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The Spider Web
It was a perfect summer day, I had been doing yard work all day. The sun shining down, digging in the ground, pruning plants and breathing the fresh air; how could life be more wonderful than this? I took a deep breathe stretched my arms to the sky and felt the goodness of existence. After cleaning up my tools I went in search of my partner to see how he was doing.
By Stephanie Balthazor5 years ago in Futurism
4 Major Philosophers & Their Big Ideas
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) Friedrich Nietzsche was a writer, social pundit, and logician, just as the holder of among the most talented personalities in humanity’s set of experiences. The German mastermind’s arrangement of thoughts would profoundly affect the Western World, contributing profoundly to scholarly talk both during and after his life. Composing on an immense expansiveness of subjects, from history, religion, and science to craftsmanship, culture, and the misfortunes of Greek and Roman Antiquity, Nietzsche composed with savage mind and adoration for incongruity.
By Fahim Chughtai5 years ago in Futurism
Buckwheat Farms Magick Emorium and Ballroom
Buckwheat Farms was birthed from a desire to provide well balanced nourishment from a self-contained permaculture using sustainable agriculture techniques. We are in the process of converting every bit of our 1/2 acre into a managed ecosystem capable of supplying almost all of our physical needs. We use natural growing methods to imitate and create healthy growing environments that produce high yields of quality fruits, vegetables, and grains. We do this with the heart and mindset of sustainable agriculture, where all participants in the Farm (plants and animals) contribute to the health and well being of the Farm. Buckwheat serves as our plant "mascot", representing the values of the Farm. The tiny Buckwheat seed contains a plant that provides valuable nutrients for the soil, our livestock, and us. Every part of the plant is utilized. We also practice no-till gardening, allowing our animals to do the work turning the ground and providing extra fertilizer. I also have a plan for growing micro-greens and duck weed in my greenhouse to supplement the small grazing area I have so that we can add sheep and/or goats to the chickens and kune kune pigs we currently are raising. By combining sustainable and standard gardening and farm processes, Buckwheat Farms will be able to provide 100% of the nutrition requirements of our family.
By RavensCraft 95 years ago in Futurism
One of the most searched question on Google. "What time is it".
Time is natural to everybody, yet it's difficult to characterize and comprehend. Science, hypothesis, religion, and articulations of the human experience have different implications of time, anyway the course of action of assessing it is decently consistent.
By Devesh Pareek (Digital expert)5 years ago in Futurism
Anaxagoras
"Mind is God and God is mind" ~ Anaxagoras Anaxagoras was a native of Clazomenae who is supposed to have settled in Athens afterwards. Most of the surviving fragments of Anaxagoras are believed to have their source in the one book that he is said to have written which deals primarily with the nature or doctrine of matter. Some of the doctrines of Anaxagoras find a similarity with the doctrines of Empedocles which contradict the coming into being of something from nothing. Anaxagoras’ theory of matter is based on the foundations of traditional cosmological doctrines and radical innovations. Many of his theoretical points find a similarity between the Ionian and the Pythagorean cosmological doctrines. Anaxagoras’ theory contradicts some of the Parmedian doctrines as well like the ‘all alike, one and altogether’ nature of what-is. Anaxagoras contradicts this by positing his theory of plural before Parmenides’ singular one. His theory also refutes Parmenidean non-divisibility of things by positing the continuous divisibility of all parts. His theory of matter puts forward an original undifferentiated mixture from which separation of things takes place. This idea was supported by Empedocles as well because he believed that genesis and destruction of things were but some kind of separation. Anaxagoras believed that the original mixture which was the source of generation of all beings, creatures and things was as unlimited, indefinite and diverse as the products that generated from it. The original mix was kind of like Anaximander’s Apeiron; indistinguishable and undifferentiated. For him, the things that existed at that point of time had always existed in the past. His theory of matter posits many arguments namely, ‘Everything in Everything’, ‘The Sum of Things’, ‘Infinite Divisibility’, ‘No Coming into being and passing away’ and many more.
By Satyarth Pandita5 years ago in Futurism
How to measure Intelligence
Since the early days of humanity the notion of intelligence has been one of the most elusive and controversial. From ancient times until today there have been many different approaches on what constitutes intelligence and what makes an individual intelligent. Initially some pointed out a correlation between intelligence and education, although today it is evident that education has no direct correlation to intelligence. Others have considered intelligence connected to educability and making the most out of their education, shifting the importance to the person genetic predisposition. Others have defined intelligence as the ability of good judgement and logical reasoning. Despite the specific nature of the context of intelligence, which is still today under question, what remains is the importance of intelligence and consequently the ever existing need to measure it.
By Zane Livemore5 years ago in Futurism
In Defense of the Objectivist
The date is February 25, 1959. In a studio with famed American journalist, Mike Wallace, stood across from him one Ayn Rand. Born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum in Russia, she immigrated to the United States following her witnessing of the instability & tumultousness of the Russian Revolution & the rise of the Soviet Union. Over the course of living in America for more than 30 years she developed her skills in writing (mainly novels and screenplays). Such effort was often accomponied by intensive independent research into the philosophical writings of Aristotle; as well as the literary works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Victor Hugo, Edmond Rostand, and Friedrich Schiller. At the time of this interview before the television cameras & Mr. Wallace, she had become most prominant for her political activism in testifying before the H.U.A.C (House Un-American Activities Commitee) and her publishing of two novels which would cement her as one of the most relevant, yet controversial, philsophers in modern times; The Fountainhead & Atlas Shrugged. During the televised interview, Mike Wallace read aloud to Rand a review of Atlas Shrugged from Newsweek. According to the article, Rand was deliberatley out to destroy almost every edifice in the contemporary American way of life, Judeo-Christian religion, modified & government-regulated capitalism, & rule by the majority will. Furthermore, Wallace went on to say that other reviewers accused her of scorning churches & the concept of God with the mere stroking of the pen onto paper. When asked if such criticisms were accurate. She almost nonchalantly replied "Uhh, yes."
By Jacob Herr5 years ago in Futurism
Parmenides of Elea
"All sense perceptions, says Parmenides, yield but illusions. And their main illusoriness lies in their pretense that the non-existent coexists with the existent, that Becoming, too, has being. All the manifold colorful world known to experience, all the transformations of its qualities, all the orderliness of its ups and downs, are cast aside mercilessly as mere semblance and illusion. Nothing may be learned from them." ~ Nietzsche
By Satyarth Pandita5 years ago in Futurism
Why are we here?
Why are we here? That is the big question. Our purpose here has to have a meaning, right? As a daughter I am here to make my parent happy. As a woman I am here to make myself happy. Am I here because at some point in my life I will have an impact on this world? Each person has their belief that leads them to an answer to this question. My answer is, do we need to know?
By Karen Galindo5 years ago in Futurism
The Nuclear War
As a delegate to Melecon IEEE, the world's foremost engineering organization who attributed me to the sole founder of Integrity Intrigue Innovation Inc., the title Doctor of Engineering and Philosophy. I wrote to the Nobel Peace Prize Foundation about a theory of reversing Albert Einstein's nuclear weaponry. The universe was made from gases and has been developed through gases overtime. Human beings were not the first to harness the power of gases and explosions, it is what this earth was made of and what the Heavens are still doing for thousands of years and billions of times. As stars and planets fade away or become into being. Our existence consists of gases and balancing their reaction within our system and the earth. Gravity is a chemical force that pulls those reactions toward each other and in respective. If we are to survive the present chemical evolution brought by human innovations and explorations then we must learn how to react the way our universe reacts to become a balancer and stabilizer. All the planets and stars use gases and feed off of them and build off of them. We can't leave earth empty-handed and continue to destroy as its growth has slowed down. We must be the keepers of our future and learn to do what is impossible to preserve this universe with our knowledge.
By Distinguished Honorary Alumni Dr. Matthew Primous5 years ago in Futurism
