We spend 2% of world Gross Product or watch world Gross Product decline 30%. But hey, no problem, it is just our children and grand children that will have to suffer, and die.
Imagine it's 2035 and you're driving into San Francisco on the Golden Gate Bridge. You look out toward the ocean and see ships waiting in a line while a giant metal apparatus closes off the mouth of the Bay, stopping the incoming high tide from flooding the low-lying urban waterfront.
Gandhi was asked, in all seriousness, 'Gandhi, what do you think of western civilization?' He replied in all seriousness, "In think it would be a very good idea." He wasn't kidding. " Addiction to more and more over consumption is NOT civilization, but rather, the height of Un-Civilization." SL "The greatest poverty I've seen in all the world is the poverty of the spirit in the United States." Teresa of Calcutta.
An American woman is more than seven times as likely as one in Ireland to die from pregnancy-related causes and her maternal death risk is 15 times that in Greece.
OSLO (Reuters) - Quickening climate change in the Arctic including a thaw of Greenland's ice could raise world sea levels by up to 1.6 meters by 2100, an international report showed on Tuesday.Such a
Can the "birthers" ever be convinced that Barack Obama was born in America and is eligible to serve as president?Probably not, according to one prominent psychology professor and other political
Forty years after presiding over the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, Phil Zimbardo has reinvented himself as a social entrepreneur, leading a new project that will attempt to turn the Stanford Prison Experiment and other studies of the dark side o
"Devote your life to the Global Neediest and you'll get crucified - mother, dad, husband, wife, children, 'friends,' job, home.... I have. Sorry I waited so long." SL
Study demonstrates clear connection between warming and rising extinction rates of the American pika for the first time, with implications for many species By Katherine Bagley, SolveClimate News Scientists
So much is at stake, I'll speak plainly, and clinically. I watched the first few minutes only, wasn't going to watch at all cuz I refuse to divert my heart from averting Global Climate Environmental Genocide, but our dialog last night was so important I decided to take a look. If, unlike Gandhi, Jesus, MLK, Eleanor Roosevelt, Teresa of Calcutta, Wael Ghonim... one believes that man is subhuman - mind (easily duplicated on computer now), and flesh, fully common with lower life forms - then the man in the video would be quite helpful.
If one believes that the purpose of life is pleasure, getting along, pleasant relations, sex... this man would be very helpful.
To those few, such as those mentioned above, that view that man in Heart (by whatever name) this man is like the Dr., or virtually all psychologists that do the equivalent of - 'yes, I know that your alcoholism is giving you headaches, but I know how to dramatically reduce these, and to make you feel good most of the time,' thereby normalizing the drinking.
It is such a pity that what I've said above sounds so moralistic, so judgemental, cuz it is not. It is clinical. I had a strong hunch, as did Gandhi, Tolstoy, others, that Jesus was the greatest clinical teacher of how to regain our clinical humanity, that ever there has been. But it was nowhere in my mind to live as He taught and lived, tho King, Gandhi, et al were always very much in my mind, studies, etc. Well, I Live what they taught and exemplified now. I BELIEVE NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING MYSTICAL, OF ANY SORT. Your universe, my universe is your nervous system, and my nervous system, respectfully. Clinically, our own nervous system is our Absolute Universe, but one of many options, one of two primary parallel universes, pretty much universally exclusive - the Universe of the Flesh, that to my shock, I now look back on as an EXPERIENTIAL subhuman Hell, and the Universe of Heart that totally and absolutely I EXPERIENCE every waking second as Heaven, Nirvana.
I don't chose to EXPERIENCE these two alternate universes this way, any more that I choose to EXPERIENCE eating as more positive than starving.
You know by now that in the right circumstance, that is, when two or more Hearts are open to one another to some degree, I find words of great value, but less than 10% the value of Example, and Environment. One can move in the direction of Heart, from Head / Flesh, through talking, mental discipline (Gandhi), but it soooooooooooo slow, soooooooo contrived. For example, one can try to awaken Love (the OPPOSITE of Lust) within another by talking to them, giving them theories, practices, disciplines... OR, one can expose them to a baby, a puppy, etc., or more particularly, a baby, or puppy, or baby bird... THAT DESPERATELY NEEDS THEIR HELP IN AN EMERGENCY. My experience and knowledge of things is that just as with every healthy cell in our bodies, we exist to sense and respond to (Love) the NEEDS of those around us, and that introduced into an environment, focused on an environment, of MASSIVE HUMAN NEEDS is infinitely more likely, sure, and infinitely FASTER as restoring one to Health / Heart / Humanity than any and all wonderful Teachings ever.
I've been asked to speak at local DC universities to Peace classes. After thinking of it I declined. The chance of reaching Here at the Vigil, a place of OBVIOUS SERVICE/LOVE in action, is infinitely greater that traveling to some disgustingly over-privileged university classroom devoid of any signs of Love where my ONLY tool to help them is words.
"Example is not the only thing in influencing people, it is the only thing." Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Laureate.