(Articles translated from the Danish by Bent Lorentzen. CERN article entirely my own)
The Little Mermaid's Heirs Angry About Her
Planned Flight Overseas
The Little Mermaid is scheduled to be sent to the other side of the globe, and this has shocked the sculptor's family, who still legally own intellectual property rights to the famous statue.
“My dad would absolutely not entertain this notion,” stated Erling Eriksen to MetroExpress.dk. Erling is the grandchild to The Little Mermaid's “father,” sculptor Edward Eriksen.
It was revealed today in a statement by Crown Prince Frederik, that the Ministry of Finance and Trade was sending The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen Harbor to Shanghai, China, for a half year as part of Denmark's presentation to the world's fair, EXPO 2010.
(translated from Danish TV-2 news)
Russia to Aim Missiles at US Missiles
Russia is planning a move to aim its intercontinental ballistic missiles at the planned American missile defense system in eastern Europe.
The statement came from the Russian Strategic Missile Force, according to the Russian News Agency. “I cannot deny that our military-political leadership will make this decision,” stated General Nikolaj Solovtsov.
The US is in the initial phase of staging this missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, as part of a global system aimed at neutralizing enemy missiles, from Iran for example.
(translated from Denmark's Ritzau News Agency)
Obama Wins the World Vote
Though it is up to the American electorate to decide between Obama and McCain, in a global poll all doubts dissolve: the world is best served with Obama as president.
All 22 nations involved in a BBC poll would prefer the Democratic presidential candidate over the Republican, [including India, Australia, Africa, Europe and South America, with McCain only getting 12% of the vote with all nations averaged in]
In 17 of the nations surveyed, the consensus is clear that USA's relationship with the world will improve only with Obama at the helm.
(translated from Denmark's Ritzau News Agency)
Footnote:
Earlier this morning, CERN in Switzerland successfully test fired its cyclotron particle accelerator without generating a black hole that ate up the earth. In a few weeks, the real experiment is slated to begin.
Here scientists from around the world, aided by 7,000 supercomputers in a grid that processes information 10,000 times faster than the data-exchange of the current Internet will analyze the impact of a few protons accelerated in opposing orbits to almost the speed of light until aimed at each other in a special impact chamber by 5,000 superconducting electromagnets. In the microcosm, this is the single most powerful event human beings have ever generated.
It is hoped we will come closer to discover the underlying fabric of matter, called the Higgs boson (God Particle), reenacting in the microcosm the events that shaped the universe a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. Many of the theories postulated by the greatest minds in physics the past 100 years, including how some of the four fundamental forces gluing the universe together as well as a clearer understanding of dark matter, which theoretically comprises +99% (90% observable by the gravity lens effect and related orbital gravitational phenomena) of the universe's total mass. No one can see this stuff, except by its effect in gravity. It also has to do with whether the universe is closed or open, will it continue expanding until all galaxies and planets and human beings diffuse into vitually nothing... or will it all collapse back on itself in a Big Crunch?
Dark matter is also theoretically important to the creation of galaxies - and hence ultimately the human brain whose architecture has evolved the curious minds seeking these horisons - since huge gravity fields from incredibly heavy particles not affected by the pressures of radiation are necessary to pulling the luminous stuff together to form them. Physicists speculate that galaxies are enveloped in a halo of dark matter that is invisible. But they could be anywhere.
--by Bent Lorentzen
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Just kidding... I think
When I looked at that picture of The Little Mermaid sitting there in the harbour, I saw a place as familliar as my own childhood home in Canada. I have a picture of myself standing RIGHT NEXT TO HER, that my MORFAR took for me. His spirit in Heaven is probably cursing. I can almost hear his voice uttering those famous Danish profanities that he taught me, when I was a little girl.
Has The Little Mermaid ever been moved before?
The Dems will rejoice in the notion that Obama will help us regain respect on the world stage; the Republicans, no doubt, see that as some sign that they've got everyone else running scared...and throw a party.
Very cool about the cyclotron. And y'all just think we're still here. We got sucked into the black hole, but our BRAINS will never work faster than the speed of light...so we just haven't figured it out yet.
Leah, As far as I know, she's never been truly removed. I'm not fact checking this right now, so don't anyone hop on me if she has been removed for cleaning. And twice in her metallic life - as far as I know - vandals have sawed off her head. Leash, yeah, that would be cool to share some good danish profanities from your morfars time. Danes are pretty good with sublime commentary, like spil for galleriet.
And right, imagine Bush deciding to send the Liberty Bell to China for the exposition!
Ironically, the current bunch in the Danish government have worked hard since 2001 at eradicating the international image of Denmark as a fairy tale land for imaginative thought, trying instead in its propaganda to paint Denmark as a center of world commerce - which it also is, but due to deep creative roots. Copenhagen, translated from the old language, means Harbor of Trade. Since the Mohamed drawings issue, the gov't's been trying to bring back that image.
And yeah, that's a very interesting and succinct analysis of the brain's processing speed, and of how the two parties may spin this world poll Since I personally would hope for an Obama presidency, I would of course interpret this poll as a reflection of the world situation and real fears. Most Europeans I've talked with or observed feel that this whole Palin craze reflects yet another absurdity in the American psyche...
Lots of good news here but what about when our minds finally figure out we were sucked in by a black hole?
Art kept in the home of a wealthy buyer benefits a very few. Art made available to the world benefits us all. If I were the artist, I would be flattered and pleased to have it shown worldwide.
Most of Europe is far more ensconced in socialism that we are. Of course they support Obama. Luckily, we were able to gain and hold our freedom without the help of the Europeans.
Rest easy
Art in the home? you write?
Good god! You have no idea what you are talking about. The Little Mermaid, a major Danish cultural symbol mind you, sits in Copenhagen Harbor as an old symbol for the seafarer returning home and the traveler setting foot.
Please then send the most recognized symbol of the USA to China for a half year.
Let's see. Send them the Liberty Bell in Philly, the Statue of Liberty in NY (or isn't that really in NJ now?), the US Constitution in DC or the Lincoln Monument, and since it is also a real work of art, please send them McCain and Palin for a half year.
That last would also serve world peace and the American public.
Anyways, responding to your real agenda... Europeans are wondering what happened to America's democracy???
Your use the word "socialism" in that sentence is much like a freshman in high school taking his first history course but who's trying like mad to prove something or another to a girl or boy he's got a crush on, by puffing out his chest and pretending he is a graduate student doing a thesis on contemporary governments.
Denmark is as democratic in government and policy as any other "democratic" nation. We simply have instituted a national health plan very similar to fire departments all over the US.
A fire happens and you are not asked for your credit card by the fire chief prior to her mobilizing of the fire fighting apparatus. Denmark, like much of Europe, feels that illness for example, if not treated when it happens regardless of economic circumstances, will likely result in a spreading of impact. If a person becomes homeless due to accident or illness, then the impact will eventually spread out to society and become far more costly in the long term for everyone. Same with other similar issues. Those on welfare actually pay full taxes on their benefits, and the result now-a-days is similar to the welfare many American states have instituted. It is just plain good risk management, Bill.
Your invocation of *socialism* is like stale bread from 100 years ago. Spil for galleriet, we call it in Danish. Spin. Using a stereotype to inculcate fear, paranoia, nonsense, to avoid confronting the real issues. Distraction.
Oh, now I get it. That's what the whole McCain-Palin candidacy's about.
So what is your grief, Bill?
Be honest, if you can...
Appreciate it-
"successfully test fired its cyclotron particle accelerator without generating a black hole that ate up the earth."
That's too bad. I know the cable news shows were hoping to run the "black hole growing and threatening to swallow Earth" story for the next few weeks. Their viewership is getting bored by the 12,000 political pundits analyzing the candidates food preferences and underwear drawers.
Saw him on letterman last night and kicked back and relaxed he charms and informs too!
It's not actually a profanity; it's more of an idiom that literally translates to "play for the gallery." It means to not be honest but to express for the sake of illusion. It also means to make crap but paint it up to look real.
Leah, I would love for a moment to share a slew of the gross ones, but can't right here. Like everywhere in the world, most profanity when it gets down and dirty, goes to sexual innuendo.
But as an example, let's say two are really ticked off at each other, and it might get to a fight.
One of them might say, if not too drunk to put all the words together: "Har du nogensinde prøvet at samle dine tænder op med brækkede fingre?"
"Ever tried picking up your teeth with broken fingers?"
(young Danes now, more than ever, are using American swear, due to Hollywood)
If you're really ticked off at somebody, and want a fight, you might have said a decade or two ago "Du lugter af gammel rådden ost som din mor har haft oppe i røven"
"You stink of old, rotten cheese your mom had up her (I can't say it here, as I don't want to insult mothers on Gather)"
"Sikke noget møg"
"Full of crap"
"Gå ad helvede til!"
"Go to hell!"
"Æd lort!"
Eat shit!
"Æd lort og dø!"
Eat shit and die!
"Lede svin!"
Mad pig!
"Narrøv!"
"Schmuck! (literally: ass of a jester - which in ancient times, jesters sometimes did show if trying to make a point in a royal setting, and sometimes got their heads chopped off as a result)
"Hold kæft!"
Shut up!
Every culture has their neat ways to instantly get something of their chests. In Denmark, pickled herring and stinky cheese is popular, much as it stinks, so rotten fish and cheese is part of the way we curse. For some reasons, *ducks* are sometimes used instead of *dogs* for some of the common profanities you hear in the US.
"Andeknepper!"
Duck-f&%ckr
Instead of saying "Damn!" or "What the hell!"
we say, "Fanden!" (Devil!)
Any of them remind you of what you heard as a kid?
Please take care over there...
Salud
I wish my country (USA) sent things like that to other places. Instead we send planes, and bombs, and guns.
Bent, do you think you succeded in changing Bill's thinking? (Maybe that wasn't your intent).
I imagine that she must be a big joke and many Europeans are laughing at America's fascination with her - kinda like when the hoola hoop came out...or when Mountain Dew was invented - now, that was a big scene - and does anyone ever remember drinking that? Ok duh I'll go now - I've lived overseas, I know about the American caricaturisms. Salud
I guess they believe that the air they breathe isn't also breathed by everyone else in the world.
But I hate to use stereotypes like *neocons* or even *conservative* and *liberal*
If a guy comes at you with a fist, you get damn conservative about protecting your life. Shit, I studied tae-kwon-do for over a decade, and though I can spin and wheel kick somebody in the face in less than you can say, uh, my martial arts master taught how to simply walk away from shit. Let the flies do the work. Human beings are better adapted to go and create.
Going through the belts and degrees, he'd ask tricky questions in his broken English at the tests that included how to relax a tense situation so it didn't wind up in a fight.
If you can see a way to liberate the situation from tax-costly macho crap, you might decide to creatively diffuse the whole thing by extending a hand of wisdom and cooperation, and teach how to be like that, mostly by example. Everyone then winds up enjoying life and being fiscally conservative.
Definitely not the Bush-doctrine, which McCain wishes to expand, and Palin hasn't a clue of, except it must be a god-sanctioned reinvention of of the insanity of medieval crusades.
Anyone who is somewhat intelligent may be interested in this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHjkfJiU9wE
The deeper reason I am not OK with The Little Mermaid going to China has far more to do with the underlying multinational corporate influences in our own government that are motivated to selling the Danish soul for the past 7 years!
See, Al, there's far more than meets the eye when one reads here. I like to be somewhat Socratic, in inspiring the underlying answers that sits in the common sense nodes of thought within anyone not brain dead, as a solution to problems. One reads between the lines, engages some brain cells, and "ah ha...!" with a twinkling smile, like when the nightingale finally had to explain for the emperor why she could only sing when free.
Or better yet, when the boy not adulterated by the fog of spin, blurted out, "Hey, what is this shit. You ain't got no clothes on!" (again, the idiom: Spil for galleriet)
It does seem Shanghia is a pretty weird destination for a first time traveler. I wonder where she'd like to go? Prince Edward Island's just north of me & it's really pretty. She could visit Anne of the Green Gables (beloved Canadian classic kid's lit, a little later I think than Mr. Andersen but not that far removed in time).
I don't know the true motivations behind the Eriksen family's anger over this planned move by the Danish government. The family, as I wrote in my article, still own the statue's intellectual rights by law., much as it was commissioned by a Danish beer giant.
Ever see the COD-CO?
Al, I love your neck of the woods. I don't know if you are in NE USA or east Canada, but one of my fondest dawns ever was on Cadillac Mountain.
A copy of the "Last Supper" by DaVinci was brought to our town last summer. Without that loan thousands of people would never experience its beauty. A temporary loan of a work such as "The Littlle Mermaid" would be a gift to millions for little sacrifice.
In my lifetime I have seen the expansion of government into the lives of individuals markedly reducing personal choices and freedom. This is not up for debate, it is real. I grieve for that loss and for the continuing loss to my son and to his son. Excuse me, but my dictionary clearly defines this as socialism. My use of the term is for clarity not to enflame.
Before you attack my position and my conclusions, you should understand that I do not expect to change your thinking and I applaud your willingness to express your thoughts.
I might ask why you feel the need to attack my position by belittling my remarks and my motives. Perhaps you would do better to explain why the trend is not socialism. Wouldn't that be a better approach to understanding?
Rest easy
While I might briefly have agreed with you several decades ago (every generation expresses your statement in some way, about the *good old days*, my continuing study and understanding of society indicates this to be a profound illusion.
As a child, our minds are filled with the possibilities of the future, and all which are challenges in the world out there are generally addressed by our parents (as it absolutely should be). Hence we *feel* as though the political era we survived in childhood and early adulthood to be sacred and exquisitely free in contrast to our waxing years when the hard nails of reality began scraping on the chalkdust-filled chalkboard of our mind's sense of freely expressing our limitless potential. we begin becoming aware of just how much we are controlled and personally limited by the various forces of executive policy over us --> in the workplace, government, religion, etc... and also we begin seeing all that by extension, in the world around us, and far away. And we begin formulating a world view of all that as we get into our middle years, based on the contrast of childhood and adulthood experiences.
As an example over how sublime this power over our lives truly is, and always has been, look at the Catholic Church. All through the past centuries, Catholic priests could only serve their inner calling to do good service in the world by taking an oath not to marry... that they must absolutely ignore the fact that they are male with powerful sexual impulses that are biologically present to get us to populate the next generation of our species in that huge, non-linear and contest-filled equation of natural selection. They are told by executive policy that they must sublimate all that, ie: build a tower of babel to escape nature in order to reach that ultimate patriarchy in the sky.
So those natural impulses within the brain's reward systems of the individual male members of our species then become expressed, and hence habituated into behavioral patterns, within the shadows of their mind, hidden from the observable world, and they develop ways to sweetly become child predators.
And so comes the huge policy machine of the Vatican to manage how this would impact the power structure they have over the people, all of course, ordained by by how this entire machine evolved on humanity when the executive powers of a couple millenniums or less came up with strategies to further control the resources of people and things, as our populations centers grew, through the feudalism of the next +1000 years. So Pope John 23 in the 1960's began a secret council to manage these untold numbers of priests abusing children, and eventually a bishop in Germany that later became a cardinal, was given the assignment to risk-manage all that... put out those fires... and the result was decades of priests secretly being shuffled from one parish to the next, where it all started again. But the children, whose personal boundaries were so horrifically traumatized... well, that's nothing. The work of the Vatican is a mission from God, and their suffering, well, God will care for them when they die. The problem had to be kept secret, and to hell with the kids.
And of course, this bishop was made into the 21st century's first pope.
But this is just one single example. We see this same thing expressed in virtually every place on this planet where the board of directors for multinational corporations, or the mom-and-pop shop down the street, to the pillar mechanisms of government, are represented by an average of less than 10% women. Denmark, a land most would consider socially advanced, has been severely criticized by the EU parliament, since it is about the worst in Europe: our executive chairs are filled by only some 4.5% women. Norway successfully did a remarkable thing in 2003, by enacting a law that would sanction corporations who do not bring that tally up to 40% in a few years, by legally removing them from public trading, and in government agencies, well, they had no choice. They actually accomplished the feat, despite the huge capital coming from many corporations in the US trying to lobby away that measure.
See, Bill, it has always been this way. Read Plato and Socrates, where they tried showing the common people how even democracy can be a devil in angelic clothing.
What is remarkable about our times is that we have so many humans on Earth, so there will be a lot of cultural clashing. And in that clashing of fundamental ideas, the old, underlying shadows (which are actually all exactly the same once you strip them of their symbolic variations) are beginning to be forced out into the light and be seen. This is unique in world history, as best anthropology can empirically deduce. But of course the ancient patriarchal systems that have enjoyed so much power to exploit for several thousand years is reacting. It wishes to continue exerting its control to exploit. It is genetic in the realest sense, and is why I so advocate that we need even power sharing between men and women, since a woman's brain is more organically predisposed to see the possibilities of the future than the male.
And now we have a very interesting dynamic on Nov. 4 in the world's most powerful nation, of an ultimate symbol of the old patriarchal way of solving disagreement through violence having a symbol of womanhood as his running mate, who is actually an even more dynamic representation of that male-pattern world view (was going to say baldness).
The shit of several thousand years is coming to a head via globalization, the Internet and egalitarian idea-sharing on a global level, overpopulation, all of it being resolved and coning slowly into focus for the mind through its inevitable contact with natural selection, of countless geophysical systems that have been ignored or feared or/and simply interpreted as not relevant since we humans are beyond nature... much like the Franciscan friars traveling the New Land with the Conquistadors in the early 15th century had this job on behalf of pope and king (that time's multinationals and government agencies) to divine if the native Americans they were encountering had a soul and could thus be treated like animals and slaughtered or enslaved. If we can survive the next few decades without going *bang* or *poof,* then we might also collectively see ourselves in *spirit* even in animals, and begin not being so exploitative of their inability to fight against blindly creative minds that have evolved tools to survive how harsh nature can be judged at the ego-personal level. That too is an inevitable consequence of a mind that necessarily developed such an ego to survive.
The fear has to do with holding in check that part of the natural brain that last evolved in human beings, the parts in the cognitive and emotional empathy centers of the temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex. Those parts are empirically shown (by thermal scanning and more invasive probing, statistical studies, etc) to be more highly advanced in the synaptic architecture of a woman's brain, since it was selected-in for its success in endowing women with this sense of empathic intuition as to how to successfully be nurturing in often extreme circumstances and give young life all the opportunities she can glean from her world view to her progeny, and by extension, her society. It sits theoretically on some of that gender differentiated data on the extra X chromosome to our Y, but has far more perhaps to do with the hormonal prenatal environment of the fetus... Males can, with good nurturing, also develop those regions, since the neuronal synaptic architecture of the brain is plastic, and can be reinforced and strengthened at the synaptic neurotransmitter level, through repeatable patterns of thought and behavior in response to challenges and stimuli, both psychological and environmental
I'm writing a short thesis again, Bill, so I'm stopping. I'm too busy today.
But I think you get the gist?
If not, come on back and criticize this. I hope never to stop learning, and challenges such as you present, make us all wiser.
What's that one about?
If I were Ulysse I wouldn't have followed Circe's advice and would have been delighted to meet the mermaids of the Agean sea.
" The little mermaid" by Christian Anderson is after my own soul; I am swimming every day and Neptune's call is heard all over the " pelargos".
Thanks god my country is not involved in all the staff going round the world. If there is something I don't like, then the name is politics!
I will beter stick to a detached Taoist attitude!
You never cease to amaze me!
Marinela, this is likely going to sound to some like a mutual kissing of each others' whatever, but You Never Cease To Amaze Me!
Can I say that without insulting anyone's intelligence?
We should all be so grateful to Greece, and ashamed of what we did to their wisdom for several centuries of a dark age.
I heard Roger Penrose speak the last time he was in town (probably two years now) and we all discussed the possibility of a BH swallowing us up - if we were going to be swallowed up as such, it should have happened by now because of the numerous cosmic collisions that occur on a daily basis. At least, I think that was the conclusion drawn at the time.
Your article for CERN is well done -- good work.
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You pointed out that America is the world's strongest power. Do you think we would be so if, like the Soviets, we carried the yoke of socialism? You suggested that I read Socrates. I have way too much to do and too little time. I haven't read the works of Marx either except that I understand his basic premise is "from each according from his ability and to each according to his needs." I could be wrong, on that, but that's my understanding. In any event, both Obama and Hillary have promised to take us down that road. That's a wonderful philosophy except that human beings demand to be compensated for their contributions and progress will end when the actual doers are over taxed for their efforts. Look to your history books. This is not a whim of my underdeveloped mind. I happen to know a fair number of industry leaders and technical achievers. I also have had discourse with way too many politicians (both sides). Believe me when I say, I would much rather put my fate in the hands of the former.
Oh, that was a clever "dead herring" that you brought out with the analogy of the fire department. Fire protection in this country is not a federal mandate and, therefore, totally irrevelant. I can choose to live where there is no fire department. Firemen, in my neighborhood are volunteers. I can even choose not to call them without political intervention.
I understand the beer is pretty good in Denmark. Maybe we should continue this with a stein of suds on the bank overlooking "The Little Mermaid". She's an awesome work of art.
Rest easy
But crap is found everywhere. The biggest pieces of crap dressed up as cake I've ever seen or experienced were the one's that came foaming down ivy towers.
Marx had some good ideas about philosophically guiding society into a more egalitarian place, but those who wanted to possess exploitative power simply reinvented themselves under the banner of Communism. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and other had more than brilliant ideas of establishing a place of, for and by the people, but those who like the power to exploit have reinvented themselves under all sorts of patriotic banners.
And the crap keeps flowing, regardless of how one names it. But I'm an optimist also, despite some of my scientific gloom and doom articles, since I generally go there in an article to help inspire the exercising of that *individual thinking*, which is required to get a human being to the other side of that reactive and instinctive set of behaviors we see in the jungle... NOT to change people's minds. We only deceive ourselves when we believe those behaviors to be logical thought. That place is the foggy netherlands that Jung called the *shadow-lands,* a place where one identifies himself only by the shadows he casts rather than the light which cast the shadow, never mind the body in between.
I've experienced first hand the possibilities of tomorrow. I've also studied as a scientist from several disciplines the hows and whys of what keeps going wrong, as humanity evolves itself out of the dog-eat-dog world of living in a jungle filled with true things to fear at almost all minutes of the day.
For example, human beings, as with most endoskeletal creatures, have a pineal gland in the brain that is tied into the optical regions of the brain as well as the limbic system, which, with the hypothalamus and then feedback circuitry to other glands, provides us with the hormones to be aggressive or passive, and a slew of other physiological stuff. etc. In some reptilian creatures, the pineal gland still sits as a sort of third eye on the forehead, and is there to trigger the animal into an instant flight response if the gland senses a shadow passing. But it also triggers in the animal those endorphins necessary to calm the body down and get to sleep and rest, once the sun goes down.
All these things sit latent in human beings, but now it is the emotional centers of higher thinking that can often excite these more primitive regions of the brain. And they serve a wonderful function here and now, but it takes some exercise of thought to get there, and to analyze true fear from what is spin or fantasy or even psychosis. Charismatic people who rise to power unconsciously have a deep understanding of how to manipulate people with fear, such that one's higher thinking is disabled, and we run or fight according to the leader's wishes... some sort of banner that pulls off a huge reinforcement of this function through socialization in such an atmosphere. We then don't think for ourselves...
My only investment in this is the scientific, moral and philosophical understanding that this generation must do all it can to ensure that this thing we call female intuition be given a far more important placement in society's hierarchy, because a woman's brain is better designed to see tomorrow's possibilities, due to the investment of nurturing a child through 20 odd years into functional adults, due to the mechanics of natural selection and related functions of evolution.
There's a lot of empirical evidence now about that one, and not just statistical but neurobiological. Men can just as readily (perhaps not as easily) develop this cognitive/emotional empathic acuity, just as women can just as as readily develop the instant action-reaction, shoot first ask later, impulses, when it comes to a quick analytical assessment of real circumstances of threat in preserving life.
When I studied a martial arts for a decade, what I learned above all, which has helped me at times walk through dangerous neighborhoods in some really scary places in the world, was to walk strong, tall and with determined strides. This is an old instinct martial arts has learned from nature, but now transformed to cognitive reasoning, for it is those who give off weakness signals that attract the attention of predators. I think it is crucial for America to have a powerful military in our world. But then beware... for with such power, the natural tendency of several other primitive instincts is to capitalize on that and hence exploit others who are weaker. And that sets the stage for such things as a world war. Because those who feel themselves exploited, especially in our world of information sharing, will quickly learn the technology to fight back, and in ways that are pretty mean. So it is always better to stay strong, but with a leadership that at the exact same time looks within itself to see what it is doing wrong with all that power, and to also look at the world, and see what can be done to lessen its suffering, and thus enable those who are struggling to come out of those struggles which are causing them to behave in more instinctive and less cognitive fashions.
Obama, among the two candidates, is the only one that exhibits anything close to that integrated, dual nature. Sort of like carry a big stick but speak soft, though now taken to the next level of greater awareness of the real circumstances in the world, both at the micromanagement level and the global.
So we have to be exceptionally wise in how we pick our *leaders.* We now have many ways to have our technologically advanced societies simply get so ballistic that we end up destroying ourselves and all which we have worked hard to construct as a viable society on the global scale, simply because we have surrendered our personal power via a vote to someone who far and away has not learned to master key instinctive behaviors
McCain would simply be about the biggest mistake America has ever made, if it chooses him due to Palin, for then you have empowered exactly those people who have shown themselves by action in the past 8 years, to be about the worst exploiters history has ever seen, at least on the global level.
Anyways, this is what your comment triggered in me...
As a scientist, does any of this make sense to you?
Hope Tropical Ike didn't hurt too much where you live...
My gut tells me the mermaid should stay put. People come to different lands to see what makes that place unique. Send a replica.
The world prefers Obama; what a relief. Now if only it were up to them.
And finally, Hurray for the cyclotron that did not go boom and end the world!
ciao!
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