OceansOfThought @ June 19, 2008 # 4 Comments
The will of God prevails. – Abraham Lincoln Gravity rules all our lives. Everything we are eventually comes from gravity, and its by products: Suns, moons, magnetic fields, spins, rotations, force. By definition, if an object has mass, it has a gravity, (even if the gravity is negligible compared to something else. btw never use […]
OceansOfThought @ June 18, 2008 # 4 Comments
The government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers[….] Money will cease to be master and will then become servant of humanity. – Abraham Lincoln Remember, back in the old days, you had to GIVE the bank […]
OceansOfThought @ April 18, 2008 # 3 Comments
Executive Summary During the period of the 1950 to 1999 the Japanese culture went through a period of change and/or prosperity which many contributed to Japan moving away from its central control structure under the Zaibatsu and the Keiretsu. However, using Gordon Reading’s thick description system of business analysis I will attempt to show that […]
OceansOfThought @ March 31, 2008 # 2 Comments
Executive Summary After years of waggling, Airbus and Boeing have finally gotten their respective governments to take their case to the WTO. A full trade war is about to erupt, one that threatens to undermine the WTO itself; if either the US or the EU does not comply with a ruling. While the issues are […]
Pieces And Parts @ March 23, 2008 # 4 Comments
Guest Essay by B.R. “So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.” – Lucretius If your leader feels like raiding the village at the other end of the valley because he’s tired of all the women in his village then he simply says they worship a false god and your god wants them punished. […]
Pieces And Parts @ March 22, 2008 # One Comment
Guest Essay by B.R. “Fear is the mother of all gods.” – Lucretius Sure, it started out harmless enough. Simple stories to explain away the things they encountered in their daily lives, nothing more than that. However, that would not last long. The simple stories would evolve and impact their daily lives, e.g. if the […]
Pieces And Parts @ March 21, 2008 # Comments Off on The Socio-Political History of Organized Religion, Part I
Guest Essay by B.R. “All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.” – Titus Lucretius Carus How, why, and when did the concept of gods, and now a singular divine entity, watching over humanity come into existence? What role does this concept play in the formation […]
OceansOfThought @ January 28, 2008 # One Comment
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came …. Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. – Abraham […]