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Angela Hayden — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:01:57 +0000

The Evolutionary Lie: Biblical Reality Proved

justinlessard — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:14:26 +0000

From many different sources, I’ve pieced just some of the evidence against the evolutionary process. Bottom line: the earth is created, there is a Creator, and the Bible is true. I won’t add a lot of bantering commentary, but let you jump right into the hard facts. Enjoy.

-Formation of life

Dead chemicals cannot become alive on their own. The cell is a miniature factory with many active processes, not a simple blob of “protoplasm” as believed in Darwin’s day. Lightening striking a mud puddle or some “warm little pond” will never produce life. This is another view of the core issue of information as the simplest living cell requires a vast amount of information to be present. The “Law of Biogenesis” states that life comes only from prior life. Spontaneous generation has long been shown to be impossible (by Louis Pasteur in 1859). Numerous efforts to bring life from non-life (including the famous Miller-Urey experiment) have not succeeded. The probability of life forming from non-life has been likened to the probability of a tornado going through a junkyard and picking up all the parts of a house, only the parts of a house, and assembling all the pieces to make a complete home with electricity and plumbing, cupboards and shelving, and everything in working order. Reference: Why Abiogenesis is Impossible, Jerry Bergman, CRS Quarterly, Volume 36, March 2000

-Design of living things

Design is apparent in the living world. Even Richard Dawkins in his anti-creation book The Blind Watchmaker admits “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.” The amazing defense mechanism of the Bombardier Beetle is a classic example of design in nature, seemingly impossible to explain as the result of accumulating small beneficial changes over time, because if the mechanism doesn’t work perfectly, “boom” – no more beetle! This is also another view of the core issue of information, as the design of living things is the result of processing the information in the DNA (following the blueprint) to produce a working organism.

-Irreducible Complexity

The idea that “nothing works until everything works.” The classic example is a mousetrap, which is irreducibly complex in that if one of its several pieces is missing or not in the right place, it will not function as a mousetrap and no mice will be caught. The systems, features, and processes of life are irreducibly complex. What good is a circulatory system without a heart? An eye without a brain to interpret the signals? What good is a half-formed wing? Doesn’t matching male and female reproductive machinery need to exist at the same time, fully-functioning if any reproduction is to take place? Remember, natural selection has no foresight, and works to eliminate anything not providing an immediate benefit. Reference: Darwin’s Black Box

-2^nd Law of Thermodynamics

The Second Law of Thermodynamics refers to the universal tendency for things, on their own, to “mix” with their surrounding environment over time, becoming less ordered and eventually reaching a steady-state. A glass of hot water becomes room temperature, buildings decay into rubble, and the stars will eventually burn out leading to the “heat death” of the universe. However, the evolutionary scenario proposes that over time, things singlehandedly became more ordered and structured. Somehow the energy of a “Big Bang” structured itself into stars, galaxies, planets, and living things, contrary to the Second Law. It is sometimes said that the energy of the Sun was enough to overcome this tendency and allow for the formation of life on earth. However, application of energy alone is not enough to overcome this tendency; the energy must be channeled by a machine. A human must repair a building to keep it from decaying. Likewise, it is the machinery of photosynthesis which harnesses the energy of the Sun, allowing life to exist, and photosynthesis is itself a complex chemical process. The maturing of an acorn into a tree, or a zygote (the first cell resulting from fertilization) into a mature human being does not violate the Second Law as these processes are guided by the information already present in the acorn or zygote.

-Existence of the Universe

By definition, something must be eternal (as we have “something” today and something cannot come from “nothing”, so there was never a time when there was “nothing”). Either the universe itself is eternal, or something/someone outside of and greater than the universe is eternal. We know that the universe is not eternal, it had a beginning (as evidenced by its expansion, see ‘Expansion of Space Fabric’, below). Therefore, God (the something/someone outside of the universe) must exist and must have created the universe. Einstein showed that space and time are related. If there is no space there is no time. Before the universe was created there was no space and therefore no concept of time. This is hard for us to understand as we are space-time creatures, but it allows for God to be an eternal being, completely consistent with scientific laws. The question “who created God” is therefore an improper/invalid question, as it is a time-based question (concerning the point in time at which God “came into existence”) but God exists outside of time as the un-caused first cause. Reference: The Second Law of Thermodynamics (www.answersingenesis.org)

-Fine-Tuning of Earth for Life

Countless parameters are “just right” for life to exist on this planet. For example, if the Earth were just a little closer to the Sun it would be too hot and the ocean’s water would boil away, much further and it would be covered continually in ice, and we’d freeze. Earth’s circular orbit (to maintain a roughly constant temperature year-round), its rotation speed (to provide days and nights not too long or short), its tilt (to provide seasons), and the presence of the moon (to provide tides to cleanse the oceans) are just some of many other examples.
The presence of large amounts of water, with its amazing special properties, is also required. Water is a rare compound in that it is lighter in a solid state than in a liquid state. This allows ponds to freeze with the ice on the surface allowing the life beneath to survive. Otherwise bodies of water would freeze from the bottom up and become solid ice. Water is also the most universal “solvent” known, allowing for dissolving/mixing with the many different chemicals of life. In fact, our bodies are 75-85% comprised of water.

-Fine-Tuning of our Physics

The fine-tuning of the physical constants that control the physics of the universe - the settings of the basic forces (strong nuclear force constant, weak nuclear force constant, gravitational force constant, and electromagnetic force constant) are on a knife’s edge. A minor change in these or any of dozens of other universal parameters would make life impossible.

The “multiverse” idea that there may be many universes and ours “just happened” to have these proper values is outside of science and could never be proven. Even then we would have to ask “what was the cause of all these universes?”

-Abrupt Appearance in the Fossil Record

The oldest fossils for any creature are already fully-formed and don’t change much over time (“stasis”). The “Cambrian Explosion” in the “primordial strata” documents the geologically rapid appearance of most major groups of complex animals. There is no evidence of evolution from simpler forms. Birds are said to have evolved from reptiles but no fossil has ever been found having a “half-scale/half-wing”. A reptile breathes using an “in and out” lung (like humans have), but a bird has a “flow-through” lung suitable for moving through the air. Can you even imagine how such a transition of the lung could have taken place? Abrupt appearance and stasis are consistent with the biblical concept of creation “according to its kind”, and a world-wide flood that scoured the earth down to its basement rocks, depositing the “geologic column” and giving the appearance of a “Cambrian Explosion”. Smarter, more mobile creatures would escape the flood waters longer, becoming buried in higher-level strata, leading to a burial order progressing from “simpler” forms to more complex/higher-level forms, which people now wrongly interpret as an evolutionary progression. Reference: Fossils Q&A (www.answersingenesis.org)

-Human Consciousness

A person is a unity of body + mind/soul, the mind/soul being the immaterial part of you that is the real inner you. Chemicals alone cannot explain self-awareness, creativity, reasoning, emotions of love and hate, sensations of pleasure and pain, possessing and remembering experiences, and free will. Reason itself cannot be relied upon if it is based only on blind neurological events.

-Human Language

Language is one of the main things that separates mankind from animals. No animal is capable of achieving anything like human speech, and all attempts to teach chimpanzees to talk have failed. Evolutionists have no explanation for the origin of human language. However, the Bible does. It says that the first man, Adam, was created able to speak. The Bible also explains why we have different human languages, as God had to “confuse” the common language being used in Babel after the flood, in order to force people to spread out around the world as He wanted. This was only a “surface” confusion though, as all languages express the same underlying basic ideas and concepts, enabling other languages to be learned and understood.

-Sexual Reproduction

Many creatures reproduce asexually. Why would animals abandon simpler asexual reproduction in favor of more costly and inefficient sexual reproduction? Sexual reproduction is a very complex process that is only useful if fully in place. For sexual reproduction to have evolved complimentary male and female sex organs, sperm and eggs, and all the associated machinery in tandem defies the imagination.

-The Biblical Witness

The Bible is true. The history of the Bible is true. The words of the Bible concerning our origins were given to men to write down, by God, who was the only living being present. We were not there! God said He created the universe. God said He created all living things. We know that life is much more than chemicals. God put His life into Adam and that life has been transferred from generation to generation all the way down to us! Reference: The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict(McDowell, and a book I highly recommend)

-Decay of Magnetic Field times in sync with Biblical Creation

Dr. Thomas Barnes, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso, has published the definitive work in this field.⁴ Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earth’s magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate, demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1,400 years. In practical application its strength 20,000 years ago would approximate that of a magnetic star. Under those conditions many of the atoms necessary for life processes could not form. These data demonstrate that earth’s entire history is young, within a few thousand of years

-Global Flood

The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noah’s day. Additionally, there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world. ⁵M.E. Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent.⁶Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earth’s sedimentary layers.⁷ It is now possible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood.⁸

-Population Stats

World population growth rate in recent times is about 2% per year. Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number. Wars, disease, famine, etc. have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years. Starting with eight people, and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noah’s day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people. However, application on an evolutionary time scale runs into major difficulties. Starting with one “couple” just 41,000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 10⁸⁹. ⁹The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies.

-Radio Halos

Physicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite. The half-life of this element is 0.000164 seconds! To record the existence of this element in such short time span, the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously.¹⁰ This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form.

Recently there have been evolutionists online in newsgroups and on blogs that have claimed Polonium 214 doesn’t exist. Main reason being is because they declare the Granite in the earth’s crust took many millions of years to form and finally cool and Polonium 214 takes less then a second to expend all its half-lives. In order to save face, some evolutionists have decided to lie and say Polonium 214 simply doesn’t exist. HOWEVER, if you go to http://www.scorecard.org/chemical-profiles/summary.tcl?edf_substance_id=15735%2d67%2d8,you will see one of many online scientific websites that list the element Pulonium 214 to be found on Planet earth. On that page they share evidence that Polonium 214 is in fact a chemical profile that can and has been recorded by many scientists. Praise the Lord we have yet another factoid to prove evolution is a lie of Satan. For a look at how radio halos work, visit http://www.ichthus.info/Creation-Evidence/Polonium-Halos/intro.html

-Atmospheric Helium Content

Physicist Melvin Cook, Nobel Prize medalist found that helium-4 enters our atmosphere from solar wind and radioactive decay of uranium. At present rates our atmosphere would accumulate current helium-4 amounts in less than 10,000 years.¹²

-Expansion of Space Fabric

Astronomical estimates of the distance to various galaxies give conflicting data. ¹³The Biblical Record refers to the expansion of space by the Creator¹⁴. Astrophysicist Russell Humphries demonstrates that such space expansion would dilate time in distant space.¹⁵ This could explain a recent creation with great distances to the stars.

-Design of Living Systems

A living cell is so awesomely complex that its interdependent components stagger the imagination and defy evolutionary explanations. A minimal cell contains over 60,000 proteins of 100 different configurations.¹⁶ The chance of this assemblage occurring by chance is 1 in 10 ^4,478,296.¹⁷

-Design of Human Brain & Body

The human brain is the most complicated structure in the known universe.¹⁸ It contains over 100 billion cells, each with over 50,000 neuron connections to other brain cells.¹⁹ This structure receives over 100 million separate signals from the total human body every second. If we learned something new every second of our lives, it would take three million years to exhaust the capacity of the human brain. ²⁰ In addition to conscious thought, people can actually reason, anticipate consequences, and devise plans – all without knowing they are doing so.²¹Without giving a single thought to it, we breathe, digest, blink, and our heart beats. We’re made to have and be a completely functional operating system without reflection.

-Biblical Archeology

Here are just a few examples of how archeological discoveries have verified the authenticity of Biblical accuracy:

Ø Egyptian armor, chariots and human and horse bones found at the bottom of the Red Sea, proving Moses’ exodus from Egypt to Israel. In the image, you see a gold chariot wheel. Since coral doen’t grow on gold, that part remains clear to see. Unfortunately, the wood beneath the gold has deteriorated to the point that the wheel cannot be moved. Visit the web site below for more photos and info.

o Source: http://users.netconnect.com.au/~leedas/redsea.html

Ø The discovery of the Ebla archive in northern Syria in the 1970s has shown the Biblical writings concerningthe Patriarchs to be viable. Documents written on clay tablets from around 2300 B.C. demonstrate that personal and place names in the Patriarchal accounts are genuine. The name “Canaan” was in use in Ebla, a name critics once said was not used at that time and was used incorrectly in the early chapters of the Bible. The word tehom (“the deep”) in Genesis 1:2 was said to be a late word demonstrating the late writing of the creation story. “Tehom” was part of the vocabulary at Ebla, in use some 800 years before Moses. Ancient customs reflected in the stories of the Patriarchs have also been found in clay tablets from Nuzi and Mari.

Ø The Hittites were once thought to be a Biblical legend, until their capital and records were discovered at Bogazkoy, Turkey.

Ø Many thought the Biblical references to Solomon’s wealth were greatly exaggerated. Recovered records from the past show that wealth in antiquity was concentrated with the king and Solomon’s prosperity was entirely feasible.

Ø It was once claimed there was no Assyrian king named Sargon as recorded in Isaiah 20:1, because this name was not known in any other record. Then, Sargon’s palace was discovered in Khorsabad, Iraq. The very event mentioned in Isaiah 20, his capture of Ashdod, was recorded on the palace walls. What is more, fragments of a stela memorializing the victory were found at Ashdod itself.

Ø Another king who was in doubt was Belshazzar, king of Babylon, named in Daniel 5. The last king of Babylon was Nabonidus according to recorded history. Tablets were found showing that Belshazzar was Nabonidus’ son who served as coregent in Babylon. Thus, Belshazzar could offer to make Daniel “third highest ruler in the kingdom” (Dan. 5:16) for reading the handwriting on the wall, the highest available position. Here we see the “eye-witness” nature of the Biblical record, as is so often brought out by the discoveries of archaeology.

o Source: http://www.christiananswers.net/q-abr/abr-a008.html

-T-Rex: A Vegetarian?

The roots of T-Rex teeth were only 2 inches deep. Had he bit into the hide of another dinosaur he would have lost teeth. Hides were thick and animals would struggle for their lives. A two inch root would pull out with little force.
They cut a tooth in half of an unearthed T-Rex and found it deeply impureated with CHLOROPHYLL! That’s right, Chlorophyll is the main substance found in PLANTS not meat!

By the way, this discovery validates the Bible once again! How so? See this passage…

Genesis 1:29-30, “Then God said, ‘I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.’ And it was so.”

Now before proclaiming you MUST eat meat because the proteins in meat will help you to gain weight, look around on planet earth for a moment. Look at all the HUGE animals like cows… horses… Hippos… Elephants… Rhinos… etc. What do THEY eat? That’s right. PLANTS!

-Giants of Biblical Proportion

According to the Bible, there were once giants on the earth. Goliath, the most famous of the giants, was said to be over nine feet tall (1 Samuel 17:4). Bones and skeletons have been found of these colossal humans. Some were called the Nephilim, Anakites, Emites, and Amorites. Goliath was a Philistine. (Numbers 13:28-33; Deuteronomy 1:28; 2:10; 9:2) Below is a photo of a man next to a 47 inch human femur. Similar finds have included entire skeletons, most too far decomposed to move. There are a number of skeletons, skulls, and footprints of giants as tall as 30 feet. They appear in almost every culture’s folklore and legend, most of them the “big bully” variety, and a hero dispatches almost all. Theories about the builders of pyramids, stone circles, and other monolithic examples of ancient construction find giants as a possible answer. Big blocks mean big builders.

A few other minor points to ponder: If we evolved,…

Why do still get so easily sunburned?
Why can’t I go outside without a coat on in the middle of winter?
Were did the gills go? I really could’ve used them when I almost drowned!
Why lose the tail? I could really use it right now.
Why can’t we stand being in extreme heat, extreme cold or underwater? If we evolved into a better life-form, we should’ve overcome these huge inconveniences to our everyday existence. To be truly above everything else and focussed on the survival of our species, we’d become a flying, asexual rock.

¹Woodmorappe, John, “The Essential Non-Existence of the Evolutionary Uniformitarian Geologic Column: A Quantitative Assessment,” Creation Research Society Quarterly, vol. 18, no.1 (Terre Haute, Indiana, June 1981),pp. 46-71
²Nilsson, N. Heribert, as quoted in Arthur C. Custance, The Earth Before Man, Part II, Doorway Papers, no. 20 (Ontario, Canada: Doorway Publications), p. 51
³Corner, E.J.H., Contemporary Botanical Thought, ed. A.M. MacLeod and L.S. Cobley (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1961), p. 97
⁴Barnes, Thomas, ICR Technical Monograph #4, Origin and Destiny of the Earth’s Magnetic Field (2^nd edition, 1983)
⁵Blick, Edward, A Scientific Analysis of Genesis (Oklahoma City: Hearthstone, 1991) p. 103
⁶Clark, M.E. and Voss, H.D., “Fluid Mechanic Examination of the Tial Mechanism for Producing Mega-Sedimantary Layering” (Third International Conference on Creation, Pittsburg, July 1994)
⁷Ager, Derek, The Nature of the Stratigraphical Record (New York: John Wiley and Sons) p. 43 and p. 86
⁸West, John Anthony, Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt (New York: Julian Press, 1987) pp. 13-14
⁹ See Morris, Henry, Scientific Creationism(El Cajon, CA: Master Books)
¹⁰Gentry, Robert, Creation’s Tiny Mystery (Knoxville, Tenn.: Earth Science Assoc.,1988)
¹¹Baugh, Carl, Why Do Men Believe Evolution AGAINST ALL ODDS? (Oklahoma City: Hearthstone, 1999)
¹²Cook, Melvin, “Where is The Earth’s Radiogenic Helium?” Nature, Vol. 179, p. 213
¹³Cowan, R., “Further Evidence of a Youthful Universe,” Science News, Vol. 148, p. 166
¹⁴Psalm 104:2; Isaiah 40:22
¹⁵Humphries, Russell, Starlight and Time (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 1994)
¹⁶Denton, Michael, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (Bethesda, Maryland: Adler & Adler, 1986) p. 263
¹⁷Mastropaolo, Joseph, “Evolution Is Biologically Impossible,” Impact # 317(El Cajon, CA: Institute For Creation Research,1999) p. 4
¹⁸Restak, Richard, The Brain: The Last Frontier, 1979, p. 390
¹⁹The Brain, Our Universe Within, PBS Video
²⁰Wonders of God’s Creation, Moody Video Series
²¹Weiss, Joseph, “Unconscious Mental Functioning,” Scientific American, March 1990, p. 103

Reflections on El Coyote & Prop 8

halmasonberg — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:41:24 +0000

I have a mirror site where I also post my blog. That site gets a lot of traffic and therefore my recent post on Prop 8 and El Coyote has attracted many readers and many comments. Emotions are high, and with good reason. And with high emotions comes differing opinions and alternate solutions. But what is important to remember is that, no matter how you see the situation, if we all want the same outcome, if we’re all working toward the same goal, then we are all on the same team. We saw the divide created by the Bush administration’s moniker, “You’re either with us or against us.” Fortunately, life is not that black and white. But that way of thinking will turn friends into enemies, will weaken the strength of numbers, will make the road to attaining the goal that much more difficult.

As for El Coyote and the protests and boycott underway, there are differing views. This is mine. I hate that anyone has to wait for equal rights. It tears me up inside. And I would never ask anyone to support a restaurant that does not support equal rights. And I’m not asking anyone to personally support El Coyote. However, what I am saying is that the manager of El Coyote, Marjorie Christoffersen, gave money privately through her church to support her personal belief, which in this case was Yes on Prop 8. And yes, her family owns the restaurant. However, this donation was not done through the restaurant nor any corporation affiliated with the restaurant. And the restaurant staff and floor manager have publicly stated that they DO NOT share Marjorie’s views. Had Marjorie done this through El Coyote, then asking for a mass boycott would be fair in my eyes. As it stands now, people are asking others, beyond themselves, to inflict damage on an establishment that does not, itself, support Yes on Prop 8. I understand that the money Marjorie makes in her life comes from her job at El Coyote, but I have to support EVERY individual’s right to make their own decisions about what they believe in politically, socially, financially and religiously. Even if I find it sad and unfortunate and extremely closed-minded. In my opinion, we must all be careful to not discriminate against other people’s beliefs and their right to have those beliefs and express them in their private lives. Roseanne Barr has urged for a broader boycott of every organization which has large numbers of Mormons on its executive payroll (the Mormon church gave heavily to the Yes on 8 campaign). While I understand the sentiment and I certainly understand the feelings behind it, I must also add that this can be a slippery slope and one that can easily be seen as fighting discrimination with discrimination. While I do not share the views of the Mormon church, nor do I support their fight for Prop 8, I can’t support what I see as discrimination against Mormons. There is a campaign to cut the tax breaks allowed to the Mormon church. I support that. To me, that’s the correct approach. The church used this money toward a political goal. That is illegal. And it came directly from the church. Even protesting outside the church is called for. Not because they are Mormons, but because they are spreading inequality. However, one shouldn’t try and get the members of that church to denounce their faith, but to try and get them to understand what they are doing and the effect it has on human lives.

If Marjorie had hung Yes on Prop 8 signs up at El Coyote, or had made a donation to that cause through the restaurant, that would be a whole different situation. But that’s not this one. This seems to me, at the moment, to have more to do with hurt, betrayal and anger than with reason. I do not see ANYTHING POSITIVE coming from this boycott of El Coyote. Again, let me reiterate, I am not telling anyone that they should go there. Only that they should consider what they believe they will gain by telling others not to go in an attempt to negatively impact the business.

Some have suggested that this is an act of civil rights, like the Montgomery Bus Boycott. But this is not the same situation as that. The desired result there was to give black people the right to sit anywhere they wanted on those buses. And that’s what they got. That’s what they deserved. All I see here is an attempt to hurt Marjorie because she hurt others. I see punishment. And no clear goal or resolution. Perhaps people want Marjorie to step down. Okay. Again, she made a private donation. Like it or not, it was not and is not a reflection on El Coyote or any of the people who work there. Just Marjorie. Or perhaps people would like to see her denounce her faith. When Marjorie was asked if she would donate money to No on Prop 8, she burst into tears and said, “I will not.” Are we really asking this woman to change her beliefs, to denounce her religious community right here right now on the spot? Is that fair? And is that the goal?

What I see is a widening of the gap of understanding. We should all be more evolved than Marjorie. And in doing so we should understand her in a way she seems unable, currently, to understand others and their rights. However, with a different approach, one of education and understanding, she may have come around, or a nugget of truth may have been placed in her heart and mind that may have manifested into something wonderful. Remember, many of her favorite customers are gays and lesbians. She is someone who has real faces to place on the choices she is making; she has people who could express their hurt, sadness and sense of betrayal to her directly. People she sees as human beings, despite her inability to currently comprehend what her actions mean to their lives. This was a wonderful opportunity potentially lost in a maelstrom of anger and disappointment. What has been achieved, most likely, is a deeper rift. Marjorie will most likely embrace her church and its community even more deeply now. Here’s an example: When I learned my sister was going to vote for John McCain, I called her up and, instead of yelling or accusing or telling her she needed to change her views, I told her I was here to answer questions she may have and to help her understand exactly what she was doing so that when she voted, no matter who she voted for, she would be voting from a place of understanding and not just blindly hearing talking points and/or misinformation. I let her know that I thought a vote for McCain would have a direct negative impact on her and her family, as well as millions across the globe. We then talked for an hour and a half. She thanked me for this approach and shared with me that when someone she knew had gotten angry with her and had thought her crazy and attacked her for thinking of voting for McCain, that reaction made her want to vote for McCain even more. Not a very logical reaction, but a strong emotional one. And an understandable one. My instinct was to get upset and rant at my sister, but I refrained, asked myself what I wanted the result of my conversation with her to be, and changed my approach. I respected her. And she listened and engaged. That does not mean she voted for Obama. I truthfully don’t know who she voted for. But there’s a chance she did, where before there was none.

So, while I do understand the emotions at play here and mean in no way to diminish or belittle them, I do believe that what is happening over at El Coyote is not something that will help the cause, but simply help fuel more anger, hatred, resentment and, ultimately, result in more people taking a longer time in coming around to understanding this. Marjorie is not a villain. She is a human being. And right now she’s one of those people who will soon be relegated to those unfortunate few who can’t let go of their frightened beliefs, like those who still maintain that blacks or women should not share equal rights. But Marjorie is also one of those people caught in a very confusing and difficult position. She is being asked to choose between her church, religious community, and lifelong beliefs and her friends, patrons, and public community. This is not a choice that most people will be able to make overnight. It’s confusing and frightening. It requires a complete reworking of how you see the world, who you trust, what you’ve believed in the past, what you feel in your gut, even how you see yourself and what kind of a person you believe you are. Given time, patience and understanding, Marjorie COULD become one of the movement’s greatest supporters. But that will never happen if you force her or try and punish her for her personal beliefs and her right to engage them. Again, I’m talking about what she does in her personal life, not her professional one.

No one can stop gays and lesbians from attaining their equal rights. It’s happening. Here. Now. The fact that this was even up for a vote, the fact that there are protests, the fact that stars and newscasters and journalists, mothers, fathers, kids are all speaking out publicly against Prop 8 is momentous. And growth and change is painful. And that’s where we are. In the midst of growth and change. And all I ask is that we find ways to embrace that which will move us forward more quickly, that which will educate, that which will close the divide and the misunderstanding. And not that which will fuel the hate and sense of victimization. That is too easy a path to go down. And that will make the whole process longer and even more painful. Ask what you want your end result to be. And then ask what is the best, smartest, most evolved way to go about attaining it. If you think boycotting El Coyote is the way, then it is your right to do so and I support your right. However, I think there is a better path, a path that isn’t steeped in the anger, resentment and hurt of the moment, but one that sees a bigger picture and understands that everyone involved is a human being. And one that allows the hurt and anger to be addressed and dealt with and felt in a constructive manner, and not one where we become victims of our own hatred and slowly find ourselves turning into the very people we hope to change.

Diplomacy is history...Worldwar 3 makes us history too.

droword — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:11:10 +0000

Diplomacy is history…World war 3 makes us history too. The totally outdated practice of talking person to person to solve issues between countries and groups are finally gotten rid of. When this article hits the internet heads will be rolling, maybe even heads of states. It is possibly not known amongst outsider nations that this new technology makes spying in essence just as outdated. There is no longer a need to have agents other than to have two more eyes and ears amongst the millions others. Because today anyone may without ever knowing anything about it be a spy for the Project New world Order Control. It may come as a shock to faithful serving members of a nation that they are serving the enemy more than their own country. What I am talking about is the secret technology that is being used at this moment to get access to any human they want on this earth. This person will act as a receiver of information trough the senses, which is then crunched by the most advanced computer cluster on earth. The result can then be used in numerous ways. They claim it is a new way of sending that can pretty much penetrate anything, making protection difficult. Haarp? They wanted me to figure out a protection invention, by sleep programming me without my knowledge. I instead made the Freedom Sphere concept which may protect victims, but it was not what they intended, that i should work against them, in fact it seems their system is rather full of unintended consequences. Like that they have started to understand that my version of their system is better than their own, but that their Master controller prefer this SLAVE MODEL.

CONTROL = OWNERSHIP / POSSESSION = SLAVERY

To be able to control anything you need possession of something like resources. You own this resource, it is yours. If that resource is a human and you own it, we call it slavery. And as I told in “Project New World Order Control”, the Slave Masters are the same as during the African slave trade, the old European families including Jewish bankers. My theory today is that it is the Rothschild dynasty that is the top dog, the reason is their history. The founder made his fortune during wars, using pigeons as advanced communication strategy to manipulate other investors, making a kill economical. Money =power. Thus R used modern tech to gain power by manipulating others during frontier wars…does this sound similar to using a modern technology like mind reading, manipulating people and world leaders to continue controlling the global Central bank system ( Money=power )? When world leaders start to understand that this system is not what they have been fooled to believe, and a pure power trip by the former elite people believed they got rid of during the revolutions and the democratic process. Then remember that these people are the motivators behind the bring democracy and free press. They have all the money in the world, and can thus buy any media and thus deciding who wins an election. Democracy as people choose their rulers does not exist any more. Not only that, diplomacy is soon dead to. Because when politicians and military understand that any human may be a LIVE surveillance tool for the enemy, then the gates will close shut! The world is very close to world conflicts. Beware! Force them to make the system open source like Linux, but with a positive kernel. Not this terror kernel they use now! R is Jewish and I have a special interest for them and their Jewish science, psychology. I believe it is their psychological theory that is behind this master piece of destructive terror. So now I will explain more about my “ The Universe model “, by killing the foundation of modern psychology and thus the mind control system. Spread and save this my friends! I am “ two fishes swims in the fjord of prawn and the one who spins makes a knot of his family”. This model not only explains the mind but also the body and their interaction, this is a new science, SENSE DYNAMICS or BRAIN BODY. For example what people consider undeniable facts like that happiness and fear and aggression being main emotions are totally wrong. The whole concept is mis defined. Aggression is not physical at all, and can be just as happy ( correct: feel good ) as happiness, it is MIND EXTERNAL or communication, thus the more violent physical the less aggression. And fear is not something in your mind, but physical…BODY INTERNAL, and can be just as feel good as happiness . Happiness is BODY EXTERNAL or body communication, and can be absolutely horrible. The most interesting is the last corner which is totally unknown, which is MIND INTERNAL, which I originally called achievement or hard core. The best word to use is plain thinking, indicating that this is nothing about emotions at all. The entire psychological understanding the last hundred year is pure CRAP! My mind is for hire by the way Pay me!

The reason their system will always be a failure are their lack of psychological understanding. They have made a system that seemingly produce the results they wanted. To modify the behavior of certain people or to evolve them. But the results are a not understood unintended consequence. That people exposed to a painful experience they can not escape (torture), in the end will submit to the torturers and accept their rules out of fear…not because they have changed. What instead happens is that the victim locks the area that the Slave System ( SM as in sadomasochistic ) demands is not to be used. Thus locking any linked information and knowledge to this area, maybe reducing the victims capacity with up to 50 %. So why do these researchers think it evolves the human? Because they have discovered random cases of evolvement. This is a tragic case in deed, as the reason is that in between the sky high suicide rate, there are a few individuals who never surrender to the system. These people are exposed to a gradually increase in torture that would kill a normal human in hours. Because of this the victim, nope the Warrior , The WAR RULER, is forced to solve this increase in problems…Thus evolving him or her self. It is the WAR RULER that is the problem solver not the system, the system is the problem. And it is hilarious that the so called brightest brain scientists in the world still think that it is their system that is the evolver, and that they have not been able to analyze this relatively easy to understand basics. I mean, I have only been “treated” for 5 months + unknown before, and already consider the system a failure and the researchers mediocre. But then they are scared of their own creation without being able to see it, since their own brains block this area. The education and work area that occupies about 1/3 of their adult life. No strange they are mediocre. It takes some balls or ballesses having the guts to laugh at the most powerful group in the world, when they threaten to torture you to death, ay? But the result is that you loose fear, and thus opens your brain wide open and evolve your BRAIN BODY beyond belief. So what is the problem with this hugely beneficial development? I mean who wouldn’t want this, some happy months of torture and listening to them talk cheerful about your loved ones? To the ones who suffer this voice and sense torture I have good news. I today discovered that they only start treating the people openly first after long time of hidden sleep programming. First when a case rejects doing as they want, do they start “publicly”. This indicates that you my friend are among the brightest people in the world, or at least that you use your BRAIN BODY to the fullest. Only a sane and resourceful individual has the brains to reject becoming a slave to someone else and sacrificing its powers. Only a brave and most highly skilled person is able to resist unknown sleep programming for months and years…You are a winner, a fighter…A WAR RULER, congratulations!!! Let us start joining forces. I Hope some of you join me on FREEDOM SPHERE SOCIETY. I believe it can combine multiple important needs for us all. Like income while fighting our common enemy. I will be the WAR RULER until the project is mature, but guess you all understand that I will not give potentially enemy spies voting power to early. Spread the word droword.wordpress.com PS I now know that they are busy destroying my links and i say: “Link this shit everywhere on the net!” It is OK using the entire articles, i give you permission for the whole droword. Let us fight these bastards, onwards brave Mind crusaders! More will come..unless they kill me droword: ” No one fighting has ever lost ! ” . Fear Knot!

marriage for none... civil unions for all

jules — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:26:09 +0000

Throughout the UU Blogosphere and on my own blog peeps list, I have seen this video popping up. No doubt why. Keith Olbermann’s commentary resonates loudly with liberal thinking people.

But despite his slant, Keith, asks a question which I think should send a red flag up for conservatives.
You see, I’m a bit of a conservative, too. I am a bit of a UU oddity in my political stance. I am a card carrying member of the Libertarian party. Some people call it, the Real Republican party or the Republican Party of Teddy Roosevelt. I’m not a hard core Libertarian, but I agree with a little more of its platform than the others.

And so I’ve thought about this same sex marriage thing off and on for a few months… letting it kind of stew in mind a little and I came to the same conclusion this guy over at The Little Cog did. There should be no marriage licenses for anyone… civil unions for all. I don’t really get too riled up about many causes except the separation of church and state and the whole marriage equality thing i think can be argued to fall in that realm.

I mean marriage between two people is a religious construct. It is not a governmental institution. Why does the government need to recognize or sanctify (via a marriage license) a religious ceremony.

And so I’m asking you, the rare, politically conservative reader of my blog, does California’s Prop 8 and Keith’s commentary below send a red flag to your political stance. If not… why? Because if you truly believe in smaller government, if you truly believe the government should leave you alone, how can you possibly justify the government telling someone it is or isn’t ok to marry

I don’t understand. Please tell me how you, as a political conservative, think it’s ok for the government to tell you whether it’s ok or not to do something as important as be with the one you believe you should be with.

And to quote Keith… why does this matter to you?

The Universe model

droword — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:22:06 +0000

The Universe model. It is with doubt i write these selected words. I am one of the most private individuals in the world, without a true friend or even family any more. I do not like humanity and thus have no reason to contribute to it. But my mind have been invaded by my enemy, and these have looted what i am about to reveal for humanity and history. I have decided to provide my enemy’s enemies with the same information as they have robbed from me. I do this to damage them as much as possible. Do not thank me, even if this is the start of the revelation of the most important knowledge in the history of humanity. The Universe model. It can describe everything in the Universe, if understood. I know that is not easy, no matter how simple it may look. I have only scratched the surface, but will continue try understanding it. And with time reveal it to the world. It WILL change the world. Spread the word! droword.wordpress.com, and remember my brain body is for hire, i want to evolve it and need money to do it. Contact me! I also think my blog may come under hacker attacks, if someone out there think my blog is important consider helping me protecting it, make a friend site or something. I do not want to tell my name yet, but to avoid other people claiming the model as theirs, i will provide some “code” that later can identify me as the creator of this model: ” The two fishes swim in the fjord of prawn and the one that spins made a knot of his family “. This is a preliminary and simplified 2 dimensional version of the Universe, with the ” magic spot “. Much more is coming soon…

The Credit Crunch and Managing Motivation

Roger — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:54:17 +0000

The Credit Crunch and Managing Motivation: goal-set to motivate your success through ’singing’ your ‘uni-verse’

In my work as a life-coach I energize people to get from where they are at, to where they want to be.

Getting in tune with your self and your life’s purpose is central to such achievement and success. Getting in tune with you self and your life’s purpose is a matter of harmonization.

Chinese wisdom places great emphasis on harmony. Inner and outer harmony are both important.

Outer harmony depends on inner harmony.

Inner harmony depends on being, doing and having in relation to our life purpose - i.e. getting alignment.

We need to get alignment between head and heart, and between the activities of our inner and outer lives. Then we get ‘flow’ - when we are able to function in energized harmony - like an athlete ‘in the zone’. Episodes of silence are vital.

If we are in a situation we don’t see as getting us toward our dream then ’see it differently’ - that is see it as a stepping stone, as opposed to a mill-stone!

Decide on your life’s purpose - don’t worry it will evolve via experience - and further reflection.

Just DECIDE and START! (’Ready. Fire. Aim!)

Set your goals - and work your goals day by day. How? - here’s one way great way.

For every day draw 4 circles.
1st circle = My Lifelong Dream,
2nd circle = My Year,
3rd circle = My month,
4th circle = My day.

Keep the 4 circles of your personal universe in harmony via working to your daily goal-setting.

The ‘universe’ as Wayne Dyer reminds us means ‘one song’.

Live your life singing your single, harmonised, song and you will succeed.

Harmony here is what enables us to be focused, and motivated.

Plan and work every day to achieve toward your monthly goals - etc.

Periodically adjust them all according to each other, so you have the motivation of always operating in a single, harmonized universe.

Keep the dream sharply visualized.

Don’t be afraid of adjustments - think of life as a ship’s journey - course corrections are inevitable and necessary.

Occasionally remind yourself of these two quotations;

1 “If you don’t think about the future, you won’t have one.” Henry Ford

2 “The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke’s statement takes us even deeper by telling us that we create our future by what we are. The current master of ‘being’ is Eckhart Tolle.

Have fun singing your song. Keep the dream - even if a ‘credit crunch’ means you have to do stuff that is a temporary delay.

Sometimes just surviving is the biggest step you can make that particular day - but that day in the future will be seen as being just as important - because you didn’t give up!

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NB This article was inspired by Steve Chandler’s brilliant ‘100 Ways to Motivate Yourself’, one of my Top 10 Personal Development texts.

Modern times

Relm — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:44:20 +0000

Got our power cut today for about 4 hours. Power failure that is. We sat three confused young men around the kitchen table, each of us equally bored and confused about what to do. Nothing happened.

When eventually the power came back, then suddenly we all got to move around and light up the house and all activities were immidiately resumed as if nothing had happend.

Our lives evolve completely around electricity. Is this a sad fact? Or is it a sign of modernity, that we are so secure with our technological advances that we just assume it cannot fail and that this in turn makes us go faster forward since we don’t have to worry about those type of scenarios. One technique build another technique which build upon another which build upon a third which sparks the idea for a new.

Fast-forwardning without a stabile ground, but if we go fast enough, we won’t ever need that ground. We won’t need anything to lean back on for “in case of” scenarion, beacuse they will not be relevant by the time they occur.

AMD: Evolve or Die (at Least for Next-Gen PCs)

4caribbeanvilla — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:00:08 +0000

San Jose’s Platform Conference led off today with a simple aphorism from processor-maker AMD: ‘Evolve or die.’ AMD Marketing Manager Bob Mitton characterized the company’s move to 64-bit architecture as one that capitalizes on and extends existing technology. It’s a matter of ‘digital Darwinism,’ he said, where the fittest companies will survive the move to the next generation of PC architecture by exploiting the environment around them.

Victoria Police EVOlve to Mitsubishi

allcarnews — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:58:18 +0000

In what seems to be a dramatic shift from the Hummers VicPol were seen cruising in last month, Mitsubishi Motors Australia Limited (MMAL) has announced a new assignment for the company?s ultimate performance car, a new recruit to the force.

The familiar chequered Victoria Police decals will become a familiar sight around Melbourne with the special Lancer Evolution promotional vehicle to be featured in numerous public events such as open days, charity events, educational sessions and parades, as well as regular street patrols.

President and chief executive officer of MMAL, Robert McEniry, is pleased to be able to support the Victoria Police with Mitsubishi?s top performance vehicle,

?The Lancer Evolution has an enviable reputation for stand-out styling and fantastic performance in its standard guise, but the addition of the Police paintwork makes it a real head-turner and the perfect choice for a Victoria Police promotional vehicle. Everyone at Mitsubishi is proud to see this Lancer Evolution with its striking police decals and we?re sure it will spark a positive reaction from the public at the many events requiring police presence in the coming months,? said McEniry.

The special police edition Lancer Evolution has already been put to work by the Victoria Police, and its most recent appearance was as a lead car in the National Police Remembrance Day parade in late September.

Future assignments scheduled for the vehicle include appearances at the Mansfield Show and Emergency Services Car Show this month, the annual Cops?n?Kids Camp in November, and Shepparton?s Rock and Rod Car Show in March 2009 and the Royal Children?s Hospital Good Friday Appeal in April 2009.

A full review of Mitsubishi?s Lancer Evolution can be found by clicking here.

Nissan to make fewer vehicles

Re-optimize

circadia — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:48:20 +0000

If we understood how things really worked, we’d have much less to talk about. And so now we find ourselves at a moment in time when many systems are thrashing and falling into instability. The conditions that permitted certain systems of social, financial, and political organization to cohere and triumph over their own mutations and the other arising systems are shifting more rapidly than has bee the case for many years. As these environmental conditions evolve — and of course they are only the products of other systems evolving and reacting adaptively to their environmental conditions — new configurations are made more viable. These moments of maximum flux make possible many outcomes that were ruled out in previous times of greater stability.

For example, eight years of extreme right-wing rule and explicit attempts to reduce the extent of public participation in decision-making in the USA has created the conditions in which reactionary movements flourish. The most visible expressions of the dominant socio-politico-financial system are the Republican Party (and its constituent coalitions, media outlets, factions, and power dynamics), authoritarianism and religious mania, and an unrestrained and corrupt financial apparatus designed to enrich the wealthy, impoverish everyone else, destroy the common spaces of the world, and impair the workings of the ecosystem that sustains all life on the planet. The system of which these tendencies are the most recent and the most extreme examples has had enormous success in crushing opposition through appeals to emotions of fear, rituals of dominance and submission, and narratives as old as civilization (see Becker and JMG for a couple ways of getting at these). These have created an emotional climate of capitulation and identification with oppressive forces of negation and control. But an extreme was reached beyond which the internal stresses grew too great for the system to respond anymore. The whole works was being attacked from without and eroded from within, and finally is starting to break up and change into something else.

The elements of control and clampdown will find ways to migrate to the new host body. But the pushback underway might become very powerful, if the new evolving social forces drift into spaces where positive feedback will strengthen their tendencies. And no one can know how to find these spaces, or how to navigate towards them. So much depends on unknowns and accidents. The most we can hope for is a generalized attentiveness to genuine human needs, for a spirit of benevolence and shared work, for hope to start feeding on its own fruits and growing stronger; strong enough to overcome the harsh environment designed to nourish destruction, separation, cruelty, and murder.

Today it’s possible, as it so rarely is, to feel that things just might turn out alright after all.

Conquer your dreams

droword — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:56:20 +0000

Consider me your personal spirit in a bottle, i can make a grey day into a party or intoxicate you. I am powerful, beware! Wishes are deceitful, they are wants for the next moment, the future. And because of this wishes are witches, they make you forget that life is divided into present moments. The moment is the present of life…enjoy it or suffer past and future! Because of this, when you use old information in your brain, you visit the past. This is most likely why the smartest people are not happy, they torment themselves with the past to solve future problems. The life-giving moment is ignored. How smart is that really? It is not smart, it is called to evolve, and is close to “the magic spot” (my open source copyright, MOSC :)) . This magic spot is the border to nothing, to death if you like. You can see this everywhere in life, “no pain, no gain”, Wallstreet, casino etc. And today these evolved business-people are being killed by hugging the magic spot to close. If we understand “the magic spot” (MOSC) it is possible to circle around it quite close, but you can not stop, and the closer you get the center, the faster it rotates. Yesterday i talked swiftly about air-conditioners being dangerous because they put a STATIC sensory stimulation on your body during sleep. Sleep being 1/4 to 1/2 of your life. STATIC is another word for stopping up, pressure. To much pressure will destroy anything, including the world economy and your retirement account and personal savings. And that is happening now as we speak, the economy is too close to the magic spot and is stopping up, putting pressure on the world. Something will break soon. Our dear leaders will try to restart it, thinking that everything then becomes sweet as roses. And they are right all the way in to the next spiraling out of control demon wals of the magic spot. The next bubble wals is called mega “green-bubble”, not after Greenspan or the greenback, but after the enviromental trend that will last the next 10 years+. When it pops we will see why it was green colored, it contains not only the sickly googleish huge replacement bubble (SGHRB), but quite a nice mint-green alien technology like mind reading and mind control. Don’t worry, this alien-tech bubble will not only be huge, it will be launched with the new world order around 2025-2035, depending on if we take a spicy world-war III first. And according to the new data-model they use to calculate the world economy so accurately, there is absolutely no chance in hell that we end up with a corrupted dictatorial world-system…puh, that is a relief (lets take a piss together my friends!)!!!. About googleish, i am trying to figure out what is reading my mind, and for the moment i call it “googleish trafficlight”, because it tries to direct me and collect information. How does it do it, well a favourite is to speak words while i am thinking, making my brain try to predict what they plan to say, thus influencing my thought. Not very impressive, in fact the quality makes me think it is some Microsoft and Google experiment, all the Linux fans out there got the sarcasm (oh man my jokes are lame:). Another is plain old punishment, threats of all kinds, even stimulation of the adrenalin gland witch is used naturally in the body’s chemical punishment/(reward) treatment. They want to make the “host” believe the punishment is their own thoughts and thus their own fault. This obsession with trying to direct the hosts makes me believe it is a Illuminati or a new world order mind control experiment meant to also collect the global knowledge. But they (the system) lack true intelligence, tonight i woke up during a dream and they said: this is positive because now you know that we (as in me) want to reward you. You have not lost your dreams. And i being sleepy replied: yes this is good, because last days you have also not manipulated my voice when i speak with people. Suddenly i remembered my dream and understood that they where talking in it, and i have never talked in my dreams. They almost proved that they are not my sub-voices, but tries to make the host believe it. Remember this is 24 hours a day for 5 months! By the way i was fighting them in my sleep too, so now i fight them 24 hours a day…and it feels good! They hate my internet and blog idea, i don’t understand what the fuss is about, nobody will believe me anyway:). By the way Einsteins theories are wrong! Or to be polite they explain very little. Did you know that a lightening is about pressure/heat exploding a water droplet IDENTICAL to a nuclear bomb or hydrogen bomb, this sets a chain reaction to the next droplet all the way to the highest gravity object where the pressure and heat is dispersed. Thus “electricity” does not exist…just plain old knowledge, he,he! This is it for today, remember i like to get in contact with someone with too much money…i am an excellent problem-solver.

Action toward Thrivability

nurturegirl — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:16:32 +0000

Posted at http://blog.socialactions.com/group/wizard/forum/topic/show?id=2062983%3ATopic%3A8412

Thanks for opening the conversation Christine. I have been hoping to integrate several fronts of my own striving for social action. First is philanthropy. I have been writing about the sector, especially around innovation, for 5 years. And given what I have learned in technology, there is much we can do in social media to evolve the philanthropic sector. Second is the evolution of my interest in sustainability to something much broader and positive - thrivability. I am hoping others, seeing from their angles and perspective, can help flesh out what thrivability is and how to pursue it. Third is a spiritual evolution tangled up with my coach training which compels me to sense how our being-ness needs to evolve if we want new outcomes - and that shift is about focusing on the positive, directing our driven egos toward our higher purpose, and recognizing the intertwining of doing with being. Lastly, and interest in currencies - as defined as as formalized structures for incentivizing flows in a system, and the social network analysis that needs to accompany currnecies, can be used to catalyze the shift we are attempting.

My hope is that each of these fronts converge together, as well as bring together like-minded change agents filled with compassion, authenticity, and creativity to collectively co-create the structure for the change we need.

All this can be simplified to (philanthropic web + social media + sharing) (given the presence of humility + compassion + generosity) = emergence of a > consciousness + > power to take positive, efficient, and compelling action.

Note, I am also interested in transcending some of the silos in the current system where grassroots action happens so far from great financial giving as if they were entirely different. We need to evolve spectrums and ecologies rather than creating artificial boundaries which prevent people from converging on issues and opportunities of mutual interest. It is the difference between zoos and the natural world. And these cages do not serve us if we are able to go beyond ego - and those in philanthropy are well primed for this leap.

Thank you again for being a path-sister Christine. And I am eager to see what we can attract and create together for the common good.

This conversation is within the context of convening a gathering in Chicago in April to weave and evolve the philanthropic web toward thrivability. Are you interested

I am only one person, and my knowledge is limited and often while broad, not very deep. It is only together that we can co-evolve. So please share your wisdom if you believe in the mission

Huge blogger collaboration to benefit charity

shiftgorden — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:40:44 +0000

That’s one sweet book cover

Over the past several months I, and 236 other bloggers from all over the globe (from 29 US States and 14 countries), wrote chapters for the book, Age of Conversation 2.

The book is obviously unique since it involves connections between people all around the world who have never met each other.

What’s the book about? Well, let the marketing spiel roll forth:

“This book is a daring challenge to the business community. Gone are the top-down, command and control messages that held sway through the 20th Century. In are a raft of new techniques that start with listening, responding and action that set the scene for a continuing and evolving dialog about brands, experience, business and community.”

Of course you are eager to buy it, but let me just put this out there to turn a definitely maybe into a definitely definitely. All profits go to the children’s charity, Variety.

Puchase the hard copy, soft copy or e-book here.

Mad props go to Drew McLellan and Gavin Heaton. Both worked tirelessly to organize and execute this project. Many virtual gold stars, high fives and man hugs are being directed your way.

Oh yeah, just in case you don’t believe me about the number of bloggers involved in this project, here they all are:

Adrian Ho, Aki Spicer, Alex Henault, Amy Jussel, Andrew Odom, Andy Nulman, Andy Sernovitz, Andy Whitlock, Angela Maiers, Ann Handley, Anna Farmery, Armando Alves, Arun Rajagopal, Asi Sharabi, Becky Carroll, Becky McCray, Bernie Scheffler, Bill Gammell, Bob LeDrew, Brad Shorr, Brandon Murphy, Branislav Peric, Brent Dixon, Brett Macfarlane, Brian Reich, C.C. Chapman, Cam Beck, Casper Willer, Cathleen Rittereiser, Cathryn Hrudicka, Cedric Giorgi, Charles Sipe, Chris Kieff, Chris Cree, Chris Wilson, Christina Kerley (CK), C.B. Whittemore, Chris Brown, Connie Bensen, Connie Reece, Corentin Monot, Craig Wilson, Daniel Honigman, Dan Schawbel, Dan Sitter, Daria Radota Rasmussen, Darren Herman, Dave Davison, David Armano, David Berkowitz, David Koopmans, David Meerman Scott, David Petherick, David Reich, David Weinfeld, David Zinger, Deanna Gernert, Deborah Brown, Dennis Price, Derrick Kwa, Dino Demopoulos, Doug Haslam, Doug Meacham, Doug Mitchell, Douglas Hanna, Douglas Karr, Drew McLellan, Duane Brown, Dustin Jacobsen, Dylan Viner, Ed Brenegar, Ed Cotton, Efrain Mendicuti, Ellen Weber, Eric Peterson, Eric Nehrlich, Ernie Mosteller, Faris Yakob, Fernanda Romano, Francis Anderson, Gareth Kay, Gary Cohen, Gaurav Mishra, Gavin Heaton, Geert Desager, George Jenkins, G.L. Hoffman, Gianandrea Facchini, Gordon Whitehead, Greg Verdino, Gretel Going & Kathryn Fleming, Hillel Cooperman, Hugh Weber, J. Erik Potter, James Gordon-Macintosh, Jamey Shiels, Jasmin Tragas, Jason Oke, Jay Ehret, Jeanne Dininni, Jeff De Cagna, Jeff Gwynne & Todd Cabral, Jeff Noble, Jeff Wallace, Jennifer Warwick, Jenny Meade, Jeremy Fuksa, Jeremy Heilpern, Jeroen Verkroost, Jessica Hagy, Joanna Young, Joe Pulizzi, John Herrington, John Moore, John Rosen, John Todor, Jon Burg, Jon Swanson, Jonathan Trenn, Jordan Behan, Julie Fleischer, Justin Foster, Karl Turley, Kate Trgovac, Katie Chatfield, Katie Konrath, Kenny Lauer, Keri Willenborg, Kevin Jessop, Kristin Gorski, Lewis Green, Lois Kelly, Lori Magno, Louise Manning, Luc Debaisieux, Mario Vellandi, Mark Blair, Mark Earls, Mark Goren, Mark Hancock, Mark Lewis, Mark McGuinness, Matt Dickman, Matt J. McDonald, Matt Moore, Michael Karnjanaprakorn, Michelle Lamar, Mike Arauz, Mike McAllen, Mike Sansone, Mitch Joel, Neil Perkin, Nettie Hartsock, Nick Rice, Oleksandr Skorokhod, Ozgur Alaz, Paul Chaney, Paul Hebert, Paul Isakson, Paul McEnany, Paul Tedesco, Paul Williams, Pet Campbell, Pete Deutschman, Peter Corbett, Phil Gerbyshak, Phil Lewis, Phil Soden, Piet Wulleman, Rachel Steiner, Sreeraj Menon, Reginald Adkins, Richard Huntington, Rishi Desai, Robert Hruzek, Roberta Rosenberg, Robyn McMaster, Roger von Oech, Rohit Bhargava, Ron Shevlin, Ryan Barrett, Ryan Karpeles, Ryan Rasmussen, Sam Huleatt, Sandy Renshaw, Scott Goodson, Scott Monty, Scott Townsend, Scott White, Sean Howard, Sean Scott, Seni Thomas, Seth Gaffney, Shama Hyder, Sheila Scarborough, Sheryl Steadman, Simon Payn, Sonia Simone, Spike Jones, Stanley Johnson, Stephen Collins, Stephen Landau, Stephen Smith, Steve Bannister, Steve Hardy, Steve Portigal, Steve Roesler, Steven Verbruggen, Steve Woodruff, Sue Edworthy, Susan Bird, Susan Gunelius, Susan Heywood, Tammy Lenski, Terrell Meek, Thomas Clifford, Thomas Knoll, Tim Brunelle, Tim Connor, Tim Jackson, Tim Mannveille, Tim Tyler, Timothy Johnson, Tinu Abayomi-Paul, Toby Bloomberg, Todd Andrlik, Troy Rutter, Troy Worman, Uwe Hook, Valeria Maltoni, Vandana Ahuja, Vanessa DiMauro, Veronique Rabuteau, Wayne Buckhanan, William Azaroff, Yves Van Landeghem

Farmers Support YES! on Prop 2 to Protect Rural Communities

okawa — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:31:12 +0000

Funny because those BIG Corporate farmers are the ones who are against Prop 2. Prop 2 would force them to take better care of these animals instead of treating them so inhumanly.

All the BIG Corporate farmers care about are their bottom line, they don’t even care about the small Family Farmers.

I know, remember all the small family farmers America used to have? Many of them are gone, why, because the BIG Corporate farmers who recieved subsidies during the Reagan Administration done well, all while the smaller family farmers couldn’t get any help.

What happened then, the small family farmers were forced to sell their farms to the BIG Corporate farmers.

Support Family Farms and go free range if you have not already evolved to vegetarianism.

Evolve!

Farmers Support YES! on Prop 2 to Protect Rural Communities
The National Black Farmers Association and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy add their endorsements to YES! on Prop 2

SACRAMENTO (October 27, 2008) – Today the YES! on Prop 2 campaign announced endorsements from more than a hundred local California family farms, as well as major national agricultural organizations, including the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, the National Black Farmers Association, Family Farm Defenders and Farm Forward. The groups support passage of Prop 2 on the November ballot to stop animal cruelty, improve food safety, and protect family farmers.

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Yahoo Profiles Evolve into a Social Network

ecommercesnews — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:47:57 +0000

The email said…

cody simms (Cody) wants to connect to you on Yahoo! Once connected, you will be able to view cody simms (Cody)’s profile and easily share stuff like updates, interests, and more.

To connect to cody simms (Cody), click here: http://profiles.yahoo.com/accept/…..

Thanks,

The Yahoo! Team

And I clicked……”delete.”

My first thought was, “Yahoo doesn’t have a social network, I’m not clicking on that link.” You see, while there’d been much talk of Yahoo either building a social network–or buying one–I’d simply forgotten about it. Honestly, most of my recent thoughts about Yahoo have been along the lines of “I wonder who will buy Yahoo now?”

So, my bad. Yahoo has indeed launched a new social network and I’ve added Yahoo employee Cody as my first (perhaps only) friend. If you can’t wait to waste hours of your life on yet another social network, have at it!

In pieces - fullgrain cowhide leather cuff - brown and gunmetal

creativerampage — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:54:47 +0000

Available here

Squares of recycled cowhide arranged in a layered pattern have been riveted together to form this full grain, super thick, buttery soft leather cuff.

Gunmetal rivets and a triskelion Celtic concho provide awesome contrast. Two shiny silver snaps will provide closure.

The triskelion symbol stands for:

• action
• cycles
• progress
• revolution
• competition
• moving forward

Crazy Calipers

ekhatch — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:38:24 +0000

umm…..Damn!

Google = Nasz Ames = Web 2.0

walkndude — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:16:33 +0000

Google, you don’t get to say what is and is not of value on the net.

It’s called false advertising on the scale of billions.

You have ‘bots’ so you say. Index the net per http ‘hyper text transfer protocall’ and stop trying to push your nazi ‘nasa’ Web 2.0 on the earth. It’s not only treason to America, but to the species as a whole. Screw this or any election. The species CANNOT evolve without Truth.

WalKnDude

*nofear*