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Nature Virtue Discipline Logic - making sense and finding ways to thrive in a world going mad
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NVDL's posts from South Africa
From Bullard, to BEE to CEE, to Poli- er...Judge Academy II
The term 'racist' has no meaning to me any more in South Africa. Whites are racist, blacks are racist, everyone is racist. All are human beings with a bone to pick with each other. Racism is used to gain a few points, or to smear someone when suitable. You can use it to get work, or kick someone out of their work. You can ....
Sick, Addicted, Weak - but Response Able (?)
Society is not only weak in its addiction to oil, we're addicted to a lot besides. So many people are overweight, or depending on anti-depressants, or have some or other disorder. As a species we are like a mssive herd of fattened springbuck in the late summer, moving over a massive grassland in Africa. The lions lick their lips, and roar for support from prides over ....
Sssshhh...don't tell anyone this...
Some people think, and some think they do, but actually don't. The latter is a sort of prolonged delusional daydream, disconnected from desert-of-the-real things like gravity, death, ice cream extinction and tiring honeybees.Huh? Exactly. Why is this not front page news. It affects everyone, and severely. I think the reason is it's something like going to a doctor and being told you have cancer. ....
The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating
If you're feeling overwhelmed by 'bad news', here's what you can do. Change your eating habits. Every time you chew, you squish and pulverise some other biota's life into pulp, and chances are the pulp you're digesting ins't even very good for you. Feel like you want to save the world? Or not be part of the planetary cancer? Start eating different. ....
"Such is the difference in expectations"
We will all be practising this from here on out...matching our great expectations with...how things turn out. clipped from www.nytimes.comOMAHA — What a contrast. Michael Phelps won his third event of the United States Olympic trials Wednesday night — the 200-meter butterfly, which he has dominated since 2001. But he fell short of the world record and acted almost as if he had lost.Such is the difference in ....
Airbus And Boeing Face A Dark And Painful Future
When you google 'Airbus Boeing Peak Oil', the top result is this article [Why Airbus and Boeing will soon go bust] that Kristen Lagadec wrote in the summer of 2006. clipped from globalpublicmedia.comHard times for airlinesFirst an important premise: there are no serious alternatives to jet fuel for airliners. And even if there were, they could never be cheap in a world of expensive energy. The problem ....
NVDL's podcasts from South Africa
NEED MOTIVATION? (PODCAST, VIDEO and STORY)
The objective of this article is for the runner to download and listen to it on an MP3 player while exercising. This "running commentary" will assist especially those runners who need motivation and inspiration to get their legs and bodies moving in the first place.Download podcast here.Listen to podcast here, now.Warm Up: Start your watch. Now stretch. Stretching is an important way to prevent unnecessary soreness after exercise. Think ....