Contaminating the Garden

CNN.com - Tribe has%A0best excuse for poor math skills - Aug 19%2C 2004

Sometimes I wonder what some folks are doing, muddling in affairs they have no business fiddling with. Maybe the counting thing is better left to the industrialized world.

I tend to think that this information might be interesting, but what happens when the Pirhana learn more math? Will it affect their culture? Will it turn them into greedy buggers like us?

Maybe that was part of what they rejected when they remained in their State of Grace with the Earth. Their ancestors may have been cognizant of what numbers and math are when they decided that they wanted no part it.

Then, teaching them math would be contaminating the culture with a terminal conceptual disease. I just hope it doesn't stick.

Otherwise, aren't the findings thought-provoking?

Biblical Archaeology Brings the Past Closer to the Future

CNN.com - Scholar says he%27s%A0found John the Baptist%27s cave - Aug 16%2C 2004

I must say, although some would disagree, the Bible is a valuable history of Judeo-Christian phenomenon. What dogma and revisionism have obscured shines through regardless of the paradigms of the authors and reauthors. The Essenes and their Dead Sea Scrolls have taught us much about the New Testament, and discoveries like this help us see clearer the world of the past and even resurrects long-dead legends.

Perhaps this is the cave of John the Baptist, or maybe it is not. What matters most are the truths we affirm, the undoubt we gain. As much as the Christ legend borrows from those who preceded him and those who followed him. A contemporary voice fill some of the void left by the lack of other early Common Era artifacts.

The Marvels of Our Backyard

CNN.com - Cassini spies%A02 new Saturn moons - Aug 16%2C 2004

We first invented tools as extensions of ourselves, to make tasks easier to perform, manipulate our world.

Many tools are extensions of our senses, observing the world and the universe in ways we cannot. We employ tools to learn, learn things that dogma obscures. We have found new satellites which orbit about Saturn, one of our closest relatives in the solar system, and perhaps a place we might find life. Stay tuned for real enlightenment and news that brings us closer to true understanding of our place in the universe.

Private Space Travel

The Race is On: Second Private Team Sets Launch Date for Human Spaceflight


Can we handle the responsibility?

I'm not sure we can, but we have the means now. Time for a deeper spiritual meaning to secular life has arrived. It actually came about a century ago.