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I'm passionate about

The nature of being, the source of all life, and the end of the world as we know it.

An idea worth spreading

God is what God makes as God becomes. 0 and 1 - Nothingness and Singularity - the essence of all being begins with this main and unusual state.

Talk to me about

Robots, the biosphere, cells, the health of the earth, the constructal law of physics, the nature of being, and the nature of God.

People don't know that I'm good at

Talking about the nature of creation from the mind of all being. The notion of the planet as a being in itself. The way that earth is being killed off by its inhabitants. Where we go from here.

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• A reply on Talk: Meg Jay: Why 30 is not the new 20

  3 days ago: Yes, I was replying to her response, specifically. I think Julia and a few others I've noticed here have taken umbrage with some of the content of this talk, and I find their disagreements to be more about perspective - looking at where you are in your 20s from being in your 20s is very different than when you are in other decades.
  
  I worried so much about life that I can't say I enjoyed my 20s - I took life too seriously, and didn't take myself seriously enough. Don't ask me to explain what I mean, but in short let's say I was ambitious and insecure, which are two painful complex ways of being within the same person.
  
  Now I'm still ambitious but centered and secure, which provides a great deal more patience with myself.
  
  Regarding her comment about media labels, it's not aimed to discredit journalists, but to discredit what we buy-in to with regard to our younger population - these are our hope in our future as a race, and to belittle them with labels that discredit their generation is not only a sad way of looking at 20 somethings but a fearful way of seeing our future as a society.

• A reply on Talk: Meg Jay: Why 30 is not the new 20

  3 days ago: After reading this, Shannon, I think I now know what beef Daniel B has with this talk, he is probably similar to you. I can assure you are correct that it does continue. I am 47 and still making use of weak ties, loose networks, and stringy possibilities. The best part, I almost want to whisper this, the best part is that you are a complete soldier by the time you are 40. My earlier post will explain what I mean if you care to read it, but be reassured, it just gets better and better.
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  A reply on Talk: Meg Jay: Why 30 is not the new 20

  3 days ago: This perspective you have right now just comes from a lack of "hindsight," meaning you're still in your 20s. Wait until you are in your 40s before you judge her insight so harshly. What I mean is if she were to talk about 14 year-olds, for example, you might see that you worried far too much about what others thought of you, but I dare you to tell a 14 year-old to stop worrying about what Suzy said about her behind her back.
  
  This talk is telling 20-somethings to mind the relationships you are in and to practice relating BEFORE you feel the urge to settle down in your 30s and have babies with the wrong man/woman. And to direct your present life as if it dictates your future, (which you are obviously doing as a college student).
  
  And when she talks about Identity Capital, she's simply changing the language away from Identity Crisis, which are what send people to a therapist anyway.
  
  In your late 20s you will see what identity crisis feels like, because you are spending your early 20s building your identity - but at a certain point you see how hard your dreams are to follow. THAT is when you stop following them and start to 'make' them happen - because once you're out of college, there are no more maps to follow - you have to draw them. :)
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  A reply on Talk: Meg Jay: Why 30 is not the new 20

  3 days ago: This talk is not based on cultural bias, her numbers and statistics showed that these are the concerns that come to her office on a daily basis, so it is a real "impression" of what she has experienced.
  
  "assumptions of marriage/partnership and childrearing" - she has "assumed" nothing.
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  A comment on Talk: Meg Jay: Why 30 is not the new 20

  3 days ago: This is the message I drill into my 17.5 year-old boy, as best as I can. Every year counts toward 'being' the life you want; it represents the power of your own possibility. My Dad said to me, in my late teens, "Find what you love, because you'll be doing it the rest of your life."
  
  Now I have a resume that I am so proud of, and as a wife and stepmom to a kid I call my own, I have a domestic life equally fulfilling to my career.
  
  At 33, when my friends were settling down and having babies, I moved to NYC to expand my dream as a photographer. At 40, I met my husband and his then 10-year-old son. But now, even at the age of 47, I am entering a new "Identity Capital" period. So it NEVER stops. Your opportunity to adjust your course is a daily deposit, which adds upon itself as reliably as the calendar days go by.
  
  Great great talk. But more important to say, this is great information.

• A reply on Talk: Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude.

  Mar 19 2013: Oh that is a gift, Angela, thanks for sharing that today.

• A comment on Talk: Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude.

  Mar 19 2013: Forgive me for leaving a remark that would in any way reduce the splendor of these images. But I have to say the old man's narration did more to destroy in my heart what I was feeling from the photos than if you had given me trash to look at. Not because there was something untrue in what he was saying, but because his words were so trite compared to the brilliance of what nature was displaying in the images. I don't like being told how to feel and think and do. I like being shown what I might miss on a single day or what I might otherwise forget, but I don't like someone telling me that I have missed it. I would prefer to hear only the music and the sound of rain or the sound of crickets. This would give me the moment of splendor that your images give, but a man telling me that I am missing out somehow if I do not celebrate every single moment as if it was my last makes me feel less than what I am. I am not what it appears to be in the image of the lens of someone who doesn't know who I am. I am the very flower that opens and the clouds that cast the shadow. I am the sun the moon and the stars and the voice that comes from my mouth is that of the God that made me and all things.

• A comment on Talk: Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are

  Jan 7 2013: It was nice to learn the biochemicals involved with these behavioral changes. I would also like to know how there happened to be a male/female diversity of behaviors. I don't see where male/female diversity works in the form of hormones relevant to behavior, especially when it can be so easily altered. It seems to infer our male/female behavior is not born but learned if it can change or be manipulated so easily, just by making adjustments to our body language, I mean.
  
  Is it that females are taught to demure when males are present? Or is it that when males act out their sense of false overt language pattern, they cause the females to demure? Or is it when males express their demure side they are less attractive to females and therefor are sexually made into the presence of overt behavior when females are present?
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  A reply on Conversation: Is our math wrong? Is it our assumption of zero, or absolute nothingness?

  Sep 29 2012: Thang, forgive me for being persnickity about your words, but my point about our reverence does not speak to Math's usefulness... but you make a good point in that Math is a language to allow us understanding and therefore use systems and natural phenomena to our benefit.
  
  The issue I have with much of science is that that which cannot be understood by our Math must not exist, or is tossed out of consideration when understanding principles of existence that are not finite.
  
  Casey's point, I believe, is that zero cannot exist in the natural world and therefore it is a fictional character, so to speak. I don't, however, believe this. I do believe there are levels of existence that are less than 1, less than zero. These levels are of the soul that does not know where it belongs. A soul that wanders in apparition is neither a 1 (body) nor a zero (God).
  
  DEFINITION OF TERM GOD:
  God is what God makes as God becomes. Zero, in this sphere of knowledge, is the point of origin of all that is and ever was. It is the beginning and the end - the alpha and omega. Here too is where less than zero gets really interesting.
  
  If God is Zero, less than zero is before God was self-aware. It is at the point that God said, "What Am I?" That the inner world that is God became the exterior world that was God. As the God-being looked within, the nucleus split and the big bang occurred. This is the beginning of that which we know and experience as existence of all matter. This is the event horizon. All zeros that derive from this origin will return here after traveling through all space and time and back--reverberation of the original bang.
  
  We are little, less-than-zeros until we ask ourselves, "what am I?" - the endeavor to answer this riddle forces us to look within and reveal what has made us what we are. This is what Jung called the undiscovered self; a reckoning, recognition of the being you are before birth and after death.
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  A comment on Conversation: Is our math wrong? Is it our assumption of zero, or absolute nothingness?

  Sep 29 2012: Math is not what is wrong, what is wrong is our reverence for it.