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An African-American alumnus of OU's Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter is now reacting to what he saw.
"It's like getting punched in the stomach," Jonathon Davis, who was an active SAE member at OU from 1998 to 2002.
Davis, who now lives in the Denver area, recalls his time in the fraternity fondly.
"They were diverse—they had diverse socio-economic backgrounds, diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds and you could really feel they were all truly friends and good people," Davis said, adding that members during his time included Asians and Hispanics. "And that's why I joined."
When Davis saw the video, he was shocked.
He says that kind of behavior would never have been tolerated by the fraternity when he was a member.
"We did embrace diversity-and somewhere along the line, everything went off the rails," Davis said.
'It's like getting punched in the stomach,' African-American alumnus of OU's SAE chapter reacts to racist video | KFOR.com
While the Oklahoma frat has never had a lot of black members, that didn't matter to James when he joined in 2001. SAE was where he forged lifelong friendships, where he and others grew into men.
That's what James thinks that his own fraternity brothers would've done, whether he was around or not.
They understood the importance of stepping up to say: "This isn't right, this isn't what I stand for, this isn't gentlemanly, this isn't even human," he said. "That's what being an SAE is."
"My pledge class ... wouldn't let that happen," he said. "And I don't know what's happened to (the Oklahoma SAE chapter) since then."
"That entire house has accepted the culture that accepts that song, those words, that imagery," James said. "So the whole house has to be punished."
His former frat brothers are different from him, of course. Their skin color wouldn't have stopped them from getting into SAE if the twisted chant reflected reality.
Still, James feels their pain is real and sincere. Those on this weekend's video may not be his brothers, but those he knew from 2001 to 2005 still are.
"I don't think that they can fully encompass the pain and betrayal that I feel," James said of his white friends from the fraternity. "But by holding me so close in their life, they know that their brother was hurt."
Black U. of Oklahoma SAE alumnus: 'They are not my brothers' - CNN.com


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03 January 2006
Dissection & Digression
I used to love essay writing in school (didn't all bloggers-to-be?). At least as long as we could decide for ourselves what to write... Around the age of 13 we were supposed to have meaningful exchanges on "pros and cons of VHS" (yes, I'm that old!), "why women are as good as men" (I mean, really old!!) etc.
AND we had to do poetry analysis. Which I absolutely and totally loathed. Abhorred.
I loved poetry, I actually read quite a lot of poetry even at that age, but analysing it..? (My friend Børge could tell you largely about my struggles with having to analyse anything - but then he has a degree in literary science and has read a zillion books, so he'll just have to bear over with me... And I think I just might have improved since back then, at least I hope so!) Anyway, I digress...
Well, having learnt nothing from this horrid experience, I went on to study English. Literature, amongst other things. Where we had to do - you guessed it - poetry analysis... Or dissection, as it felt like.
But this time I was old enough to do it my way.
I remember sitting in the study hall* reading a poem by Robert Graves: Welsh Incident. I loved it! So naturally, for once, I studied it properly, learnt about rhythm and stanzas and hidden meanings and whatnot and wrote a brilliant essay, right? Erh...
Admittedly, for the next 4 hours solid I sat buried in a pile of books. But on Welsh, Welsh accentuation, The Differences between Northern and Southern Welsh et al. I read it semi-loud to myself (to much discontent from people around me!), then read it aloud for my friends over dinner. They were not amused...
But such digressions make my day.
In fact, that one made a whole week! :) And when I later travelled to Wales, and saw the signs for Borth, Tremadoc, Penrhyndeudraeth, not to mention Criccieth, I practically grew wings...
The essay? Oh, the essay... My teacher was so nice, she didn't have the heart to put me down to where I should have been, I guess I was ok. I can't remember the grade, but the poem and Wales I always remember! No wonder I've got such a soft spot for you, Sam...
*I had been at university for 6 months, occasionally wondering where those stairs were leading, when I was told the study hall was up there. Incidentally, I flunk my first exam that same term. No connection, probably.
3 comments:
- Børge Skråmestø said...
I loooved analyzing poetry in school!
- 12:22
- Rarity said...
I didn't love it in school (it has do be done properly and our
teacher was simply not up to it)
But I learned to love it at uni. Poems that gave no meaning what so ever became fantastic after we sat down and really worked with them a few hours.
PS I never knew you flunked anything... I always felt sorry for you when you had to be the one to tell me *I* had flunked that exam we studied for toghether - remember?
(WV: kelrph - sounds welsh to me...)
- 14:29
- Scholiast said...
I remember well, Rarity - our mutual friend K made the grade with honours, I passed ok, you and the last friend didn't do quite as well... But hey, there are so many other things to life, right?
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These are in no particular order and there is always the knowledge that I may not get to do all of these things. A few I have had the opportunity to do already.
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I really hate those guys. You know who I'm referring to, and they are running the world into ruin. Those idiots who post the most moronic statements on the internet comments, the fools at those protests, the taking heads that appear on that biased news channel, and the evil that they are teaching kids in school. Thankfully, some people still have a brain and use it. I make it a point to study the trends, read the expert studies, learn the science, and defend my position against this onslaught against the people by the people in power and their propaganda.
You know who I mean. Right? Well, probably not. I was intentionally vague so that you the reader would assume who I was talking about. No matter your position most people would ascribe the above statement as applying to whoever they perceive as "the enemy". So when I wrote of the biased news channel, did you think MSNBC or Fox News? What evil are children being taught? Is it Creationism or Evolution? We have also redefined the terms idiot, fool, and moron to means anyone who disagrees with us rather than someone with a decreased rational faculty. No matter the debate, there are scientists and other experts ready to provide ammunition to lobe at your enemy. This is the Culture Wars.
The term "culture war" originated in Germany in the 1870's to describe Bismarck's vision of Germany against the influence of the Roman Catholics. It emerged again in 1920's Italy in the rhetoric of the Marxist Antonio Gramsci who viewed the cultural hegemony of the mass media and popular culture as an enemy of the proletariat to be challenged. Also in the 1920's the term emerged in America to describe the rural and urban split developing in American culture. The common usage of the term today goes back to the 1991 book Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America by sociologist James Davison Hunter.
In the twenty years since its publication the war has heated-up and the primary battle ground is the internet. The culture wars are fought at many levels and on various fronts, the internet is simply the main theatre of war. The saying "man in a crowd is brave and stupid and a man alone is intelligent and cowardly" is often attributed to Machiavelli. We might modernise this to say that a man alone behind a keyboard and internet connection is the bravest of all. He's Rambo, but he is not necessarily any more intelligent just brasher.
The nature of the conflict is not merely cultural supremacy. It is a crusade, a holy war. This is a moral conflict and I think this fact is often forgotten. The philosophical branch of Ethics in the lynchpin of philosophy and concerns itself with the question of right action. That is, what action will promote flourishing? The answer to that question depends on your concept of Truth as established by Metaphysics and Epistemology and is then enacted through society as Politics.
Take the phrase, "the moral is the rational". The truth is that every person acts according to their worldview and whatever seems to them to be the rational course of action according to their personal subjective reality. Anyone who chooses a course contrary to your accepted view of reality may seem to you to be irrational, foolish, stupid, and even evil. Why evil? Because if your course of action is moral then any opposing action is deemed immoral. And what do good people do when faced with evil? They rise-up and fight evil by any means necessary. Thus do the righteous justify the most vile, cruel, and appalling behaviour. The Disney villain is a myth. Real life villains think that they are the hero.
This may seem a bit extreme, viewing anyone who disagrees with you as "the evil enemy". Imagine fighting in the American Civil War for the Union. How far would you get if you said, "Yes, we need to fight to free the slaves, but I think the point concerning state's rights is a valid one." At this point your comrades question your dedication and start thinking that perhaps you are a Southern sympathizer at best or a spy at worst. Once you buy into the moral crusade, then it is all or nothing.
This leads to extremism and a blindly followed demonization of the enemy. I remember over-hearing an American girl speaking to some people in a club in Glasgow, Scotland saying, "Do I look like a Republican to you?" It's an us/them worldview where the enemy are not people but are instead perceived as stereotype manifestations of the enemy ideology.
There is another more insidious creature at work here called the human ego. It clothes itself in righteousness but its main objective is to increase and maintain its innate sense of its own over-estimated self-worth. Any statement contrary to its worldview is felt as a personal attack worthy of the most vitriolic response and escalation ensues spreading hate and fear throughout society. So like the crusades, this holy war also has a more self aggrandising feature as well.
So what is the objective in this crusade? The prize is the zeitgeist, the spirit of the age, the culture of our time. This is not simply a conflict of cultures. It is a war to determine the dominant culture and the future.
Two key buzzwords in America over the past few decades have been diversity and tolerance. Diversity is sold as strength and this can be true, but not without Natural Selection. As Charles Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species:
As more individuals are produced than can possibly survive, there must in every case be a struggle for existence, either one individual with another of the same species, or with the individuals of distinct species, or with the physical conditions of life.
In this passage Darwin is building his argument for Natural Selection where various species are tested against the challenges of reality; those more adapted to reality survive and those ill-equipped perish.
Now suppose we take some doomed, ill-equipped species of animal and put it in a zoo where it is cared for, fed, and bred and eventually flourishes in that protected environment. Does this mean that it is suitable for existence? No, it's still doomed if ever released into the wild. Without competition, diversity looks like a zoo – or a university.
Once Natural Selection is prevented from working by removing the struggle for existence, then there is no counter to the spread of these nonsensical species. When government takes the role of social architect it creates policies and regulations that preserve nonsensical ideas and they likewise flourish.
Part of this ideological animal preserve is the promotion of tolerance. This is where people are encouraged to tolerate other points of view. The problem with this is that tolerance is not a positive thing. When you tolerate something you are putting-up with it. It's something you cannot stand, but must be patient and endure. It's like telling the lion not to eat the gazelle. He may obey, but when he gets hungry enough he will eat it. Tolerance is a temporary measure meant for the short term and not as a way of life. This only leads to pent-up frustrations and eventually extreme behaviour once the damn breaks.
The Culture Wars are a result of a society where various ideologies are protected from the consequences of their actions, so Natural Selection through competition cannot function properly and thus inferior species can thrive unchecked, no specialisation occurs, and no niches are found.
This is compounded by promoting diversity where every ideology is said to have merit in the spirit of cultural relativism. When this is enforced through tolerance and Natural Selection is prevented, then the conflicts take a new form.
I will note that when people use the word tolerance they probably mean acceptance. Tolerance is when you choose not to act against something or someone, but acceptance is where you recognise a difference, but have no problem leaving them to be different. Acceptance is a live and let live attitude.
In our cultural zoo, the only truly dominant ideology is that of the zookeeper. So the various cultures struggle with each other to control the zookeeper, and the way to do that is to procreate your ideology until yours is the dominant species in the park. This is not a struggle against Objective Reality to see which species is fit to survive in reality, but it is a competition -- a competition to gain influence within an artificial context, the zoo.
I'm going to continue with the zoo metaphor for society and the species metaphor for the various cultures in this war. Imagine one group of animals thinks that they should have faux natural habitat pens and another that thinks that we should just have traditional cages because they are cheaper and we do not want the zoo to go bankrupt. Remember that the animals are all in competition, but not for survival. Instead they compete on how the zoo should be run by vying for influence over the zookeeper. This requires a skill set for surviving in the zoo and not the necessary adaptations for surviving in wild, meaning the real world.
There is a third group that wants to scrap the whole zoo idea completely. They prefer a nature preserve. The other animals do not like this one bit, because if all the animals are allowed to run free and interact with each other without restriction and boundaries, then you have reintroduced Natural Selection into the equation and some of these ideologies might not survive.
So the Culture Wars are a crusade fought by building a large enough group recruits for the purpose of controlling government for the purpose of controlling society. The recruiting is done by transmitting the ideology's narrative (worldview) by controlling the communication of ideas through the media, education, and social outlets. The counter-attack is seen in the form of public resistance to the narrative, usually through pundits, protests, and legal challenges.
The ammunition used is expert opinion. Side A begins with a volley of scientific data, social statistics, and the views of expert economists, then side B responds with its ordinance of the same, but stating the opposite conclusion. Like the battlefields of Valhalla, no harm is actually done as neither side recognizes the legitimacy of the other side's arguments. What these skirmishes do accomplish is bringing more and more on-lookers into the fray and the battle spills from the media outlets and into the streets where the battles can become very real. I know, because I have fought them.
Now on to the combatants. There are three major ideological blocs in the conflict, the Authoritarian Left, the Authoritarian Right, and the Libertarians. The authoritarians are the two pro-zoo factions and the libertarians are the nature preserve faction.
The bulk of the fighting in the Culture Wars is between the two authoritarian positions. Both reject Natural Selection and instead seek to impose their views on society. For example, one group seeks to legalise gay marriage and the other seeks to ban it. Both are looking for legislation backed by the force of government to impose their moral view onto all of society. Other fronts include Creation vs. Evolution, abortion, Climate Change for and against, degrees of social welfare, and both favour government privileges to certain group, but differ only on which special interest groups to entitle.
Here's an example of a battle fought in Oregon in the 1990's. The city of Los Angeles school district found that some students realised/decided that they were gay and committed suicide, so the schools offered an outreach program. This was viewed as promoting homosexuality in schools by some people in Oregon, so they decided that this would never happen here and to pass legislation banning the teaching of homosexuality in public schools.
This action by the extreme Authoritarian Right provoked a response from the extreme Authoritarian Left who demanded that homosexuality must be taught in schools as a viable lifestyle. Until this point, there was never an issue, but it became a very real conflict that divided the people of the state.
The city of Springfield, Oregon had already passed legislation banning gay education in schools. At the time I was promoting a Scottish-American event in the town and wanted a group from the adjoining town of Eugene to participate, but they refused on account that they were boycotting Springfield. The legislation never passed on the state level, but it did pass in the State of Colorado, and many people claimed that they were boycotting the state because of it.
The problem with both the Left and the Right is that by pursuing legislative change they are forced to adopt absolute and final positions backed by government force without any considerations for the diversity desired by the Left or the freedom desired by the Right.
For example, take licensing laws. If someone wants to start a business as a hairdresser, then how do you know if she is qualified and competent to do this? You don't. So, legislation is passed forcing all would-be hairdressers to get a licence from the government to practice in order to protect the consumer, but who decides if someone is qualified? The obvious answer is other hairdressers. But wait, isn't there a conflict of interest here? You've set-up a situation where a business can crush their competition before they even get started, thus allowing a small cabal to control the entire industry in an area.
On the one hand you desire that people practicing in a profession are competent to protect the consumer. On the other hand, people should be free to start a business without the requirement of getting approval from their competition. The resolution requires an equilibrium that legislation by its nature does not allow for since legislators and regulators cannot conceive every possibility or variable.
This brings us to the third faction in the Culture Wars. The libertarian position is that it should be up the consumer to decide if the hairdresser is competent and not the government. According to Natural Selection in the marketplace the bad hairdressers will fail and the good ones will flourish.
The Authoritarian positions often find this difficult to comprehend. They tend to see people as either Left or Right. A libertarian speaking against war is branded a Leftist combatant by the Right and then when he is against social welfare is branded Right-wing by the Left. As a result, libertarians are often branded crazy because they do not fit the accepted Left/Right dichotomy.
I was watching a program where the villain is just defeated and moans that the world he would have created in his image would have been beautiful. The hero counters, no it would not because you are ugly.
All the blocs, factions, and combatants in the Culture War believe that their vision of the world is the right one and that a world in their image would be utopia, beautiful, fair, just, virtuous, strong, free, or whatever. However, if the people with these visions are themselves ugly, driven by ego, fear, hate, disgust, greed, envy, and venality, then the world that they create will be equally vile.
I have tried to be as unbiased as possible here, but I am biased. I've chosen a side in the Culture War. I have fought my battles and fight them still. Regular readers know that I'm on the libertarian side because I believe it to be the most moral side. The danger lies is forgetting that the "enemy" believes the same about their cause.
There is a story I vaguely remember about a war fought between Turkey and Russia where the opposing generals met before the battle and spoke terms in French, the diplomatic language. After the formalities, both generals dropped back into their native Scots accents and one general asked he other, "Who all's with you from Crief?"
These were the days when war was a gentlemanly affair. The opposition were not moral degenerates, demons, or villains. They were just people who you had to fight. This is what is missing from the Culture Wars. We have lost our civility and our honesty to recognise when our enemy has scored a valid point. Instead we ignore it and keep on shooting. We attack the man and not the ball, so to speak.
We have this situation because objective natural reality is no longer important. It is like the university professor whose research was deemed racists. Amidst the protests and inquiries he asked his colleagues to review his research and find fault. They refused. The truth did not matter so much as the appearances.
Ideologues will not back down even if they are proven wrong. They have too much of themselves invested in the cause. When an enemy will not accept defeat, then the only logical alternative is to utterly crush them. Unfortunately, I fear this is where we find ourselves in the Culture War. I fear we have passed the point of reason and the only recourse may be total war unless we can rediscover a place where truth is more important than winning.


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So I called the insurance. They told me that since the formula is available over the counter, it gets rejected automatically, but all your doc needs to do is to resubmit and it should be fine.
But Aaron was home on Weds, and we got a call from the doc explaining that it appeared to them that Maggie's insurance was canceled. WTF? I was having friends over for lunch - so Aaron did the calling around. You are NEVER going to believe what happened. I obviously had to call in and add both Maggie and Nora to my insurance to be sure that everything was covered, and we then canceled Nora's. Well. When they call to submit claims, they do it by birth date. So - when they call, the computer would pick up twin A first (Nora) see that her policy was canceled, and then reject the claim - not looking for another child with that birth date. Obviously, twins are rare, and losing a twin is even MORE rare, but serioulsy.
Now the insurance company is fixing Maggie's number so that doesn't happen again - but you've got to be kidding me! Poor Aaron was on the phone for over an hour telling our story over and over again. Good times.
15 comments:
- Jen said...
How horrible to make you re-tell what happened over and over again to get something fixed. I hate dealing with health insurance.
- January 15, 2010 at 2:40 PM
- Heather said...
I already didn't like insurance companies but now I totally hate them. How absolutely horrible. I'm so sorry!
- January 15, 2010 at 2:45 PM
- Carrie27 said...
Oh no. I'm so very sorry you had to deal with all of this. Huge hugs!
- January 15, 2010 at 4:41 PM
- Deborah said...
How awful! And how stupid. It's not like twins are that rare, there should be a way to deal with that in the computer.
- January 15, 2010 at 8:35 PM
- sarah said...
- January 15, 2010 at 9:04 PM
I am not sure if you knew this or not but my daughter had to be on alimentum and our insurance did not cover it either but Wic does we got 9 cans a month and had to pay for the rest but it helped save! You can get powder or the ready to feed. Sending lots of hugs
- January 16, 2010 at 12:28 AM
- Jill said...
that really sucks...just another reason to hate insurance.
- January 16, 2010 at 10:14 AM
- Michele said...
Oh that is awful. I am so sorry!
- January 16, 2010 at 1:32 PM
- Geohde said...
Cece, that is just poor of the company. I am so sorry you had to re-explain like that, it shouldn't happen.
- January 16, 2010 at 9:29 PM
- MyLifeMyWorld & Growing Families said...
Good grief! I'm glad their working with you to get this resolved. I'd write a letter to the head of the insurance company to let them know that this is something they have to fix through their entire system so it doesn't happen to anyone else.
- January 17, 2010 at 3:14 AM
- Katie said...
That's terrible.
Thinking of you.
- January 17, 2010 at 10:34 PM
- Annalien said...
I am sorry! This is really the kind of hassle a grieving family does NOT need! Still thinking of you frequently.
- January 18, 2010 at 1:06 AM
My husband has a zillion food allergies which means special (i.e. expensive) items for him. His doctor sent a note to the flexible spending company saying that DH needed the special diet. We can now get the difference between normal food and his food reimbursed. Of course you have to have a flexible spending account to begin with.
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- Manise said...
OMG! So sorry about the insane insurance snafu. That's just crazy!
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- n. Hinduism The warrior prince in the Bhagavad-Gita to whom Krishna expounds the nature of being, the nature of God, and the way humans can come to know God.
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include "how many wins" on a certain track rating.
Trying to create a system relating to wet tracks. My scenario? 2 horses have a 50% strike rate in the wet. No. 1 has won 10 races out of 20, the other has won one race out of 2........In my eyes, only 1 horse is a "wet-tracker". So I'd like to include a certain number of wins on that type of track (whether it be good, slow, or heavy)
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Florence Margaret Wolstenholme
|Florence Margaret Wolstenholme was born on 15 June 1898 at Galt, Waterloo Co., Ontario.
|She married Percy C. Smith, son of Judson Smith and Lucinda Coleman.
|She died in 1986.
|She was buried on 28 November 1986 at Sec. 5, Mountview Cemetery, Cambridge, Ontario.
|The death notice for Percy Smith in the Galt Reporter suggests that Florence's maiden name was Wattman. On the evidence, based in part on burial cards for Mountview Cemetery (BC13-49 in section 5), Florence's maiden name was Wolstenholme. According to her marriage registration with Frederick Wilfred Wattman in 1918, she was born in Galt. Her parents were Charles Wolstenholme and Mary Ann Badeau. The 1901 census at Galt shows her birth date as 15 June 1898. She married Frederick Wilfred Wattman on 7 August, 1918, at Galt. See marriage registration 018457-18, Galt.
Frederick Wattman died on 4 December 1934 at Galt. His burial date at Mountview is shown as December 13th, 1934. There does not appear to be a stone and a transcription of Section 5, Mountview, shows him in BC13-49.
Frederick's father's name was William and it appears from Percy's obituary in the Galt Reporter that there was a son William, and while the suggestion is that the son was Percy's, more likely William was Percy's step-son.
Since we have no marriage record for Percy and Florence, we can only guess that they were married some time after 1934. A family story indicates that Florence married again after Percy's death and the burial card for Florence in Section 5, Mountview, BC13-49, shows her name as Mrs. Florence Oliver. She appears to be buried with Frederick. The burial card shows a date of 28 November 1986 and this is most likely a date of burial rather than a date of death.
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I think from an early age I felt we were being spoon fed a distortion of the "truth" from organised religion, politicians and scientists. Nothing quite rang true. This mistrust Has caused me to question perceived wisdoms to this day.
According to most religions there is only one God. Why then are there so many religions each with their own interpretation of God's message which is after all, a very simple one. It is that of love. Where is the love in the burning of heretics, the stoning of women who commit adultery or the murder of innocents in the supposed name of God? These atrocities clearly have nothing to do with a God of love. They reflect rather a distortion of the truth and the imperfection of the human condition exploited ruthlessly by those who seek to build their own empires.
Perhaps this distortion of the truth is made easier by those who exploit religion for their own purpose because neither orthodox religion nor science reveal the nature or form of the entity they call God. This gap in understanding leaves ample room for doubt and cynacism. This casts doubt on the authenticity of both the entity and the message. Science cannot prove or disprove the existence of God. Indeed it does not acknowledge that the process of creation might possibly be the work of an intelligent force and therefore discounts the possibility from it's theories at the outset. For scientists this process is nothing more than physics, a series of natural laws that evolved spontaneously and without specific purpose or meaning out of nothing! This thinking simply defies the logic of the creative process they are studying.
As far as orthodox religions are concerned their number and mixed messages obscure the issues surrounding God and the creation still further lending more ammunition to the sceptics. Neither the religious or scientific communities appear capable of casting luminosity on the biggest question of all. Is there or is there not an intelligence behind the creation and if there is what is it's nature and form?
If scientists are right, their is no logic in the creation of the universe and therefore ironically no logic or indeed useful purpose in studying it. The purpose of science therefore would appear to be the study of a meaningless and purposeless creation. It also means their endeavours are equally futile and implies that life itself in all it's myriad forms is valueless; that evolution is also entirely pointless since it's ultimate destination is extinction. The idea is so ludicrous it cannot logically be entertained as a serious concept. It runs contrary to the visible evidence presented by all life forms which display a ferocious struggle for survival.It defies the very logic that surrounds us. It dismisses utterly the intelligent balance of nature which sustains life everywhere. In my view this is a form of scientific heresy. Fortunately heretics are no longer burned at the stake!
The religious communities are equally risible, sticking as they do to an almost prehistoric concept of God and creation. No wonder we have wandered blindly into a darkened alley that leads no where worth going.
Although the human race is heading hell bent like lemmings to the precipice, the universe shows no signs of following in our footsteps. On the contrary it is expanding rapidly contrary to earlier scientific theory. Through the telescope we see the mirror image of the fierce struggle for survival of life forms on Earth. This is a clue that cannot be dismissed. Life has no intention of jumping off a cliff. Life is designed to survive not to die. This visible evidence is sufficient in it's own right to strongly suggest that scientists need to re-evaluate and begin to accept the possibility that the laws of physics are indeed there for a purpose, to promote and sustain life and that means that life also has purpose.
As Einstein said, if there are laws, it's logical to assume there is a law maker. How can we not conclude that we need to follow a different path, one guided by a more profound truth rather than the distorted vision of it, that we have adopted. We need to understand that our version of the truth is a lie.
Unless integrity, honesty and love are at the core of everything we do, we cannot hope to achieve positive outcomes. It's very, very simple. THAT is the TRUTH.


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10 Major Benefits of Reading
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Reading is one of the great pleasures of life. It's an acquired taste, though. It doesn't develop naturally. The habit of reading starts at home: if a child sees their parents reading; if there are shelves with books around; if they are allowed to spend time in libraries and bookstores just playing with and touching books; or if they are read to by their caretakers, kids will probably develop a liking to books eventually. I grew up among books, and many people in my family read for pleasure, so, for me, it was easier to tackle the complex task of going through words and sentences and trying to make sense of them. It gets better and easier with practice.
In addition to giving pleasure, there are many other proven benefits associated with reading. Here are the some of them:
1. It's entertaining: reading is a wonderful and relatively cheap hobby. It helps you pass the time; it takes your mind off problems; it's relaxing. You go places and meet interesting people in the stories you read.
2. Books can be mentors: it's said that to develop a professional skill or hone a natural talent, one needs coaching and mentoring. Not everyone can get one. Great leaders, artists and people who stand out in their jobs have always been mentored. Books can take this role. If you don't have access to a human mentor, read their written words. Buy his/her biography. Books will even give you the opportunity to follow a number of mentors and get from them what suits you better. Vicarious experience can be a great source of learning.
3. Reading improves your creativity: of course, the most direct consequence of reading is improving your writing skills. There's nothing like exposure to good writing to put you in the right direction of writing well and more creatively. But reading also opens many other doors in your brain: you develop new perspectives and insights. You add new knowledge to what you had accumulated before and.. bang!...all of a sudden you come up with a super original idea. Innovation leads to success.
4. You will never feel lonely again: have you ever travelled alone? Maybe not as a hobby, but, sometimes, you need to do that for work. And it can be very lonely. If you like reading, books will be friends you can take along with you wherever you go: especially now, when you can have your whole library on your iPhone or download a new title at the touch of a button.
5. Reading can be a life-changing experience: some books have such a profound impact on people that they actually change the course of their lives. They give you such new angles on things, you decide to behave in a different way or start something new. They may make you go to different country; start a new career; decide to take course on a new subject, change your investment plans (thousands of people have, for example, reported how the personal finance book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by Robert Kiyosaki, have changed the way they think about their future).
6. Reading makes you smarter: it affects your brain in very powerful ways, creating new synapses (connections), improving your memory, broadening your attention span. Reading is the best brain workout. Great leaders are readers and this should say enough about how the activity boosts the powers of your mind.
7. Studies have indicated that reading can be a strong protection against the onset of brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and dementia. It looks like the exercise brains go through when submitted to the effort of decoding, processing and linking words, making sense of passages and connecting them with what was read before acts as a shield against those conditions.
8. Reading reduces stress: it changes your mental context, makes your focus on something other than your most immediate worries; calms you down and helps improve your general health.
9. In the context of foreign language learning, reading is the most powerful skill in acquiring a new language. Reading in the target language – starting with simplified, graded readers and progressively moving on to unabridged books – is the strongest way to consolidate the grammar, vocabulary and linguistic functions you have been studying, as you observe them being used communicatively in its natural context.
10. Books will make you a better person: reading about other people's problems and lives, be them fictional or real; learning about how other people feel and see the world; exposing yourself to different dreams, passions and aspirations opens up your mind and boosts your empathy. As a result, you become a lot more tolerant of diversity and turn into a more evolved human being.
Is there any other benefit you would like to add to this list? Please feel free to add your comments below.
Jorge Sette.