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There are lots of theories about what names do to us. The trends in the naming of babies also say things about what is happening in our culture.
It was only about a decade ago that "Noah" suddenly took the lead as top boy's name...suggesting to me that a lot of people from a Christian culture were getting worried about some great catastrophe like maybe sea level rise. Instead of thinking that your kiddos are going to suffer because of global warming, it's much more enjoyable to convince yourself that they will be saviors.
I just read that since 2015 the name "Donald" is down by 11%, whereas "Melania" is up 227% and "Ivanka" is up 362%. Guess the women in that family are more worthy.
It was only about a decade ago that "Noah" suddenly took the lead as top boy's name...suggesting to me that a lot of people from a Christian culture were getting worried about some great catastrophe like maybe sea level rise. Instead of thinking that your kiddos are going to suffer because of global warming, it's much more enjoyable to convince yourself that they will be saviors.
I just read that since 2015 the name "Donald" is down by 11%, whereas "Melania" is up 227% and "Ivanka" is up 362%. Guess the women in that family are more worthy.
You must be shapeless, formless, like water.
When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle.
When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can drip and it can crash.
Become like water my friend.
—Bruce Lee
The First Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of the foragers, was followed by the Second Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of the farmers, and gives us an important perspetive on the Third Wave Extinction, which industrial activity is causing today. Don't believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving th emost plant and animmal species to their extinctions. We have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of biology.
--Yuval Noah Harari in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, 2015, p74.
--Yuval Noah Harari in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, 2015, p74.
A man who is not afraid of the sea
will soon be drowned, he said,
for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't.
But we do be afraid of the sea,
and we do only be drownded now and again.
~John Millington Synge
will soon be drowned, he said,
for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't.
But we do be afraid of the sea,
and we do only be drownded now and again.
~John Millington Synge
When I go on a trip, I keep three lists. GIB, WIH, and DN are abbreviations for the lists: Glad I Brought, Wisht I Had, and Didn't Need. Based on these lists I am able to refine my packing for that actvitiy or destination. I'm going to share with you what I learned about packing for a trip to Kauai, Hawaii in December. If you use this system, you will clarify your own packing lists.
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Sounds like the planet's overall temperature increased by a whole degree in one year. It may be time to stop trying to stop global warming, and start making plans about what to do about rising seas, receding ice, and the other direct impacts to people's lives.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/un-weather-agency-reports-2015-is-hottest-year-on-record/
(**tag note: merged "global warming" into "climate change")
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/un-weather-agency-reports-2015-is-hottest-year-on-record/
(**tag note: merged "global warming" into "climate change")
You can't talk about the ocean
with a frog who lives in a well;
he is bounded by the space he inhabits.
You can't talk about ice
with an insect who was born in June;
he is bounded by a single season.
You can't talk about Tao
with a person who thinks he knows something;
he is bounded by his own beliefs
The Tao is vast and fathomless.
You can understand only by stepping
beyond the limits of yourself.
From the Chaung Tzu. 17
via Stephen Mitchell, The Second Book of the Tao.
Originally posted by
bobby1933 at But I Don't Know The Frogs Language Or Mind, And Can't Know What The Frog Knows.
with a frog who lives in a well;
he is bounded by the space he inhabits.
You can't talk about ice
with an insect who was born in June;
he is bounded by a single season.
You can't talk about Tao
with a person who thinks he knows something;
he is bounded by his own beliefs
The Tao is vast and fathomless.
You can understand only by stepping
beyond the limits of yourself.
From the Chaung Tzu. 17
via Stephen Mitchell, The Second Book of the Tao.
Originally posted by
bobby1933 at But I Don't Know The Frogs Language Or Mind, And Can't Know What The Frog Knows.I never even knew that these creatures exist! Cool photos of endangered and at risk shark species in this article: http://www.onearth.org/earthwire/there-are-other-sharks-sea.
If you want to build a ship,
don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the wood and give orders.
Instead, teach them to yearn
for the vast and endless sea.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the wood and give orders.
Instead, teach them to yearn
for the vast and endless sea.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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