Tag: environment
member name: Sylvester Steffen
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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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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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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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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 02, 2007 07:38 AM EDT --
Walter Brueggemann has made the connection of ecological wasting (sin against the God/ Land/ Human Covenant) and the exploitation of women:
“…Adam, that is, mankind, has a partner and mate, . . . more
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September 20, 2007 05:21 AM EDT --
The political/ religious/ cultural paradigm of a discredited worldview no longer works in a new world order. Case in point is the static worldview (SWV) and the evolutionary worldview (EWV).
It is the . . . more
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October 07, 2007 10:54 AM EDT --
The dominant ethics/politics in American culture, which came from Europe, have brought about the dead-end wasting of the global ecology/environment. American ecologies were pristine 600 years ago, not . . . more
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July 30, 2006 05:31 PM EDT --
The politicized use of guilt and fear for purposes of manipulation is wrongheaded and morally reprehensible. "Justified living", . . . more
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October 07, 2006 02:51 PM EDT --
Deep down, evolution and devolution are wave/particle dance, the rhythmic process of creation unfolding—sometimes pretty and sometimes…not so pretty—but always awesome. . . . more
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November 22, 2006 05:08 AM EST --
In re: overpopulation, moral proportionality and Original Sin
The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council arrived at an overwhelming consensus with respect to moral choice and the . . . more
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June 25, 2007 02:59 PM EDT --
Needing answer is the question "what is a TRUE bureaucrat?" By convention, the TRUE bureaucrat is the zealot who stands by the Party, the Institution, with knee-jerk fidelity, even if it . . . more
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December 09, 2006 11:33 AM EST --
QUESTION Based on universal understandings of cosmic origin and evolution, what faith convictions (certitude) and rational conclusions can all religions and civilizations accept and advance in . . . more
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January 31, 2007 10:56 AM EST --
Changing Worldview, Changing Dogma
Worldview is a personally and socially developed consciousness. Personal consciousness dictates personal dogmas, the package of beliefs that inform personal . . . more
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February 06, 2007 08:30 AM EST --
In the pursuit of “truth”, Enlightenment and Religion come together. Universal (catholic) Religion is a “universal call” - vocation. The universal “call” for every person, . . . more
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May 21, 2007 05:48 AM EDT --
In his great little big book “Evening Thoughts” (2006, Sierra Club Books) Thomas Berry exposes “six transcendences” which have put humankind and Earth-life in epochal crisis. . . . more
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June 11, 2007 01:51 PM EDT --
Earth is in crisis. Nation’s are in crisis. Churches are in crisis. Education is in crisis. Humankind is cornered now and forced to react to crises mostly of its own making in order to stem its own . . . more
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