Well, this is my last shot, and then I'm probably outta here. Contrary to popular belief, I don't write to hear myself think. I IMPROVE myself by reading, and trying some things, OTHER than writing. First, I push off HARD, so even if You were tempted to read what I write, You'll not take any of it in.
My Spiritual attainments are write (pun) up there with my writing abilities, and that's WOEFULLY deficient.
NOW!
I couldn't read to the end of M. Bessner's attack on capitalism. That's quaint. It's people, and I don't mean to be mean about it, but it's EXACTLY that kind-a thinking that got us INTO the mess where in.
You start with a conclusion, and work backwards from there. It was either Huntley or Brinkley (spelling) who said to a person, "You SIR, are riding on a horse facing backwards from conclusion to fact!"
I'd laugh, if it wasn't such a serious subject. The Progressive Religion is a cancer, if Ya wanna know the truth of it. And, yeah, You and I M. Loury, are being PROGRAMMED by EXPERTS. M. Bessner being one-a 'em.
I just got done copying the notes from a book i finished a couple days ago. 1400 lines in an Excel spreadsheet, that may come to naught. No matter. When I first thought of typing this shite in, I labored under the idea of summarizing a book of 450 pages on brain science, art, philosophy, and Religion among other things, down into a paragraph.
But I'm gamer, if I'm a lamer.
Although the conclusion was that the two hemispheres of the brain are basically the same, this poor guy sacrificed a career in the hot fields to investigate the phenomenon for 20 years. His conclusion? Yeah, they both do almost ALL the same things. But the view out the window is diametrically opposed to each other.
Left brain male? That's what made the subject verboten, back in the day.
His main point, I guess, can be summed up in a saying I first heard from the nincompoop Ram Dass. Or as his father would call him, Rum Dum. "The rational mind is the PERFECT servant, but a LOUSY master."
Going back to Plato and on through Western History, Iain McG says that starting with the Reformation and then even more in the Enlightenment, things have all gone the rational minds way. Industrialization in 1850 was a normal outgrowth of this domineering rational mind. The right hemisphere, the BIGGER one, shuffled outta the way.
There are an abnormally large percentage of scientists who believe that science is the ONLY way to find Truth, with a capital "T". Symptom of the rational minds inability to see beyond the nose on its figurative face.
Getting back to the spiritual side, I think the author would look on with disdain, just like I do, of people PAYING MONEY for Spiritual wisdom. THINK PEOPLE! If any-a them HAD any, they woudln't be charging money for You to get it. Let alone the discrepancy of trying to IMPROVE YOURSELF, by pretending to be Spiritual. That's all on that.
As far as finding meaning in life. Right hemisphere's JOB. Its raison d'etre.
As it happens, Younger-Sister TEACHES a course in Environmental whatever... Science, mebbe. I asked her about global warming. Given, she has the left-hemisphere NAILED. But right off she said it wasn't her specialty, which is geography, so she hadn't studied it thoroughly enough. So You can take this to the bank. "The planet is warming." I'm not even sure if she got INTO causes. She said the models were NOT concise. They may never BE concise. THere's a RANGE of predictions. But on LIMITED data coming in, it APPEARS we're trending for the high side.
Another conversation (or COULD-a been same one) she said she thought carbon sequestrazation (KNOW I spelled that wrong.) Problem is storing it safely, as escape of CO2 would be lethal to surroundings.
She probably said more that I didn't take in. Sorry.
Point is, yeah, people are gonna hafta dig deep into there pockets if there's to be a chance. But M. Loury, You got the realist cap on. These countries with BILLIONS? Likely they'll turn DOWN the comforts of life. (Nup.) You think WE will? (Same.)
Me? I don't claim to know. But after reading that book, which I don't think I named was "The Master and His Emissary?" Weeeel... I would say that China's notions of possibly CRUSHING the life outta the euphemistically called "Free World", economically and/or technologically and/or militarily and **TRANSHUMANISM** (not to mention the Black racists and the woke destroying democracy)... Well, AFAIK, which isn't that far... THESE THREE are EXISTENTIAL THREATS that will arrive before climate change works its worst. ICBW.
Probably am.
P.S. Suspect this is longer than usual. Sorry. No dinner, go to sleep at 6pm EDT, and there's a zoom from 5 to 6 on affordable shelter for the poor and the homeless. A new twist for me. Dunno. Obviously, zero time for ANY thought on this post, just things I've been thinking about past couple days.
Well, this is my last shot, and then I'm probably outta here. Contrary to popular belief, I don't write to hear myself think. I IMPROVE myself by reading, and trying some things, OTHER than writing. First, I push off HARD, so even if You were tempted to read what I write, You'll not take any of it in.
My Spiritual attainments are write (pun) up there with my writing abilities, and that's WOEFULLY deficient.
NOW!
I couldn't read to the end of M. Bessner's attack on capitalism. That's quaint. It's people, and I don't mean to be mean about it, but it's EXACTLY that kind-a thinking that got us INTO the mess where in.
You start with a conclusion, and work backwards from there. It was either Huntley or Brinkley (spelling) who said to a person, "You SIR, are riding on a horse facing backwards from conclusion to fact!"
I'd laugh, if it wasn't such a serious subject. The Progressive Religion is a cancer, if Ya wanna know the truth of it. And, yeah, You and I M. Loury, are being PROGRAMMED by EXPERTS. M. Bessner being one-a 'em.
I just got done copying the notes from a book i finished a couple days ago. 1400 lines in an Excel spreadsheet, that may come to naught. No matter. When I first thought of typing this shite in, I labored under the idea of summarizing a book of 450 pages on brain science, art, philosophy, and Religion among other things, down into a paragraph.
But I'm gamer, if I'm a lamer.
Although the conclusion was that the two hemispheres of the brain are basically the same, this poor guy sacrificed a career in the hot fields to investigate the phenomenon for 20 years. His conclusion? Yeah, they both do almost ALL the same things. But the view out the window is diametrically opposed to each other.
Left brain male? That's what made the subject verboten, back in the day.
His main point, I guess, can be summed up in a saying I first heard from the nincompoop Ram Dass. Or as his father would call him, Rum Dum. "The rational mind is the PERFECT servant, but a LOUSY master."
Going back to Plato and on through Western History, Iain McG says that starting with the Reformation and then even more in the Enlightenment, things have all gone the rational minds way. Industrialization in 1850 was a normal outgrowth of this domineering rational mind. The right hemisphere, the BIGGER one, shuffled outta the way.
There are an abnormally large percentage of scientists who believe that science is the ONLY way to find Truth, with a capital "T". Symptom of the rational minds inability to see beyond the nose on its figurative face.
Getting back to the spiritual side, I think the author would look on with disdain, just like I do, of people PAYING MONEY for Spiritual wisdom. THINK PEOPLE! If any-a them HAD any, they woudln't be charging money for You to get it. Let alone the discrepancy of trying to IMPROVE YOURSELF, by pretending to be Spiritual. That's all on that.
As far as finding meaning in life. Right hemisphere's JOB. Its raison d'etre.
As it happens, Younger-Sister TEACHES a course in Environmental whatever... Science, mebbe. I asked her about global warming. Given, she has the left-hemisphere NAILED. But right off she said it wasn't her specialty, which is geography, so she hadn't studied it thoroughly enough. So You can take this to the bank. "The planet is warming." I'm not even sure if she got INTO causes. She said the models were NOT concise. They may never BE concise. THere's a RANGE of predictions. But on LIMITED data coming in, it APPEARS we're trending for the high side.
Another conversation (or COULD-a been same one) she said she thought carbon sequestrazation (KNOW I spelled that wrong.) Problem is storing it safely, as escape of CO2 would be lethal to surroundings.
She probably said more that I didn't take in. Sorry.
Point is, yeah, people are gonna hafta dig deep into there pockets if there's to be a chance. But M. Loury, You got the realist cap on. These countries with BILLIONS? Likely they'll turn DOWN the comforts of life. (Nup.) You think WE will? (Same.)
Me? I don't claim to know. But after reading that book, which I don't think I named was "The Master and His Emissary?" Weeeel... I would say that China's notions of possibly CRUSHING the life outta the euphemistically called "Free World", economically and/or technologically and/or militarily and **TRANSHUMANISM** (not to mention the Black racists and the woke destroying democracy)... Well, AFAIK, which isn't that far... THESE THREE are EXISTENTIAL THREATS that will arrive before climate change works its worst. ICBW.
Probably am.
P.S. Suspect this is longer than usual. Sorry. No dinner, go to sleep at 6pm EDT, and there's a zoom from 5 to 6 on affordable shelter for the poor and the homeless. A new twist for me. Dunno. Obviously, zero time for ANY thought on this post, just things I've been thinking about past couple days.