Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Critical Thinking, social science | No Comments »Kids, in our last blog we pointed out to you the amazing achievements of a small culture. The value of education, covering many centuries, has lead to these achievements by the Jewish people. These achievements have been available and made possible for all cultures, since we ...
Is the World list of Cultures Complete?
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, social science | No Comments »So, here we are in the 21st century with no new cultures left to be discovered. It's estimated there are 1,500 cultures in the world. Just what is a culture Kids? A simple definition would be: "a particular society that came from a ...
Thoughts & Quotes about Critical Thinking
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, social science | 1 Comment »Kids, grandpa calls the beginning of the 16th century the beginning of science.That is when Nickalaus Copermicus wrote that the earth circled the sun ... rather than the other way around. At that time, Thomas Cardinal Wolsey said; "Be very, very ...
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 ...
United World Religions … Why Not?
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Religion, social science | No Comments »In war and in conflicts, every religious institution should be held to Abraham Lincoln's logic; "Pray that we are on the Lord's side ...not that God is on our side" To shout "God is great" and then start murdering as Muhammad ...
Chapter 8
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, social science | No Comments »Generation to Generation Do seniors citizens my age believe in weird things? You bet! Some how we seniors feel that we can turn the clock back to a simpler time. Seniors my age like to point out that it was NOT us seniors ...
Chapter 7
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, social science | No Comments »" ... And let it Begin With Me" What are weird beliefs? If I told you that the world was flat ...you would think I had suddenly lost my mind. Yet is was 1500 before educated people recognized that the world ...
Chapter 6
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, social science | 4 Comments »Why do people believe in weird things? * Good morning class ... I'm Tom Longford ... I'll be substituting for Mrs. Louise Spina this week. This is the senior class in social studies and I believe I have you for an hour today. ...