Tag: education
member name: Sylvester Steffen
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August 23, 2006 03:58 AM EDT --
Individually, we are subjects/objects of natural, successful evolution, outcomes of symbiosis. Symbiosis is a process of reason even as reason is a process of symbiosis; they are end/means to each . . . more
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August 13, 2006 06:25 AM EDT --
Eden's Middletree Midway between implosion and explosion is a place, a space, an event horizon of becoming. In the nearest orbital sky within this middle region is an eye, blue-green, white-clouded, . . . more
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August 08, 2006 05:08 AM EDT --
Self-reflectivity is nature-endowed awareness of intelligence and purpose, the cause and effect of emergent mindfulness. Open choice and the imperative of moral self-expression advance . . . more
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August 25, 2006 04:58 AM EDT --
The Phisherman Philosopher
Set free by the churning sea a thought flashes in flight and lights momentarily only again to slip under cover of waves to shadows that blanket its return.
The trick is . . . more
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August 27, 2006 06:03 AM EDT --
In the face of doubt it is sometimes said, "I am of two minds on this". The recognition of two minds makes communication and the discovery of newness possible. With respect . . . more
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October 05, 2006 05:51 AM EDT --
PROSTITUTION and what it stands for is so distasteful that it makes one stutter to utter the word. Uniquely, prostitution is male commerce, profiteering on sexual favors. Earth's renewable resources . . . more
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November 28, 2006 10:23 AM EST --
Pope Benedict XVI has relationship problems not just with Islam but also with his Church. The circular skirmishing of Vatican I polemicists scarcely obfuscates their real purpose. Case in point . . . more
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October 24, 2006 09:44 AM EDT --
If government is about social sustainability, sustainable usage of resources, concern for public interest, especially for the marginalized, educating the public toward cultural/social sustainability, etc., . . . more
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March 16, 2007 12:45 PM EDT --
“Absolute" truth is an understanding I would think people might apply, and properly so, to the sanctity of life and the obligation of everyone to be “pro-life”. Commonsense would . . . more
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September 30, 2006 04:59 AM EDT --
As an involved observer I've come to believe that institutional education like institutional food is commercial, bland and unhealthy. Kids deserve better than canned education and . . . more
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August 29, 2006 12:14 PM EDT --
From experience we know we are of many minds, some that pursue the nobler purposes of consciousness and some that succumb to lesser ones. Institutions like individuals labor under the . . . more
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August 31, 2006 03:03 AM EDT --
The hyped rationalism of the Enlightenment is misplaced as is the hyped fideism of imperial theology. Faith and reason - religion and science - cannot arbitrarily be disconnected from . . . more
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October 31, 2006 04:48 AM EST --
The word "love" is flippantly bandied about. Love is publicly trashed and desecrated. But what does love really mean? Surely a life-style . . . more
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November 30, 2006 05:04 PM EST --
“…as we survey the principle features of [the] post-Einsteinian world…step by step we [move] into the Hebrew prophet’s eschatological world. A universe bound fast to grim, timeless . . . more
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December 27, 2006 03:29 PM EST --
To the article “AXIOMS OF EVOLUTION: Where Conscience comes from”, which I published at this site, December 16, 2006, Jerome K. writes: “Ah, but will it make ice-cream? Sorry, but it . . . more
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January 03, 2007 11:04 AM EST --
If the many crises of our time can be conflated into a single phrase it is the phrase “crisis of conscience”. Because of universal ecological/environmental degradations, the global . . . more
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October 18, 2007 12:01 PM EDT --
The developmental economic model of Western societies is based on the continued growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and ascendancy up the corporate ladder. This model is now exposed to be ecologically . . . more
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September 03, 2006 06:09 AM EDT --
All religious consciousness like all life emerges from common ground. By reason of evolving commonalities, good faith emergence is enabled. Einstein's mind-expanding intuition that . . . more
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November 06, 2006 03:20 AM EST --
I hope and expect that the democrats will win big time this election cycle. But I won't be celebrating if they do. I am a lifelong democrat but moral decency, common sensitivity . . . more
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January 18, 2007 10:38 AM EST --
Religion and politics are not above the unseemly usage of orthodoxy in litmus-testing. Purity of orthodoxy can be a deceptive measure that bedevils popes and presidents alike. Pope John Paul II’s . . . more
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