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Ron Amos
Salt Lake City, UT
Lived a long time, learned much, gained some wisdom.
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Ron commented on the article |Well long term it's the borrowing of money into circulation that creates the problems of poverty as that process rewards the rich financial class at the expense of the poor and middle classes. The last time the national debt was paid off entirely was during Jackson's second adminstration when he got rid of The Bank of the United States and issued money directly from the treasury. End the Fed and the problems can be solved, keep the Fed and the problems will continue to grow.
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Ron commented on the article |Your taking the subject out of context, tobacco in it's native context is in no way evil, in fact it's a great blessing.. Problem is the conquerors came to what is now called America, both continents, took the substance and used it as a narcotic as they spread it's use around the world. Now it a political issue which means that nothing said about it or the consequences of it's use can be trusted. It's in no way evil, you are operating from a confused and misunderstood abstraction so are many if not most of the people who are led by the anti-tobacco propaganda to get horrible sicknesses.
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Ron commented on the article |That's the problem Michael, we treat humans as if we were not a part of nature.. as if we were not a part of the earth.. It starts for us as western world view folks with Genesis in the Bible where humans are told to fill and subdue the earth to have dominion over every living thing this sets us apart as if we are not a part of the integrated wholeness of what is. That's a bad idea and it's the source of most human and ecological problems. It may be that our self consciousness is the self consciousness of the universe, it may be that we are the universe being aware of itself.
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Not necessarily hubris Michael.. a living organism is self organizing, the parts are each self directed though related to one another in an integrated functional unit. Big problem with meatspace education is the division of knowledge into compartmentalised segments with no obvious or necessary connections among them... leads children to scattered thinking, such scattered thinking leads to financial meltdowns like the current one because no one can gain a comprehensive knowledge how things work..
I said growing because that's what living things do, if I had said we are building or creating or making a brain for Gaia then that would be hubris because it would deny an obvious element of knowledge.
I have written about this here:
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R.R. good read, I am an old person myself in my 70s, I am a high school dropout. Education in the meat space world of the 1940s was mostly arguments from authority, government propaganda and religious non sequitors. So as soon as I could escape the schools, I thought of them as prisons of the spirit. My real education got started, until the invention of the internet I read on average a book a day, many days more then 1, I worked at hundreds of different jobs in a lot of different industries.. It was a glorious trip, now that the internet is getting to run better and better my learning has accelerated even more.
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Ron commented on the article |When I was a boy during the second world war I dreamed of this kind of education, I was so happy when it started to become reality. now for a language which isn't word order dependent...
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If the person who designed the study isn't Internet literate it's very unlikely that the study will reveal anything that makes sense. We have this new and unique way to approach learning and understanding, the old methods just don't fit. Gaia is growing a brain, no point stopping now.
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