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Ideas and Values Change

The question is whether we choose to use the power of knowledge to attain and maintain perceptions of caring and "fairness," or if we choose to systematically and "maliciously" take advantage of others (all sentient beings)...for without Choice it wouldn't be much of an existence!

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Science and technology In India. http://www.es.flinders.edu.au/~mattom/science+society/lectures/lecture14.html Flinders University --- Adelaide, Australia "But the one innovation that reserves Indian science its place in history was the invention of the place-value number system. The decimal system had been known already in the Indus civilization, where sets of weights in units of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 had been in use. The remarkable rigors of Indian philosophy and logic provided without doubt the conditions for the important step to get away from the representation of numbers as multiples of objects (sticks, tokens, pebbles etc.) and embrace the idea of the numeral as an abstract concept. It is such a groundbreaking achievement that we rightly spent an entire lecture on it." Information about the state of technology of a civilization can be gained from archaeological excavations. They show that the Indus civilization had developed building techniques for bathrooms and large basins that were only surpassed by Roman baths, which were built 2500 years later.

Celebrating the Life of Dr. King

http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches.html http://socialjustice.nic.in/ http://www.s-j-c.net/ http://www.mlkmemorial.org/ It is an interesting perspective non-the-less... http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/12.05/03-rawls.html

Things Change... well, hopefully for the better!! http://mediatheek.thinkquest.nl/~ll125/en/life-2.htm http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/98/980331.origin.of.life.shtml http://books.nap.edu/html/creationism/evidence.html http://www.osu.edu/researchnews/archive/aminoacd.htm http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/19990715205323data_trunc_sys.shtml You aren't necessarily what you eat, you are first what you think! http://www.hhmi.org/news/lahn3.html http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2004-12-29-4 http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/genome/genesandbody/hg07f008.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1380427,00.html http://www3.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-12/hhmi-eth122804.php

It's amazing how far playing games will take you!

Becoming Human : There are Five Documentaries in all... enjoy! http://www.becominghuman.org/ The New Batch - 150,000 Years ago http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/cavemen/chronology/contentpage6.shtml Assuming of course that the game is worth playing... I am reminded of a quote by Dr. Rawls "each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override." http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/12.05/03-rawls.html To Be or Not To Be.... that is the question!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2606881.stm http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/content/articles/2004/11/19/fox_hunting_feature.shtml http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/hunting/ http://www.mainetoday.com/elections/2004/referendum/041022beardebate.shtml It depends on how altruistic you want to be!

Chance Vs. Choice : Celebrating the life of Dr.King...Perceptions of caring, fairness, if not equality

Do you think they are naive... http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches.html http://socialjustice.nic.in/ http://www.s-j-c.net/ http://www.mlkmemorial.org/ It is an interesting perspective non-the-less... http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/12.05/03-rawls.html

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It's amazing how things change...

And whether human beings would have survived had the carnivorous dinosaurs not died out, especially considering their "good" morality values, or the lack thereof! According to scientists luck has dealt human beings a window of opportunity in which to develop a brain to create a better world for ourselves and for others ( all sentient beings )... it will be interesting to see what people Choose to do! A brief history lesson for the ages: http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/dinos/timetravel.html It's curious how all the religious texts would have been written without the development of paper --- who's intended purpose we believe was to get people to believe in perceptions caring and compassion... though individuals have "distorted/manipulated" their meanings quite thoroughly --- eg. the untouchable class in the caste system which was not in the original text or the interpretation of Muhammad's teachings as justifying women's slavery as opposed to the women serving the man and the man doing the same for this wife out of mutual respect...

In so far as "god" is concerned then, any god-head would do well to incentivize people to believe in the "good" moral teachings... especially for the selfish people in the world who would only help others if they were rewarded via heaven... As a matter of incentivizing people, we don't believe moral philosophy should teach people to be extremely self-less... for others seek to take advantage, and one can not "save" every sentient being as selflessness dictates --- as death is all around us, probably because it's a natural part of life! Rather, as a matter of Objective reality, we choose to believe in attaining and maintaining perceptions of caring and "fairness," which is based on our underlying assumptions and continual learning necessary for growth and progress, for this moral code create a better world for yourself and for all sentient beings!

http://www.ipst.gatech.edu/amp/collection/museum_invention_paper.htm http://www.afandpa.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Pulp_and_Paper/Paper_-_the_history_and_making/Paper_-_the_history_and_making.htm If you're looking for "good" deeds to do, perhaps you can make the recycling process more efficient! Sustainable development is sure to be a major issue for generations to come! http://www.ipst.gatech.edu/amp/collection/museum_recycling.htm Being the dominant species comes with the power of choosing who lives and who dies... It's our opinion, but we don't particularly care for the mechanization of slaughtering... http://www.factoryfarm.org/whatis/ http://www.awionline.org/farm/fai.htm http://www.awionline.org/aboutus.htm Death is all around us, for it's a natural part of life... the question is whether you are willing to do onto others (all sentient beings) as you would have them do onto us: http://www.api4animals.org/13.htm Perhaps we can learn to work together and work through our differences peacefully.... to create a better world for ourselves and for other; this probably gives us a better chance of survival! "The Great Ice Age, a recent chapter in the Earth's history, was a period of recurring widespread glaciations. Mountain glaciers formed on all continents, the icecaps of Antarctica and Greenland were more extensive and thicker than today, and vast glaciers, in places as much as several thousand feet thick, spread across North America and Eurasia." http://media.dsc.discovery.com/convergence/iceworld/map/map.html A very scientific and fact based paper : http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/ice_age/ice_age.pdf U.S. Department Of The Interior / U.S. Geological Survey