. Often posted at entrances to labyrinths. All comments welcome. Every morning I get up, have my coffee, and go for a 1 & 1/4 mile walk with Plato, my furry companion.  Since I don't shave much anymore he probably thinks I'm furry too.  In cold weather he wears his Kodiak full wrap-around coat; in rain he wears his Nor'Easter raincoat with hood.  Each has a slot in the back to

Marco M. Pardi

Marco M. Pardi

The Man Who Had No Purpose

The Man Who Had No Purpose    by Marco M. Pardi                                       mpardi.com Note: All comments are appreciated, read, and responded to accordingly.  "Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it." Don Marquis (1878-1937).  In "Thoughts on the Business of Life". In my Freshman year at Gilmour Academy Brother Adolphus (not his real name), an exemplary teacher in the very fullness of the word,  tasked

Marco M. Pardi

Marco M. Pardi

Species?

Species?                            by Marco M. Pardi                                   mpardi.com "It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of something else." Moses Maimonides (CE 1135 - 1204) The Guide for the Perplexed. CE 1190. All comments welcome. Some months ago my wife and I were exiting a restaurant by crossing the outdoor patio.  We

Marco M. Pardi

Marco M. Pardi

What Was That?

What Was That?                       by Marco M. Pardi                               mpardi.com   "You want to know whether I believe in ghosts. Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either." Don Marquis (1878-1937) "Ghosts" Archy and Mehitabel, 1927 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ All comments welcome.  To those readers who have been hesitant to comment

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Marco M. Pardi

Things to do While Dead

Things To Do While Dead                                                                                                              by Marco M. Pardi                                                                                                                  mpardi.com "On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown." Seneca the Younger. (5?BCE - 65 CE). Thyestes 1. 400. -------------------------------------------------------------

Marco M. Pardi

Marco M. Pardi

In Plain Sight

In Plain Sight                                                                                                                   by Marco M. Pardi  "The art of secrecy lies in being so open about most things that the few things that matter are not even suspected to exist." B. H. Liddell Hart (1895 - 1970) Strategy. 1954.  "When you want to hide the needle, add more hay." Classic Intelligence Community adage. -------------------------------------------------------------------

Marco M. Pardi

Marco M. Pardi