The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Richard Dawkins and “new atheists” are the best example. They often make the claim that science has essentially proved that God does not exist. Of course they also equivocate and backtrack and claim they never claimed that. Then they start talking about low order probabilities that are so low that we can virtually know that …
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Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “the medium is the message” to draw attention to the heretofore underestimated importance of media. Trains can serve as a simple illustration of what he meant. It wasn’t the cargo in the trains that was of prime significance to society. It was the fact of trains. But now things have …
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The Handbook to Higher Consciousness, by Ken Keyes Jr Keyes had a deep insight into basic spirituality. It’s comparable to the Buddhist view. In fact sometimes I think he’s more of a Buddhist than many contemporary Buddhists. And he acknowledges that he drew on the teachings the Buddha, Jesus, Western psychology, and many other philosophies …
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The Paranoia of the Superrich and Superpowerful Noam Chomsky Huffington Post, 4 February 2013 EXTRACT Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the act. Centuries ago, there used to be something called presumption of innocence. If you apprehend …
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In my recent post Theophillis Goodyear: Networks of Corruption—-Critical Mass—-Divided Loyalties—-Dilemmas of Betrayal—-Sacrifice—-the Harm of Innocents—-The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number I said I was unaware of any other books that are specifically about loyalty, but I found this one: Why Loyalty Matters: The Groundbreaking Approach to Rediscovering Happiness, Meaning and Lasting Fulfillment in …
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There’s something from the systems perspective that illustrates the difficulties faced by whistleblowers and also explains why vast networks of corruption can be so hard to reform. Corruption in a network often reaches a tipping point, or critical mass. And once that point has been reached, the mass of the network becomes far greater than …
The Solution is the Systems Perspective—-the Key Component Is Human Compassion—-and Common Sense Tells Us That It’s Best to Keep Networks Intact and Change How They Function, Rather Than Destroy Them and Star from Scratch. Lately I’ve been thinking about two realities: 1. When the economy crashes, there’s no traditional solution to the problem because …
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