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Bill Reagan

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Retired, old guy attempting to make sense of the world, by looking back a few billion years to understand human psychology. Current interest in the evolution of the psyche making us who we are today. Interested in the sciences, as it's a wonderful world.

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Assuming panpsychism [P] is a thing, we need to work out its appearance in life. For now, let’s call it an instinct, a built in fact of life as a source of behaviors. P would fall in line with other instincts of primordial times from 4.2 billion years ago.

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 1h

Fairly recent development as architecture goes. Harry Belafonte has a song about it too. The Dado Song:
🎶Day-do, day-do, daaaaaaaaaay-do!
Daydo come and me wan' go home.🎶

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 1h

Same Latin root, but three distinct meanings. How interesting. Am glad Mouse can explain these things to make usage clear.

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 1h

Well . . . on a good day, I can think and feel. Does that count?

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 1h

True. Are we even a nation?

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 3h

Glad to be of service. 😊

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 3h

What benefits one with a visa, if this current administration runs roughshod over its own laws?

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 3h

But, you've read. That's the important bit. There is a reason the writings are classics, and there is a need even by us modern humans to have a familiarity with them.

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 3h

Take the politics quiz:

Is it male dominated?
Is there a hierarchy that's been in place since the beginning?
Is it more concerned about maintaining power than progress?
Are people at the bottom not even a consideration, or listened to?

If so, you have a political system in need of destruction.

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 4h

LOL! Obviously knowledge of Latin is in short supply.

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you for the honest reply. And, you know more than I do!

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 4h

But they think they are. Why I hate politics.

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 6h

Very lovely. Just thinking about the time and care to create such a piece . . . Were these originally colored in any way?

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 6h

Dado. This is not the same dado referred to in woodworking as dado cuts. Hmmm . . . Interesting. When did dado engineering begin in churches, or home builds for that matter? We call them chair rails across the pond.

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 9h

Why can I never remember how to pronounce Samhain?

Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 13h

Word of the day: "samhain" - ancient Gaelic festival marking summer's end & the start of the year's dark half (dusk 31 Oct to dawn 1 Nov).

Peaklass @peaklass.bsky.social · Nov 27

I wish Autumn never had to end. Not just for the colours, but also that calmness and stillness, the quiet that hangs in the air like a physical presence. But every falling leaf is like a little tick from a clock, time passing in orange swirls and flutters.

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 9h

Glad to see them socially active!

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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 15h

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The Angry Red Planet. theorkneynews.scot/2025/10/08/t...

The Angry Red Planet.

Opening up on Earth and in colour, a rarity for sci fi films back then – we are informed that a mission to Mars that was thought lost has been picked up returning to Earth and after suspense …

theorkneynews.scot

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 9h

Huh. I framed the world through psychology, because it was important for me to understand the underpinnings of behaviors. Seemed to explain so much more than any other discipline.

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 9h

The size of paintings struck me, walking through the Louvre. Huge! How important museums are in showing us these incredible works. Books do them no favors.

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 9h

Parents!

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 9h

🤭 At least searching for anything.

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 9h

Delightful enough to let them rot in jail.

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you for the reply and explanation. Fascinating how they managed resources for survival. But, as you point out, population density matters.

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 22h

Reviewing archaeology news over the past month, this came to my attention. The thieves not only destroyed an important artifact, they would have earned more by legally panning for gold.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

A 3,000-Year-Old Bracelet Belonging to an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Has Been Stolen, Sold and Melted Down for Gold

After the artifact went missing from Cairo's Egyptian Museum in early September, authorities began carefully tracking down its whereabouts

www.smithsonianmag.com

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 1d

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 1d

A wealth of information about Tudor life awaits the explorer:

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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