Like you, I am a human being. A member of a species that has evolved over millions of years to the point where we control our environment and resources. An intelligent, rational, sociable creature that has the ability to be compassionate and caring. Instead however, we have allowed our species to become ill-informed, miseducated, anti-social beings, lacking understanding and divided by our levels of ignorance. Happy to exploit each other and our world to attain levels of greed far beyond sustainable limits. We look at the world through rose-coloured glasses, given to us by a system that wants to control and abuse rather than advance and nurture. We have it wrong. We have it ALL WRONG. From the moment we are born we are bombarded
Sunday, 22 December 2013
Saturday, 21 December 2013
In the Beginning...
21st of December 2013.
Welcome to 'The Rational Human'. It may seem like a strange time of year to begin writing articles but there is a REASON that today is the beginning. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the 21st of December 2013 is Winter Solstice. The time of year when daylight is at its shortest. From this point on, the days will start to become longer, a consequence of the sun appearing higher overhead in the sky. It is literally 'the coming of the light'. This is why our ancestors held this time of year as an important marker in their calendar. They had made it to the darkest point in the
Welcome to 'The Rational Human'. It may seem like a strange time of year to begin writing articles but there is a REASON that today is the beginning. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the 21st of December 2013 is Winter Solstice. The time of year when daylight is at its shortest. From this point on, the days will start to become longer, a consequence of the sun appearing higher overhead in the sky. It is literally 'the coming of the light'. This is why our ancestors held this time of year as an important marker in their calendar. They had made it to the darkest point in the
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