Sacred Sex and Appropriate Behavior: The Social and Biological Underpinnings of Love and Sex
on May 12 in Science by admin
Where does gender and sexuality come from?
In America today the culture wars are raging, and found at the heart of them are questions regarding sexual expression and the degree of romantic freedom an individual has. The rights of women to their bodies, the ability of non-heterosexual couples to marry, and even grand questions like what men and women should and should not do are addressed in our media on a daily basis in either direct or indirect ways. However, in order to answer these questions correctly we must empty our heads of what we think we know and build it anew from the ground up.
Why must we build it all again from the ground? Because most of us have a very crooked foundation, because most of us misunderstand how humans become human and where our sexual identity – who we find attractive, how we feel insideRead More
Subsistence, Society, and the Environmental Enigma
on Apr 27 in Science by adminINTRODUCTION
Imagine yourself and I seated on the limb of an oak 100 feet above the ground. While sitting there, much to your dismay, I pull a saw out and begin to slowly cut the limb from the tree where it meets the trunk. Do you think you would argue with me about whether or not my actions would eventually severe the limb? Again, suppose while sitting there you discover a group of lumberjacks gnawing their way through the trunk of our perch. Do you think preventing our collapse is any longer simply a matter of getting me to alter my individual actions?
In the above case it would be ridiculous to believe that either the limb or the tree will not fall eventually if both I and the loggers do not stop our behaviors. Yet, when it comes to the ability of earth’s environment to sustain life humans seemRead More
The Limits of Ideas: Breifly Considering Berkeley and Hume
on Apr 01 in Philosophy by adminThe seventeen-hundreds were a time of great intellectual fervor. Humanities’ understanding of the physical world was being greatly augmented by a steady stream of scientific discoveries, the scope and form of math was being revolutionized by new systems, and philosophical musings were becoming deeper and more technical as its proponents applied new knowledge and explored the realms it was opening to view.
As wonderful as this time was however, it was nevertheless marked by extravagant theological and metaphysical systems, whose descriptions of – and conclusions about – reality were so removed from every-day experience of the world that the average person could justly wonder if those who crafted such explanations lived on the same planet.
It was not just the lay-people however who had trouble making sense out of the new interpretations of the world, philosophers too marveled at all the myriad kinds of ideas humans were dreaming up aboutRead More
Breaking the Siege: A Monk’s Awakening
on Mar 18 in Religion by adminOnce, during the age of the Europe’s holy wars, there was a monk hiding in a slummy abode so as to not be singed by the heat being generated by the clashing Christian and Islamic forces for the control of his current station. A force of Saladin’s had taken the city, and the Catholic armies had retaken it – slaying all who stood in their way. Yet, the Muslims were on the offensive again, and burned with a vengeance to retake the site and avenge their brothers and sisters of flesh and faith.
The Monk had arrived in the city just after the Christian forces had taken it back, and while wandering through the rubble suddenly found their foot in grip like that of a vice. Looking down they saw a Muslim man whose wounds were obviously fatal. Before they could muse for too long about how the man hadRead More
Beyond Paradox
on Mar 13 in Poetry/Prose by adminIn silence one transcends paradox…
If they can learn to lose their desire to hear something pleasant, as well as their fear of hearing something obscene.
If they can learn to deduce a thousands truths from one, if they can learn to unrobe all which they sense of titles born of tradition, if they can admit their conditioned state and yet discover they can move beyond it.
If they can learn to make even their own body objective unto themselves, so that their only awareness is of awareness – a product of a billion seen and knowable processes flowing as one to produce that which is unseen and yet to be grasped; mind.
In silence one hears nothing, and from nothing they discover everything from its underside.
A thousand thousand relativites give rise to coherence, space,and elegant beings according to processes which baffle comprehension and stifle probability – who canRead More
