Monthly Archives: May 2009
Technology
Although the term technology has become closely bound to science, even the word science itself has its roots in a time long before the scientific method was formalized. Basically, it means the search for knowledge. Technology is the application of that knowledge, presumably to one’s advantage. So technology can be…
The Power of Choice
There is a subtle but critical difference between intellectual and personal acceptance. It took me a lot of years to reach the place where I felt I had to go one way or the other, the conventional reality view or Seth’s. When that time came, my choice was to consciously,…
The Wages of Kindness
Because They Say So
As a freshman in college I took my first psychology course in which I was introduced to many new and interesting concepts. Among these was something called “consensual validation.” I don’t recall the precise definition given to this term, but it was something like: “granting validity to a belief or…
On Freedom
Freedom is a word that is bandied about capriciously by nearly everyone in these United States, yet is one of the most abused words in our language. In the minds of the founding fathers, it was thought of as an absolute thing: either one is free or one is not.…
Seeing Through the Haze
I recently watched a TV program about hazing in college fraternities. In it they quoted disturbing statistics such as every year for decades at least one student has died as a direct result of hazing. They went on to look at what colleges, parents, police, and even the leadership of…