Mankind's Ultimate Quest For Survival

When Stephen Hawking recently stated that humanities only hope for survival lies in space raises serious questions about the future of mankind. Questions that need direct answers. Stephen Hawking is not alone in his assessment that the only chance for our human race to...

Dark Betrayal

Once upon a time by the shores of Itchygoomy in the land of the Tweeterwill another harrowing story is about to begin. But unlike the fairytales of our childhood comes a more sinister tale that makes the Brothers Grimm's tales very tame indeed. "No not the buttons" cried the...

Anti-Environment = Anti-Human

Some of the global warming deniers have been claiming a pro-environment stance to be "anti-human." This mentality has to go and it has to remain gone. It's not, nor was it ever, humanity against nature. It is humanity with nature. The person who militates against nature...

Regenerative Approach

Historical Antecedents: Historical antecedents to discipline cross-fertilization evince on a daily basis in all of our lives without our awareness. Importing the notion from personal hygiene into medicine fairly revolutionized it: hand-washing. Sterilization of instruments...

Nature and Civilization

One manifest duality of life is nature and civilization. On this, there are two major schools of thought as to what it is that life is. One – seen in both capitalism and socialism - is concerned with adding the most to human-made world of civilization. The other –...

Rational Understanding of Human Nature

There are people who believe human nature to be any number of things, ranging from economic self-interest to collective action for benefit of humanity to supporting life on earth. To have a rightful understanding of what it is that one serves one needs to have a full picture...

Organic Intellectual Energy

Through-out the ages all living organisms whether it is a small blade of grass or a blue whale all emit a form of energy. Energy in a way that is so transparent, so subtle, and yet, very definitive in nature. All living humans emit this kind of energy. But, mankind's...

My Bucket List

Why publicize this? Because i may not get a chance to do them before i kick the bucket and maybe just maybe – some wonderful souls out there will 'carry the torch' of inspiration – in case i cannot.. see my son Arthur put his footprints on Mars hangglide/ridge-soar...

prime values

Values that relate to human civilization: long-term benefit, sustainable, power to do good, practical, balance, holism, adaptable,.. Values that relate to work/play: inspiration, intuition, cooperation, collaboration, elegance, enthusiasm, learning, improving, mental agility,...

Faith and Analysis

A major claim within Christianity is that Jesus was the only begotten son of God. My response to that is simple. An omnipotent entity can beget any number of sons, and any number of daughters. To claim that Jesus was the only son of God is to fail to recognize what God is....

Three Aspects of Human Nature and Human Interest

A being that has evolved as himself, as part of his species, and as part of life, will naturally have orientation toward all three of the preceding. It will be natural for man to care about himself, about humanity and about life. All three interests will be rational function...

Onward To Vladivostok

"I'm a traveling man. Made allot of stops all over the world" Rick Nelson's Traveling Man. Oh yes! That does bring back so many precious memories of a rambunctious teenager. As I grew older and somewhat wiser the travels that I made only enhanced my appreciation of the...

Slutwalk

Women being women are not “looking for it.” They deserve the respect that all humans deserve, a right to privacy and personal safety. There is a movement in progress underscoring this. " It’s been Grand...

LEBOKU NEW YAM FESTIVAL 2011

Leboku is the annual New Yam Festival celebrated in Ugep, cross river state of Nigeria to honor of the earth goddess and the ancestral spirits of the land in Ugep, one of the five settlements of Yakurr.[1][2] The...

Bob & Sue Levy

The last time that we saw Chandra Levy she was in a baby swing at the Levy’s where we were having dinner. Our daughter was born a year earlier. We knew the Levy’s through the Ohio State University and Harding Hospital. We became close friends with Susan as she was an...
 

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