[Mind's Eye] Re: are we as a global society moving forward or backward?

Strange how people are I guess. I notice no such trend. In fact I see
much that is good in humanity and our advances, I simply do see any
evidance that we are moving down a path of self annilhilation and I'm
somewhat supprised of your doomsaying here OM. Are you privy to some
data that the rest of us are not perhaps?

On Apr 5, 6:10 am, ornamentalmind <ornsmindseyes...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Unless humanity recognizes the unity of all, our current path towards
> self annihilation is unstoppable.
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> On Apr 4, 6:55 pm, the taoist shaman <bryan...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > now MAYBE   im a  LITTLE CRAZY             but       it seams  to
> > me    that the direction we are hedding ( like a stream whose path is
> > directed by the mountain  as it erodes the mountain , until its path
> > is eched out , and not easily  broken away from ) is in the wrong
> > direction , ... why ?........ the answer is as vast as the expance of
> > the void of that which is unknown <------ see anyone can sound
> > politician like -------
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> > Ash wrote:
> > > Not at all pessimistic Malcolm, I keep hearing depressing news about my old
> > > highschool. Teachers overworked, theyve changed it from an alternative to an
> > > urban school with higher student ratios. They teach using computers a lot
> > > and the kids mostly slack off visiting facebook and youtube, there is a lot
> > > less one-on-one contact and interaction based learning. To top it off all
> > > this is because of no child left behind crap and teachers are so overworked
> > > they are doing their best just to teach to the test and pass them along.
> > > Someone will have to deal with it eventually while kids keep getting by on
> > > as little as possible fundamental skills and perpetual remedial panaceas.
> > > Not pessimist at all! They are destroying public education, and all the
> > > teachers know it. :(- Hide quoted text -
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