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80 Wake-up Call - The Economics Profession 79 Apocalypse ? 78 A Call for Academia to Act Now 77 Planet Earth Reality Check-Survival Homo sapiens 76 Gaia Reality Coming Back to Haunt Us 75 A eukaryotic/neurotic/psychotic thinking imperfection we brought with us into this New Age 74 Ayn Rand 73 The Failure of the Economists 72 Tanzania Olduval Gorge visit in 1983 71 The Need for a New American Formula 70 Greta Thunberg 69 John Scales Avery Warning 68 GENOMIC ORIGINS Donald Trump’s Brain 67 Need for Mind Change of Shattering Proportion 66 Our Abuse of Religion 65 We Need an Ecological Revolution 64 Homo sapiens Extinction ? 63 THE GREEN NEW DEAL For ATroubled Millennial Generation 62 An Economic Solution for the Increase in the Emissions of CO2 61 Donald Trump vs Our Planet 60 An Open Letter To Paul Krugman 59 Threat To Our Future - Optimism bias 58 Religious Belief - Implicit Non Implicit Biosphere Dis Equilibrium 57 "Florence" Voter Apathy Carolinas 56 Our Cranial Problem 55 Our Biosphere Problem 54 100% Carbon Death Tax 53 The End of Our Axial Age 52 A Challenge to the Religions of Abraham 51 China the End of Neo-Liberal American Exceptionalism 50 Sixth Extinction 49 Ecological Observations on Abrahamic Belief 48 Homo economicus we have all become 47 A twitter President, A Sclerotic Congress, A Horrifying Question: How far can the boat drift before it hits the rocks? 46 An Inherent Ecocidal Death Wish For Humanity 45 The Methane Hydrate Feedback Loop 44 David Bohm - Post Modern Gnostic 43 Scenario - Homo Sapiens New Axial Age ? 42 Islamic Population Bomb 41 A Dangerous Zero-Sum Game - Donald Trump vs The Planet 40 Probability of another Permian-Triassic Extinction - a Measure of Hope from Nag Hammadi 39 An Incomplete American Presidency 38 Heading Toward Dangerous Shoals 37 An American Formulaic Weakness 36 An Uncertain Future For Humanity 35 Psychotic Electorate ? 34 Becoming a Part of The Teleological Argument 33 The Dark Cloud Forming Over The Middle East 32 San Bernardino – A Challenge not just to one but to all three of the religions of Abraham 31 COP 21 Solution 30 Why COP21 Meeting in Paris Will Not Solve The Problem 29 An Experiment That Did Not Work ? 28 The Failure Of Democracy – American and Other 27 Pope Francis vs The Cardinals 26 An End to Global Oligarchy 25 The Middle Eastern Islamic Boiling Pot 24 The Iran Deal 23 Pope Francis - ("Dung of the Devil") - A New Planetary Reality 22 Our Nag Hammadi Predicament 21 The Progeny of the Koch Brothers 20 Eu-Sociality 19 Religion and Politics in America 18 Adam Smith Revisited (Including 9/15 update) 17 An Uncertain Future 16 The New Republican Generation 15 The Source of Radical Islam 14 The Debate That Should Be Taking Place 13 The Existential Need for Planned Parenthood - An Examination of the Abortion Issue 12 A letter to Paul Krugman 11 Muslim Brotherhood 10 Fox News and Global Warming 9 Evil Visited the Community 8 Ecological Tipping Points 7 A World Without Ice 6 The Lives of the Leakeys 5 William Faulkner's New Axial Age 4 The Building of an Underclass in America and the world 3 “longue durée” 2 Wall Street Protests 1 Making the Existential Case for a Death Tax '
Blog 80 Wake-up Call - The Economics Profession . My Paper entitled “Planet Earth Reality Check – Survival Homo sapiens”. To read it in essay form go to:
https://countercurrents.org/2020/10/extinction-possibility . Blog 79 Apocalypse ?
Read my essay and John Scales Avery (Nobel Laureate) essay
Apocalypse? A Return to the Permian-Triassic Extinction . . Blog 78 A Call for Academia to Act Now . We need to find a way Homo sapiens can live in a symbiotic relationship with Nature that allows both our species and all other organic and inorganic matter on this planet to recycle and renew. Academia throughout the world can make the difference by collective global action forcing those in government country by country to understand what it will take for humanity to live in that symbiotic relationship. My Countercurrents essay is addressed to all areas of Academia.
https://countercurrents.org/2020/06/a-call-for-academia-to-act-now/ . Blog 77 Planet Earth Reality Check-Survival Homo sapiens
My paper on this subject outlines the urgent need for a new multinational Institution to be formed for the purpose of orchestrating a world-wide increase in the price of carbon from its first moment of entry into the system through to its becoming a part of all derivative goods and services. See Blog 80 above. . Blog 76 Gaia Reality Coming Back to Haunt Us . http://inquiryabraham.com/new-book.html
John Scales Avery ( Nobel Laureate )
“Dear David, I very much appreciate your sending me your important and extremely well-written article. I agree completely with what you say, and I hope the many people will read your article. With many thanks, and warmest greetings, John”
If our warfare against Planet earth and each other continues, the cosmic experiment with human life which was designed to support its harmonious continuance could soon come to an end. It would be one of the supreme tragedies of the universe. This Blog will examine how we can now in the 21st century socially politically economically religiously take control of the demonic and avoid this tragedy. https://countercurrents.org/2020/04/covid-19-postlude-human-life-on-planet-earth https://countercurrents.org/2018/06/17/our-biosphere-problem/ Blog 75 A eukaryotic/neurotic/psychotic thinking imperfection we brought with us into this New Age .
Scientists are now warning us that irreparable damage is being done to our planet. Continuing human existence is in question. Yet most of us go about our daily lives with no sense of fear for the future.
Now to the quesion of our Age:
Even though they are telling us that it is an existential crisis calling for a global transformational form of synchronous thought and behavior that can establish for Homo sapiens coexistent unity and inter active equilibrium with all life and nonlife on our planet, the public is not listening. Why? Is it that we do not have the eukaryotic/neurotic/psychotic ability? An examination of our evolutionary timeline can be of help. (see Countercurrents essay below)
https://countercurrents.org/2020/02/a-thinking-imperfection-we-brought-with-us-into-this-new-age .
Blog 73 The Failure of the Economists
https://countercurrents.org/2019/12/the-failure-of-the-economists https://countercurrents.org/2019/12/americans-existential-problem-and-the-worlds . Blog 71 The Need for a New American Formula . The time has come for serious introspection in America. The Nation is locked in a race between self-discovery and self-destruction. It is losing the race. It needs to recognize that the present equation does not equate. It is off-balance. America needs to reformulate a new equation. More wars based on the old equation will not do. Click Below For My Countercurrents Essay
There was a time when Americans had a vision of an idealistic world; a cooperative peaceful state of selflessness innocence. Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:14) told his followers: You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. The Nation was to be that light and that city on the hill. (Ronald Reagan referred to this in his 11/3/80 Election Eve Address) Unfortunately that is not the way it has turned out. Americans now find themselves locked in a race between the original image of self-discovery and the present image of self-destruction. HOW DONALD TRUMP AND ROY COHN’S RUTHLESS SYMBIOSIS CHANGED AMERICA
1) Never admit you’re wrong. 2) If they attack you, counterattack viciously. 3) When you’re in trouble, distract and divert attention. .
Blog 70 Greta Thunberg .
I just returned from New York. While there I attended lectures at the Museum of Natural History by two noted Climatologists; Katherine Hayhoe and Cynthia Scharf. Greta Thunberg was at the UN for the UN Climate Summit. Every word of her presentation was prescient. Deadly irreversible tipping points are approaching us. They could lead to our extinction. This was confirmed by the two Climatologists. Also, they both stated that over the next several decades as tipping points are reached there will be no possibility of geoengineering reversal.
Click below for Greta Thunberg’s presentation:
Greta Thunberg And Warnings of Extinction ‘How dare you’: Greta Thunberg’s powerful speech
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. Our species is finished if we do not immediately effectuate systemic change in our Economic System . My Countercurrents essay about Our Cranial Problem prompted me to write this Blog. My New Book and the writings of John Scales Avery (Nobel Prize Award) address the planetary destructive side of our economic system. Click here for his complementary PDF download LIVES IN ECONOMICS Click here for my Amazon Review He tells us that the World Economic System is destroying our planet. My book says the same. . The Reality:
Recent scientific observations are warning us that we have become a threat to our continued existence on this planet. Violent weather aberrations and record global temperatures are now occurring. Ice in the Arctic and Antarctic is melting. A deadly Arctic Methane Hydrate Feedback Loop has already begun. By the end of this century oceans will be inundating coastal areas inhabited by as much as a quarter of human civilization. It is becoming more apparent by the day that our economic system is about to bring on an end to our planetary existence. That system is literally “eating up” our planet. It is turning our Biosphere against us.
According to George Orwell it will be a rough road
He summed up our human problem succinctly when he said: (Tribune. — GB, London. — March 22, 1946.)
“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality.”
Avery letter to me relating to needed economic change:
Dear David, Thank you for sending me your splendid new essay. I read it with great interest and admiration. As you say, we agree completely on these issues. It is good that we also have Noam Chomsky talking and writing about the dangers of catastrophic climate change and what must be done to avoid it.
I am really delighted that you will soon receive a copy of "The Need for a New Economic System", and that you will write reviews of it both for Amazon and for Countercurrents. Many many thanks! This means a great deal to me, since, as you can imagine, I am very anxious for the book to make an impact. With very many thanks and warmest greetings, John
https://wsimag.com/authors/716-john-scales-avery . Blog 68 GENOMIC ORIGINS Donald Trump's Brain “With the Cambrian Explosion 530 million Years BCE animals were developing spikes and plates for protection, and some well-developed eyes for seeing predators. Predators, in turn eyes for seeing prey from afar, also appendages and mouth parts for getting past some defenses.”
Paleontologist Professor Anthony Martin, Emory University CLICK HERE FOR MY COUNTERCURRENTS ESSAY CLICK HERE FOR PRESS RELEASE MY NEW BOOK
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CLICK HERE FOR MY COUNTERCURRENTS ESSAY
There is a material/non-material cosmic inner/outer dimensionality to this planet and within an enfolding/unfolding order. Our Homo sapiens civilization in its present form socially, politically, philosophically, religiously and economically is not meeting the test of being a part of that order. How can we become a part of it? Only a mind-change of shattering proportion can save us. . CLICK HERE FOR PRESS RELEASE MY NEW BOOK .
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Blog 66 Our Abuse of Religion “When religion becomes a mere artificial façade to justify a social and economic system – when religion hands over its rights and language completely to the political propagandist, and when prayer becomes a vehicle for a purely secular ideological program, then religion deadens the spirit. It becomes political fanaticism.”
Thomas Merton (1915 – 1968)
Thomas Merton identified one of our problems. Some religions today are a vehicle for “a purely secular ideological program.” They are a form of “political fanaticism.” As such they are ignoring many of the most critical issues facing human civilization; theologically and otherwise. One is the absence of understanding of the need for an interactive relationship between all forms of life on our planet. Necessary biosphere stabilization/regeneration is not in their interest. In recent years many scientists and nonscientists have concluded that we humans have become an ecological force that could lead to the extinction of almost all life, including our own. Religion needs to recognize this reality. Some progressive religionists have. Deep thinking religionists like the late Thomas Merton are an example. Most traditional religionists however have not. But then there is another troubling reality: Is it only Religion at fault? Religion is an attempt to understand who and what we are in relation to ourselves and each other and our planet and beyond. That in its purist form has ultimate human value. There is ample evidence over the centuries that for our own purposes we humans have used and abused Religion and we are continuing to use and abuse Religion.
It is we who are the problem.
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' “Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo are each genuine, end-of-days, believers in the apocalypse. Financial Times journalist Edward Luce said their religious beliefs about the end times exerts a troubling influence on their duties.”
Many of the President’s evangelical advisors such as Robert Jeffress, Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas (Often FOX guest) also hold this apocalyptic view. . It gets worse: Millions of Americans Believe God Made Trump President . Would it not be better – and far less painful for humanity as well as all other life on our planet – to have an Ecological Revolution ? . QUOTE Press Release My New Book Message to Donald Trump and His Sycophants
“We are being faced with an existential threat. There is the possibility of human extinction. And unlike threats in the past to all forms of life on the planet, this one will not be determined by a random meteorite/asteroid or natural planetary happening. It will be species' self-inflicted. We are that species. Where have we all gone wrong? Could it be that certain elements in our thought process, laboriously pieced together from the beginning of our bronze/iron/agricultural age are now working against us? And if so, what are those elements?” . John Scales Avery has just published a new book with the title:
We Need An Ecological Revolutio
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Click below for his Countercurrents essay and PDF download https://countercurrents.org/2019/03/27/we-need-an-ecological-revolution/ '
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Blog 64 Homo sapiens Extinction ?
“Without quick action to curb CO2 emissions, global warming is likely to increase by 4 degrees Centigrade (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above today’s normal during the 21st century and that is dangerously close to the temperature of 6 degrees Centigrade above normal that initiated the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago when 96% of all marine species and 70% of all terrestrial vertebrates were wiped out.”
Click below for Chris Hedges ON CONTACT video interview with Dahr Jamail. It confirms the seriousness of this issue. Here is a summary with specific regard to the Arctic: “We await a 50-gigaton burp, or "pulse," of methane from the Arctic permafrost beneath the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, which will release the equivalent of around two-thirds of the total carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere since the beginning of the industrial era.” . XXXX . Blog 63 THE GREEN NEW DEAL For ATroubled Millennial Generation A Millennial just challenged the sanity of US President Donald Trump. During an interview with the press by emphasizing the need for a Green New Deal she metaphorically pointed her finger in his face and made it clear that we are the one species on this planet with the power to destroy all life on it and that is what we are doing.
US Congressional Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “We must be as ambitious and innovative in our solution as possible,” Ocasio-Cortez declared during a press conference unveiling the Green New Deal resolution, which calls for a “national mobilization” to transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030. “We’re here to say that small, incremental policy solutions are not enough.”
DEFINITION GREEN NEW DEAL
Planetary resource depletion and destruction (negative external costs) were never a part of Adam Smith's pricing equation nor was recompense for ongoing irreparable ecological consequences. The Green New Deal calls for a pricing recognition of negative external costs beginning with fossil fuels.
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FOR ABSTRACT THIS SUBJECT FROM CHAPTER #5 MY NEW BOOK Overcoming the Threat to Our Future
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Saving The Future by John Scales Avery
https://countercurrents.org/2019/02/13/saving-the-future/
Climate Change Is Scary—Not the Green New Deal https://countercurrents.org/2019/02/16/climate-change-is-scary-not-the-green-new-deal/#comment-16906
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Blog 62 An Economic Solution for the Increase in the Emissions of CO2
QUOTE MY ESSAY It must be understood: This is just the first step toward human planetary resource control and human survival. Pricing in of other negative externalities harmful to humanity and all other life on the planet can then come next. Homo sapiens continuation rests on this premise: The biosphere is finite. We must find a way to live in a congruent state within that finitude.
Recent report UN We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN X Chapter # 8 of my New Book OVERCOMING the THREAT to Our FUTURE X Confronting the Culture of Death by Chris Hedges https://www.truthdig.com/articles/confronting-the-culture-of-death/ XXXXX
Blog # 61 Donald Trump vs Our Planet Scientists are warning us that unfolding ecological events beginning in this century will be devastating. Uncontrollable Global warming will occur, possibly faster than projected in the recent IPCC special report. Decade by decade there will be enormous pain and suffering for Homo sapiens – as well as all other life forms on our planet. Donald Trump as the leader of one of the most powerful industrialized nations in the world could lead us all out of this planetary doomsday. He is not. In fact he is accelerating the degenerative process. By any definition of the word he and his sycophant retrograde enablers are the personification of evil.
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Blog # 59 Threat To Our Future - Optimism bias
Could it be that there are inherent evolutionary cranial/neurological deficiencies in our DNA makeup; so deeply embedded that we as a species now in this industrial age are unable to comprehend ourselves as a threat to our own future existence? Could it be that this is the reason our response to our desecration of the planet and its biosphere is so muted? Could it be that this deceitful cranial/neurological DNA side of us will lead to our painful end? https://countercurrents.org/2018/12/13/threat-to-our-future-%E2%80%91-optimism-bias/
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From My New Book: Overcoming the Threat to Our Future
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein
Radical fundamentalist Judeo/Christian/Islamic belief will be forced to adjust to the reality of a disintegrating biosphere with humans searching for a return to equilibrium. This is not to say that many ancient texts and understandings of them will not have value. However, a new world-wide planetary realism will be taking form calling for changes in all social, political, philosophical, religious and economic thought. It will be challenging many religious beliefs. The big question is this: Can all of humanity change; those with religious belief and those without? Is such an emergence possible? Do we humans psychologically neurologically have the ability by means of some sort of epiphany to overcome our present “concretized past thinking disorder" and replace it with a new form of synchronous thought and behavior that can establish for Homo sapiens coexistent unity and inter active equilibrium with all life and nonlife on the planet? And if not, what then? https://progressivechristianity.org/?s=anderson&sv=author&submit=Search
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Blog 57 "Florence" Voter Apathy Carolinas
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https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/20/florence-voter-apathy-in-the-american-carolinas/
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Could it be that there are cranial/neurological deficiencies in our DNA makeup; so deeply embedded through our one/two million years of evolution, that we as a species now are unable to comprehend that we have become a threat to our own continued existence? Could it be that this is the reason our response in this industrial age to desecration of the planet and its biosphere is so muted? Could it be that this cranial deficiency will lead to our painful end? https://countercurrents.org/2018/08/06/our-cranial-problem/ https://progressivechristianity.org/resources/our-cranial-problem/ . Why the “Anthropocene” is not “Climate Change” In Climate Change — by Julia Adeney Thomas — February 28, 2019 https://countercurrents.org/2019/02/28/why-the-anthropocene-is-not-climate-change/ . XXXXX
Blog 55 Our Biosphere Problem
Over the next 50/150 years our Biosphere will undergo drastic temperature change. That change may bring about our extinction. Unlike past extinctions, this one will not be brought on by a random meteorite/asteroid or natural planetary happening. It will be self-inflicted by Homo sapiens. How could this be happening? The evidence is clear. As we spread throughout the planet, we destroyed all life and nonlife in our path. Then from the Industrial Revolution onward, without discretion we pillaged the planet’s natural resources, and in doing so burning enormous amounts of coal, oil and gas. At the same time deforestation limited the amount of CO2 being absorbed back. The result: carbon dioxide levels in the biosphere are now beyond what they were millions of years ago, well before our evolutionary beginnings. Rising global temperatures have been the result.
https://countercurrents.org/2018/06/17/our-biosphere-problem/
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. This essay will offer a solution by making the case for a transnational 100% Death Tax on those in control. https://countercurrents.org/2018/04/09/making-the-case-for-a-100-death-tax/ .
. Blog 53 The End of Our Axial Age .
Two quotes, one from Albert Einstein and the other from Herschel Elliott are in order:
“The problems in the world today are so enormous they cannot be solved with the level of thinking that created them." Albert Einstein “All ethical behavior must be relative to the protection and sustenance of the Earth's diverse yet mutually supporting systems of all living things.” Herschel Elliott ' Click here for my Countercurrents essay . Click here for my Progressive Christianity essay which looks to the early Jesus in the “Lost” Gospel of Thomas for a hint of a solution. Help From The Gospel of Thomas
. XXXXX . Blog 52 A Challenge to the Religions of Abraham - and to all others . During our two million plus years of evolutionary development we humans developed a high level of perception well beyond that of the other Primates. But deficiencies remained. We were left unable to comprehend the fullness of our interrelationship with the planet’s other life and its non-life. To compensate for this, about eight/six thousand years ago we chose to look upward into the Heavens and leave all else on the planet aside. We decided that we had no need to look to the air, the ground, the water (Life and non life) of our planet except for what it could all materially provide. In time however a certain level of planetary interdependent perception did come about. Early Judaism attempted to provide the answer. Read Progressive Christianity essay for more: https://progressivechristianity.org/resources/a-challenge-to-the-religions-of-abraham/ . XXXXX . Blog 51 China the End of Neo-Liberal American Exceptionalism . Human survival on this planet has now become a battle between two systems of thought and governance; one the American now under President Trump and the Republican Party based on Western Neo-Liberalism and the other the Chinese under Premier Xi Jinping based on a restating of Marxist Socialism. The implications for the future of human civilization are profound. In competition with the American are 1.388 billion Chinese citizens as well as those in Asian nations outside of China. Additionally there are the so called “Belt and Road Initiative” nations. As this battle of ideas is unfolding, globally American power militarily and by extension its “Western” value system is diminishing. One reason is that the American Neo-Liberal system of belief gives full rein to the dark neurotic psychotic side of the human impulse. That impulse is in a sense driven by narcissism. These two essays, Countercurrents and Progressive Christianity, as well as this one linked to: Blog # 28 The Failure of Democracy American and Other written in 2016 attempt to explain why China, if it succeeds in its experiment, will have a better chance of becoming the template for a viable future human civilization. . https://countercurrents.org/2017/12/07/the-end-of-american-exceptionalism/
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' XXXXX . Blog # 49 Ecological Observations on Abrahamic Belief Planet Earth is falling into deficit as a result of our presence on it. All of our institutions are to blame. How much responsibility does Abrahamic religious belief have? It has major responsibility. Its system of belief has been a molder of Western culture and the institutions that have grown out of that culture. It is a culture that now dominates most of the world. https://progressivechristianity.org/resources/ecological-observations-on-abrahamic-religious-belief/ . XXXXX . Blog # 48 Homo economicus we have all become The viability of Planet Earth to sustain human civilization in its present form is now being questioned. We are heading toward a cliff. The fall will not just be painful; it could spell the end of Homo sapiens. For a start, we urgently need to examine the rational undergirding our Capital Market system. Certain elements of that system, laboriously pieced together over the centuries beginning with the bronze/iron agricultural age and then energized during the Industrial Revolution are now working against us. This examination will require a questioning of the dark side of our neurotic/psychotic weakness. https://countercurrents.org/2017/07/20/homo-economicus-we-have-all-become/ ' XXXXX . Blog # 47 A twitter President, A Sclerotic Congress, A Horrifying Question: How far can the boat drift before it hits the rocks? We need to begin this discussion with the unfinished Presidency of Barack Obama. https://countercurrents.org/2017/06/17/a-twitter-president-a-sclerotic-congress-a-horrifying-question-how-far-can-the-boat-drift-before-it-hits-the-rocks/ . XXXXX . # 46 An Inherent Ecocidal Death Wish for Humanity http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/05/23/an-inherent-ecocidal-death-wish-of-humanity/ . XXXXX . # 45 The Methane Hydrate Feedback Loop ' Will we experience a Methane (CH4) Hydrate Feedback Loop that will place us on a repeat path like that of the Permian Triassic mass extinction? Or, to our horror, will there be some other self-induced something even more horrific and impossible to reverse. ' http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/03/20/the-methane-hydrate-feedback-loop-threat/ .
XXXXX . # 44 David Bohm – Post Modern Gnostic Reinventing the Sacred in the Age of the Cosmos . Bohm believed there is a cosmic interiority within the holomovement. It results in Implicate Order. From that order comes matter. Matter brings forth a process of enfoldment in endless feedback cycles, creating an infinite variety of manifest forms of materiality. Bohm was of the opinion that fundamental Cosmic Intelligence is the Player in this process; intelligence engaged in endless experimentation and creativity. He defined this as the Cosmic Mind, a Mind moving cyclically onward. https://progressivechristianity.org/resources/david-bohm-post-modern-gnostic/ .
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A metamorphosis of the human mind far surpassing others seen throughout history will be occurring. Humans finally will have come to an understanding of a harsh reality; by their own actions and inactions they have brought on the beginning of their end. A painful lesson will have been learned, one forcing them to accept the fact that their continued existence on Planet Earth is dependent on their ability to live in consonance with its natural rhythm, even broken as that rhythm has become. http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/11/scenario-homo-sapiens \ . XXXXX .
In covering the Middle East why are journalists avoiding it? What is it that keeps journalists from recognizing population growth in the Middle East as a primary cause for present violence and continuing instability? SEE: The Dark Cloud Forming Over The Middle East
https://progressivechristianity.org/resources/the-dark-cloud-forming-over-the-middle-east/ . XXXXX . # 41 A Dangerous Zero-Sum Game—Donald Trump vs The Planethttp://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/14/a-dangerous-zero-sum-game-donald-trump-vs-the-planet/ . .XXXXX . # 40 Probablity of Another Permian-Triassic Extinction - a Measure of Hope from Nag HammadiA Warning from the Gospel of Thomas
That which you have will save you if you bring it forth from yourselves. That which you do not have within you will kill you if you do not have it within you.
Jesus identified the problem. We need to be troubled. And we had better start soon. A 2012 World Bank report stated that without action to curb CO2 emissions, global warming is likely to add 4 degrees Centigrade (39.2 degrees Fahrenheit) during the 21st century which is dangerously close to the temperature that initiated the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago when 96% of all marine species and 70% of all terrestrial vertebrates were wiped out. The report pointed out that the cause of the warming will be an accelerated increase in the emission of Methane Hydrates from the Arctic.
http://progressivechristianity.org/resources/the-gospel-of-thomas/ . XXXXX . # 39 An Incomplete American Presidency
He tried and tried, but as much as he tried he was not able to get the anchor to hold. So the boat continues to drift at the mercy of the wind. http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/22/an-incomplete-american-presidency/.
XXXXX . # 38 Heading Toward Dangerous Shoals
For the first time in our species history we are being faced with the possibility of an existential threat to our continued existence. And unlike threats in the past that brought down other species, this one will not be determined by a random meteorite/asteroid or other cosmological or climatic happening. It will be self-inflicted. Where did we go wrong? Could it be that the pattern of our thought process, laboriously pieced together over the centuries beginning with the bronze iron agricultural age six/ten thousand years ago, is now working against our continuation? If so, what are those elements? Finally the question: How could we, the most clever and brilliant primate ever to evolve be bringing this upon ourselves? Do we also have a self-defeating psychotic/neurotic cranial problem? http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/10/existential-threats-and-our-belief-systems/ . XXXXX . # 37 An American Formulaic WeaknessThe time has come for serious introspection in America. The Nation is locked in a race between self-discovery and self-destruction. It is losing that race. It needs to recognize that the present equation does not equate. It is off-balance. America needs to reformulate a new equation. More wars based on the old equation will not do. Unfettered release of the human psyche as we now see in the current political scene will not do. And as for that critical evangelical Christian voting block; they need to understand that the Nation will be saved not by their belief in Jesus as their Savior, but by living his example. The Need For A New American Formula http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/22/the-need-for-a-new-american-formula/
http://progressivechristianity.org/resources/the-need-for-a-new-american-formula/ The Iran Non Deal http://www.countercurrents.org/anderson120815.htm . XXXXX .
# 36 An Uncertain Future for Humanity
An assumption we humans make about our planet is that we exist separate from it. It is here for us to enjoy and to use for our own comfort. We are above and beyond it. We will not accept the fact that we always have been and are now an evolving part of it in the formation of life and nonlife on it and subject to the same universal laws of construction/deconstruction that have determined our evolution from the first cellular moment. As a result of our incomprehension, we stubbornly refuse to accept that we have in this Age mechanistically decoupled ourselves from the evolutionary source of our being.
http://www.countercurrents.org/anderson190516.htm
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# 35 Psychotic Electorite ?
Simple Definition of psychotic "Having or relating to a very serious mental illness that makes you act strangely or believe things that are not true." Thomas Jefferson in The Declaration of Independence declared: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Here is a disturbing question: Is this a form of governance that allows expression and gives power to the worst of the psychotic self? To believe things that are not true? If so, both in America and in many other nations throughout the world following the same democratic model, has this become a threat to human survival?
CLICK BELOW. READ MY EXPLORITORY ESSAY IN COUNTERCURENTS:
http://www.countercurrents.org/anderson250316.htm
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# 34 Becoming Part of The Teleological Argument
http://progressivechristianity.org/resources/becoming-part-of-the-teleological-argument/
Occasionally I meet someone and they say to me; I am an Atheist. I think to myself: What exactly do you mean by that? How can you be so sure of what you disbelieve? You my friend need a better word and a better “A -” with more definition. In today’s quantum world such a statement as yours is “passé.” Theism, Atheism and Deism are word descriptions from the prescientific past. Seldom do we have the time to get into a deep discussion. So I often quickly respond like this: How can you argue that something beyond your ability to observe it does not exist? The absence of empirical proof of the existence of something is not proof of its nonexistence.
XXXXX # 33 The Dark Cloud Forming Over The Middle East
FOR ESSAY GO TO:
http://progressivechristianity.org/resources/the-dark-cloud-forming-over-the-middle-east/
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# 32 San Bernardino – A Challenge not just to one but to all three of the religions of Abraham
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. # 30 Why The COP21 Meeting in Paris Will Not Solve The Problem
FOR ESSAY GO TO:
http://www.countercurrents.org/anderson271115.htm
. XXXXX 29 An Experiment That Did Not Work ?
FOR ESSAY GO TO:
http://www.countercurrents.org/anderson201015.htm
This Blog explores the work of Garrett Hardin and Herschel Elliott.
# 28 The Failure Of Democracy – American amd Other
Eight hundred years ago with the English Magna Carta began the assumption of individual liberty and freedom for all. The ancient authoritarian political model was no longer to be the dominant form of governance. http://www.countercurrents.org/anderson250316.htm . XXXXX .
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