A Mind’s Eye View of Star Trek’s The Game In Star Trek: The Next Generation’s The Game (Episode 106, first aired 10/28/91), the crew of the Enterprise becomes totally addicted to a virtual reality game brought aboard the ship from an alien world. A slick pair of VR specs sends visual imagery to brain, energizing the brain’s serotonin and …
He may as well be a brother from another planet: “Greetings; Take me as I am— not as you think I should be.” The “new politics” of Barack Obama are leaving many Americans lost in his dust. Traditionally they may have been categorized— and understood themselves to be— “liberals,” “conservatives,” “progressives,” “Republicans,” “Democrats,” and “Independents.” Not so surprisingly, a sizable …
Representative government presupposes an intelligent, efficient, and universal electorate. The character of such a government will ever be determined by the character and caliber of those who compose it. –The Urantia Book Boy, are we in trouble. Five plus years into the Iraq War, only one in seven Americans can find Iraq on a map. Only two out of five …
With the Progressive blogsofear up in arms over the House‘s passage of Bush‘s FISA bill, and even more incensed at Obama‘s essential support for same, I am reminded of how the Dem leadership caved on the Protect America Act, with rumors that from behind the scenes the Administration was warning of an imminent 9/11 scale attack. And how if that …
“Neither. I am, I am a, ah, illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all the assistance I can get.” However, that conflicts with another statement of his the other day, about how his search for a vice president was going: “You know, basically it’s a Google. What you can find out now on the Internet — it’s …
In my post, The Obama Zeitgeist, I wrote: Barack’s message of Hope and Change found greater resonance in the Democratic electorate than Hillary’s message of Experience and Leadership. I suggested that this turn to hope and idealism found resonance in the teachings The Urantia Book re its depiction of The Seraphic Planetary Government, and in its distinction between ideas and …
