… those who have no doubts
Monday, August 30th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Critical Thinking, Philosophy | No Comments »In researching "the end" on the Internet as it relates to the 2nd law of thermodynamics, I found there seems to be a hot debate between scientifically oriented thinking and spiritually oriented thinking. Which forces me to ask myself, how well is ...
Like the Wormholes of Your Mind
Thursday, July 1st, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, consciosness | No Comments »While I'm writing my book "Balanceology" I will sneak in a blog to you grandchildren every so often. While I'm writing the chapter on "Human Thought", Cosmologists are into thinking about multi-verses these days, and they refer to the connection ...
DNA, Fate & Huntington’s Disease
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Health, Philosophy | No Comments »(An email to my wife & 2 daughters) A whole series of coincidences have occurred in the past 24 hours associated with the National Geographic Genographic kit you gave me to have my DNA tested to define my ancestral history back roughly ...
Happy Birthday Joseph age 8
Saturday, April 10th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, consciosness, family | No Comments »Last year you were very good a creating your own original designs of things like airplanes, cars and monsters. Do you still have a great imagination? The dictionary meaning of imagination is; "the act or power of forming a mental ...
What’s it all About Chpt. 9
Saturday, December 26th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Philosophy, social science | No Comments »Well kids, I'm not going to continue the experiment of analizing my beliefs using just my memories to see if I can detect erroneous beliefs. I am getting too heavily into religious beliefs. My mother equated God with nature. Nature is God's creation. ...
What’s it all About? Chpt 8
Saturday, December 26th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Philosophy, social science | No Comments »Since 1500 until the present time the speed of new technologies being by introduced by science has been mind boggling. The way humans think and their beliefs has not advanced quick enough to react and adjust to what humans are now doing to mother ...
What’s it all About? Chpt. 7
Friday, December 25th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Philosophy, social science | No Comments »As we move away from a period of enlightenment and Christ's birthday 2000 years ago, we move into a period that began about 400 AD to about the 1,300 century where there was in pause in the written word. It was like ...
What’s it all About? Chpt. 6
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Philosophy, social science | No Comments »The period from 5000 years ago to the birth of Christ still has a huge impact on our thinking and beliefs today. An era of intellectual excellence was occurring. Homo sapien, (we now refer to ourselves as humans), were braking new intellectual ...
What’s it all About? Chpt. 5
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Philosophy, social science | No Comments »Kids, a quick review of the objective of this series of blogs. I am using only the information in my hippo campus to investigate how I think and what I believe. And then at the end of this series of blogs, ...
What’s it all About Chpt. 4
Monday, December 14th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Philosophy, social science | No Comments »The miracle of creation was there to see, experience and contemplate during the birth of a new human being. Grandpa thinks that by 50,000 years ago humans had conscious thought and were acquiring language. Developing language was slow and difficult at first. But once ...
What’s it all About? Chpt. 3
Sunday, December 13th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Philosophy, social science | 2 Comments »Why not try to find answers to those great philosophical questions in your own mind kids? "What's it all about" is pretty broad-based question that covers a wide range of philosophical questions. Your grandpa choose two areas of inquiry for the Boomer News blog 3 ...
What’s it all About? Chpt. 2
Saturday, December 12th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Philosophy, social science | No Comments »Before we begin the journey & story of the Homo sapiens on the Coast of South Africa over 100,000 years ago, let's try to address the title of these blogs. "What's it all about" is just one of many philosophical ...
What’s it all About? Chpt.1
Friday, December 11th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Philosophy, social science | No Comments »Kids, this is a journey into my hippo-campus to investigate how I think and what I believe. My attempt to answer the question; "What's it all About" should reveal something about my thinking methodology and how I have arrived at ...
Becoming Human & Erroneous Beliefs
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, consciosness, social science | No Comments »Kids, we did our own version of Becoming Human before the PBS mini series was aired. One of the objectives of our five chapter series, was to explore when the first human abstract conscious thought occurred. Our Chapter 5 was not too ...
Becoming Human
Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, consciosness, cosmology | No Comments »Okay kids, if you recognized your grandfather as Tom Longford in the previous five very short chapter blogs ... you were right. And I morphed you 11 grandchildren into 10-year-old 5th graders in the stories. On November 3rd PBS NOVA is ...
Chapter 5
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, consciosness | No Comments »The Blink of an Eye "Greetings children, this is my last morning covering for Mr. Plunkett." "Hey Sam and Joseph....yeah, you two guys sitting in the back row. Do you know I'm seeing you as you were in the past? Why ...
Chapter 4
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, consciosness | No Comments »When Did Your First Conscious Thought Occur? Tom began, "Okay kids, we have this morning and tomorrow morning to finish up our mystery of the first conscious abstract thought. Anybody want to guess what an abstract thought might be? asked Tom. Chiara ...
Chapter 3
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, consciosness | No Comments »Language and Conscious Thought "Good morning class, do you have the answer on the artifact that was considered Hominids first tool? Wow, lots of raised hands. A lot of you must have been at the computer last night. Okay Luke what did ...
Chapter two
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, consciosness | No Comments »The Human Thought Time Line The girls and boys slowly filed into the classroom. The back packs were loaded with books, plus what ever else they thought they would need for the day. They looked more like they were prepared for a long distant hike ...
Chapter One
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, consciosness, family | No Comments »The Genesis of Thinking There are many words that have been written about "the last days" ... the time when conscious thoughts on Earth will end. Not many words have been written about "the first days" ... when the first conscious ...