Category Archives: social sciences

Breathing Death into Life

Sometimes I run out of words for it. How many ways can America shake her fist in the face of God? I have no problem with just governments, even secular atheist governments, so long as they are just. Ours has … Continue reading

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One Way or Another, It Will Be War

While it remains just possible Israel could still decide to attack Iran, even with nukes, it seems to have faded for the time being. Instead, we have saber rattling at Syria, and actual war preparations for Lebanon. There’s something about … Continue reading

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Domestic Warfare Coming

The War on Drugs serves only one purpose: To insure the the price of the product stays high, and trade is very profitable. That way the CIA can get the highest dollar for their import trade from around the world. … Continue reading

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The Other Side: 7 – Ripeness

There is no success, no failure. There is only commitment and persistence in the process. There are no real goals, no winning or losing, only engaging your imperatives. There is no frustration because you don’t expect to have control over … Continue reading

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The Other Side: 6 – Bondage, Baggage and Wealth

As you come to know your self better, and the imperatives which drive your conscience, you begin seeking ways to break from commitments which don’t match. The process tends to be quite painful for most, particularly at first. The single … Continue reading

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The Other Side: 5 – Process

There is no goal; there is only process. As commonly conceived, there is actually no such thing as “objective reality.” We can approach it, but the closer we come, the more uncertain it becomes. In Particle Physics, for example, we … Continue reading

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The Other Side: 4 – Take Time Away

In some ways, the prison itself is a living entity. It is most certainly composed of living beings, since no system of life can organize itself without life. A fundamental defining characteristic of the prison is denying that it lives. … Continue reading

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The Other Side: 3 – It’s Personal

Hard sciences pretend, at least, to follow a clearly logical process. Most people don’t understand the whole idea. They get the part about sampling data, organizing, and reaching certain hypotheses. They don’t get the proving part. Hypotheses are tested, not … Continue reading

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The Other Side: 2 – Capacities

Recent articles point to the notion humans as they are will likely evolve. If not, surely science will find enhancements, ways we can meld with the seemingly ideal intellectual capacities of the computers on which we have come to depend … Continue reading

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The Other Side: 1 – The Prison

We don’t belong here. We weren’t designed for this, but we are stuck in it. Nobody escapes without first embracing this. The English language, and the entire thought process behind it, lacks the facility for handling this discussion properly. So … Continue reading

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