tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7209091428880958270.post5340120393706881958..comments2024-01-31T00:09:10.070-05:00Comments on The Being Brand: Being ConservativeJudith Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04593319882150923231noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7209091428880958270.post-65970412120063550792009-09-12T12:37:07.650-04:002009-09-12T12:37:07.650-04:00Dave - Thanks for your comment and your suggestion...Dave - Thanks for your comment and your suggestion to look at the other clips. It is most certainly not the first time it has been said that "government needs to embrace and pursue the types of innovative solutions that those outside of government have developed." The problem is that often times congressional members and presidents have vested interests for policy to remain the same and often times it is for reason of self-interest such as campaign finance. It's all seems like a big corporate scam and the fact that the "conservative" supreme court is listening to arguments that go beyond the scope of the Clinton campaign argument that brought consideration in the first place is reason for concern. The question ALREADY is "do we really have a respresentative democracy with some $280 MILLION DOLLARS being spent on lobbying, mostly against the interest of the people.Judith Ellishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04593319882150923231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7209091428880958270.post-18377870149756187102009-09-12T00:30:30.816-04:002009-09-12T00:30:30.816-04:00Judith,
Your experience with your Senator's s...Judith,<br /><br />Your experience with your Senator's staff is the very reason that billions of dollars get wasted on ineffective and inefficient programs that yield the same results. If you look at the bottom of the post there is a clip from the RT HON Liam Byrne MP "The 2020 Challenge for Public Services". He says that government needs to embrace and pursue the types of innovative solutions that those outside of government have developed, like you and your partner, to increase the capacity to solve problems without growing more government bureaucracies to impede progress or waste needed resources. How terrific would that be? Real folks solving real folks problems!Dave Wheelerhttp://changeexchange1.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7209091428880958270.post-69819149508916309152009-09-11T22:43:06.955-04:002009-09-11T22:43:06.955-04:00Human biology has been imbued with consciousness. ...Human biology has been imbued with consciousness. What seems to separate us from other animals is not our instincts, our kill or be killed nature, but our conscious choice set a part from biology and our ability to counter complex systems in opposition to nature based on our mental processes and actions. The complex order of things referred to in the video can be seen as the natural order of things from a mere biological and cosmic sense. These things are; how we view the world comes through our conscious state. <br /><br />Consciousness does not figure into our biological state. Terry Shiavo, for example, was unconscious but alive for many years. She could not herself respond to others or in contrary ways to nature. Her body was alive, not decaying, as she laid there year after year with the aide of oxygen. She passed. But others have awakened from this unconscious state and have no memory of it at all. No time had lapsed for them.<br /><br />Why is the above example important? It separates biology from consciousness. It points to the necessity of consciousness beyond biology. It focuses on the choice of our actions and the necessity of our forever evolving conscious state. Biologically and atmospherically, we evolved under the rules of nature, but there is more to us than biology.Judith Ellishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04593319882150923231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7209091428880958270.post-45548446756369479492009-09-11T22:07:20.906-04:002009-09-11T22:07:20.906-04:00The whole biological model idea has one major flaw...The whole biological model idea has one major flaw - the most destablizing force on the planet is the human race - and we are a product of biological evolution and nature. Most of what we do wrong has to do with the fact that we evolved from a kill or be killed world. In other words, we evolved under the rules of nature.zorronoreply@blogger.com