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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
2.02.2014
Urban Activist Grace Lee Boggs: "I feel so sorry for people who don't live in Detroit." exopermaculture.com
How To Build a 400 Square Foot Solar Powered Off Grid Cabin for $2,000. whydontyoutrythis.com
2.01.2014
***** vid. There are two Americas. In one, bankers get golden parachutes, insider traders return to society as well-paid consultants, and influence is for sale. In the other, opportunity is scarce and forgiveness scarcer, jail awaits those caught possessing recreational drugs, and cries for help are ignored. Society preaches forgiveness for the rich and retribution for the poor. Entrenched inequality and its companion, poverty, are the dark side of the American dream for a citizenry united by name, but not by rules. details
U.K.’s January Flooding Surpasses All 247 Years Of Data On The Books thinkprogress.org Rainfall was 35 percent above average in January as many communities struggled with the impacts of sustained flooding. Climate
***** David Simon tells Bill Moyers: "There was a class war, and the poor people lost. We are Reagan’s children, and we are Thatcher’s children. There is no society, there’s just you. We bought this stuff hook, line and sinker and we are building that. We’re getting the America we’ve paid for.” David Simon tells Bill Moyers: ‘There was a class war, and the poor people lost’ | The Raw Story
vid. Inexpensive 3D-printed limbs could be the answer for the 50,000 people in Sudan missing an arm or a leg. It could be the answer for so many in poor, violence-ravaged countries around the world.
Inexpensive 3D-printed limbs could be the answer for the 50,000 people in Sudan missing an arm or a leg.
It could be the answer for so many in poor, violence-ravaged countries around the world.
I think it's something quite wonderful.
It could be the answer for so many in poor, violence-ravaged countries around the world.
I think it's something quite wonderful.
‘Kenyan government forcing us into extinction’: evictions of Sengwer... owl.li A Kenyan government campaign against one of the few hunter-gatherer tribes left in east Africa has escalated
The
Sengwer have cared for the Cherangany Hills of western Kenya for
centuries, but the government is forcing them from their homes in the
name of safeguarding urban water supplies and protecting the forest.
Uncontacted Nanti could be decimated by plans to detonate thousands of explosive charges and allow hundreds of workers to flood onto their land. Peru approves gas project, spells disaster for uncontacted tribes owl.li Peru has approved the highly controversial expansion of the Camisea gas project onto the land of uncontacted Amazon tribes.
Uncontacted
Nanti could be decimated by plans to detonate thousands of explosive
charges and allow hundreds of workers to flood onto their land.
1.31.2014
I just finished watching a documentary on this - new, young, organic farmers across the US - Greenhorns - Download free and watch, here - https://archive.org/download/thegreenhornsremove/thegreenhorns.iso . SHARE. Off-Empire. Sustainable. Loving. Community. What Future there is.
I just finished watching a documentary on this - new, young, organic
farmers across the US - Greenhorns - Download free and watch, here - https://archive.org/download/thegreenhornsremove/thegreenhorns.iso . SHARE. Off-Empire. Sustainable. Loving. Community. What Future there is.
Cancer Update, etc.
[Reply to a note from a dear friend, an elementary school teacher.]
Hi! What a nice note. It is always a ray of sunshine when I hear
from you.
Oh, how I adored sledding as a kid. Did u? One of the many times I'm sure
my folks hoped I'd kill myself, I should have, the insane mtns I went down.
I'm sure your kids will enjoy it mightily.
There is a chance Pr. O is just a corporate shill from the git go. I may
never know. My guess is we couldn't have a greater ally, cept oursevles,
and that's out of the question. I think he is calculating everything he does
to win the house and keep the senate in 2014. Without that there are
no bold strokes he can take, and only bold strokes will save earth and
democracy now. But it still comes back to the people, even then he'd need
us unviolently risking life and limb, and we've all got our infinite excuses.
So, I'll probably never know about him.
My depression is extremely light, recently; amazing, given my view
of the impending, virtually certain Cataclysms - Ecocide, Fascism. There
are fleeting moments when it almost feels like a relief to be free of the
desperate fight to avert them; but mostly the gloom, the other horror
lingers. And Life is fighting for all you are worth for the least of these,
and it is more difficult for me to see how to do that, but I'm making progress -
I'll encourage those with the inkling, to avoid the cruelty of bringing
babies onto a sinking Titanic, and I'll do what I can to learn of, and shepherd
the young, well, anyone, toward off-Empire living - there are pioneers
of this, I'll learn of them, their ways, their whereabouts... and try and
help others in that direction.
My study of the mainstream scholarship is that this is near exactly where
the man Jesus found himself, odd, but True. So, I'm slogging through some
immensely scholarly works on the Historical Jesus by Dominic Crossan -
really arduous, but oddly, in the midst of all my crisis, I think a deep understanding
of the small sliver of History we have on him will be useful to me before
I move on per the above.
The last chemo was Monday. I've slept as much as 21 hours per day,
tapering down to 14 hpd today. The next 4 or 5 day will be tough as I
struggle to find where my new sleep patterns are - rest is the most important
thing to my work - and for months now, my body seems to refuse to
stay in deep sleep for more than moments. I may accept a sleep study
at Georgetown, that has been offered, if once I feel clear of chemo effects,
I still can't stabilize things.
The symptoms that had me worried about parkinson's disease have
lessened with the vita B12 shots I've been getting, but they still remain.
Started several months of major dental work, a decade overdue,
last week.
At some point they'll need to put me under, I believe, to remove my
port - so it ain't over till it's over.
In this huge building that has been my home these last 6 months or so
is an area called 1 south - 150 or so near all african american men over
50, and I'd be eligible to go there - no fee, one meal per day, fairly unrestricted
access tho there is a 2am be in by, and few days away if any without losing
your bed. In this huge area are mostly bunk beds in sections, some with
more bed bugs than others, and then an area for the 'needier' that is
single beds, hospital beds I think, cleaner, quieter. A 'friend,' fellow my
age, lives there, the ADA section, he is no needier physically than I, so there
is some leeway. I think it is ADA for me, or back on the streets 7/24. I'm
ok with either, but I'll give 1 South, however it is offered to me, a try, I expect.
I'll try my best to angle for the ADA section, but I don't hold out much hope.
I suspect I'll access Soc Sec in the next month or so and, if I do, start
banking all but coffee money (2-3 times a week to 'thank' this awesome
FH Bakery folks that are such a Godsend to me) and that Wifi- no sense
you picking that up if I'm getting SS. I'll let you know.
Well, that's all for now.
Hi! What a nice note. It is always a ray of sunshine when I hear
from you.
Oh, how I adored sledding as a kid. Did u? One of the many times I'm sure
my folks hoped I'd kill myself, I should have, the insane mtns I went down.
I'm sure your kids will enjoy it mightily.
There is a chance Pr. O is just a corporate shill from the git go. I may
never know. My guess is we couldn't have a greater ally, cept oursevles,
and that's out of the question. I think he is calculating everything he does
to win the house and keep the senate in 2014. Without that there are
no bold strokes he can take, and only bold strokes will save earth and
democracy now. But it still comes back to the people, even then he'd need
us unviolently risking life and limb, and we've all got our infinite excuses.
So, I'll probably never know about him.
My depression is extremely light, recently; amazing, given my view
of the impending, virtually certain Cataclysms - Ecocide, Fascism. There
are fleeting moments when it almost feels like a relief to be free of the
desperate fight to avert them; but mostly the gloom, the other horror
lingers. And Life is fighting for all you are worth for the least of these,
and it is more difficult for me to see how to do that, but I'm making progress -
I'll encourage those with the inkling, to avoid the cruelty of bringing
babies onto a sinking Titanic, and I'll do what I can to learn of, and shepherd
the young, well, anyone, toward off-Empire living - there are pioneers
of this, I'll learn of them, their ways, their whereabouts... and try and
help others in that direction.
My study of the mainstream scholarship is that this is near exactly where
the man Jesus found himself, odd, but True. So, I'm slogging through some
immensely scholarly works on the Historical Jesus by Dominic Crossan -
really arduous, but oddly, in the midst of all my crisis, I think a deep understanding
of the small sliver of History we have on him will be useful to me before
I move on per the above.
The last chemo was Monday. I've slept as much as 21 hours per day,
tapering down to 14 hpd today. The next 4 or 5 day will be tough as I
struggle to find where my new sleep patterns are - rest is the most important
thing to my work - and for months now, my body seems to refuse to
stay in deep sleep for more than moments. I may accept a sleep study
at Georgetown, that has been offered, if once I feel clear of chemo effects,
I still can't stabilize things.
The symptoms that had me worried about parkinson's disease have
lessened with the vita B12 shots I've been getting, but they still remain.
Started several months of major dental work, a decade overdue,
last week.
At some point they'll need to put me under, I believe, to remove my
port - so it ain't over till it's over.
In this huge building that has been my home these last 6 months or so
is an area called 1 south - 150 or so near all african american men over
50, and I'd be eligible to go there - no fee, one meal per day, fairly unrestricted
access tho there is a 2am be in by, and few days away if any without losing
your bed. In this huge area are mostly bunk beds in sections, some with
more bed bugs than others, and then an area for the 'needier' that is
single beds, hospital beds I think, cleaner, quieter. A 'friend,' fellow my
age, lives there, the ADA section, he is no needier physically than I, so there
is some leeway. I think it is ADA for me, or back on the streets 7/24. I'm
ok with either, but I'll give 1 South, however it is offered to me, a try, I expect.
I'll try my best to angle for the ADA section, but I don't hold out much hope.
I suspect I'll access Soc Sec in the next month or so and, if I do, start
banking all but coffee money (2-3 times a week to 'thank' this awesome
FH Bakery folks that are such a Godsend to me) and that Wifi- no sense
you picking that up if I'm getting SS. I'll let you know.
Well, that's all for now.
A walipini is a greenhouse that is built into the ground to take advantage of the more stable temperatures and thermal mass of the earth.
Carolyn Scott shared EARTH-The Operators' Manual's photo.
Carolyn Scott shared EARTH-The Operators' Manual's photo.
a walipini solution! Build your own!
A
walipini is a greenhouse that is built into the ground to take
advantage of the more stable temperatures and thermal mass of the earth.
Ranging from simple to elaborate, these
structures allow you to grow all year long, in almost any climate on
earth. Build your own, and take control of your food future!
http://tinyurl.com/av8ljao
GMOs are wiping out Monarch butterflies - Experts warn their famous migration might disappear! Well, Monarch Butterfly Numbers Have Officially Hit A Record Low. huffingtonpost.com
GMOs are wiping out Monarch butterflies - Experts warn their famous migration might disappear!
Well, Monarch Butterfly Numbers Have Officially Hit A Record Low
huffingtonpost.com
MEXICO
CITY (AP) — The number of Monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico
plunged this year to its lowest level since studies began in 1993,
leading experts to announce Wednesday that the insects' annual migration
from the United States and Canada is in danger of disappearing. A
report released by
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