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- Lip Reading Babies: Utter nonsense!
January 17, 2012 | 8:54 pmSays psychologist David Lewkowicz of Florida Atlantic University, who led [a] study published yesterday…
’The baby in order to imitate you has to figure out how to shape their lips to make that particular sound they’re hearing,’’
Can you “figure out” why this is utter nonsense? I should as obvious as monkey see, monkey do. With this sort of thing passing for science, we are surely doomed.
- The Mark of Cain
November 9, 2011 | 3:13 amWatching Herman Cain duel with his female accusers is like watching the Jerry Springer Show. Not a pretty picture. If you partake, be sure an wash you hands afterwards.
- The Truth About Sovereign Debt
November 1, 2011 | 4:01 pmDuring the housing bubble people bet on rising home prices by taking out loans on to-good-to-be true terms and investment banking made bets on the rising home prices by lending on to-good-be-true terms. Everyone drank the Kool Aid. Prices went down. Having made bad bets, home owners should default on their loans and bankers should take their losses. This is the simple-minded logic of every-man-for-himself market economics.
The nations that joined the EU placed bets on rising economic prosperity that would come from joining the EU and adopting the Euro and borrowing from the EU banks on to-good-to-be-true terms. The EU investment bankers made speculative bets on EU member nations by lending them billions on to-good-to-be-true terms. The borrower economies went down not up. Everyone drank the Kool Aid and having made bad bets the borrowers should default on their loans and the bankers should take their losses. This too, is the simple-minded logic of every-man-for-himself market economics.
So how do the bankers hold the world hostage to their bad bets? They claim they are too big to fail. In other words, the only game they know is heads they win, tails we lose.
The Greeks are threatening to boycott the game.
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Science v. Magic
I did not know that at the root of the word SCIENCE was the idea of taking the world apart. I also had not realized that at the root of the word SYSTEM was the idea of putting the world together — two sides of the same coin.
To cope with the deadly malaise of our current situation we need to learn to differentiate between taking things apart — the world, others and our selves — and reacquaint ourselves with the magical arts of putting the world together.
The following video clip, “The Matrix that Embeds,” shines!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acx-GiTyoNk[/youtube]
Recommended reading:
Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity, by Raymond Tallis
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science, by E. A. Burtt
The Human Use of Human Beings, by Norbert Wiener
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