By topernic on April 24, 2010
Image via Wikipedia I finally saw the movie “Avatar”. My first thoughts, of course, consisted of wondering if most people realize that the premise is not fiction. And that it still continues. Every record known to us about any “civilization” shows the “civilized” people dominating, killing, and exploiting the “uncivilized” for their resources. From the [...]
Posted in Awakening, Environment | Tagged Avatar, Derrick Jensen, Earth, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, James Cameron, Native American, Stanley Diamond
By topernic on March 19, 2010
First, I’d like you to set aside all affiliations. You’re not white, you’re not black, you’re not any other race. You’re not German, not American, not Palestinian, not Israeli, not any nationality. You’re not a Christian, you’re not a Muslim, you’re not a Buddhist, you’re not an atheist. You’re not a liberal or conservative or [...]
Posted in Awakening | Tagged Anger, Atheism, Buddhism, Christian, consciousness, Israel, Muslim, Religion and Spirituality
By topernic on March 12, 2010
An issue I have with atheism is one of reason. Atheists “reason” that the world would be a better place if we drop our belief in god and use reason. Well, isn’t that kind of what Hitler did? Can reason cure maniacal racists? What if the reasoning makes perfectly good sense – but it’s wrong? [...]
Posted in Awakening | Tagged Atheism, Buddhism, Government, Human, Opposing Views, religion, Religion and Spirituality
By topernic on February 13, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Human Child The awe and wonder they experience at every little thing. Do you still feel it? The love and trust they have. Do you still have it? Young children are your greatest teachers for rediscovering who you are if you will only open yourself to their experience. You are a child. [...]
Posted in Awakening | Tagged culture, Education, Human nature, think
By topernic on January 30, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Hello fellow terrestial travelers. I must warn you before you read any further that I have a potty mouth. If your sensibilities might be offended by this, then don’t read any further. Besides, if you are the type who have such sensibilities, then you probably aren’t open enough to breaking through your [...]
Posted in Awakening, Environment | Tagged Add new tag, Air pollution, Cultural history, culture, economics, Environment, pollution, society
By topernic on January 29, 2010
Here’s another example showing that it doesn’t matter who’s in office if they are part of the ‘system’. The Washington Post’s Dana Priest today reports that “U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people.” That’s no [...]
Posted in Awakening, Liberty? | Tagged National security, politics, Terrorism, War/Conflict
By topernic on January 26, 2010
Something else that should not surprise us. Antibiotics are overused because of our need to turn every single industry into a gigantic monster to ‘lower costs’. Read it and weep. Thanks to the overprescription of antibiotics in medical settings and the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in concentrated animal feeding operations (or CAFOs), we’ve aided the [...]
Posted in Health | Tagged Antibiotics, Factory farming, Health/Medical/Pharmaceuticals
By topernic on January 26, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Well you can only say ‘duuhh’ to that question. Does anyone seriously think we are not poisoning ourselves? Autism is just one of many. Here’s the rest of the story “It irritates me to no end that we still argue over whether there is an increase in incidence,” says Michael Merzenich, Ph.D., [...]
Posted in Environment, Health | Tagged Autism, Health/Medical/Pharmaceuticals, Michael Merzenich
By topernic on January 26, 2010
More food and health info. It’s all about shrimp this time. Not only is it unhealthy, but it wrecks holy hell on the ocean. Click here for the story After trawling destroys an ocean floor, the ecosystem often cannot recover for decades, if not centuries or millennia. This is particularly significant because 98 percent of [...]
Posted in Environment, Health | Tagged Fishing industry, Shrimp farm
By topernic on January 26, 2010
It’s health day! Several good items to read concerning your health today. This one focuses on the dairy industry. This is what is wrong with big business. Here’s the whole story Like feedlot beef cattle, dairy cows aren’t fed the diet nature intended for them and are instead pumped full of animal by-products and grains, [...]
Posted in Health | Tagged Dairy, Dairy cattle, Feedlot, Industrial agriculture
