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• A comment on Talk: Nirmalya Kumar: India's invisible innovation

  Jul 5 2012: Open system are one possible way Environment, Humanity and Biosphere, and at the very bottom comes modest profit.

• A comment on Talk: Nirmalya Kumar: India's invisible innovation

  Jul 5 2012: I f this is true then the US will become as impoverished much like India was. If one looks back through history when there have been large swings of power due to economic shifts there has always been war . We used to be able to survive wars prior to nuclear weapons we can not now.
  As I see it the only way to avoid this is to share this worlds resources in both human ingenuity and resources. Further we are rapidly running out of physical resources, climate change is just getting started
  I fear for the survival of human life on this planet.
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  A comment on Conversation: If one's mental illness could be cured by a single pill, would you choose to do so?

  Jul 5 2012: Without a millisecond of hesitation. What is so frustrating is that for me my PTSD, My Asbergers (think of Shelon in Big Bang Theory and yes I am a physicist who taught successfully for 30+ years) the the pill is one or two doses of MDMA, and here in Canada taking that medicine would be a criminal act. If you doubt me just go too Google There is usually no need for more drugs. I have been on over 15 types and brands of those SSRIs which might as well be poison for me. Besides they are only 2% better than a placebo. and sugar pills do not give you the side effects. . I am not a Schizophrenic but I suffer immensely and worse seem to drive people away so I have no more wife and children who just can't stand seeing the pain.Considering how much it physically hurts I can't blame them. I am not violent but do get very angry at times.
  I am an extrovert who is shunned and exiled by many but a very small number of people who have amazing gifts of compassion, the problem is none of them live less than a full days drive away and am not sure their partners would want me around for more than a few hours at most. Ahh there are I am coming to trust in the Buddhist Sanga I attend
  
  If there is anyone out there who knows where I could be treated please let me know.
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  A reply on Talk: Thandie Newton: Embracing otherness, embracing myself

  Jul 23 2011: I have spent the majority of my life on the side of social justice and I have been miserable. I realized for the most part I was operating from guilt, my own sense of worthlessness and trying to compensate for that, and my total addiction to ideologies and judgement (as if I was Judge Judy, or god)
  Recently from the gentle teachings of Pemma Chodron (Shambhalla Buddhism) , Ken McLeod (Unfetteredmined.org) I have discovered that not only as she says we are part of something, some oneness, but that Compassion is Infinitely more healing than justice. I am not saying that we do not need more justice, but we will get it by being more compassionate and less judgmental photowriter@rogers.com.