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Unmoderated Moderate Attempts Moderation

Posted on August 4, 2017 by Kelli Jae BaeliMay 3, 2018

From blog ideas archive…. I got into an unplanned debate on Facebook. Most debates on Facebook are, in fact, unplanned. you know how it is. Most of the time, it begins with some innocent status update of mine, but this time, I started it by responding to something I felt needed clarification. I always feel a need to do that when i think something is being misrepresented or over-simplified. The following exchange was very thought-provoking and I agreed with many of the sensibilities of this poster, but the rub is always in the specifics, the semantics. This sort of debate is … Continue reading →

Posted in conversations, CURRENT AFFAIRS, debate, democracy, Facebook, guns, ideology, intelligence, political parties, POLITICS & GOVERNMENT, problem-solving, social politics, society | Leave a reply

Colonizing vs. Philosophizing

Posted on August 4, 2017 by Kelli Jae BaeliOctober 15, 2018

From blog-idea archives…. On one of those insipid questions sites, someone asked,  “If something happened to Earth, would you move to another planet?” A few underlying fallacies here. First, if something happened to Earth, you wouldn’t have that choice, so the whole construct of that question falls apart at the beginning. Second, this reasoning is like driving your car until it runs out of gas or breaks down, and then shopping for another one, instead of just maintaining the vehicle properly. Third, were we not dependent on fossil fuels, we would not be in a battle against climate change, and … Continue reading →

Posted in change, clean energy, Climate Change, CREATIVITY, CURRENT AFFAIRS, ethical dilemma, Fundamentalism, harsh realities, ignorance, intelligence, PHILOSOPHY, Planet Earth, problem-solving, reason, SCIENCE, Stupidity, truth, zealotry | Leave a reply

Thoughts on The Thief of Time by John Boyles

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Kelli Jae BaeliAugust 5, 2017

I have missed sitting down with a physical book and reading. My recent decision to take a sabbatical and just allow myself to be creative and deadline-free, had me standing in front of my fiction bookshelf, seeking something new. Something enjoyable. As most of you know by now, I have become quite finicky about my fiction reading. I read so much of my own work in pumping out work in the last ten years, that I have had little time to read for pleasure, and when I do, it’s inevitably just before I go to sleep, and by then, my … Continue reading →

Posted in bad writing, characters, critics, diction, disillusionment, Fiction, Fiction Writing, genre categories, harsh realities, historical, history, Human Nature, ignorance, independent author, indie publisher, intelligence, John Boyne, mainstream fiction genre, mortality, New Harbor Witches, New Harbor Witches, novelist, novelwriting, past, reading, self-education, social politics, Social Psychology, Stupidity, TIME, Time-Travel, willful ignorance, witches, WRITING CRAFT, WRITING LIFE | Leave a reply

Adventures in Indie Publishing, Incident #227:

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Kelli Jae BaeliAugust 12, 2014

Amazon informed me that they pulled my book, Rain Falls, off sale, because they were getting too many complaints from readers about a chunk of missing text in the digital version. I realized immediately what was happening, and I rolled my eyes so hard, I could see my brain. My apparently way-too-clever brain. I made adjustments in the file to accommodate this, and added this note to readers in the front:   SPECIAL NOTE TO READERS Recently, Amazon pulled this book down, because too many readers were complaining about missing text. Apparently, those readers did not understand that the missing … Continue reading →

Posted in Amazon, angst, BOOKS, CREATIVITY, disillusionment, frustration, harsh realities, HUMOR, ignorance, indie publisher, intelligence, Kelli Jae Baeli, lesbian literature, novelist, novelwriting, PUBLISHING, Rain Falls, Stupidity, willful ignorance, Writer's Block, WRITING, writing business, WRITING LIFE | 2 Replies

Oh Victory in Earworms (A Melodious Malady)

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Kelli Jae BaeliMay 3, 2018

Kelli Jae Baeli #IronyoftheDay I’m an atheist, & yet I woke up with a HYMN stuck in my head. I’d pray to God to make it stop, but then, well. You know. Pasted from <https://www.facebook.com/jaebaeli> Yeah, that was my status update this morning. It’s bad enough, when you just get a regular song stuck in your head, but for an ATHEIST to get a HYMN lodged up in that looping track? Not just the insipid sycophantic melody those tunes always have, but the actual content of the lyrics, the sentiments inherent in hymnal/gospel music, et al; it’s sandpaper against every … Continue reading →

Posted in atheist humor, CHALLENGES & MISHAPS, coping skills, CREATIVITY, dreams, dreams, frustration, Google, HUMOR, intelligence, life, mind, music, music, novelist, PEEVES, PSYCHOLOGY, RELIGION, SCIENCE, Songwriting | Tagged dreamscape, earworms | Leave a reply

Scribe’s Melancholia, Literary Mind-Expansion & 50 Shades of Grape

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Kelli Jae BaeliSeptember 9, 2017

  I’m in a bit of a funk, a tizzy, a doldrum (take your pick) about writing at the moment. Call it Scribe’s Melancholia. I’m having to seriously consider ignoring my book-marketing, because it’s so time-consuming and takes me away from what I’m really supposed to be doing–writing (Hello). Back to old-school, where writers were sequestered in a dark room with a candle and their muses, and never had to actually market themselves as a product, nor deal with their creations after they were delivered to the publisher. Further, it’s impossible to predict what people will buy anymore. And as far … Continue reading →

Posted in Apocalyptic, atheism genre, AUTHORS, Book Reviews, BOOKS, erotica genre, Fiction, harsh realities, Humor genre, independent author, intelligence, IQ, Kelli Jae Baeli, Lesbian fiction genre, lesbians, lesfic genre, mainstream fiction genre, memes, mystery genre, nonfiction, novels, novelwriting, Psychological Suspense genre, PUBLISHING, reading, romance-genre, romantic suspense genre, SCIENCE, science fiction genre, scifi genre, self-education, social politics, Social Psychology, SOCIOLOGY, speculative fiction genre, straight, suspense genre, willful ignorance, writer, WRITING, WRITING CRAFT, WRITING LIFE | 2 Replies

Glaring Errors

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Kelli Jae BaeliMarch 7, 2013

  This is a wide subject area, but I want to focus on just a few things. As a segue, I have to share this post I came across. I was on a forum where people were posting for help about making money blogging. One poster was frustrated and confused and posted this: “Been using these for over a year and made 2 penies.  How do I earn money on goggle.  It is simply frostrating.  I posted so many adds  on my blog but I have earned no money. what is happening? I have been trying to write all the … Continue reading →

Posted in Achilles Forjan, AKA Investigations series, Armchair Detective, As You Were, AUTHORS, bad writing, blogging, BOOKS, BRAIN, characters, diction, editing, editing, Fiction Writing, harsh realities, ignorance, intelligence, Kelli Jae Baeli, Microsoft Word, money, PUBLISHING, self-publishing, SOFTWARE, spelling, Stupidity, WRITING, WRITING CRAFT, WRITING LIFE, Writing tips | Tagged Glaring Errors, Grammar Nazi | Leave a reply

Clogging the Feed

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Kelli Jae BaeliMarch 4, 2013

Dear Facebookers: I will try not to clog the feed. I will try to post things with some time in between, but FIRST: I am posting to MY PAGE. If you don’t want what i post in your feed, it’s simple to just click the arrow and remove my posts from YOUR FEED. That’s called Choice. It’s a great concept. SECOND: please know, that i am not posting a bunch of flower pictures. Let’s just get our priorities clear, shall we? I am posting information that i feel voters should know in order to make an informed decision. And I … Continue reading →

Posted in elections, Facebook, fear, friendship, frustration, intelligence, Kelli Jae Baeli, Mitt Romney, POLITICS & GOVERNMENT, President, RELIGION | Tagged clogging the feed, knowledge, Romney, theocracy | Leave a reply

Creativity, Intelligence & Depressive Realism

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Kelli Jae BaeliJune 30, 2012

From a Facebook post I made, a thought-provoking subject emerged. Jae Baeli : “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” ~ Ernest Hemingway Tina Harada likes this. Amanda Gulledge I frowned when I read that so I would feel more intelligent. Candace Lynn Breaux Is that why I am unhappy so much of the time? LOL Jae Baeli LOL. Amanda–you crack me up. Candy–probably, yes. Victoria Bard love it…so true! Sandi Partee hmmm…so does that mean I’m not intelligent? Cause I’m happy as a lark! LOL! I understand Sandi’s reply was meant lightly, but let me just … Continue reading →

Posted in alcohol, BOOKS, BRAIN, CREATIVITY, depression, Depressive Realism, DRUGS, evergreen, genius, happiness, harsh realities, HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSON (HSP), honesty, Human Nature, HUMOR, Insanity, inspiration, intelligence, IQ, Kelli Jae Baeli, life, mental illness, mind, muse, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS & GOVERNMENT, PSYCHOLOGY, sadness, sensitivity, Sensory Processing Sensitivity, suicide, truth, writer, WRITING | Tagged intelligence quotient | Leave a reply

Chicken-Proper

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Kelli Jae BaeliMarch 12, 2013

The tendency for some humans to be weak-minded disturbs me sometimes. So often, it is easier to embrace the easy answer of “I don’t know” over the more difficult response, “I don’t know, but I’ll try to find out.” Example: we’ve often heard the alleged conundrum “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” as if this is some mind-bender of a riddle. It’s not as inexplicable as all that. To wit: from a scientific perspective, at one time, there were no chickens, and chickens appeared in the evolutionary chain because two non-chickens mated, created a zygote (first cell) of … Continue reading →

Posted in chickens, evergreen, evolution, HUMOR, ignorance, intelligence, parody, satire | Tagged chicken or the egg, conundrum, egg, riddle | Leave a reply

Too Much World: A Look at Highly Sensitive People

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Kelli Jae BaeliAugust 30, 2013

In an article in Psychology Today,* I again found comfort in the knowledge that there are others like me out there, and my particular brand of weirdness is not “damage” but an inherent brain architecture I am born with. Just like others are born with blue eyes or musical ability.I speak of those in our species who live with Sensory Processing Sensitivity, which is the scientific term for this trait. More colloquially, it is known as HSP- Highly Sensitive Person, a collection of traits that was identified in pioneering research by Elaine Aron, PhD. Regarding the nature of HSP’s, Aron … Continue reading →

Posted in angst, anxiety, Arts, BRAIN, CHALLENGES & MISHAPS, CREATIVITY, depression, desperation, disability, EMOTIONS, experience, fear, HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSON (HSP), Human Nature, intelligence, open relationships, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, self-awareness, sensitivity, Sensory Processing Sensitivity, Social Psychology, SOCIOLOGY, stress | Tagged intraversion, introversion | Leave a reply

Creativity, Intelligence & Depressive Realism

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Kelli Jae BaeliDecember 10, 2011

 From a Facebook post i made, a thought-provoking subject emerged.  Jae Baeli : “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” ~ Ernest Hemingway Tina Harada likes this. Amanda Gulledge I frowned when I read that so I would feel more intelligent. Candace Lynn Breaux Is that why I am unhappy so much of the time? LOL Jae Baeli LOL. Amanda–you crack me up.Candy–probably, yes. Victoria Bard love it…so true! Sandi Partee hmmm…so does that mean I’m not intelligent? Cause I’m happy as a lark! LOL! I understand Sandi’s reply was meant lightly, but let me just address … Continue reading →

Posted in alcohol, CREATIVITY, depression, Depressive Realism, DRUGS, HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSON (HSP), honesty, Insanity, inspiration, intelligence, IQ, mental illness, PSYCHOLOGY, suicide, truth | Leave a reply

Intelligence as Intimidation Factor

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Kelli Jae BaeliJune 28, 2011

How can it tank so fast? Another woman chickens out of meeting me, saying, “I didn’t expect to like you this much, this fast….While it’s true I am very intelligent, I am not really well read or informed on as many subjects as u and I don’t want to feel less-than, from the start.” So i guess I’m supposed to pretend i don’t know what i know, dumb myself down so as not to intimidate??? WTF? Do i have to go to a fucking Mensa meeting to find a woman who is NOT intimidated by the fact that i have … Continue reading →

Posted in intelligence, pariah, RELATIONSHIPS | Tagged outcast | 5 Replies

The Great Fib

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Kelli Jae BaeliMarch 4, 2013

excerpt from  Supernatural Hypocrisy:  The Cognitive Dissonance of a God Cosmology Volume 3: Cosmology of the Bible  by Kelli Jae Baeli The Great Fib There’s a huge hole in the whole Flood drama, because anything that could float or swim got away scot-free, and it was the idea to wipe out everything, He didn’t say, “I will kill everything, except the floating ones and the swimming ones, who will get out due to a loophole. ~ Eddie Izzard The story of the flood is a familiar to most people. A man is instructed by God to build a large boat … Continue reading →

Posted in ATHEISM, atheism genre, BIBLE, BOOKS, Christianity, creationism, faith, Fundamentalism, God, ignorance, intelligence, Kelli Jae Baeli, lies, logical fallacy, memes, myth, Noah's Ark, nonfiction, PHILOSOPHY, reason, RELIGION, SCIENCE, self-education, Supernatural Hypocrisy, The Cognitive Dissonance of a God Cosmology, truth, truthiness, universe, zealotry | Tagged flood, Gilgamesh, great flood, Noah | Leave a reply

Mind-Bending Esoterica

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Kelli Jae BaeliMarch 4, 2013

 Open Letter to Spiritual Person Regarding Belief in Supernatural based on several posts on Facebook to my Wall.  First, this subject matter does not lend itself to a sound-byte. That’s why science is often wrongly interpreted as unable to respond to wild claims from believers in the supernatural. Complicated things require complicated explanations. Second, this content is not directed at you, CMorte, exclusively. I will be speaking both toward your comments, and toward the spiritual community at large. Third, yes I was a little harsh.  I will try to keep my anger at bay long enough to explain why I … Continue reading →

Posted in BOOKS, BRAIN, Christianity, esoteric spirituality, Facebook, God, growth, harsh realities, ignorance, intelligence, IQ, logical fallacy, meaning, myth, RELIGION, SCIENCE, self-education, Social Psychology, spirituality, supernatural, Supernatural Hypocrisy, The Cognitive Dissonance of a God Cosmology | Tagged afterlife, demons, Dr. David Bohm, ghosts | Leave a reply

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