'Rationally Speaking, We Are All Apocalyptic Now'
Great article by Robert Jensen
Great article by Robert Jensen
2.12.2014
nd. Offline till Friday, maybe, due to snow and temporary wifi problems.
nd. Offline till Friday, maybe, due to snow and temporary wifi problems.
Massive Pipeline Spill Kept Under Wraps For 5 Years. huffingtonpost.ca
No
place is too far for TransCanada to secretly ravage, so close to the
intriguingly intricate wetlands of the Hay-Zama Lake Wildland (http://goo.gl/maps/ZGTM8).
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2.11.2014
On: 1. Abe Maslow's Hierarchy; 2. Homosexuality. FB Dialog
AL: I know you to be a very intelligent man. What is your opinion of Mazlow's heirarchy?
I know you to have ignored the lower levels in favor of the higher for extended periods of time, but this is only after having had the lower levels fulfilled for a large portion of your life. Do you think that one is capable of doing the former without having had the latter?
L: I am a huge respector of Maslow and his work. The hierarchy is among the best known, and least important parts of his work. I'd suggest reading all of his books. Your question is a very important one, on which I've thought, over the years. We know the answer - there are people born of extreme deprivation that seemingly from birth, operate at the higher levels. So, on that one point, I think Abe was very incorrect. I'd say it is 99% a matter of the culture, community, environment in which one is raised that determines what part of the hierarchy we operate at. For me, it was my dad. If the community lives self-centered, the child, and adult will strongly tend to operate as though the lower part of the hierarchy were THE ONLY PART. Conversely, a child raised among those operating at the highest levels, will live as though they don't know that the lower levels even exist. That is my experience, that is my observation. By modern standards aboriginal tribes of today and 1000's of years ago, were massively deprived at the lower levels, but my understanding and view is that they tended to operate at the higher levels, as do near all other of the higher species. We've ADDICTED ourselves and our children to the lower levels, that's what we see. That's why it seems 'normal;' it is 'normal' to our sick culture, but not to our species epigenetic tendencies (maslow's term).
AL: Thanks. :-)
L: What are your thoughts on homosexuality?
AL: Well, unimportantly, it is so foreign to my nature that I am uncomfortable with it. But importantly: 1. It is biological; 2. It is a type of sexuality, just as heterosexuality is; 3. To our earlier discussion, there is nothing that dooms your world, you are young, to operating as tho the joyless lower 'needs' are all there is... than our obsession, sick addiction, to recreational sex (my #1 addiction for so many decades) - singularly depriving us of the infinite Joy of the higher level needs - yes, sex is Lust, with virtually no exceptions.. not Love (Lust is me about gratifying me; Love is me about tending to the neediest of my human family). I'm not moralizing, any more than Abe did; I can be disagreed with, but I am not moralizing. So, #3. My sad objection to homosexual sex and heterosexual is the same - recreational sex which we've (especially we males) put at the center of our being in this society, well, there may be no greater tragedy - it robs individuals of meaningful service for their lives; and it robs humanity of the selfless, dedicated sisters and brothers that a healthy planet utterly depends on.
I know you to have ignored the lower levels in favor of the higher for extended periods of time, but this is only after having had the lower levels fulfilled for a large portion of your life. Do you think that one is capable of doing the former without having had the latter?
L: I am a huge respector of Maslow and his work. The hierarchy is among the best known, and least important parts of his work. I'd suggest reading all of his books. Your question is a very important one, on which I've thought, over the years. We know the answer - there are people born of extreme deprivation that seemingly from birth, operate at the higher levels. So, on that one point, I think Abe was very incorrect. I'd say it is 99% a matter of the culture, community, environment in which one is raised that determines what part of the hierarchy we operate at. For me, it was my dad. If the community lives self-centered, the child, and adult will strongly tend to operate as though the lower part of the hierarchy were THE ONLY PART. Conversely, a child raised among those operating at the highest levels, will live as though they don't know that the lower levels even exist. That is my experience, that is my observation. By modern standards aboriginal tribes of today and 1000's of years ago, were massively deprived at the lower levels, but my understanding and view is that they tended to operate at the higher levels, as do near all other of the higher species. We've ADDICTED ourselves and our children to the lower levels, that's what we see. That's why it seems 'normal;' it is 'normal' to our sick culture, but not to our species epigenetic tendencies (maslow's term).
AL: Thanks. :-)
L: What are your thoughts on homosexuality?
AL: Well, unimportantly, it is so foreign to my nature that I am uncomfortable with it. But importantly: 1. It is biological; 2. It is a type of sexuality, just as heterosexuality is; 3. To our earlier discussion, there is nothing that dooms your world, you are young, to operating as tho the joyless lower 'needs' are all there is... than our obsession, sick addiction, to recreational sex (my #1 addiction for so many decades) - singularly depriving us of the infinite Joy of the higher level needs - yes, sex is Lust, with virtually no exceptions.. not Love (Lust is me about gratifying me; Love is me about tending to the neediest of my human family). I'm not moralizing, any more than Abe did; I can be disagreed with, but I am not moralizing. So, #3. My sad objection to homosexual sex and heterosexual is the same - recreational sex which we've (especially we males) put at the center of our being in this society, well, there may be no greater tragedy - it robs individuals of meaningful service for their lives; and it robs humanity of the selfless, dedicated sisters and brothers that a healthy planet utterly depends on.
Climatologist: When Souped-Up Ocean Warming Ends, ‘Global Temperatures Look Set To Rise Rapidly’ thinkprogress.org
Oceans can't bear the brunt forever.
Climatologist: When Souped-Up Ocean Warming Ends, ‘Global Temperatures Look Set To Rise Rapidly’
thinkprogress.org
Recently,
surface temperatures haven't appear to warm as fast as expected —
although the oceans have, while Arctic sea ice, Greenland and Antarctica
have melted faster than expected. New research finds the slowdown is
due to
***** WOW. JUST WOW. vid. 'Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.'
“There
are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a
miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” -Albert
Einstein
2.10.2014
Loving, here: I spent the night in the ER - Chest Pain radiating down my arm...
Went to bed early, awoke 10:30 with great pain in my arm and chest. Went to the sister hospital of Georgetown - closer and better cardiac - via ambulance.
'Probably angina, but didn't convert into a heart attack. All tests (CT scan, 2 ekg's, 2 blood work ups) came out negative. YES you should have come in with those symptoms. GET A STRESS TEST, SOON.' Said the hospital team.
Pain lasted till about 5am.
'Probably angina, but didn't convert into a heart attack. All tests (CT scan, 2 ekg's, 2 blood work ups) came out negative. YES you should have come in with those symptoms. GET A STRESS TEST, SOON.' Said the hospital team.
Pain lasted till about 5am.
2.08.2014
pic. Aren’t we raised to revere Ancient Rome, the Pyramids, Ancient Greece, the great Cities, the great Cathedrals, the US Economy, $100 CELL PHONES, $600 IPADS, $3/GAL GAS, $3 BURGERS, FANCY CARS, the American Dream...? I was. We are. Take away the 90% of the world’s poor, the destitute, population at the time any of these were / are created, TAKE THEM AWAY, and none of these things exist. FACT. They ALL are the measure, the product, of brutal exploitation of the poorest by we rich. FACT.
Aren’t we raised to revere Ancient Rome, the Pyramids,
Ancient Greece, the great Cities, the great Cathedrals, the US
Economy, $100 CELL PHONES, $600 IPADS, $3/GAL GAS,
$3 BURGERS, FANCY CARS, the American Dream...? I was. We are.
Take away the 90% of the world’s poor, the destitute, population at the time any of these were / are created, TAKE THEM AWAY, and none of these things exist. FACT.
They ALL are the measure, the product, of brutal exploitation of the poorest by we rich. FACT.
photo. Loving, here: “Why am I entitled to a home, property, comforts... when, millions, billions, of my brothers and sisters have none? This never has made sense to me.” S. Loving
“Why am I entitled to a home,
property, comforts... when,
millions,
billions, of my brothers and sisters have none?
This never has made sense to me.”
S. Loving
A Fredericton-area man (New Brunswick Canada) says his heating bills are decreasing thanks to a solar furnace that cost him $300 to build. Randy Buchanan, of Lower St. Mary's, modified plans he found online to build the heating unit from soda cans,...
New solar grill develped at MIT cooks with the sun day or night. link.
Carolyn Scott shared EARTH-The Operators' Manual's photo.
Carolyn Scott shared EARTH-The Operators' Manual's photo.
a miracle of the SUN!
A
solar grill developed by Professor David Wilson at MIT allows users to
cook emissions-free day or night. The grill uses a Fresnel lens and
solar energy to melt down a container of
Lithium Nitrate, which acts as a battery storing thermal energy for up
to 25 hours. The stored heat can be used to cook at temperatures above
450ºF.http://tinyurl.com/mf8x2o9
2.06.2014
2.05.2014
pic. Debating Creationism vs Science is like debating TV watching vs tennis. They are two different ways to spend, have, a life. They have different external outcomes, but at the heart of it, they come down to how to ‘experience’ as positive a life as possible. Point to ponder - if creationists were the vast majority we would not be on the brink of destroying earth with scientific rape and plunder. Just sayin. Science, as ‘religion,’ Truly, is a basis of that, and it’s cousin, materialistic greed / addiction. No?
Debating Creationism vs Science is like debating TV watching vs tennis. They are two different ways to spend, have, a life. They have different external outcomes, but at the heart of it, they come down to how to ‘experience’ as positive a life as possible.Point to ponder - if creationists were the vast majority we would not be on the brink of destroying earth with scientific rape and plunder. Just sayin. Science, as ‘religion,’ Truly, is a basis of that, and it’s cousin, materialistic greed / addiction.
No?
pic. It is not Pr. Obama’s addiction to fossil fuel that is doing this to our children’s future. It is Y/OURS: EVERY TIME YOU USE OIL. EVERY TIME YOU USE COAL ELECTRICITY. OR NAT GAS. EVERY TIME. EVERY USE. EVERY TIME. YOUR ADDICTION. DIVEST YOUR LIFE, NOW, TODAY, FROM THE USE OF COAL, NAT. GAS, AND OIL. IF YOU HAVE TO WALK, DO IT. IF YOU HAVE TO BUY SOLAR, DO IT. IF IT COSTS EVERYTHING YOU HAVE... ISN’T YOUR CHILD HAVING A LIVABLE EARTH, WORTH IT?? NO?
It is not Pr. Obama’s addiction to fossil fuel that is doing this to our children’s future. It is Y/OURS:EVERY TIME YOU USE OIL.
EVERY TIME YOU USE COAL ELECTRICITY. OR NAT GAS.
EVERY TIME. EVERY USE. EVERY TIME. YOUR ADDICTION.
DIVEST YOUR LIFE, NOW, TODAY, FROM THE USE OF COAL, NAT. GAS, AND OIL. IF YOU HAVE TO WALK, DO IT. IF YOU HAVE TO BUY SOLAR, DO IT. IF IT COSTS
EVERYTHING YOU HAVE...
ISN’T YOUR CHILD HAVING A LIVABLE EARTH, WORTH IT??
2.04.2014
ETOM Quote of the Day: “We are on track for having the worst drought in 500 years.” B. Lynn Ingram, University of California, Berkeley The American West is in the 3rd year of a crippling drought that is affecting what is regarded as the most important agricultural region in the nation. No doubt a warning sign of trouble ahead for much of the West (and the world).
ETOM Quote of the Day:
“We are on track for having the worst drought in 500 years.” B. Lynn Ingram, University of California, Berkeley
The American West is in the 3rd year of a crippling drought that is affecting what is regarded as the most important agricultural region in the nation. No doubt a warning sign of trouble ahead for much of the West (and the world).
http://tinyurl.com/kwv52jv
“We are on track for having the worst drought in 500 years.” B. Lynn Ingram, University of California, Berkeley
The American West is in the 3rd year of a crippling drought that is affecting what is regarded as the most important agricultural region in the nation. No doubt a warning sign of trouble ahead for much of the West (and the world).
http://tinyurl.com/kwv52jv
link. “There is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.” Pope Francis
“There is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.” Pope Francis
pic. Jesus - Healing the psychological pain and suffering is at least equal the duty of healing the physical pain and suffering... of the global neediest. I’m not talking about cheap ‘recreational drugging’ here, not ‘opiate of the masses.’
Healing thepsychological pain and suffering is at least equal the duty of healing the
physical pain and suffering...
of the
global neediest.
I’m not talking about cheap ‘recreational drugging’ here,
not ‘opiate
of the masses.’
2.03.2014
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