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THE ENVIRONMENT: Cleaning the Oceans

Earth is ¼ land and ¾ ocean, yet we have so polluted the ¾ that is ocean that we caution pregnant women against eating fish (toxins like Mercury collect in the fetus more than in the mother). Currently a garbage dump the size of France is floating in our Pacific Ocean, with the internation crisis […]

LIVING FOR COMMUNITY

Humans live in groups, communities, villages, tribes. According to a study quoted in Peter Block’s book The Abundant Community, the greatest provider of safe and successful living for humans is not a powerful government or an intimidating military, but connection to a strong community. Sadly, we have a global institution that weakens and severs our […]

DIVERSITY: The Golden Rule

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. If we lived that way, the world would be a FAR different place. The Golden Rule is a universal creed, a statement of purpose. It paints a picture of humans living at their best. It is an ideal worth pursuing, even though we may […]

COMMUNITIES AND OVER-POPULATION

The definition of peace is not the absence of war or conflict. Instead, peace is living according to our design. Humans are designed to live in groups like our nearest neighbors (apes, dolphins, elephants, etc.). Therefore peace requires living in and for our community. Communities can take on many forms – they don’t need to […]

GOVERNMENTS: The Proper Role of Good and Effective Government

Our modern human world is dominated by governments – national ones, regional ones, local ones. And all of us are led, managed, controlled, manipulated (and pay taxes to) several of these “institutions” simultaneously throughout our lives. Governments are monuments to our laziness. “Why bother with the hard, menial stuff? Why worry about the poor, elderly, […]

What is a human being?

WHAT IS A HUMAN BEING? You’re thinking “What a stupid question!” But do we humans really know who and what we are? Do we know our niche – where we fit in this grand, awesome cycle of planet Earth and all the rest of life on it? Gorillas are unapologetically 100% gorilla – and we […]

What is Education?

WHAT IS EDUCATION? Viewing all of life on Earth, education of the young is simply preparing them with the knowledge, tools and talents to survive and thrive in the environment they’re going to inherit. Any species that doesn’t prepare their young condemns them. Is the above how we are educating our (human) children? Is sitting at […]

Terrorism: Unfortunately You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet

Terrorism: Unfortunately You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet In spite of gun laws and border checks, terrorism is going to get worse – much worse. Stopping ISIS won’t fix it (although ISIS should be stopped). Neither will changing the arrogant, greedy, heavy-handed west and their practice of using their money and power to buy politicians and […]

Did “Ancient History” start 5,000 or 3 million years ago?

The history we teach our children (and which we were taught) is not our history at all. Our real history dates back over 2.3 million years ago, when Lucy (Australopithecus) and others like her walked on Earth on 2 feet (bipedal, with erect skeletons just like ours). It is that 2.3 million years of living […]

Why Do We Need Religion?

Certainly, the Creation that is Earth and life on it, is one of beauty and awesomeness. As to who or what created it, or whether some higher power exists, or which of the world’s religions is the “true” religion, we’ll leave to others to never-endingly debate. However, the conscious need for religion, the need for some greater […]