Proposed by Matt. Chapter 2. Humans in Universe We read Bucky to discern the truth in our lives and in the world. As we read Critical Path it is wise to consider applying the material to what you witness in final examination. For this week we will consider three topics for discussion. Topic One: On page 25 of Critical Path Bucky writes, “throughout... Click Here to Continue Reading

I am not all that well versed in the exercise of religious power, but the recent storm accusing Pope Benedict XVI, ex-Cardinal Ratzinger of covering up for kiddies rape and abuse got me thinking… Or is it homosexuality? Should the man be power hungry, and one has to be to battle all the way up to head of state, could his now proven knowledge... Click Here to Continue Reading

In part 4, we saw that we could not believe any prediction of the life expectancy of a non-renewable resource until you have confirmed the prediction by repeating the calculation. Using the alleged and often repeated number that the US coal reserves are sufficient to last for 500 years, Professor Bartlet exposes the fallacy of “sustainable growth”... Click Here to Continue Reading

This Boltzmann’s import-export-import-export; entropy-syntropy entropy syntropy, cosmically complementary, human-heart-like, eternally pulsative, evolutionary regeneration system, also locally manifests itself in the terrestrial biosphere as the ever alternatively, omni-inter-pulsing, barometric highs and lows of the weather. As an instance... Click Here to Continue Reading

A distinction between growth, development, and evolution. At this point in our series tearing to pieces the fallacy of sustainable growth, it becomes important to distinguish between growth, development, and evolution. Evolution involves a process of directional (but non-directed) change that leads from states closer to thermodynamic and chemical... Click Here to Continue Reading

Cooperatores Veritatis, Co-workers of the Truth Pope Benedict XVI Addresses Decades Long Child Abuse Cover Up, NOT! A long awaited letter to address the Catholic church cover up of child abuse (yes, sexual abuse, rape, sodomy and the likes) by its priests that began to surface in the early 1970′es in Canada, 1980′es in Australia, 1990′es... Click Here to Continue Reading

“I don’t believe that the exponential argument is valid at the local level.” Really!? Arithmetic doesn’t hold at the local level and is dependent on the beliefs of “some” politician. Let us review what we learned in part three: Growth control is very controversial. The problem is that controlled growth just... Click Here to Continue Reading

Yes, we are asking for money, right here and right now! Can you help this girl? This is about Penny (Yu Ping), a nice young Chinese girl who is just looking for a chance to lead a normal life. She is only 24 years old. She was born into a very poor family from the countryside in Henan. After she was only 1 month old she was given away by her parents.... Click Here to Continue Reading

In Chapter One of Critical Path: Speculative Prehistory Of Humanity, Buckminster Fuller states that because water is essential to all the biological organisms’ ecological systems of regeneration on our planet, the following 4 major facts about water are vitally important: (Please note that number two has been disproved since the book was written)... Click Here to Continue Reading

This is part three of a series that exposes the idiocy that sustainable growth is the future of humanity. See the video at the bottom of the article. Part two was about the use of semi log scaled paper where a straight line represents steady growth. Projections of future prices were made using a steady rate of inflation… We saw that in 1986,... Click Here to Continue Reading