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I'm passionate about

understanding the human position and obligations to all created life prior to the invasion of civilised governments, organised religion, and institutionalised education. Who were we...who we might be

An idea worth spreading

How about this idea; we all agree to never, ever, lie to a child, again. Ever, ever! Yes, I am speaking of Santa, the Easter Bunny, etc., etc. Let's put them back into the books of fables and fairies, their proper place in the lives of truth honoring societies. It is where they belong. Shame, shame!

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how the civilised nations social structure is failing every aspect it attempts to mold or nurture. "Let us put our minds together to see if we can make a better world for the children"

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• A comment on Conversation: Are Nobel Prizes overrated?

  Feb 12 2013: I would suggest "The Nobel Prize is not broken, it's fixed!"
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  A comment on Conversation: Is science just imagination in a straitjacket?

  Feb 9 2013: Imagination is not a piece of science. Science is a piece of imagination. Any other thought of this relationship is the straight jacket Feynman suggests.
  
  Okay, everybody take a five minute break, go into the hall and remove your straight jackets, please. just teasing

• A comment on Conversation: Is science just imagination in a straitjacket?

  Feb 9 2013: There are so many bright, inquisitive minds involved in this conversation that I am given comfort "imagining" a better tomorrow. I only wanted to add a simple thought .....before any understanding, or comprehension, the thoughts of "Why?", "How?", "What?", "Where?", "When?', or "Who?' were involved in the hypothetical, the data, and the theory, eventually becoming an ever shifting fact, it was your imagination that provided the ability to question. Hopefully, none will suffer from asking these because they believe science has given the understanding...it too, came from your imagination.

• A comment on Conversation: Is science just imagination in a straitjacket?

  Feb 9 2013: "Imagination", itself is just one of the great mysteries our imagined existence, Imagination, and not science is worthy of believing in.
  
  Thank you, Swetha, for taking my imagination with you on this journey, this morning. It has been very delightful, reminding me again, what is important in my life. I choose to leave behind the false sense of security in traveling with the perceived 'known' , and I'll run with Mystery and Imaginations, til I run no more.
  It has been my utmost pleasure to have met you here, as well. Later, Tim.....if there really is a later?!?!?!

• A comment on Conversation: Is science just imagination in a straitjacket?

  Feb 9 2013: “I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research. ---Albert Einstein
  “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
  ― Albert Einstein
  It was from Einstein's notes, and the traditional stories told to me by elders of this nation's first people that helped me put into perspective my ability to dream visions, and restrain fears. I have been told, "Imagination, is the foundation of everything. It is not a piece of , and it is not a compartment within the brain, it is the base ingredient of every cell, right down to the atom."
  The message to our central nervous system which reports the hot horseshoe in our hand must be imagined by several distinct messengers before it is reported. Anything, and everything we do, voluntary and involuntary, begins with someone's, or something's imagination.
  Einstein also believed knowledge is limited and imagination was everything beyond those limits. Our doctrines, our facts (which , usually end up being facts for a limited time), and our science all create paradigms of thought and imagination. If we are able to understand that our scientific facts, and perhaps, including universal laws of physics, too, are only so for this day. One day it is very likely through higher understanding and healthier imagination that we had measured these perceived truths through frail human understanding, as feeble as this understanding is, in our arrogance this is how we measure all things around us, including fauna and flora, and the celestial beings.
  I enjoy science, study and passion of research. I also understand the risk of limiting my imagination should any of that seem worthy of belief. I always worship the Mystery, first. Only Mystery is worthy of belief.
  Yes, science is a straightjacket

• A reply on Conversation: Can Money Buy Happiness?

  Feb 4 2013: Less than 5 minutes ago: Hello Christy, it seems so obvious today, or looking from a removed position You are correct in your assessment. I became dependent on its false sense of security. I am afraid this has been part of the plan from whence it received its inception. We traded our ability to provide for ourselves to accept currency for effort , goods, and services provided, which we now must trade for the survival we used to provide autonomously (such as indigenous peoples), in the trade off, self sufficiency for cash, we lost our confidence and ability to live free from fear. I believe when we look at old pictures of indigenous people there is a sense of confidence we recognize but wonder how they have it, all they needed for the survival and protection of all they loved stood within the moccasins on their feet
  The people who believe themselves to be independently wealthy are really the most dependent of others. Their money is traded to a multitude of people to provide their existence and security, their confidence is false, conceived only in their minds, but their fear is real, leaving them to be ruthless actors, hating and judging to justify their selfishness.
  Whether or not, if you have money or you are without monetary resources, we all live in fear of tomorrow, we all worry for our children's future, we all worry for our own future, however, the ones with money have a false sense of security and with in this psychological denial they are out of touch with primal obligations They think they have protection, but in reality we all know anything less than self sufficiency is hope. Don't forget Hope came from Pandora's Box along with the rest of the evil in the world, because hope usually is, and can be evil. It came from the box it belonged in. Hope has never resolved anything.
  I wasn't looking for more, but I was afraid of losing what I had, and it wasn't much; really.
  Thanks for sharing Christy, pleasure to meet you

• A comment on Conversation: What impact do you imagine if positive recognition and appreciation were expressed in the ~home~ in a public way so others could see?

  Feb 3 2013: negative recognition,,,,
  positive recognition....
  
  they are both equally powerful.
  they both will positively determine what you create by enforcing either one.
  Parents, educators, friends and family, please think this through.
  Elizabeth is correct in keeping this solution alive. It is no longer a hypothetical solution, dual tests, the facts, and the results are in. now we have to find the patience to strictly and exclusively administer positive reinforcement, perhaps, return to multiple mothers for our children s health, and the future of our species.

• A comment on Conversation: What's a degree worth?

  Feb 3 2013: If you are a member of the groups that created this socio/economic caste system then you are sworn to the doctrine of higher education, you must not turn your back on your predecessors, your alumni, or the system these inner societies have created, it all serves their purpose of separating the chaff from the grain. You must hire graduates with diplomas and degrees in order to keep the money on the right side of the tracks. No matter how stupid, you hire the one who paid for his education, that is how this agreement works.
  I apologize if my opinion has offended any of the educators here. Never would I say something to hurt anyone. but I will never hide the truth or my humble opinion, either.
  I am always open to discuss and defend any point I raise.
  Does anyone honestly believe the best, and most qualified is hired? Look at the revolving doors in the leadership of every major company in the united states and the leaders in government. Do you think they are all running from Wall street to Pennsylvania avenue, etc., etc. and then back and forth again because they are the brightest and most able and this is best for this country? Please someone tell me they believe that. And is it not just as peculiar that they all share alumni of about the top thirty colleges in the world. Tell me that because the families have money that means they are the smartest and most capable. Most of those families are so out of touch with reality and common sense that they do believe that!
  This past election had brains spilling off the platform didn't it? What a shame united states, what a shame! I dare any one to defend the candidates as we sat in utter disbelief and horror! The best and brightest....right!!!!!!!!
  okay, everybody, your right, I am a little upset, not so much because of the the leaders and candidates, most come from a thieving heritage to begin with, I expect anything sinister and underhanded from them. I am angry at the population for being quiet about it

• A comment on Conversation: What impact do you imagine if positive recognition and appreciation were expressed in the ~home~ in a public way so others could see?

  Feb 3 2013: When those zero to nine testers came around to my children's school they us if we objected to the testing we had to sign this paper, and then they requested our presence the day of the test to object, Not to object, I think they thought they could change my mind. When the test administrators arrived I went to meet with them. My wife and I were the only ones objecting. I asked some general questions about the authors of the test and what its purpose was, and what accomplishments they hoped to provide for my children, (this was a well respected private school) after they informed me that their only intention was to help all the children excel, they wanted to do this by testing, determining where each child might be behind the rest of the class so they could work on the weak spots, bringing all students up to the average. Nice thought, I told them. Then I asked them to kindly stay the heck away from my children because i had informed them they were special individual;s, with a path and purpose in this life. I taught them to believe they had a calling of some sort, and it was up to us to know their strengths and gifts, because this is where my children were going to focus. not an area that they naturally were not predominately inclined. I told the school from now on I want you to focus on any divine gift, strength, and natural ability my children may exhibit and this is the area to focus on. Follow the child you un=educated educators. Make stronger their strengths, I don't want them looking at their short comings trying to be as good as the other children, polish their strengths. Our Creator has provided these babies with specific gifts and insight that our future disparately needs. There are people in the future expecting to meet these children on their proper paths and they had better be strong. I forbid the brainwash of looking at our shortcomings And, this is the damn school doing this retarded backward testing to remind each child where they are less than

• A comment on Conversation: What impact do you imagine if positive recognition and appreciation were expressed in the ~home~ in a public way so others could see?

  Feb 3 2013: It would create a world recognized by none in this world. If your proposal existed it would also mean that our world would no longer know, judge, and remind one another in every circumstance of the past mistakes made. Today, in our world, we have nurturing completely backwards, laws of physics teach ; for every action there will be a reaction, for every force there will also be present an opposing force, try as I might, I have never found an instance these laws did not apply. Yet, discipline through punishment and negative cognizance creates the backlash to the negative reinforcement that will surely not be a positive change, that goes against thed very laws of physics, no matter what the level of matter it exists. therefore, positive change will only result after positive reinforcement. I di not make this up, meta-physical and universal physicists have been telling us for ever, but we don't ave the patience, love, or respect for any other individuals, including our children, to give it a try. This nation still preaches the diabolic slogan of "Peace through War"...Give peace a chance. No one ever said it better than John Lennon, may that prophets soul rest in the peace he yearned for.
  This has been a wonderful idea to think of, but ion a society that controls through fear and intimidation, positive reinforcement would create a healthy population, and they would be much to difficult to control. We have to continue destroying the individuals through corporeal punishment , shaming, ridiculing or we lose this population of haters which keep everyone divided and judgmental. Why, if everyone was healthy and balanced we might see where this road ios leading us, and maybe then we would not even have use for an armed military, or government.