Tortured souls do present a challenge in the "no soul left behind" initiative. Sorry to keep repeating it. It somehow tickled me. I do know the tremendous challenges the no child left behind policy presented to the US school system. I wonder if the notion isn't more critical at the soul level.
On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 5:19:06 AM UTC-4, archytas wrote: > > Someone will blame it on failing to moderate the Cherokee girl within the > hour. Standard neo-Darwinism now is that we are borne in a co-evolutionary > arms' race. Even micro-organisms that fight in the wild can cooperate in > other circumstances. Perhaps our closest profile are the assimilating > Borg. We are nothing like the humans portrayed in literature. That thing > you kiss has fewer human cells than micro-organisms, even when not dying of > 'flu. And wars are about such as smallpox blankets, starvation ... > > In some species of ants, even workers may be distinguished by nine levels > of aggression. Lions are very 'Numbers 31' when new males take over a > pride and we even relate female 'promiscuity' in chimps and other > strategies to the prevention of infanticide by males (hippos do this too). > > Mum would have had no time for me telling tales on that dreadful Thiede > girl. This said, some of the instruments of torture that prevent learning > are present in this group and elsewhere in our petty spite societies. > These are important matters, so we can rely on mostly silence here. Gabby > raises them behind her own screen and multiple aliases. I would go a long > way to be victim of her wit, at least, as we said once, 't'foot a oor > stairs'. No use running all the way home to Mommy. > > The est of the war story is economics as war by other means (discussed by > Greeks, found in More's Utopia) and beggaring neighbours. This may even > have an 'international financier' problem concealed in it. > > A big thesis in what I'd call 'perceptual-speed-language' is needed to > discuss war and complex human issues. Now what might such language be? > How might it help those too ignorant to know many facts? > > On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 6:35:47 AM UTC, Molly wrote: >> >> There is a story, believed to be of Cherokee origin, in which a girl is >> troubled by a recurring dream in which two wolves fight viciously. Seeking >> an explanation, she goes to her grandfather, highly regarded for his >> wisdom, who explains that there are two forces within each of us, >> struggling for supremacy, one embodying peace and the other, war. At this, >> the girl is even more distressed, and asks her grandfather who wins. His >> answer: “The one you feed.” >> >> This from a New York Times article "Are We Hard-Wired for War" >> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/opinion/sunday/are-we-hard-wired-for-war.html >> >> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2013%2F09%2F29%2Fopinion%2Fsunday%2Fare-we-hard-wired-for-war.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFdOc9Ush5Ai8fOpb4uoS1njKyo_Q> >> >> That also references this national interest article on the nature of war: >> >> http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/what-our-primate-relatives-say-about-war-7996 >> >> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnationalinterest.org%2Fcommentary%2Fwhat-our-primate-relatives-say-about-war-7996&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHeehbCq8LgZ8AwpLX2q-9GyACyww> >> >> Looks like Kant thought war ingrained in human nature: >> http://www.iep.utm.edu/war/#H3 <http://www.iep.utm.edu/war/#H3> But I >> wonder, are we so hell bent on dominating one another that we can't help >> but rip each other apart, whatever the group? Marshall Rosenberg's >> compassionate communication model has been around for at least a decade but >> you couldn't see it anywhere in a CNN broadcast. The models of argument, >> problems solving, conflict resolution, group dynamic are available to >> everyone here since this group is on the internet, yet the drive to >> deconstruct into war and chaos seems to overwhelm, and often. Why? We go >> around an around with it, and come up with problems in translation and >> cultural differences yet it seems to me that over time these could be >> resolved. So what is it that brings us back to the dross over and over? >> Beyond who's right and who's wrong there is a skip in the record >> here interfering with the concert. What is it? >> >> >> >> >> On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 7:29:29 PM UTC-4, Molly wrote: >>> >>> https://youtu.be/_d8C4AIFgUg <https://youtu.be/_d8C4AIFgUg> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 7:03:34 PM UTC-4, Molly wrote: >>>> >>>> Howard Zinn, http://howardzinn.org/ historian, author, professor, >>>> playwright, and activist, whose life’s work focused on a wide range of >>>> issues including race, class, war, and history, and touched the lives of >>>> countless people, said "war itself is the enemy of the human race" >>>> http://bit.ly/1FwyDUP <http://bit.ly/1FwyDUP> >>>> >>>> We go to war in a variety of ways, big to small. daily (some of us), in >>>> interpersonal ways, and over decades, as the human race. Why? >>>> >>> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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