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Global warming will test our species like we have never been tested before. Is this "headline news" the only news that really matters?

The entire contributions of all whose insights and ideas moved us forward in technology and science, in every area of human knowledge, can be attributed to less than one tenth of one percent of all those who ever lived

Bud Oracle

Date Posted: 05/09/08

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Why is it that we are all focussed so far away for our news? Is nothing interesting going on in your neighborhood, in your lives? Are we always spectators, reporters of national, "important" events, mesmerized by the huge spectacles? This leads us to believe that nothing important happens to us in our daily lives. Could this be why we are all living so vicariously off the news, off TV, off the stars? All the good stuff goes on elsewhere? No wonder so many aren't satisfied with their lives, they avoid the the rich drama which is all around them and see things as better elsewhere, learn later, circumnavigating everyday reality.

Just some personal thoughts that I’d like to share about what I feel might be a relatively untapped aspect of the internet. Yes of course I’ve just smoked a fatty and am soaring, free-associating, lateral transposition of thought. I say this so that those who wish to, can bail out now. I'm into honesty, not the BS I see so much of here.

Why would we be so narrowly focused as to headline news being the only venue for current events? Why is this website focusing on the same stuff coming at you, which comes from all media: the headlines. Why not the words and personal insights and revelations, attitudes of the writers? Is there no knowledge, treasures to behold in the events of an average person who makes mistakes? Nothing interesting to discuss except the never ending primaries? Did no one else notice the sadness hurt in Yoko Ono's post? I bet she misses, John!

Fritzl, and the guy who killed his three children here in Merit, are already being deleted by my mind, because I don’t wish to market their names. I’m constantly current, inundated with info, of course we all have opinions. And many including myself have solutions.

Not every solution is valid though. Solutions and decisions based on the type of thinking displayed often here, on emotions such as hate, vengeance, vanity, belief in a supreme being, are scary to me, because I’ve learned to think in a scientific way. I observe, I consider, I apply the right deductions (so far) according to the requirements, in a fluid, dynamic way.

You may laugh and say, “Yeah right, so you say!”

I can show you my driving record, where for forty years, usually under the influence of Cannabis, I never made a SINGLE mistake.