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Slices of Life

Where Loran Joly explores the Complexities of Mankind using cutting edge technologies to meld The West and East, and what nature has to offer.

An Imperfect site, by design!

A bird in the hand – with typos – is worth two hundred birds in the bush – with typos polished away???

At the age of sixty-four, I am continuing my efforts to give due credit to the massive COMPLEXITY of Mankind’s PSYCHE.

I believe our psyche is even MORE complex than SPACE TRAVEL – see more on this site – and that ONLY the use of MODERN TECHNOLOGY – yes, a “double-edge sword”, can propel us to “CRACKING the CODE” of “WHAT MAKES US TICK”.

I say this, in part, because I have a degree in electrical engineering, from West Point, and also studied Mathematics at Berea College for four years, starting at the age of 41.

“The Insane Engineering of the Space Shuttle”:

In “The Thorn Birds”, Vittorio says he feels a new type of isolation: The “HUMAN NEED to SHARE my IN-MOST SELF with SOMEONE…”

“The Thorn Birds. Vittorio finds out about Ralph’s secret”:

As such, I have utilized SUPERMEMO SOFTWARE, for MASSIVE LEARNING, from 2001 onward, for fifteen years, four hours a day, 28 days a month, in a COLOSSAL EFFORT to GAIN INSIGHTS that non-computer use of LEARNING has rendered often “unuseful gyratings”.

For we are, some would say, Naked Apes, as Desmond Morris put it.

We surely all want to be “connected” with others, in general, something rarer and rarer, these days…

I live in a small village in Kentucky, but spent my first five years in a “highly-aggressive” part of Detroit, and attended an all-black kindergarten. I spent my childhood summers on my grandparents’ farm in Michigan. The grandfather, Ludwig, was a Mennonite, born in Odessa, Ukraine. German was spoken in the house and in church…

I also spent time, as a youth, in North Carolina and in Minnesota…

I have attended three Amish auctions in recent years, and various Amish and Mennonite services.

My mother, 87, living in a nearby village, is a Mennonite.

My first blog article explains how I meld the East with the West…