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J.L. Wiess

@josephlwiess

Observer of the human condition, Aspiring writer (fiction and reality), Caring human being.

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J.L. Wiess
@josephlwiess Mar 27, 2018, 2:05 AM UTC

Tech Crunch article on Block chain.

I came across this article on Tech Crunch and found myself agreeing with the author. Maybe instead of trying to supplant facebook, twitter, etc. in one fell swoop, we should treat this like guerilla…

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J.L. Wiess
@josephlwiess Mar 25, 2018, 7:42 PM UTC

Parkland Students pen a manifesto, but.........

In the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, the student activists stopped eating tide pods and started lecturing the taxpaying grownups on what they'd like to see done about their safety. However, I t…

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J.L. Wiess
@josephlwiess Mar 11, 2018, 12:42 AM UTC

My take on Criminal Minds: Season 13, Episode 15 Annilihator

I'm going to put this out, first and foremost: Deputy Director Barnes is an asshole. Now, I'm going to go through it, step by step, about why I think she's an asshole. 1) She marched into the BAU and…

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J.L. Wiess
@josephlwiess Feb 22, 2018, 7:47 PM UTC

Conversation on a theme

Take a deep breath. Slowly blow it out. Hold it out for a second. Take another deep breath. Center your sight and slowly exhale. When all is still, gently apply pressure to the trigger. When it's all…

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J.L. Wiess
@josephlwiess Feb 22, 2018, 4:21 PM UTC

Before we can have a meaninful conversation about mass killings, we need to discuss.

I'm probably going to offend you by starting out this way, but: There is no such thing as an assault weapon. Assault is a verb, it's an action. If you have the intent to hurt someone, by the very act…

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J.L. Wiess
@josephlwiess Jan 28, 2018, 5:21 PM UTC

How do we percieve "God"?

Every once in a while, I across a gem on Youtube. Today, Sunday, I came across this one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZh1MrDHLoY) Listen to the lovely Mayim describe "God" as she thinks of him. E…

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J.L. Wiess
@josephlwiess Jan 28, 2018, 3:03 PM UTC

Self driving cars....

Cars that can drive themselves are a dream that science fiction authors have been writing about since the seventies. But, right now, they are just that, dreams. As you can see in this article, a Tesl…

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J.L. Wiess
@josephlwiess Jan 20, 2018, 8:38 PM UTC

The Government is shut down......

and nobody has died yet. I'm waiting for more people to wake up and realize that they don't need over 500 people telling them how to live, how to breath, what to eat, or what do drink. Maybe they'll…

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J.L. Wiess
@josephlwiess Jan 16, 2018, 7:19 PM UTC

California's poverty problem

While trying not to fall asleep, I came across this article. After reading it, I started to wonder if, by the social services departments wanting prestige and power, that they might actually cause th…

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J.L. Wiess
@josephlwiess Jan 14, 2018, 3:51 PM UTC

The way to pray......Discussion?

During a discussion with a group of "friends", one of them threw this out to everybody, "Without going into the specifics, a nameless friend needs prayers for a nameless situation." As usual, there w…

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