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  A comment on Conversation: If you have chance to perform a TED talk , what topic you will choose?

  May 19 2012: All of the problems and crises in society today-in economics, politics, business, government, education, ecology etc-all share the exact same root cause in common. We are piece-meal treating the symptoms of the crises instead of examining the systems and laws of nature as an integral whole of which humanity is a part, where we find the common causal root that requires our attention. This piece-meal symptomatic treatment is why all of these problems and crises continue to appear and grow with no solutions on the horizon, and even worse, forecasts of 100% depletion and possible extinction. Sciences would be used for building the needed explanation bridges during the TEDTalk. If humanity, in all levels of society, begins together to apply efforts that focus on mending the gap found at this root cause, we would more quickly come back into balance with nature, and turn from managing crises to building and growing a world that thrives in balance and harmony, and where each and every person flourishes.
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  A comment on Conversation: Should potential parents, in an enlightened and advanced society, be licensed to have children?

  May 18 2012: Part 1 of 3
  
  The answer to this question is: Look to nature. For if one considers looking to nature from the start, most questions/answers become better clarified. Please note that I did not say to look at what mankind has done to infringe upon that which is natural in nature, which is tantamount to what is being suggested here in this "question," framed within what is appropriate for an “enlightened and advanced society.” Contrary to what the media keeps proposing, humanity is a part of nature, and not above nature and its laws, thus, we all need to learn together what nature's laws are in order to flourish.
  
  There is nothing enlightened nor advanced about a person or society that believes nature and its processes should be legislatively regulated. In particular, what has been proposed for discussion here is on the topic of the most basic desire within, and driving force of nature-that of the processes involved in giving birth, which forms the building blocks of life. ( here is one beautiful TED presentation you may wish to view on the subject: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/louie_schwartzberg_the_hidden_beauty_of_pollination.html "I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us, and makes us a link in the evolution of life.")
  
  An enlightened and advanced society operates from love and empathy, from giving to the care and concern of others, over and above any care or concern for one's self. Egoism (a force of reception) is inverted in its use from taking for self, to receiving in order to give to others, so that egoism transforms to being necessary only as it serves altruism (a force of giving). Science has observed that the mechanisms of nature operate in constant search of homeostasis-balance and harmony within ebbs and flows, giving and receiving, everywhere.
  
  Enlightened and advanced people's and societies live their lives in service to others, in empathy ...
  
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  A comment on Conversation: Should potential parents, in an enlightened and advanced society, be licensed to have children?

  May 18 2012: Part 2 of 3
  
  … with and compassion for the human journey that each and everyone is a part of, and that each and everyone is actually composed of, for we are all interconnected and completely entangled and unified with everyone and everything. Science-particularly physics, but not only physics-has been talking about this for decades now. (I refer you to a great movie by Tom Shadyac called "I AM" which, in an entertaining and educational way, speaks to some of the science of this topic of our interconnectedness-the full movie is on youtube.)
  
  The enlightened and advanced do not look at what is outside of them in order to seek to change that which is perceived there, but instead, look outside in order to check if the changes one is working on making on the inside, are affecting all for the best beneficial good of the collective whole, seeking to become equivalent to the level of nature, which always gives everything in loving abundance, and shines the sunlight and rains the rains on all without prejudice.
  
  In another comment, the proposer of this topic said, "Often these people hide behind 'their right' to raise their children the way they see fit - like they 'own' the child. Like a pet. Then, we as a society, have to deal with the fall-out when they attend school, become adults, and try to function as self-providers. We then invest in 'remedial assistance' because we believe 'they had a hard life and need help'. It's backwards to me. I don't know what the answer is, but I'm sick of it."
  
  Isn't this the true topic for this TED Conversation? So this is the one to be further addressed. Check the language used here. "these" people, "their" right, "their" children, "they" see fit ~versus~ "we" as a society, "we" invest in 'remedial assistance,' "I'm" sick of it.
  
  Please understand that no disrespect to the questioner is intended here, for we are all, if we are paying attention, faced with these kinds of questions in all areas of our lives on a daily basis.
  
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  A comment on Conversation: Should potential parents, in an enlightened and advanced society, be licensed to have children?

  May 18 2012: Part 3 of 3
  
  I'd like to encourage us all to consider that what families need the most is someone like this questioner to reach out and give personal touch and connection of love, care, and concern. (I'm not talking about money here.) Imagine how the world would change instantly if we all started looking after one another with the same care and concern for others as that of a mother for her children and family!? In advanced and enlightened people and societies, there is no "us and them." There is only one collective global human family where everyone is as your closest family member, and every perceived problem is actually an opportunity and a challenge for all to seek unity in its solution, and to rise from ourselves and draw closer to each other in guarantees of mutual reciprocity and love.
  
  Our relationships with each other determine everything in our world, and are really the only thing we all need to work on. In the same way the cells of the human body function to work cooperatively for the best benefit of the entire body, so too must humanity come together in mutually reciprocal cooperation for the best beneficial good of each and everyone, and of the planet that we share. After all, why are we all here, and what is the purpose for this life? All the best to each and all, as we continue together to answer these vitally important questions. Our human species and our world are at an evolutionary tipping point, and each and every person holds a piece to the puzzle that unlocks the solution for humanity's next level of evolutionary advancement, where love is the law. :)
  
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  A comment on Conversation: What is more important: Our drugs or our ecosystems?

  May 7 2012: Part 2 of 2
  For example, if the people working in the pharmaceutical companies operated from attitudes of care and concern for all of humanity and our world, rather than from selfish monetary profit motives that exploit others and our environment, the global impact of the products they make would have been considered and implemented in sustainable ways, from cradle to cradle (C2C).
  
  As consumers of these products, we would be educated to know what to do with them. Not only how to take them as necessary for health reasons, but also how to recycle the packaging, what to do with expired products, and so on, C2C.
  
  What humanity really needs now is not more bandaid discussions on symptoms that have arisen, but rather, we all need to come together around the round table of our world, like members of one united, global human family, and make new environments, communities, and business processes that operate from the best benefical good of every single person on this planet, none excluded.
  
  Implementing educational environments in every aspect of society and media that supports these attitudes of compassion, care, and altruism, is key to us all uniting to come back into balance with nature's laws of harmony on all levels. These are certainly exciting times, as humanity is shifting to a new evolutionary level!
  
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  A comment on Conversation: What is more important: Our drugs or our ecosystems?

  May 7 2012: Part 1 of 2
  
  Hello all. I hope I am not too late with this comment. I appreciate that Allison has concern for the interconnections between things, and it is this kind of thinking and seeing, this conscious way of being in consideration of others and our world in all that we do, that really is the solution to the question that has been posed here.
  
  We all now live together in an integral globalized world. All levels of society--whether in politic, economics, healthcare, ecology, etc.--exist today on a day to day basis in ways of interconnection and interdependence. Yet, how many of us truly understand this global, interconnected reality we are all living in together, and how many of us live our lives accordingly? It is this understanding of our integrality that humanity--as a species on this planet that is a part of nature and not above nature and its laws--needs to come to, in order for attitudes and behaviors to flip and turn toward resolution, which is basically from our selfish egoism to compassion and care for each other and our world. Through globalization, nature itself has conspired to cause humanity to shift from being concerned with "me, me, me," to reaching outside of ourselves and caring instead for our global "we."
  
  If you'll consider this for a moment: I don't think the question you are really asking at its core, is about drugs or ecosystems at all. These are merely surface symptoms that have arisen in our world from a deeper root cause.
  
  Everything that occurs, everything that we see outside of ourselves, is a projected reflection of our social relationships with one another. The health or lack in these social relationships is the root cause for every thing and every issue.
  
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  A comment on Conversation: Will we ever truly be able to model nature?

  Mar 7 2012: Will we ever be able to truly model nature?
  
  The answer to this, in my view, depends entirely on one's intention.
  
  The infiniteness of nature is something that science has yet to fully reveal. Every time the microscope reaches to further smallness, the complexity grows, and every time the macroscope reaches further, the seeming limits increase.
  
  Perhaps science serves one better when it asks a different question: What is nature? That nature's forms have continually eluded our greatest technologies throughout all history, and its integrally intermingled and intertwined systems are so beautifully interdependent that mankind cannot predict its effects, begs a different question and a different application of science that better serves all of our global human family and our wondrous Universe.
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  A comment on Conversation: In your opinion, what should the purpose of education be?

  Dec 29 2011: This is a beautiful thread with so many wonderful responses. Thank you for the question.
  
  There is nothing more important than education. Lifelong learning is a process we all participate in, knowingly or unknowingly, in each and every moment. We are all interconnected with each other and with nature's systems. This is why I feel that your question, "In your opinion, what should the purpose of education be?" is quintessential. The answer must come from a deep causal root of understanding from which all things stem and intertwine. That said, here is an attempt at an answer.
  
  The purpose of education, on all levels, is for each and every person—both within the collective whole of humanity and individually as a vitally necessary, and fully whole and contributing part—to ultimately reach the full realization of what it means to be human.
  
  By explaining and pointing to this foundational root of understanding, in each and every activity, subject, and direction, that the most basic, common law thread that runs through all of nature is the greatest Human Universal known as The Ethic of Reciprocity, also known as The Golden Rule, each person, and all people together have the best opportunity to fully realize their humanity, as empathic, compassionate humans that care for the needs of others in all areas of society.
  
  Human Universals bind us together as one great global human family. The Human Universal called "The Ethic of Reciprocity," also known as "The Golden Rule," expresses itself throughout the world in varying degrees, through phrases such as, "Do not do to others what you yourself hate," "Do to others what you would want done to you," "Regard your neighbor’s gain as your gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss," and "Love your neighbor as yourself," to name a few.
  
  If one generation of children were to be educated with this natural law of love and unity as the basis for all decisions, approaches, and mentalities, just imagine the impact.