Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Feeling love and happiness..
"Feeling love and happiness, and feeling peace within me, to my mind is the highest achievement I can attain as a human being on a day-to-day basis. Everything else is just a distraction." Christine Butler
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Poem
How do I think of you?
I wonder what you would look like with desire in your eyes
Serious
Intense
Wanting me
Giving me one single kiss on the side of my neck
that sends ripples through me and brings tears to my eyes
You look from eye to eye quickly
looking for my response
Then a small smile traces your lips
and you kiss me
My upper lip
then my lower
Aand lick my upper with your tongue
You sigh and look into my eyes again
not smiling this time
You say
I love you
I wonder what you would look like with desire in your eyes
Serious
Intense
Wanting me
Giving me one single kiss on the side of my neck
that sends ripples through me and brings tears to my eyes
You look from eye to eye quickly
looking for my response
Then a small smile traces your lips
and you kiss me
My upper lip
then my lower
Aand lick my upper with your tongue
You sigh and look into my eyes again
not smiling this time
You say
I love you
Monday, January 29, 2007
The Gaia Theory of a Living Single Organism Earth
The scientist James Lovelock with philosopher Dian Hitchcock came up with the theory of Gaia in the 1970’s while looking at the moon, and noticing how dead it was compared to the earth, which seemed teeming with life. They experimented further and found that the air was not just another aspect of the earth’s surrounds, but actually a part of it, like fur is to a cat. They concluded that if the air was alive and part of the earth, then the earth too must be alive and active. He “began to wonder if it could be that the air is not just an environment for life but it is also a part of life itself. “
The Gaian idea is that life forms actually control and manipulate their planet to suit themselves and to make it more conducive to the evolution of further organisms. This has upset many scientists, who find the theory too all-encompassing to grasp. Another debate by traditional scientists has been against the idea that cooperation between organisms can arise, where science tends to believe that organisms act out of selfishness and survival. No wonder the planet is in trouble! An example of this is that Lovelock believes sulphur returns from the sea to the land through marine algae. The algae help life by circulating sulphur throughout the biosphere so their proliferation of this algae continued as it ensured life for all.
Another phenomenon that proves we live on an intelligent planet is our stable temperature, which remains in the exact range suitable for life, no matter what has happened in the billions of years there’s been life on earth.
The Gaia theory gives us hope for the continuing survival of the planet despite the amount of pollution we are putting into ‘the organism’ (i.e. land, air, sky and inhabitants). It’s not an excuse to run amuck, but the earth’s system, if intelligent as the Gaia-ists would have us believe, will also find a way to keep everything stable and everything living, and even to dispel the pollution. Of course, that may mean that the earth system heats up the atmosphere, leading to increased temperatures, which ignites people’s tempers so the human race annihilates itself and that’s the earth’s solution to the problem! The scary thing about the Gaia hypothesis is that humans are not necessarily important in the overall scheme of things, and that the species that act to enhance the health of Gaia are the ones that prosper and matter in the long run.
Lovelock believes that there are regions on earth that are important to Gaia’s survival, and these areas may be the key to sustainability. Continental shelves may be vital in the regulation of the oxygen-carbon cycle. “ It is through the burial of carbon in the anaerobic muds of the sea bed that a net increment of oxygen in the atmosphere is ensured.” Lovelock also believes that wetlands and the tropical rainforests and scrub lands between latitudes 45 degrees north and 45 degrees south are core regions of Gaia. Lovelock urges that we watch carefully the tropics and the seas close to the continental shelves. “ Here (humans) may sap the vitality of Gaia, by reducing productivity and by deleting key species in her life-support system; and (we) may then exacerbate the situation by releasing into the air or the sea abnormal quantities of compounds which are potentially dangerous on a global scale.”
"Organisms do not just adapt to a dead world determined by physics and chemistry alone. They live in a world that is the breath and bones of their ancestors and that they are now sustaining." - James Lovelock.
The Gaian idea is that life forms actually control and manipulate their planet to suit themselves and to make it more conducive to the evolution of further organisms. This has upset many scientists, who find the theory too all-encompassing to grasp. Another debate by traditional scientists has been against the idea that cooperation between organisms can arise, where science tends to believe that organisms act out of selfishness and survival. No wonder the planet is in trouble! An example of this is that Lovelock believes sulphur returns from the sea to the land through marine algae. The algae help life by circulating sulphur throughout the biosphere so their proliferation of this algae continued as it ensured life for all.
Another phenomenon that proves we live on an intelligent planet is our stable temperature, which remains in the exact range suitable for life, no matter what has happened in the billions of years there’s been life on earth.
The Gaia theory gives us hope for the continuing survival of the planet despite the amount of pollution we are putting into ‘the organism’ (i.e. land, air, sky and inhabitants). It’s not an excuse to run amuck, but the earth’s system, if intelligent as the Gaia-ists would have us believe, will also find a way to keep everything stable and everything living, and even to dispel the pollution. Of course, that may mean that the earth system heats up the atmosphere, leading to increased temperatures, which ignites people’s tempers so the human race annihilates itself and that’s the earth’s solution to the problem! The scary thing about the Gaia hypothesis is that humans are not necessarily important in the overall scheme of things, and that the species that act to enhance the health of Gaia are the ones that prosper and matter in the long run.
Lovelock believes that there are regions on earth that are important to Gaia’s survival, and these areas may be the key to sustainability. Continental shelves may be vital in the regulation of the oxygen-carbon cycle. “ It is through the burial of carbon in the anaerobic muds of the sea bed that a net increment of oxygen in the atmosphere is ensured.” Lovelock also believes that wetlands and the tropical rainforests and scrub lands between latitudes 45 degrees north and 45 degrees south are core regions of Gaia. Lovelock urges that we watch carefully the tropics and the seas close to the continental shelves. “ Here (humans) may sap the vitality of Gaia, by reducing productivity and by deleting key species in her life-support system; and (we) may then exacerbate the situation by releasing into the air or the sea abnormal quantities of compounds which are potentially dangerous on a global scale.”
"Organisms do not just adapt to a dead world determined by physics and chemistry alone. They live in a world that is the breath and bones of their ancestors and that they are now sustaining." - James Lovelock.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Why it is Manly to Cry
It IS manly to cry, and you deny yourself your manhood when you hold back your emotions.
You have chosen to be human and humaness is an emotional state. It’s what sets us apart from other planes of existence where there is no physicality and no emotion and no sense of time. Emotion is therefore one of the three important distinctions of the human being and therefore how we evolve.
If as a man you decide to deny your emotion self, you’re also denying yourself the opportunity to evolve as a human being. And not only yourself, but you also deny that to the men around you and your male children, who see from you what it is to be a man, and follow your lead.
Don’t let generation after generation of men cease to evolve. Men die more of heart attacks then women because they suppress their emotions. Suppressing emotions is the core cause of addiction. Do yourself a favour and join the human race! We need you! And we need men to evolve at the same rate as women, so that we move into the world that we dream of together, as a unified force.
You have chosen to be human and humaness is an emotional state. It’s what sets us apart from other planes of existence where there is no physicality and no emotion and no sense of time. Emotion is therefore one of the three important distinctions of the human being and therefore how we evolve.
If as a man you decide to deny your emotion self, you’re also denying yourself the opportunity to evolve as a human being. And not only yourself, but you also deny that to the men around you and your male children, who see from you what it is to be a man, and follow your lead.
Don’t let generation after generation of men cease to evolve. Men die more of heart attacks then women because they suppress their emotions. Suppressing emotions is the core cause of addiction. Do yourself a favour and join the human race! We need you! And we need men to evolve at the same rate as women, so that we move into the world that we dream of together, as a unified force.
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