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• A comment on Conversation: What are the challenges that gifted and creative individuals face at present?

  Mar 13 2013: I encounter that quite a bit from different quarters Sherrlene. That is a very good analogy.
  
  Trying to even get the idea that there is another possibility across, seems futile. Much less the actual substance of those possibilities.

• A reply on Conversation: Are science & spirituality one and the same?

  Mar 12 2013: Obey, defining spirituality necessitates acknowledging one possesses a spirit (or vice versa).
  Definitions that do not include a human spirit (inside us) are to create definitions which do not exist, and to use words to say other than what they mean.
  
  Spirituality by definition must be related to how cognizant of, or in touch with their own spirit, or other spirits, a person must be. God is a spirit. Demons are spirits. Angels are spirits

• A reply on Conversation: Are science & spirituality one and the same?

  Mar 11 2013: It Obey, is a grammatical gender; God, He; my country America, she; the ship, she; and so forth. God in the bible represents Himself in the male gender, as a father, so somehow this related to our understanding. I have seen enough of the bible and life to know that much of it is supernaturally inspired. So... do I know all God's mysteries? No. I can relate to the image however, as to a gender tense. Its not about having a penis or vagina. Its about attributes in terms we can grasp.
  
  As to how I know there is a Creator is because I see the evidence of Him.
  
  You could be computer-bot generated for all I know. A lifeless, soulless, zombie. But I have faith I am seeing the evidence of a human being, with a spirit that loves, and a mind that creates, and a body to experience this world. Quite a nice trinity, to be created in the image and likeness of your Maker... huh?

• A comment on Conversation: Are science & spirituality one and the same?

  Mar 11 2013: God created the heavens and the earth. They are inextricably tied.
  Take the Zodiac for example. The bible does not say it is a fake, it says God established it for His purposes, and we are not to dabble or delve into that. Fortune telling, drugs (sorcery), all these are very real - and we are told not to practice them. This does not mean they are not 'science' in the truest sense.

• A reply on Conversation: What are the challenges that gifted and creative individuals face at present?

  Mar 11 2013: I am 60 now, but as a teen I had to curb my expression (dumb-down) to talk to my friends so they understood me.

• A comment on Conversation: What challenges do feminist artists face in contemporary society?

  Mar 11 2013: Society has abandoned the class struggles like feminism, and now the die-hards hang on to the irrelevance of the cause.
  isms, causes, those born in class warfare, are for those with high emotionality and marginal intelligence.
  When you just be yourself, you are free. You want to make it a mission, or make the world see it your way? Your dilemma will never end. Shed the bolshevik class warfare chains, and live free! and allow others to too.
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  A comment on Conversation: What are the challenges that gifted and creative individuals face at present?

  Mar 11 2013: Relevance.
  Relevance in a world of credentialed gatekeepers.

• A reply on Conversation: What are the challenges that gifted and creative individuals face at present?

  Mar 11 2013: Thanks Michael. The world values different, and I think far shallower things.
  Relevance is difficult for us, ya know? I think we need a place to meet, be a group.
  I rarely meet anyone who understands me when I go deep. I see many people right here now, whom I can see 'get it'.
  
  In one way, I regret not getting formal education. But then I think, would they have taught me that I can't do the things I do? Part of inventiveness for me, is that nobody taught me these things I imagine couldn't be done.
  
  "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." ~ Walt Disney
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  A comment on Conversation: What are the challenges that gifted and creative individuals face at present?

  Mar 10 2013: Those who hold to the culture of university eg, not only can't fathom an 'uneducated' individual approaching their level of intelligence, they cannot seem to deal with intuitive innovation. University is in the box. Intuitive people are outside the box. That's why I hold US Patent 7,895,850 and major OEM engineers insist it can't work, while I have one running in W Chester, Pa. They don't even want to see it. They can't tolerate the idea that something they don't understand, which was discovered by an 11th grade dropout, with no deep engineering or math training, can work, and enhance and improve what they have invented and marketed. It is part NIH syndrome (not invented here). They are threatened by raw intelligence, and original thought. So, the 'engineers' and so-called 'scientists' look down on me, and I am given no credibility, even though I correct what engineers produce and market unperfected. They take umbrage that I tell them I corrected their problem, rather than offer some reward - even kudos. I am relegated to the ranks of my peers in the field, because I am at that level of credentialing. Credentials and orthodoxy create my glass ceiling. My polish is rough, and manner direct. I am an INTP by Keirsey Temperament score. Connect the dots. My peers too dislike me. My 'intelligence', my propensity to be correct so often in our field, and innovative, and creative (original) thinking, and use of metaphor no doubt intimidates. I am made fun of, yet they call me and use me without compensation when they are stumped on a technical problem. They make fun of my suggestions for invention, calling me Ralph Kramdon. Before I got a patent, it was "If that worked, don't you think Carrier or somebody would already have invented it!?" After being awarded the patent, it's just luck that I got it - a one-in-a-billion fluke. My many other inventions which I can't afford to pursue don't count. Just more hair-brained schemes. Creative/gifted is a lonely place. speak further?
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  A comment on Talk: Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA

  Mar 10 2013: What an American!