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Re: Corporate Mendacity and Duplicity
By: AGelbert Date: September 7, 2014, 8:53 pm
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Dr. Vandana Shiva TAKES SPECTER'S PRO-GMO HIT PIECE APART!
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Snippet (of a 4 page thorough article!):
[quote]Invoking imagery of a quaint India reveals an
ethnographic prejudice that fits right into the strategy of
seemingly ‘helping’ India while extracting, like colonizers,
capital and natural resources from the colonies. In ways other
than the obvious, Specter sounds like an Angrez Sahib (English
Sahib) describing the ‘natives’ in 1943, when he notes
“skin the color of burnt molasses and the texture of a well-
worn saddle”
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One can only hope that he may overcome his disdain of non-white,
non-industrial populations, Indian farmers, and farmers in
general, because he seems to view them as inferior and incapable
of feeding themselves and their growing population even though
the Food and Agriculture Organization reports that 70 percent of
global food comes from small farms.
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Seeds of Truth: A Response to Michael Specter’s Article in The
New Yorker
Dr. Vandana Shiva
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Agelbert Comment: Specter wrote a hit piece with some "polish"
in the service of Profit over Planet, PERIOD.
I totally disagreed with his article and said so at the time.
Specter's "technique" is really [color=brown]old hat arrogant
racist imperialism disguised as "erudite analysis" and
"constructive" criticism. [/color]
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Re: Corporate Mendacity and Duplicity
By: AGelbert Date: September 14, 2014, 1:35 pm
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Fake Meat and Other Tainted Food in China Exposed on ‘Wikipedia’
Website
Anastasia Pantsios | September 12, 2014 12:03 pm | Comments
From time to time there’s a scare in the U.S. about food
imported from China, with the pet food incident that sickened
and killed thousands of animals the best known.
Wu Heng,
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a graduate
student from Shanghai, launched a website to aggregate and
disseminate information about tainted food in China.
Some Chinese aren’t any happier about questionable food produced
in their country than Americans are, especially after the 2008
adulterated milk scandal that killed six infants and
hospitalized tens of thousands.
That scandal attracted the interest of Wu Heng, a graduate
student from Shanghai. As more incidents of tainted food were
publicized, it eventually led him to start a website, launched
in May 2012, to aggregate and disseminate information about
tainted food. The site, Throwing It Out the Window, or Zhi Chu
Chuang Wai in Chinese, takes its name from a story about
President Theodore Roosevelt throwing a sausage out the window
after reading Upton Sinclair’s 1906 book The Jungle about the
horrors of the meat-packing industry.
The website details such appetite-killing incidents as pork
colored with chemicals to look like beef, restaurants using
cooking oil recovered from dumpsters, “lamb” that turned out to
be rat, and expired meat or meat from already-dead animals being
mixed with good meat.
Wu has now turned those posts into a newly published book, also
called Throwing It Out the Window ;D. It collects some of the
information from his site and provides advice on how to avoid
the worst of the tainted food, although he says it’s virtually
impossible to avoid it entirely. :P
Wu describes the site as a “Wikipedia,” but it’s basically a
database of news articles and government press releases about
food safety incidents, warnings, and recalls. Prior to launching
the site, he and about three dozen other students analyzed and
categorized more than 17,000 news reports. Categories included
fake food, expired food, food containing potentially unsafe
additives, food containing foreign matter, problem packaging,
food sold without a license, substandard food, food that has not
passed quarantine inspection and unhygienic food.
Full article at link below:
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Does evil exist?
By: AGelbert Date: September 18, 2014, 6:06 pm
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[quote]Does evil exist?
The university professor challenged his students with this
question. Did God create everything that exists? A student
bravely replied, "Yes, he did!"
"God created everything? The professor asked.
"Yes sir", the student replied.
The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God
created evil since evil exists, and according to the principal
that our works define who we are then God is evil". The student
became quiet before such an answer. The professor was quite
pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had
proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a
question professor?"
"Of course", replied the professor.
The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"
"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you
never been cold?" The students snickered at the young man's
question.
The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist.
According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in
reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible
to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes
a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460
degrees F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes
inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does
not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if
we have no heat."
The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"
The professor responded, "Of course it does."
The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness
does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of
light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use
Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study
the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure
darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of
darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain
space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this
correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens
when there is no light present."
Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil
exist?"
Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have
already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of
man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and
violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are
nothing else but evil."
To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at
least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence
of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has
created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil.
Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light
and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not
have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that
comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when
there is no light."
The professor sat down.
The young man's name — Albert Einstein.
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question. Did God create everything that exists? A student
bravely replied, "Yes, he did!"
"God created everything? The professor asked.
"Yes sir", the student replied.
The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God
created evil since evil exists, and according to the principal
that our works define who we are then God is evil". The student
became quiet before such an answer. The professor was quite
pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had
proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a
question professor?"
"Of course", replied the professor.
The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"
"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you
never been cold?" The students snickered at the young man's
question.
The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist.
According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in
reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible
to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes
a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460
degrees F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes
inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does
not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if
we have no heat."
The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"
The professor responded, "Of course it does."
The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness
does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of
light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use
Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study
the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure
darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of
darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain
space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this
correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens
when there is no light present."
Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil
exist?"
Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have
already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of
man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and
violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are
nothing else but evil."
To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at
least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence
of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has
created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil.
Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light
and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not
have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that
comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when
there is no light."
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The young man's name — [s]Albert Einstein.[/s] [/quote]
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Agelbert NOTE: Apparently Einstein, reputed to have said the
above, DID NOT say the above. SAY WHAT!!?
;D I still think it is valid but I wish to give you worthies
the REST OF THE STORY. It's an urban legend with a few
interesting and fascinating variations. ;D
[quote]Origins: For those looking for a quick answer to the
question of whether this item is literally true, we'll state up
front that it is not. Nothing remotely like the account related
above appears in any biography or article about Albert Einstein,
nor is the account congruent with that scientist's expressed
views on the subject of religion (in which he generally
described himself as an "agnostic" or a "religious
nonbeliever"). Einstein's name has simply been inserted into an
anecdote created long after his death in order to provide the
reading audience with a recognizable figure and thus lend the
tale an air of verisimilitude
As to what this account says from a standpoint of faith, one of
the most troubling conundrums is the question of how evil and
suffering can survive in a universe created and managed by a
loving supreme being. Postulated explanations of this paradox
are known as theodicies, and such answers have been for
centuries handed out by members of many belief systems when
challenged to provide logical answers to the question of how it
is possible that a just and moral God can co-exist with evil.
Among these answers are:
• Free Will: God gave his children the right to make up their
own minds as to who they would be, and some chose to be rotten.
• Imperfect Supreme Being: God struggles valiantly to cope with
a universe filled with random events (chaos), but as powerful as
he is, he can't undo every awful thing the moment it happens.
• The Devil: An evil entity preys upon the weak of will, winning
many of the flawed to his side where they are first welcomed,
then sent out to do his bidding. While God is ultimately fated
to win the final battle against this adversary, until that time
the entity's minions wreak havoc.
• Incomprehensibility: "Good" and "evil" are human constructs
born of Mankind's limited understanding of the universe. Were
people capable of seeing things through God's eyes, they would
grasp the morality and rightness of all that now leaves them
aghast in horror and riddled with unease at its seeming
unfairness.
The Internet forward quoted above draws upon yet another
possible explanation: that evil is the absence of God, in the
same way that cold is the absence of heat, and dark is the
absence of light. This argument has been around for a long time,
as has the legend about the pious student using it to squelch an
atheist professor.
The name of Einstein gets used in legends whose plots call for
a smart person, one whom the audience will immediately recognize
as such (i.e., modern tellings of an ancient legend about a
learned rabbi who switches places with his servant feature
Albert Einstein in the role of esteemed scholar). This venerated
cultural icon has, at least in the world of contemporary lore,
become a stock character to be tossed into the fray wherever the
script calls for a genius.
Likewise, "the atheist professor" is a figure common to a
number of urban legends and anecdotes of the faithful: he gets
flung into the mix where there's a need for someone to play the
role of Science Vanquished in Science-versus-Religion tales. But
he is not inserted merely to serve as an icon of learning to be
humbled in tales that aim to teach that faith is of greater
value than provable knowledge; he is also woven into these sorts
of stories for his lack of belief. Just as the villain in
oldtime melodramas ::) had to have a waxed moustache, a black
cape, and an evil laugh, so too must the bullying professor of
such stories be an atheist: it would not be enough for him to be
merely an insufferable, over-educated git arrogantly attempting
to stretch the minds of his students by having them question
something deeply believed. No, he must instead be someone who
rejects the existence of God, an assignment of role that
re-positions what might otherwise have been a bloodless debate
about philosophy as an epic battle between two champions of
faith and denial and sets up the action to unfold as one putting
the boots to the other.
"The atheist professor" plays his expected role of getting his
pants kicked in the Dropped Chalk tale, where he (once again)
challenges his browbeaten students on the topic of God's
existence. He is also pivotal to these following tales, which
are yet other variations on the same theme:
A college class was led by an atheist professor, and every day
he'd stand in front of his class and say, "Have you ever seen
God?" to which nobody would answer. Then he'd ask, "Have you
ever felt God?" and nobody would answer. Finally he'd ask, "Have
you ever heard God?" and, like the other times, nobody would
answer. He then would say, "It is obvious that there is no God."
One day a Christian student had been having an extremely bad
day; her car broke down, her mother was sick, her boyfriend was
out of town, and she'd gotten a bad grade on one of her exams.
She had been fed up with her professor's little act every
morning, so she decided to do something about it.
While the professor stood up at the beginning of class and did
his thing, the student had an idea. She got up and said,
"Professor, would you mind if I said something?" He said, "Of
course not. This is an expressive classroom, and I think it
would be fine if you spoke your mind."
The girl said to the class, "Have you ever seen our professor's
brain?" and nobody answered. Then she asked, "Have you ever felt
our professor's brain?" and nobody answered. Finally she asked,
"Have you ever heard our professor's brain?" and, like the other
times, nobody answered.
She then said, "It is quite obvious that our professor has no
brain."
An atheist professor was teaching a college class and he told
the class that he was going to prove that there is no God.
He said, "God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off
this platform. I'll give you 15 minutes!"
Ten minutes went by.
The professor kept taunting God, saying, "Here I am, God. I'm
still waiting."
He got down to the last couple of minutes and a Marine just
released from active duty, and newly registered in the class,
walked up to the professor, hit him full force in the face, and
sent him flying from his platform.
The professor struggled up, obviously shaken and yelled,
"What's the matter with you? Why did you do that?"
The Marine replied, "God was busy, so He sent me."
Navy SEALs are always taught
1) Keep your priorities in order and
2) Know when to act without hesitation.
A Navy SEAL was attending some college courses between
assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
One of the courses had a professor who was an avowed atheist and
a member of the ACLU. One day he shocked the class when he came
in, looked to the ceiling, and flatly stated, "God, if you are
real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give
you exactly 15 minutes."
The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten
minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, "Here I am God.
I'm still waiting."
It got down to the last couple of minutes when the SEAL got out
of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-c o c k e d
him; knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold.
The SEAL went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The
other students were shocked and stunned and sat there looking on
in silence.
The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at
the SEAL and asked, "What the hell is the matter with you? Why
did you do that?"
The SEAL calmly replied, "God was too busy today protecting
America's soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid
thiings and act like an i d i o t. So He sent me." The key to
understanding the allure of these tales lies in this one line
from the "evil is the absence of God" story:
The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the
students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith
was a myth.
Faith can't be proved (or disproved); if such validations were
possible, those concepts would stop being matters of faith and
start being matters of fact. Unfortunately, this leaves those
who are convinced of the existence of God without an
incontrovertible, irrefutable answer to those who challenge them
to provide evidence of the veracity of their
belief systems' tenets, or to demonstrate beyond any shadow of
doubt that their inner direction is the right one to those who
insist on independently verifiable proof of that which can't be
proved.
That God permits evil to exist (and some would say to thrive)
is taken by non-believers as an inarguable sign that there is no
supreme being. This puzzle is pointed to by them as the
unanswerable fallacy that proves the negative: they reckon that
a loving, all-powerful God would have stamped out evil, ergo He
doesn't exist, or He is not all-powerful, or He is not all that
enamored of His children. As such, this paradox can be
disquieting to those who do believe: not only do they themselves
have to wrestle with the seeming disconnect, they are left
unable to convincingly answer their critics when this topic
comes up. They find themselves similarly hamstrung when pressed
to prove the existence of God.
Stories about atheist professors being bested by true believers
who did have answers at the ready are both ventings of this
frustration and expressions of delight in finally seeming to
have been armed with deft responses to fling back. These are
tales of affirmation, modern-day parables of trials overcome and
fierce adversaries bested by those who held fast to what they
believed in, even in the face of ridicule rained down by
authority figures. Like parables, they are meant to inspire
similar resolve in those with whom they are shared: should those
members of the flock ever find themselves in like circumstances,
they should feel moved to emulate the brave students of legend
who stood up to the atheist professors.
Barbara "lamb nanny and the professor" Mikkelson
Last updated: 3 April 2014
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For those who think atheist professors don't deliberately set
out to mock students who believe in God, you are WOEFULLY
mistaken. I am a VETERAN of LENGTHY back and forth with this
type of debate in college biology (hi Darwin!) classrooms (Where
PHILOSOPHY is NOT SUPPOSED to be PUSHED by a PROF!).
See this SELF SERVING QUOTE from the above narrative casting
ATHEIST PROFS incorrectly but cleverly as VICTIMS of
irrationality: [quote]it would not be enough for him to be
merely an insufferable, over-educated git arrogantly attempting
to stretch the minds of his students by having them question
something deeply believed.
No, he must instead be someone who rejects the existence of God,
an assignment of role that re-positions what might otherwise
have been a bloodless debate about philosophy as an epic battle
between two champions of faith and denial and sets up the action
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Sorry (NOT! ;D) to rain on the atheist parade, but that is
EXACTLY what the prof is doing to try to UNDERMINE belief in God
in order to CONVERT his students to the RELIGION of "modern"
science ( DARWIN's Atheism based Theory of Evolution!
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Re: Corporate Mendacity and Duplicity
By: AGelbert Date: September 18, 2014, 6:25 pm
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Surly,
I totally disagree that this quote below is anything but an
arrogant bit of pro-atheist puffery disguised as measured,
objective prudent logic:
[quote]The name of Einstein gets used in legends whose plots
call for a smart person, one whom the audience will immediately
recognize as such (i.e., modern tellings of an ancient legend
about a learned rabbi who switches places with his servant
feature Albert Einstein in the role of esteemed scholar). This
venerated cultural icon has, at least in the world of
contemporary lore, become a stock character to be tossed into
the fray wherever the script calls for a genius.
Likewise, "the atheist professor" is a figure common to a
number of urban legends and anecdotes of the faithful: he gets
flung into the mix where there's a need for someone to play the
role of Science Vanquished in Science-versus-Religion tales. But
he is not inserted merely to serve as an icon of learning to be
humbled in tales that aim to teach that faith is of greater
value than provable knowledge; he is also woven into these sorts
of stories for his lack of belief. Just as the villain in
oldtime melodramas ::) had to have a waxed moustache, a black
cape, and an evil laugh, so too must the bullying professor of
such stories be an atheist: it would not be enough for him to be
merely an insufferable, over-educated git arrogantly attempting
to stretch the minds of his students by having them question
something deeply believed. No, he must instead be someone who
rejects the existence of God, an assignment of role that
re-positions what might otherwise have been a bloodless debate
about philosophy as an epic battle between two champions of
faith and denial and sets up the action to unfold as one putting
the boots to the other.
"The atheist professor" plays his expected role of getting his
pants kicked in the Dropped Chalk tale, where he (once again)
challenges his browbeaten students on the topic of God's
existence.[/quote]
If you CANNOT see the clever RIDICULE aimed at the Theist in
defense of the Atheist, you are the one not being objective.
Consider what an objective person (someone who logically and
reasonably questions the appeal to authority that doesn't know
Einstein from Adam) does when he reads the name Albert Einstein.
He thinks, well, that dude must have been a famous person known
for his intelligence and his name could have been placed there
as an appeal to authority (a fallacious logic debating
technique).
So, he looks up EINSTEIN QUOTES to see where Einstein was coming
from WITHOUT taking Snopes' OBVIOUSLY pro-atheist SPIN as valid
regardless of whether Einstein said the quote or not.
It is absolutely necessary at this point in analysis to DIVORCE
the quote validity from the appeal to authority. The QUOTE is to
be studied as to its merits, not on whether Einstein, said it,
but whether it is a valid statement.
Nevertheless, one must accept that the appeal to authority, if
Einstein DID NOT say it, is fallacious logic and taints the
statement's integrity.
But the Snopes' article attempts to add two and two and get
FIVE! :evil4: :emthdown: Because the appeal to authority CANNOT
BE PROVEN, therefore the QUOTE is not to be taken seriously.
BALONEY.
Einstein quotes:
1. I want to know how God created this world. I am not
interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this
or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are
details.
2.Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is
blind.
3.My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable
superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are
able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
4.The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the
more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity
does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death,
and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
5.Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science
becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the
Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the
face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.
6.The scientists’ religious feeling takes the form of a
rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals
an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all
the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly
insignificant reflection.
7.There is no logical way to the discovery of elemental laws.
There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling
for the order lying behind the appearance.
8.The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a
faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the
servant and has forgotten the gift.
9.The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious;
It is the source of all true art and science.
10.We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it
has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
11.Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and
Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
12.When the solution is simple, God is answering.
13.God does not play dice with the universe.
14.God is subtle but he is not malicious.
15. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe,
a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his
thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest-a
kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is
a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to
free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to
embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.
16.Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances
for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a
vegetarian diet.
17.The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow
creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost
disqualified for life.
18.Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by
understanding.
19.Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
20.The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We
are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are
covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues.
The child knows that someone must have written these books. It
does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages
in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan
in the arrangement of the books—-a mysterious order which it
does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
21.The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has
its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when
he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely
to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a
holy curiosity.
22. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can
comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking
person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious
feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.
23.The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic
emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science.
Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable
of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To
know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and
manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant
beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor
faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of
the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense
alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.
24.The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is
easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of
man.
25.True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul,
with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
26.Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means
and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the
ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental
ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life
of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important
function which religion has to form in the social life of man.
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Could Eintein have made the QUOTE that Snopes says Einstein
never made? From the above study of Einstein's ACTUAL QUOTES, I
say, CERTAINLY (See quote number 17 and 11 = Atheist Professor.
But there are LOTS more!)!
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And for the Cherry Pickers that will jump on quote number 4 with
both feet :icon_mrgreen:, I suggest you balance that LOGICALLY
and REASONABLY with the OTHER 25 QUOTES before inserting your
evolutionary foot in your mouth. "Evolution" to a veggie diet is
NOT what Darwin had in mind. LOL! So be REAL CAREFUL when you
talk about Einstein and the word "evolution". :P
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Re: Corporate Mendacity and Duplicity
By: AGelbert Date: September 29, 2014, 10:21 pm
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Let's Not Inadvertently Support GMO Companies
We give certain products the benefit of the doubt. A product
like Tom's Toothpaste seems like it comes from a smaller, well
intentioned company that is trying to offer us superior,
healthier products. The package says it's made by "Tom's Of
Maine"
Lets look a bit closer. Tom's Of Maine is owned by Colgate.
Odwalla juice is owned by Coca Cola...and Kashi 7 Grain Cereal
is owned by Kellog's. :P
This video does some of our homework for us and offers an
amusing presentation. Let's pick up where this leaves off, by
paying attention and educating ourselves so we can make sure our
dollars go only to the companies we want to give our money to.
--Bibi Farber
- See more at:
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Fossil Fuel Profit over Homo SAPS with TOXIC FOOD DYES!
By: AGelbert Date: October 9, 2014, 11:44 pm
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Fossil Fuel Profit over Homo SAPS with TOXIC FOOD DYES!
Toxicology of food dyes. :o
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Kobylewski S1, Jacobson MF.
Author information
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Food dyes, synthesized originally from coal tar and now
petroleum
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color],<br
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concerns. Many dyes have been banned because of their adverse
effects on laboratory animals or inadequate testing.
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CONCLUSIONS:
This review finds that all of the nine currently US-approved
dyes raise health concerns of varying degrees. :o :P
Red 3 causes cancer in animals, and there is evidence that
several other dyes also are carcinogenic.
Three dyes (Red 40, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6) have been found to
be contaminated with benzidine or other carcinogens.
At least four dyes (Blue 1, Red 40, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6)
cause hypersensitivity reactions. Numerous microbiological and
rodent studies of Yellow 5 were positive for genotoxicity.
Toxicity tests on two dyes (Citrus Red 2 and Orange B) also
suggest safety concerns, but Citrus Red 2 is used at low levels
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The inadequacy of much of the testing and the evidence for
carcinogenicity, genotoxicity, and hypersensitivity, coupled
with the fact that dyes do not improve the safety or nutritional
quality of foods, indicates that all of the currently used dyes
should be removed from the food supply and replaced, if at all,
by safer colorings.
It is recommended that regulatory authorities require better and
independent toxicity testing, exercise greater caution regarding
continued approval of these dyes, and in the future approve only
well-tested, safe dyes.
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Agelbert NOTE: Always, remember, the PETROLEUM industry is ONLY
supplying a DEMAND from us piggies... As you can see above, they
have "fastidiously" tested all their products to insure SAFE
consumption for us. And anyway, if they've broken the law, don't
worry. Eat your pretty colored food and consult our justice
system for a "proper" remedy if an isolated incident occurs. You
only need about $4,000,000 for a proof of human toxicity test
that the FDA will back in court room. And , of course, if you
ain't dade (the big cucks are wrongful death, don'tcha know?),
don't expect to much of an "award" (Gee, I used to think it was
compensation or a damages remedy. My how times change
:icon_mrgreen:). It's always better to have your day (?) ;)
in court than tar and feather fossil fuelers poisoning you and
your children for profit! Lawyers ($$$,$$$.00 ;D) agree! Gott
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To be filed Under: Do ethics free humans CHEAT? (see do bears po
op in woods)
By: AGelbert Date: November 5, 2014, 9:24 pm
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From the makers of the much-praised Quants: the Alchemists of
Wall Street and Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box. Now the
long-awaited final episode of a trilogy in search of the winners
and losers of the tech revolution on Wall Street. Could mankind
lose control of this increasingly complex system?
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Re: Corporate Mendacity and Duplicity
By: AGelbert Date: December 8, 2014, 6:54 pm
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The Banks Brought down the economy with their Criminal Mens rea
Modus Operandi
Years later they pay a fine which is MUCH less than what they
were BAILED OUT with at NEGATIVE interest (i.e. Bernake GIVE
AWAYS funded by we-the-people >:(). We-the-people PAY 24/7 with
increased inflation, lack of jobs and a destroyed economy while
NOBODY goes to jail that committed this MASSIVE amount of
fraudulent transactions. So it goes.
Democracy, my ASS! [img width=100
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The corporate (greed is good and so is profit over planet)
'business' model is suicidally psychopathic yet most people
think that is the proper and prudent way to be (The Conquest
Mindset instead of a Caring Mindset). The BRAZEN and corrupt
reality that big money and power CRIME PAYS in the USA, as you
observed in the above video, will destroy this country if we
don't DEMAND prison for these criminals AND damages awards for
we-the-people in the form of direct checks to American citizens!
We have a grave situation where our environment AND OUR
DEMOCRACY have both been degraded to a mere caricature (for
propaganda purposes - see lipstick on a predator pig) to keep
we-the-people in our state of ignorance about our 24/7 fascist
fleecing.
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Greed is bad. It's a cancer on society and the biosphere.
We either change the way we deal with each other and the other
life forms that inhabit this planet in order to survive and
thrive or we continue our suicidal and psychopathic path of
conscience free conquest and mendacious accounting tricks
criminally contrived to convince logic challenged economists
that "creative destruction" is not an oxymoron.
Don't expect help from our Corrupt and irreparable Court System;
it's bought and paid for by the 'greed is good'
corporate+government (see the definition of Fascism) elite.
You don't believe me? You think this is hysterical hyperbole?
Read on:
The Corporate Business Model is Psychopathic (ONE MINUTE):
HTML http://viewrz.com/video/the-corporate-business-model-is-psychopathic
All about Fracking LEGAL chemical POISONS (3 minutes 31
seconds):
HTML http://viewrz.com/video/all-about-fracking-legal-chemical-poisons-1
Fossil Fuel Fascism in Action (3 minute lesson on our Orwellian
world):
HTML http://viewrz.com/video/fossil-fuel-fascism-in-action
Fossil Fuel Fascist Jolly Roger "business" model (8 minutes):
HTML http://viewrz.com/video/fossil-fuel-fascist-jolly-roger-business-model
Fossil fuel Government 2 minute Video Clip from "The Age of
Stupid" Video:
HTML http://viewrz.com/video/fossil-fuel-government
FDR on Trickle Down "Economics"
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Here's a modern example of what happens when you trust the Court
System to do what they are supposed to. There is NO Ubi Jus, Ibi
Remedium any more in the USA when it comes to environmental
damage that brings sickness and death to people and other life
forms.
The Exxon Valdez PITTANCE of a settlement: PROOF we have a
Fascist Fossil Fuel Government AND the irreparably DYSFUNCTIONAL
Court System is its HANDMAIDEN
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How about Corporate control of what you eat by manipulation of
our "LAWS"? See Big Ag Fascsit Heaven below:
Fascist Big Ag uses Food Disparagement Law and the Patriot Act
to threaten Truth tellers!
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Read what this giant polluter and OWNER of most of the fracking
machinery says about how to 'handle' environmental legislation:
Schlumberger N.V. (SLB): The BIG OIL Planet Polluter you never
heard of
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Yes, the plutocratic marriage of corporate and government power
over the Court System has been there for quite some time. But
now our survival is threatened by this unsustainable paradigm of
the worship of Conquest:
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on what the LAW
is ALL ABOUT
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In any LAW dictionary you will learn that the term "Legal" is
the antithesis of the term "Equitable". Look it up if you do not
believe me.
The Lady Justice Legal Scales mean the OPPOSITE of what you
think they mean
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Don't count on our Court System to defend Americans from Fascism
- Here's why the solution to Corporate Profit over Planet is EX
CURIA
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Re: Corporate Mendacity and Duplicity
By: AGelbert Date: December 8, 2014, 7:14 pm
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Yellen (Federal Reserve elite CROOK) gets a tongue lashing. ;D
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Re: Corporate Mendacity and Duplicity
By: AGelbert Date: December 14, 2014, 6:22 pm
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Another reason to believe human ingenuity is used more for
cheating than for honest effort. :emthdown:
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