Betsy
]]>The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.
Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.
Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet.
Subject : Environment can never be saved as long as cities exist.
Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.
If there are no gaps there is no emotion.
Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion.
When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.
There comes a time when there are almost no gaps.
People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps.
Emotion ends.
Man becomes machine.
A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety.
Fast visuals/ words make slow emotions extinct.
Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys emotional circuits.
A fast (large) society cannot feel pain / remorse / empathy.
A fast (large) society will always be cruel to Animals/ Trees/ Air/ Water/ Land and to Itself.
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]]>The definition of physical does not extend far enough to cover the realm of contradictions, and it can not reasonably be extended that far. Symbolism and the range of unrealized possibilities are usually not considered to be physical although they are not thereby rejected out of mind. But symbolism should be included in a mature nonclassical physics, and, it may be that an argument could yet force a place for the unrealized in nonclassical physics.
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Michael J. Burns
“When innocent people are killed in a religious facility or a place of worship, we must voice a collective sense of outrage,” Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter said in a statement.
How about when innocent people are killed on the streets of Baghdad, or in a shopping mall in Omaha? Are those events only worthy of a lesser sense of outrage? Maybe just dismay or disappointment?
- Chuck
By Keith Coffman 52 minutes ago
Police in Colorado were looking into possible links between two church-related shootings in the U.S. Christian heartland over the weekend that left four victims and one of the gunmen dead.
The initial death toll was four in Sunday’s shootings, including the gunman, but one of the people wounded at the New Life evangelical church in Colorado Springs died late in the evening, media outlets quoted hospital officials as saying.
A man dressed in black, wearing combat boots and holding an assault rifle and at least one handgun, opened fire in the parking lot of the vast New Life church after Sunday services, killing one person on the spot and wounding others.
A security guard then shot and killed the gunman, Colorado Springs Police Chief Richard Myers told a news conference.
Police did not identify the gunman. There were about 7,000 people in the building when the shooting erupted, a pastor said.
In an earlier incident on Sunday, 70 miles away, a man entered a Christian missionary training center in the Denver suburb of Arvada and killed two young missionaries with a handgun shortly after midnight, police said.
The Arvada gunman, also dressed in dark clothing, fled on foot in the snow.
The attacks—both at Christian religious buildings on a Sunday shortly before Christmas—caused shock and dismay.
They came just four days after a 19-year-old man killed eight people and then himself with an assault rifle at a busy shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska.
Police in the two Colorado cities were sharing information but there was no indication of the motive in either case.
While Myers said there was no information that the attacks were related, Arvada Police Chief Don Wick said there could be a connection.
“Yes, there is a reason to believe that, although this is active and I can’t release that,” Wick told reporters. “Until we have evidence which conclusively ties these two events together, Arvada police will continue to follow all leads.”
A spokesman for the Arvada missionary group said it had an office on the Colorado Springs campus of the New Life church.
CNN reported Arvada police helped execute a search warrant with Colorado Springs police at an address in another suburb of Denver.
Myers said police had found several suspicious devices at the New Life church, but gave no details.
‘MEGACHURCH’
Colorado Springs is a focal point of evangelical activity in the United States. New Life is a leading “megachurch” with more than 10,000 members and the city is also the headquarters of the influential Christian conservative group Focus on the Family.
“When innocent people are killed in a religious facility or a place of worship, we must voice a collective sense of outrage,” Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter said in a statement.
In the Arvada shooting, a young man came to the door of the Youth With a Mission dormitory asking for a place to stay, the group said in a statement.
When he was told he could not be accommodated, he opened fire, killing two youth staffers and wounding two who had been cleaning up after a Christmas party.
The mission is an interdenominational Christian organization that trains young people to work as missionaries.
(Writing by John O’Callaghan; Editing by Caroline Drees)
Copyright © 2007 Reuters Limited.
]]>What the auther assumes is that students can’t take any of these relgious classes because they’re not required. And that students only exposure to religion on campus is through these classes. That there are not churches on or near campus or that there is no student groups based around religion.
Anyway that just me ranting about it.
Betsy
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