Pharmaceutical drugs are us!
They are in our water. They are in our rivers, streams and lakes. They are in us.
Why?
Because the industries that use or manufacture these drugs release 'small' quantities into the environment. But small quantities all over the place become large quantities.
We are water. Our bodies consist of around 75% water. This water is contaminated. We are contaminated. And it continues...
Why?
Because of money. Because our government and our policies allow this to happen. Because of the money related to the industries that produce and release the contaminants. Because our economic system practically overlooks the ways and means required to get products to market. Because we put off the effects of our money making to future generations. Because we mortgage our future and the future of our children to the profits of today.
We could establish a zero tolerance policy, and only allow industries to continue that do not pollute. But we don't because the dollar trumps all (except perhaps the euro and yuan --- but that is my point). Money trumps all. So we are destined to live as a chemical soup for the profits that go to the wealthy and powerful. For the stockholders that demand their payback on investment. For the corporate elite that benefit from the bottom line.
The bottom line is that we suffer so that money can be made. Because we are all confused and weak enough to not demand a clean environment and a clean life but instead trade dollars for minimum acceptable levels.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Purity in the Age of Chemicals
What is purity any more? How much have we allowed modern life to compromise the substance that we are? At what cost? Perchlorate, rocket fuel in baby food and water? And it is OK? Below the accepted limit.
We are water. We are composed of water. And now apparently rocket fuel as well? We love modern life, the comforts and amenities. Can we have these things without changing our chemistry to accept rocket fuel?
I think we can. Everything comes down to a matter of priorities. What do you tax? What do you support? How much crap is allowed beyond the industrial filters? These are questions that we can answer. Theses are problems that are within our reach to solve. A matter of priorities. Take the almighty $$$ from the altar within our lives and do not compromise our basic principles. Pretty easy to say. Try it sometime.
Who can you respect
What can you expect
From the next moment in your life?
We are water. We are composed of water. And now apparently rocket fuel as well? We love modern life, the comforts and amenities. Can we have these things without changing our chemistry to accept rocket fuel?
I think we can. Everything comes down to a matter of priorities. What do you tax? What do you support? How much crap is allowed beyond the industrial filters? These are questions that we can answer. Theses are problems that are within our reach to solve. A matter of priorities. Take the almighty $$$ from the altar within our lives and do not compromise our basic principles. Pretty easy to say. Try it sometime.
Who can you respect
What can you expect
From the next moment in your life?
Sunday, January 25, 2009
As they say... Violence Begets Violence
Trying to change the world and force your will on others by violence leads to more violence. Whether done in the name of State or Religion or personal triumph, the world becomes a more violent place. Our roots as humans are steeped in violence. Our history as humans is steeped in violence. If we survive as a race we will learn to change this behavior. Developing creeds and courts changes the structures and organizations within which we live. Changing our thoughts and ideas and the range of our responses changes humanity. It is a very slow and necessary process to lift us from the world of violence from which we arose.
www.changing-history.com
www.changing-history.com
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Bush basking in the Sun or crimes against humanity?
Bush and his cronies have made the world a much worse place since he arrived. There is more hate and more violence, more economic distress, more environmental distress, and more resources concentrated in the hands of a few.
He is definitely an idiot (witness his legacy of ridiculous statements), but an idiot following an arrogant, selfish and sinister plan that was well designed and well executed by the people around him. They flaunted accepted international agreements and treaties and weakened the power of a unified global community. It is time for international court to begin processing charges of crimes against humanity indicting Bush and his culpable administration. To think of him basking in the sun on his ranch, enjoying the pleasantries of a celebrity, with the blood of hundreds of thousands on his hands at the expense of the public sickens me.
I believe that if he and his culpable administrators received justice in international court, this type of abuse of power would be less likely to occur again. It is now our Global responsibility to illuminate and seek justice for these crimes… our responsibility to those involved, and our legacy to future generations.
He is definitely an idiot (witness his legacy of ridiculous statements), but an idiot following an arrogant, selfish and sinister plan that was well designed and well executed by the people around him. They flaunted accepted international agreements and treaties and weakened the power of a unified global community. It is time for international court to begin processing charges of crimes against humanity indicting Bush and his culpable administration. To think of him basking in the sun on his ranch, enjoying the pleasantries of a celebrity, with the blood of hundreds of thousands on his hands at the expense of the public sickens me.
I believe that if he and his culpable administrators received justice in international court, this type of abuse of power would be less likely to occur again. It is now our Global responsibility to illuminate and seek justice for these crimes… our responsibility to those involved, and our legacy to future generations.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
World Summary-- October 30, 2008
HATE ABOUNDS. IGNORANCE KILLS. POLITICS SUCK. AWARENESS IS PARAMOUNT.
Monday, August 18, 2008
The Power to Change History?
Excellent reporting of courageous people acting their conscience. This is what changes history. It is by our actions that we can and do change history. To change history, one must affect the present through your actions. It is in the power of our actions today that history is changed.
History is not merely a collection of facts. Facts make sense only within the milieu within which they are understood. Without a milieu, without a context, facts are meaningless. So to ‘change history’ one must act to change the current environment so that it reflects a new meaning of past events.
That is our power as awareness-seeking beings. That is our responsibility within the flux of past, present and future. In the present, we act through the past to change the future. Every action that we take affects what will come to be. That is how we ‘change history’. That is how we experience the power of our being.
http://www.Changing-History.com
History is not merely a collection of facts. Facts make sense only within the milieu within which they are understood. Without a milieu, without a context, facts are meaningless. So to ‘change history’ one must act to change the current environment so that it reflects a new meaning of past events.
That is our power as awareness-seeking beings. That is our responsibility within the flux of past, present and future. In the present, we act through the past to change the future. Every action that we take affects what will come to be. That is how we ‘change history’. That is how we experience the power of our being.
http://www.Changing-History.com
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Philosophy or Science
What can be said about the rising importance of science and the seemingly loss of validity of philosophy in the world today?...
With the rise of science as a guiding force of culture and society partially replacing some of the influence of religion, philosophy began to become an orphan. The increasing success of scientific research, practice and engineering began to place heavy strains on the foundations of philosophy. Part of the response to the dominance of science and scientific methods was analytic philosophy, which attempts to disassemble logic and experience into discrete verifiable parts. This was an attempt to ‘harden’ philosophy into a provable system and away from its speculative origins.
This has been one of the dominant themes of philosophy for the past century, brought about by the stress of competing with science. But recent comments indicate that the strengthening of philosophy by adopting a rationalist approach have not completely succeeded.
There are many other approaches to describing reality other than science. Science is incredibly strong and can do many things. But science is limited by the box defined by the outer reaches of its understanding. Phenomena beyond the capabilities of current science and scientific method cannot be explained, and the relationships of these phenomena to the events of our understanding are ignored or misinterpreted. There is no way around this. It is the nature of the system.
So science can only describe so much and beyond that is speculation. When we discuss phenomena and relationships beyond the limits of that comprehension we are speculating. We are speculating either as isolated individuals who can only experience the world in our own particular way, or as part of a connected experience of all people and things in the world. So our speculation is either completely individual or shared with the world around us.
Now believing in science and using it as the sole guide in interpreting reality is somewhat like taking a leap of faith to a divine, all-knowing, omnipotent creator. And that is where philosophy returns and may be a good place to start our questioning today. What unexplained and seemingly unrelated phenomena affect the experience of our existence? Are we connected and in what ways? And if we are connected what does that say about our ability to ‘know’ the world around us?
Science is definitely dominant in our times and the notion of a speculative discipline to minds embodied in rigorous method can easily be ridiculed. But beyond science, beyond our current enamorment with the works that we create the edges are all speculation. Love it and embrace it. It is all that we have.
With the rise of science as a guiding force of culture and society partially replacing some of the influence of religion, philosophy began to become an orphan. The increasing success of scientific research, practice and engineering began to place heavy strains on the foundations of philosophy. Part of the response to the dominance of science and scientific methods was analytic philosophy, which attempts to disassemble logic and experience into discrete verifiable parts. This was an attempt to ‘harden’ philosophy into a provable system and away from its speculative origins.
This has been one of the dominant themes of philosophy for the past century, brought about by the stress of competing with science. But recent comments indicate that the strengthening of philosophy by adopting a rationalist approach have not completely succeeded.
There are many other approaches to describing reality other than science. Science is incredibly strong and can do many things. But science is limited by the box defined by the outer reaches of its understanding. Phenomena beyond the capabilities of current science and scientific method cannot be explained, and the relationships of these phenomena to the events of our understanding are ignored or misinterpreted. There is no way around this. It is the nature of the system.
So science can only describe so much and beyond that is speculation. When we discuss phenomena and relationships beyond the limits of that comprehension we are speculating. We are speculating either as isolated individuals who can only experience the world in our own particular way, or as part of a connected experience of all people and things in the world. So our speculation is either completely individual or shared with the world around us.
Now believing in science and using it as the sole guide in interpreting reality is somewhat like taking a leap of faith to a divine, all-knowing, omnipotent creator. And that is where philosophy returns and may be a good place to start our questioning today. What unexplained and seemingly unrelated phenomena affect the experience of our existence? Are we connected and in what ways? And if we are connected what does that say about our ability to ‘know’ the world around us?
Science is definitely dominant in our times and the notion of a speculative discipline to minds embodied in rigorous method can easily be ridiculed. But beyond science, beyond our current enamorment with the works that we create the edges are all speculation. Love it and embrace it. It is all that we have.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)