leaping lessons

LEAPING LESSONS Lessons are learned all kinds of ways. School is one way. Religion is another way . Observation and comparison is another way . Personal experience is another way. Book learning , video-viewing and movie and television viewing are other ways. There are as many ways to learn as there are persons willing to learn, amenable to learn. Explore the ones that suit you best. Closed minds lag behind; but, opened instead they leap ahead!

FREE THINKER & RELIGIOUS THINKER

GREETINGS FELLOW EARTHIANS

GREETINGS FELLOW EARTHIANS ! Would we even be here on Earth but for the pull and tug of those uniquely specific life forces that conduced, induced and produced us in this space and time precisely? Among the many millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions , quintillions of inert possibilities and permutations inhering in and around that question, that warrant reflection, study or consideration, our being here, just here, is primal and fundamental ! Good day, Earthians! How are you ?

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE From the known comes the unknown. From the pre-existent comes the existent. Mankind incrementally acquires new knowledge from prior knowledge. Without at least a minutiae of prior knowledge, there is neither reason nor incentive to seek new knowledge. This general principle would appear to apply to all things now known. If the above statements are true, then, prior knowledge is the basis of all new knowledge. The need for prior knowledge does not diminish nor deprecate the prospect nor appearance of chance, luck, grace, good fortune, or peradventure. These random events of unexplained etiology have too commonly occurred historically, allegorically, in mankind to discount or to deny. Instead, prior knowledge enables, enhances, prepares us for, even identifies, the prospective presence of these unusual, inexplicable occurrences. Prior knowledge, then, even celebrates, utilizes, rejoices in the presence of these now-recognized gifts of unknown origin, which derive from that divine, eternal archive of all prior knowledge, of all things period.

VOLUNTEERS

Daddy was right, once again. He used to grow a small garden each year adjacent to the fence surrounding our backyard, containing collard greens, tomatoes, onions, peas, beans, peppers, even watermelon and cantaloupe. One summer when visiting, I strode into the backyard to admire his vegetable handiwork. He then pointed out to me a number of plants that had grown up on their own, "volunteers." I thought no more about that phenomena until today, when curiosity made me investigate. Sure enough, Daddy was right, again! There are volunteers who spring up without planting when ecology is favorable in the plant world and beyond ! http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/volunteer-plants-zmaz80mjzraw.aspx

FALSE DICHOTOMIES

FALSE DICHOTOMY Is not the "either-or " logic option that is so often tendered as "choice" necessarily illusory or incomplete ? How can anything exist on its own? Does anything or anyone exist on its own, without supporting things: antecedents or precedents? Or kindred or collateral counterparts ? False dichotomies deceive us; daily distorting during decision-making. Though I am not, nor necessarily, impugning the syllogism, per se, there may yet be another way to conceive, to perceive, not to deceive, dichotomously.

RACIAL ECONOMIC DISPARITY

This focus upon disparity misses the point . One group was free and subsidized, the whites; while the other group was enslaved and penalized, the blacks! What's to compare, how far blacks have come or how fast whites have fallen since 1789 or 1865? http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/why-small-debts-matter-so-much-to-black-lives?utm_source=Pacific%20Standard%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=16fed730c9-daily-rss-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a4fd1bcb7e-16fed730c9-80439749