Today,
Allow it to happen
Art by James Blackburn
Spirituality, stripped of religion, is the urge to connect with something that is often referred to as a higher power. Once you take the -isms out, that urge is what you're left with. I don't personally refer to the sense of connectivity as a higher power because that suggests that it is something that is separate from us. I don't believe in a deity that dictates morality. The reason for this is that what is considered moral has fluctuated over time and has never been the same all over the world. The one thing that every human - and indeed every living thing - has in common is the drive to survive. Our ethics and morality and thus or spirituality should be based on this drive. It has been shown time after time that cooperation supports life while competition destroys it. This cooperation, or connection, is my form of spirituality because it can be measured. Pondering the abstract - things that cannot be measured - is fun and intellectually stimulating but in the end it doesn't add up to the tangible. I am more so concerned with "Now that we're here, what do we do?", rather than "How did we get here?"
-Eric St. Pierre
Websites
WolframAlpha's goal is to take all the world's information, make it all easily assessable to everyone in the world, and make it testable and computable by everyone in the world. While this tool is, for the time being, strictly mathematical in nature, it is the basis of Jacque Fresco's Venus Project. With WolframAlpha we have the beginnings of a holistic system that utilizes the scientific method to arrive at solutions and decisions. In the future, a system like this would allow anyone to test hypotheses on better social systems and structural organization in general. In the Venus Project, if the result is a better way to do things, then that new way is adopted. The "better" way to do things is not voted on, but instead scientifically tested to determine it's worth. This is an example of what can be done.
Income inequality leads to poor physical and mental health, drug abuse, lower levels of education, imprisonment, and other undesirable social fallacies. This is true in human and nonhuman primate societies. Here is the proof.
Organic, automated farming. This is a glimpse into the future of food with a focus on health and abundance.
Articles
Read about Isabelle, the child who is unable to fear. Our society views this as a disorder - and it very well may be - but imagine if we all had this "disorder." Is this child sick, or has she evolved?
May 20th is Draw Muhammed Day. The purpose is to water down the pool of targets that Islamists have their jihads set on. It's just an image, get over it. If we can't laugh at ourselves how can we ever make this world a better place? Oh, and here's a link to images of Muhammad from Medieval Times (no, not the restaurant)- thanks to Steve Walker for the link.
Quotes
"States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions."
-Noam Chomsky
"For one who mindfully develop
Boundless loving-kindnessSeeing the destruction of clinging,
The fetters are worn away."
- Itivuttaka 1.27
Action Alerts
Friends,
For now, I am not aware of any volunteers organized to help clean Pensacola nor Navarre Beaches or wildlife. BP has said they are not accepting any volunteer help. Anyone wanting to help with oil slick clean-up in Orange Beach should contact captain_lori@yahoo.com . More info below. This morning I received word that two more leaks have been discovered, and an estimated five-times more oil is escaping than previously thought (more than 275,000 gallons per day). Remember to contact your local, state and federal representatives, and tell them we don’t want drilling off our coasts.
Thanks,
Tim Miller
Other Links of Interest
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