Still. And always. The first order of business is: knowing who we are; what we are; and why we are all here. If you haven’t really answered these basic questions yet, then you simply don’t know why you even exist— let alone why any other pursuit— twenty-first century literacy, cultural, political, or corporate sanity, pleasure, science, even religion— has …
Fuck you, little people! I got mine— see if you can get yours. When it comes to economics, the profit motive is to the service motive what fear is to love in religion. But ruthless competition— for example, this, this, or this— that is based on the narrow-minded pork of self-interest, eventually destroys even the very things it seeks to …
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCkfEzGkYrw&feature=related[/youtube] The light traveler “Prot,” (rhymes with moat) hailing from the planet K-Pax in the Lyra system, presumes that everyone on earth knows that we are the third planet out, orbiting a pale yellow star we call the sun. That it’s “common knowledge.” But Prot would presume too much to think we know much more than that. Simple factoids …
At least some of the outrage that courses through the American psyche today derives from recognition of our shredded values of justice, and whether we can still claim we are a nation of law when our leaders suffer no consequences for their crimes.
“The intellectual factors of religion are important, but their overdevelopment is likewise sometimes very handicapping and embarrassing.” — The Urantia Book In a thrift store recently I saw a framed sign for sale. I didn’t buy it, but remembered it. It said: Life is a test. It is only a test. If it had …
During the past eight years, the Bushmen have done their utmost to entrench themselves behind political, financial, and ecclesiastical power. Their make-believe foreign policy has failed to do aught that it set out to do. Chummy self-serving alliances will never prevent world wars, or control the several most powerful governments. As long as America suffers from the delusions of national sovereignty right along with every other so-called sovereign nation in the world, War will continue.
It’s dark. Cold. There’s no shelter. There’s no food. Water is scarce. To make matters worse, you’re barely human. You’re just a few dozen generations removed from the first two human beings, born of primates, the last vital link in the evolution of man.
