The Lone Critic

If you have not watched this film yet, I would highly recommend it:
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret.

Being the hardcore conspirator that I am… I first thought it would be something about cattle mutilations or abductions, but upon reading the summary (it’s on Netflix by the way), I saw it was more about how cattle are destroying our planet (I knew they were going to get the last laugh)! I knew about the mass production of meat/dairy, the grains we feed them and the methane they emit were bad… Just didn’t know it was THAT bad and more-startlingly, how few environmental protection agencies actually even discuss it.

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Black Friday disgusts me.  It doesn”t get more capitalistic than this day.  Every year thousands of people line up early to take advantage of massive deals on popular items at all retail stores.  Each year it seems that retailers begin to open earlier and earlier, however, this year it went far beyond that… As if not opening at 5:00 AM on the following Friday after Turkey day, now retailers are opening on Thanksgiving day in the early evening.

On the drive home from dinner I noticed lines of cars at exits to outlet malls and continual commercials on the radio.  The idea of giving presents for Christmas already doesn’t set well with me, but what gets me the most is the shear force of the marketing behind the holidays.  The amount marketing and advertising leading up to Black Friday, Christmas, Halloween, Valentines Day, and other holidays has gotten ridiculous.

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Lawyers are watering down American society and there is now social research to show it.

Peter Turchin, vice president of the Evolution Institute and professor of biology and anthropology at the University of Connecticut simply states that “it is the over-production of law degrees”.

Turchin has written the book War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires and has come up with 30 indicators that help show the demise of any socieity. He used the old Roman Empire, Imperial China and civilizations to prove his point. One of the indicators, stated above, is the overproduction of law degrees.

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“You are what you eat…”

You have heard that statement many times growing up – but I always dismissed it. Lately I”m beginning to realize just how real it is.  Sometimes these simple sayings are the ones that mean the most.  We are very much what we eat.  If you eat nothing buy sugary and fatty foods, chances are you are overweight and unhealthy; whereas if you eat nothing but vegetables and fruit, chances are you are thin and healthy.  This isn’t always the case, but more times than not it is.  The key is balance obviously.

What troubles me the most is the small role nutrition plays in the field of medicine.  Considering how important your nutrition and diet is to your health, you would think that nutrition would be the keystone of curriculum in Medical Schools… think again!  Of the random ten medical schools I have evaluated online, only one had a “Nutrition and Exercise Physiology” type department, class, or focus area…

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A friend of mine shared a great link with me today regarding Dream research, more specifically, Lucid Dreams. I am an avid dream theorist and this is a great article to read if you have the time.

Lucid Dreams may finally get some real attention in the field of Science. I have a Lucid Dream probably once every two weeks, which is very frequent… I can honestly say that Lucid Dreams are a completely different state of consciousness – and a very therapeutical way to deal with your conscious desires, anxieties, and day residue.

Following disappointing news yesterday; the United States Senate failed to pass a bill to help expand gun-buyer background checks. Although the bill was supported by nearly 90% of Americans, it still died in the Senate… Certainly sad news… and it would have been some key legislation to at least keep gun control in our minds. The bill wasn’t going to take fire arms away, and it didn’t infringe on our 2nd amendment rights, however, the National Rifle Association (NRA) lead many to believe it was. Why are some conservatives worried about our 2nd amendment rights when don’t even have a government who listens to its people anymore?

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Have you ever considered our DNA being designed by a super extraterrestrial civilization millions or billions years ago? It has crossed my mind a few times over the years, but haven”t really given it attention this topic deserves. Humans are astounded by the complexity of our biological make up and until recently didn”t even know the genome that composed us. We now know how big the human genome is, but have yet to know what it fully means and how we can modify it.

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There has been a recent discovery of an Earth-sized “alien” planet very close to us, which has got scientists starting to think about interstellar exploration.

On October 16, 2012, a European team announced the existence of Alpha Centauri Bb, a world residing in the nearest star system to our own (about 4 million light years away, real close I know). The find could ignite serious and sustained efforts to explore the newfound planet and any siblings it may have in the three-star Alpha Centauri system, say researchers not involved in the discovery.

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I have started working again on my long time “Level Theory” or now I am calling the “Level Rule”. I try to stab at it once and while to keep it fresh, but I have really dropped the ball on this, it has almost been 3 years since I have worked on it! So what the hell is it you ask?

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Sorry, had to share… was looking at trailers last night and noticed this.

Talk about spoon feeding the sheep now, huh? Slow disclosure through Hollywood outlets is effective, but again, it can just be Hollywood capitalizing on a trend – but who knows!

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