and nothing but the truth...

There is an unknown line that people know exists in order to reach, rich. That is, that it is a relative term, rich. In regards to the monetary definition it takes a bit more today than it used to twenty years ago. Back then, rich might have meant a few hundred million or so. But now...it takes a billion or more. There are over 1000 known ( I will add) billionaires in the world. This elite group of people keep getting richer and richer...exponentially.

Oh, by the by, I think minimum wage increased recently after about ten years.





If aliens were to show up here, with their advanced minds, and technologies and see the means of living with global business and commerce would they find our capitalistic means of opportunity (or control) good? Would they see that this fair, NOT, and balanced, NOT, process of economics appropriate for the long term survival of our species? As a global community it has come to that phrase.

Are what we doing and the road we are all traveling in this global community feesible to sustain ourselves as a specie? For how long? Do we continue despite the fact that our actions will create timetables for not only our survival as a specie, but perhaps the survival of the planet as well?

Calculating God...

I recently finished a book called "Calculating God". I found it to be a great read on creationism, Darwin's evolution theory, religion vs. science, death and more. Written by Robert J. Sawyer who is a very prolific Canadian SciFi writer with numerous books and awards. This book was a 2001 Hugo Nominee. You can find the book by clicking the link below;

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What is it that keeps science and religion from both being able to hold their truths to the idea of a God, as well as the evolutionary process? Can the two not exist together in theory and reality? This book goes through a series of discussions with visiting aliens who befriend a museum paleontologist in the Canadian ROM Museum who is dying of cancer. Written in a wonderful conversational style between humans and aliens to describe some intriguing scientific ideas and religious concepts that find the Universe is filled with the sameness in all of its randomness.

Is Intelligent life a Catch 22?

As we have heard the TAO, the Alien beings who have populated one of my favorite blogs, state previously that the Universe is a dangerous and violent place, filled with wars, an Emperor, Federation and such, I wonder that is violence innate in all intelligent species? As there is a known Universe, as well as an UNknown Universe, the TAO is incapable of answering this question with verified truth. As Darwin stated, it is survival of the fittest. Is this throughout the Universe? Is true evolution driven by struggles for dominance. Is this to say that violence is required for intelligence. In order to further an intelligent sentient specie does intelligence need to give rise to the ability to destroy one’s species. With this said, only through intelligence can one overcome the violence that gives rise to that same intelligence.

As in “The Planet of the Apes” when Cornelius read to Taylor from the 29th Scroll:

Beware the beast Man, for he is the devil’s pawn. Alone among God’s primates, he kills for sport, or lust, or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother’s land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him. Drive him back into jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.

Yet, it seems that the same can be said of all beings, that be sentient beings. Are those same beings trying to pass as sapient beings? This would be the true Catch 22, no?