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What’s on my Mind: The end of evolution:
News: 
It’s the culture stupid:

• https://thehill.com/opinion/4445662-for-maga-its-the-culture-stupid/ 

Conversations with an Atheist: Undeniable correlation:

• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-secular-life/201411/why-education-corrodes-religious-faith

Closing:   Black pays: 

• https://www.blackenterprise.com/hbcus-highest-financial-payoffs-for-black-graduates/

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What’s on my Mind: Identify your Life Center:

• https://blog.hubspot.com/sales/habits-of-highly-effective-people-summary 

News: 

• What kind of people are we: 
  • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-ruin-that-a-trump-presidency-would-mean/ar-AA1n4HqH
  • https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2024/02/01/what-biden-really-says-about-trump-behind-closed-doors-00139178
  • https://apnews.com/article/biden-hur-garland-classified-documents-836b99fe9cbef9ba7d32602f4928efec
  • https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4451364-state-department-security-officer-arrested-on-jan-6-charges/

Conversations with an Atheist: Dumb and Happy:

• https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/religious-people-coped-better-with-covid-19-pandemic-research-suggests

Closing:  Rising from the ashes: 

• https://www.theroot.com/black-athletes-who-turned-their-lives-around-1850926221

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Philosophy: Philosophy is Life - Esthetics:

• http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/FiveBranchesMain.html 

News: 

• All I do is win, win, win no matter what…: 
  • https://thehill.com/opinion/4330273-donald-trump-is-the-biggest-loser-in-american-politics/
  • https://www.axios.com/2023/04/07/trump-gop-epic-losing-streak
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/11/08/how-tuesdays-election-was-a-rebuke-of-trump-extending-his-losing-streak/?sh=385e46f5501e
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/us/colorado-pastor-crypto-fraud-eli-regalado.html

Conversations with an Atheist: God and Football:

• https://time.com/3561559/football-and-prayer/

Closing:  Row with the flow: 

• https://www.blackenterprise.com/google-purchases-ai-product-black-woman-owned-edtech-edlyft-company/

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Philosophy: Philosophy is Life - Politics:

• http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/FiveBranchesMain.html 

News: 

• Normal Abnormality: 
  • https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/2024-us-presidential-election-donald-trump-nikki-haley-new-hampshire-republican-primaries-normal/
  • https://www.thedailybeast.com/listen-closely-trump-wants-to-be-a-messiah-figure-for-evangelicals?ref=scroll

Conversations with an Atheist:  Stay in your lane:

• https://www.freedomforum.org/the-establishment-clause/

Closing: Acknowledging Achievement: 

• https://www.blackenterprise.com/schomburg-center-celebrates-namesakes-150th-birthday-by-transcribing-his-handwritten-notes/

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Philosophy: Philosophy is Life - Ethics:

• http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/FiveBranchesMain.html 

News: 

• We just hit rock bottom: 
  • https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/10/michigan-florida-nevada-gop-chairs-00134756
  • https://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/opinion/guest-commentary/2024/01/trump-is-destroying-the-gop-will-he-destroy-america/

Conversations with an Atheist:  Is god evil:

• https://alevelphilosophyandreligion.com/ocr-religious-studies/ocr-philosophy/the-problem-of-evil/

Closing: Mixed blessing: 

• https://thegrio.com/2024/01/19/atlantas-spelman-college-just-got-the-largest-ever-single-donation-to-an-hbcu/

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Philosophy: Philosophy is Life - Epistemology: 

• http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/FiveBranchesMain.html

News: 

• The stupid, the ignorant and the evil: 
  • https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/trump-supporters-republican-approval-cnn-town-hall/674142/
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpfHCSRIRf4

Conversations with an Atheist: Harmful biblical directives:

• https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/opinion/letters/2007/11/11/bible-full-of-immoral-acts/27732069007/

Closing: Ain’t No Half-Stepping: 

• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2024/01/04/alena-mcquarter-15-year-old-college-graduate/72094788007/

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Philosophy: Philosophy is Life - Metaphysics:

• http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/FiveBranchesMain.html 

News: 

• Cluster Fu*k:
  • https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4386943-fox-news-psychic-loss-trump-2024-grim-reaper/
  • https://www.reuters.com/world/us/takeaways-2024-us-election-trail-dueling-tv-events-attack-ads-2024-01-02/
  • https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/29/la-police-fatally-shot-niani-finlayson-body-camera
• Non-virtues:
  • https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/02/north-carolina-mcdonalds-pastor-wife-co-worker-deep-fryer?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1
  • https://nypost.com/2023/08/09/former-top-evangelical-church-official-laments-christians-who-think-jesus-quotes-are-liberal-talking-points/

Closing: More than a comeback: 

• https://newsone.com/4774258/shacarri-richardson-award-nomination/

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Philosophy: Philosophy is Life - Overview:

• http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/FiveBranchesMain.html 

News:   

• The Future Ain’t What It Used To: 
  • https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2023-12/democracy-stake-2024-us-election
• Omnibenevolence and Favoritism:

Closing: Looking Good and Feeling good: 

• https://thegrio.com/2023/12/28/california-barbershop-helps-black-men-cope-mental-health-issues/

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Philosophy: The immense cost of oppressing the Black Woman:

• https://www.chicagotribune.com/featured/sns-ws-black-women-changed-american-history-20211230-tq2rftmvkbamxg4iv5m5bfd67a-photogallery.html 
• https://www.thenation.com/article/society/black-women-policing/

News: 

• Political - Decent into chaos: 
  • https://time.com/6549628/colorado-trump-ruling-questions/
  • https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/fight-keep-counting-dead-gaza-2023-12-21/
• Religious - Circular logic:
  • https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/reasons-humanists-reject-bible/

Closing:  Misplaced thanks: 

• https://blacknews.com/news/monica-nancy-candny-black-woman-graduates-honors-degree-marine-engineering/

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 Philosophy: How Black people in America can Survive and/or Thrive:

• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1742715020976200

 News: 

• Hypocrisy is the point:
  •  https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/12/11/let-he-who-is-without-sin-cast-the-first-stone-another-tawdry-scandal-for-the-republican-party/
  • https://www.vanityfair.com/news/republicans-cant-believe-fox-news-keeps-calling-them-out-on-their-impeachment-bulls-t
  • https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/the-republican-leading-the-probe-of-hunter-biden-has-his-own-shell-company-and-complicated-friends/3412048/
• When irrationality supplants logic:
  • https://infidels.org/kiosk/article/the-worst-teachings-of-jesus/

Closing: Second chances are difficult to come by, maybe this helps: 

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