Thanks to all that came before
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, family | No Comments »Kids, as I will be completing 79 years on planet Earth on my next birthday in a few months, I reflect on this Thanksgiving, how amazingly lucky ...and thankful I am to have been born in my particular spacetime. When ...
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. ...