Twain

"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
- Mark Twain"

I've often thought of this vis-a-vis Angels and the Fall of Man. We were probably more like animals before The Fall, but when consciousness came to us, we were now able to decide. This makes us superior and inferior simultaneously.

Thus the "Apple" of Temptation is knowledge itself, and the Genesis mythology (in the CS. Lewis definition) bears that incredible insight.

BlenderNation

Perhaps I should look at this.

BlenderNation

Jeremy Zawodny's blog

Humans are so damn amazing sometimes. This guy, humble as pie, has balls of steel. Sorry, but thats the only way to put it, and you'll agree after you see this footage.

Pilot's Amazing footage

Google

Google: "At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
- Arthur C. Clarke"

Google

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.

Albert Einstein (31)

Google

Google: "In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
- Mark Twain"

Fueling Our Future

Fueling Our Future

Process Theology -- only for Liberals?

Why are the current crop of process thinkers so liberal? Whitehead was libertarian:

Alfred North Whitehead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Now the intercourse between individuals and between social groups takes one of two forms, force or persuasion. Commerce is the great example of intercourse by way of persuasion. War, slavery, and governmental compulsion exemplify the reign of force.'"