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Archives for May 2020
The World Is Not Your Friend – by Charles Sledge 5*
Many would like to forget. But this world is a kill or get killed world. A eat or be eaten world. Those who believe otherwise have been lulled to sleep by sweet lies in order to make them easier prey when their time is up. I say fuck that shit. Don’t be lulled to sleep. […]
Nature is not your friend
Michael Crichton notes rightly that there are a lot of stupid beliefs about nature going around the urbanized American classes these days. Environmentalism, he says, is now a fundamentalist religion. In short, the romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. […]
Mother Nature: Friend or Foe? – Charles R. LaDow 5*
When, in his theory of natural law, John Locke suggested that a man is entitled to such land as he can “redeem from the state of nature,” our forefathers understood what he meant. Each plot which they wished to farm had to be reclaimed from the piney woods, native brush, or bogs, filled with the […]
Mother Nature is Not Our Friend – Sam Harris 5*
Like many people, I once trusted in the wisdom of Nature. I imagined that there were real boundaries between the natural and the artificial, between one species and another, and thought that, with the advent of genetic engineering, we would be tinkering with life at our peril. I now believe that this romantic view of […]
Nature Is Not Your Friend – David Filmore 5*
It’s the start of the third act and explosions tear through the city as the final battle rages with unrelenting mayhem. CGI robots and genetic monsters rampage through buildings, hunting down the short-sighted humans that dared to create them. If only the scientists had listened to those wholesome everyday folks in the first act who […]
Is the World Really as Dangerous as We Think? BY JON CLIFTON
Conflict in the Middle East, terrorism in the West, gang violence throughout Latin America — from everything we read, see and hear from the news, it’s easy to conclude that the entire world is a dangerous place. Is it? Counter to what we might see and hear, a majority of people on the planet feel […]
Where And Why The World Is Getting More Dangerous – Dominic Dudley
Jun 6, 2018,11:38am I write about business and politics in the Middle East and beyond The world is less peaceful today than at any time in the past decade, according to research from the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) issued today. Over the past year the situation in 71 countries has improved, but it […]
IS THE WORLD IS A FRIENDLY PLACE ? 5*
Yet another mass shooting in Texas today. In recent months, I find myself more and more frequently worrying about the state of the world. The news these days isn’t merely bad, it’s terrible. And I’m often left to wonder if the world is, indeed, a friendly place. Since August, there have been a host of […]
Creation Stories of the Middle East By Ewa Wasilewska BOOKS TO READ
‘This account of Middle Eastern creation myths is a very detailed in its geographical and historical focus, and impressively wide-ranging in its scope… the painstaking research and critical insight make this a very valuable contribution to the subject.’ – Journal Of Beliefs & Values This comprehensive study of Middle Eastern creation stories explores the region’s […]