Games of Life

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Monday, April 21, 2008

Look

There are choices we can make. I know it is not always that clear cut and I am the first to admit that life is way more complex than a simple binary choice between light and darkness. I still declare: I have a dream. A dream of peace and harmony. A dream of landscapes not marred by industry and war.... Sign in to see full entry.

Future Vision

The Northern Hemisphere has for a long time been seen by many Northerners as the "real" world where things of "importance" are happening. Al the "Great" men are from somewhere in the North. Fortunately we, the people born under the Southern Cross, know that that is an illusion made possible by the... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Notes on interpreting History

I know that my own and much of any reader here's personal activities are not noteworthy in history, but we can take our own actions as a starting point when thinking about history. I've just had coffee. No historian has taken note of that or would be interested in me drinking coffee. I'm telling you... Sign in to see full entry.

Odments or Od Mints?

I haven't listened to George Benson in ages but two of his songs just played in my internal sound-bank: Give me the night & Children are our future. In my stream of consciousness songs are never too far from the surface when I'm just letting things float through. Now it's Bob's "Give thanks and... Sign in to see full entry.

You can take me out of the jungle, but can you take the jungle out of me?

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AI vs Awareness

I may be a bit dumb, but I still do not get it that people heralded as the foremost thinkers of our time seem oblivious of the nature of awareness. I've just been watching some interviews with a top physicist. Another one that seems to think that consciousness and artificial intelligence are somehow... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

In the line of fire

If you do not mind putting yourself in the line of fire of religious dogmatists, oil magnates, biofuel from corn groupies, and other control freaks, join the call for this alternative: Future Food & Fuel Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, April 18, 2008

Magnetism

Has anybody thought of using the earths rotation as a giant generator. The magnetic fields around the earth are very similar to what we find around an array of magnets, such as used in your everyday generators used to generate electrical power by moving a winding of electrical conductors through a... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Socialist Republic?

I'm no expert on the subject, but here is my take on this based on the info available to me. Socialism can vary by degree. Countries where the bare essentials are controlled or at least regulated by the state and in which the government officials, including the President, are civil servants with... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

The Planets latest No1 Enemy Part 3

I almost forgot: The most important thing in life is to become an economic giant so that everybody can think you are really cool while they either freeze to death or think you are really hot while they burn to death depending on the direction the effects of ecological disaster takes. Sign in to see full entry.

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