Re: [FRIAM] FW: Meat

2015-10-28 Thread Rich Murray
I choose to evolve forever without limits, asking for and accepting help from within and without -- information, evidence, role models, guidance, feedback, support, direction, intuition, inspiration, revelation, transformation, miracles, union -- allowing healing forgiveness and release of all conf

Re: [FRIAM] if you use google

2015-10-28 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Try this http://www.google.com/custom Sarbajit On 10/29/15, Gillian Densmore wrote: > Some of you that use google might find this handy > > http://www.ghacks.net/2015/10/27/google-http-search-yes-it-is-still-possible/ > > > recently google.com started to redirect to https causing breakage > > A

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Meat

2015-10-28 Thread glen
On 10/28/2015 02:24 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: [NST==>Well, remember Glen. I am a rank Deweyan. I think that people can and ought to discuss and argue, decide, and act concertedly. One thing that stands in the way of that is the notion that I can’t “do anything about climate change.” I mean is

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Meat

2015-10-28 Thread glen
On 10/28/2015 02:31 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: If you haven't seen "Cowspiracy", I think you'd like it and by now it may be on YouTube. Cool! I hadn't heard of this one. I didn't find it on youtube. But I did find it on netflix. I'm sad to see that it's executive producre is Leonardo DiCapri

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Meat

2015-10-28 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Nick, Yes, you individually can't do anything about climate change, but since animal agriculture--NOT energy use--causes more than 50% of climate change, if there is a mass global movement away from meat--that can make a big difference. If you haven't seen "Cowspiracy", I think you'd like it and

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Meat

2015-10-28 Thread Nick Thompson
Larding below! Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ep ropella Sent: Wednesday, October 28,

[FRIAM] if you use google

2015-10-28 Thread Gillian Densmore
Some of you that use google might find this handy http://www.ghacks.net/2015/10/27/google-http-search-yes-it-is-still-possible/ recently google.com started to redirect to https causing breakage Amusingly both opera and firefox (sort of) work better for googles own search engine sometimes to ===

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Meat

2015-10-28 Thread glen ep ropella
On 10/28/2015 12:05 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: Now, how similar is your behavior in regard to climate change to the decision-making patterns you describe here. I don't understand the question. How similar is my behavior is to my decision-making? That's so over-loaded with implications I can't

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Meat

2015-10-28 Thread Nick Thompson
Thanks, Glen, Another great bit of "idiographic" science. Now, how similar is your behavior in regard to climate change to the decision-making patterns you describe here. Also: turn your analytic skills on what you are doing here. Is it REASONABLE. Is it REASONING. Is it EVER reasonable

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Meat

2015-10-28 Thread Nick Thompson
Thanks, John, This account is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. It describes how a highly trained, reasonable person actually reasons in a complex, dynamic world. The one source of input you don't mention is "authority." So, If you went to your doctor tomorrow and he said, "I have re

[FRIAM] surprised no one mentioned this

2015-10-28 Thread Marcus Daniels
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151027/ncomms9661/full/ncomms9661.html FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Meat

2015-10-28 Thread glen
Speaking to the larger issues, I only change my behavior under parallax, when I see multiple, seemingly disparate lines of reasoning converging. For the climate, it's my natural dislike of crowds combined with myopic thinking and the "leave only footprints" ethic. For meat, it was a converge

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Meat

2015-10-28 Thread John Kennison
Hi Nick, That’s an interesting question. I am not a vegetarian and I have, on occasion, asked myself “Why not?”. Some of my answers are probably rationalizations: “Vegetarians have to be careful about getting enough protein”; “The studies connecting meat to cancer may well be faulty” (for exam