Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Excellent! Here's why union membership keeps falling | The Examiner | Op Eds | Washington Examiner http://ping.fm/ESZPK
Big first step in the '#right to work' direction: Missouri Senate panel endorses union legislation - Columbia Missourian http://ping.fm/ilXpV
Truly Astonishing! Watch the video clip as well "Japan's Population Decline: Estimate Shows One-Third Shrink By 2060" http://ping.fm/NDvjy
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Is there a real you?
Julian Baggini: Is there a real you? | Video on TED.com
This video intrigued me because it seems on the surface to make sense, but the premise is incomplete because of the single minded (and closed minded) approach to the subject. Yes our identity is in part created by the sum of our experiences, and yes we can determine who we are and will be, but that is not all of who we are; we are so MUCH more! Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit priest and a philosopher, said: "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience."(The Phenomenon of Man) Fundamental to our real identity is the fact that we lived before we came to this earth and that we will live beyond this earth life.
Of the kinship between God and man, the Prophet Joseph Smith taught, "If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves" (TPJS, p. 343). "It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know that we may converse with him as one man converses with another" (TPJS, p. 345). (2) Adam, Enoch, Noah and all the ancient patriarchs experienced this reality, but the most complete and informative experience was recorded by Moses in the Book of Moses chapter 1, where Moses expresses both his understanding that man is nothing compared to the greatness of God and his realization that as a son of God in the 'similitude of His only Begotten Son' Moses is free to act and chose between good and evil. Moses' knowledge of his true identity 'the real him' empowers him to confront evil, even with an understanding of his mortality and weakness, through the power of Jesus Christ.
It is especially telling in this presentation to watch as the speaker compares human beings to inanimate objects effected by outside forces, and then mentions as an after thought the human power of self determination but in a moral vacuum because we are nothing more than the sum of our earthly experiences.
There is more to me than that; there is more to every human being ever born on this earth than that.
From Ode: Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth:
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home..."
I say with perfect confidence: YES! There is a real you!
This video intrigued me because it seems on the surface to make sense, but the premise is incomplete because of the single minded (and closed minded) approach to the subject. Yes our identity is in part created by the sum of our experiences, and yes we can determine who we are and will be, but that is not all of who we are; we are so MUCH more! Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit priest and a philosopher, said: "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience."(The Phenomenon of Man) Fundamental to our real identity is the fact that we lived before we came to this earth and that we will live beyond this earth life.
Of the kinship between God and man, the Prophet Joseph Smith taught, "If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves" (TPJS, p. 343). "It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know that we may converse with him as one man converses with another" (TPJS, p. 345). (2) Adam, Enoch, Noah and all the ancient patriarchs experienced this reality, but the most complete and informative experience was recorded by Moses in the Book of Moses chapter 1, where Moses expresses both his understanding that man is nothing compared to the greatness of God and his realization that as a son of God in the 'similitude of His only Begotten Son' Moses is free to act and chose between good and evil. Moses' knowledge of his true identity 'the real him' empowers him to confront evil, even with an understanding of his mortality and weakness, through the power of Jesus Christ.
It is especially telling in this presentation to watch as the speaker compares human beings to inanimate objects effected by outside forces, and then mentions as an after thought the human power of self determination but in a moral vacuum because we are nothing more than the sum of our earthly experiences.
There is more to me than that; there is more to every human being ever born on this earth than that.
From Ode: Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth:
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home..."
I say with perfect confidence: YES! There is a real you!
For all you political junkies: Sunlight Before Signing, Year Three | Cato @ Liberty http://ping.fm/S6lAy
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
With not real upturn in sight this is very sobering: "State Dependency on the Federal Government" | Cato @ Liberty http://ping.fm/r9Qx5
Interesting piece: "Keli Goff: Are You Smart Enough to Be a Religious Bigot in the Voting Booth?" http://ping.fm/ACMx2
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
There is no such thing as a too big, too important, too smart, too anything to fail! Great video. | LinkedIn http://ping.fm/ArRXS
Monday, January 23, 2012
Time for an education revolution: ‘School Spending Predicted to Climb 50%’* | Cato @ Liberty http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/school-spending-predicted-to-climb-50/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Cato-at-liberty+%28Cato+at+Liberty%29
Don't let the title put you off, there is something here worth listening to: "Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0" http://ping.fm/XJYOZ
Friday, January 20, 2012
Belief in evolution boils down to a gut feeling - TODAY Tech - TODAY.com This is interesting, not because it depends on science, but because it basically says the evolution is a metter of faith in the sense that faith is believing in what we feel rather than see. Fortunately both science and my feelings lead me to a much more reasonable conclusion than to say it happened by chance. http://ping.fm/YKqbw
Unbelievable! "Dems propose 'Reasonable Profits Board' to regulate oil company profits" - The Hill's Floor Action http://ping.fm/M9kV7
Thursday, January 19, 2012
For education this is very big! "Apple Introduces IBooks 2, IBooks Author, ITunes U App In Push To Transform Textbooks, Education" http://ping.fm/vQApk
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Excellent read, esp. paragraphs 2-4: "An Introduction to Religious Freedom" - LDS Newsroom http://ping.fm/3V3Rt
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
More Gov. Scariness: "Department of Homeland Security’s National Operations Center Monitors Journalists" | TheBlaze.com http://ping.fm/69L1e
Brilliant! "Is Income Inequality Increasing? Only If You Don’t Count Health Benefits" | Cato @ Liberty http://ping.fm/cJ6oa
Read it and weep: "Ethanol Subsidies: Not Gone, Just Hidden a Little Better" | Mother Jones http://ping.fm/G1mA4
This should entire transform education: "Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool" : NPR http://ping.fm/ViLU4
Monday, January 9, 2012
Thought provoking "5 Predictions for Higher Ed Technology in 2012" | Inside Higher Ed http://ping.fm/LJAxG
Take 19 min to be inspired "Alberto Cairo: There are no scraps of men" | Video on TED.com http://ping.fm/ogOvr
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Show down: 'Citizens United' Backlash: Montana Supreme Court Upholds State's Corporate Campaign Spending Ban http://ping.fm/zN3EH
Bad Obama History: "Playing Politics with the Constitution and the Law" | Cato @ Liberty http://ping.fm/zmVqz
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
For Iwoans avoting today blog post worth reading "Rick Santorum v. Limited Government | Cato @ Liberty http://ping.fm/GOQDW
Thought provoking "Dan Ehrlich: Disintegrating Iraqi Democracy Demarks Another US Nation Building Failure" http://ping.fm/rjpU3
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