Some are benevolent by nature, but to do good while aware of the option for evil, is truly remarkable.

Any action is shallow unless other options have been considered.

Without energy, the universe goes from order to randomness.  Is it possible that humans weren't the result of divine intervention, but the result of the earth continuing to lose order?  Was the Earth able to maintain order, humans may never have existed.  As of late, we tend to contribute greatly to the Earth's destruction.  Should we be so arrogant to think that we may bring order without effort?  Indeed it will take a tremendous amount of energy for the human race to increase or even maintain its current level of order....those who take the trends set by our ancestors for granted are a burden on our existance. 

The virus has no foresight.  It continues to reproduce.  If the virus is not killed from the host's immune system there are only 2 possible outcomes.  Either the virus live without causing the host harm, or the virus overwhelms and dies along with the host.

Found a site talking about pollution.  It seems to make sense...I think the sad part about it was that it comes from a text that was written before I was born....It's a shame that so little has changed since then...

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/PP/fig13.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/PP/chp9.html&h=529&w=752&sz=33&tbnid=ucA5dFdIHN4J:&tbnh=97&tbnw=139&start=36&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnuclear%2Bpower%26start%3D20%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

Here's some clips:

"Our science and technology have not only become uncoupled from society; our environmental pollution and urban decay demonstrate that they are actually detrimental to society.

In the longer term, we must phase out the use of fossil fuels for generating electricity. Fortunately, in the years since Poison Power was first published, it has become so obvious that several ways of using solar energy are both technically and economically feasible. The amazing progress with solar energy technologies has been accomplished with pitifully little help from the government, since taxpayers' money is wasted so lavishly on nuclear power.

The statement that we must wait for the twenty-first century for practical solar power is an outright lie, supported and repeated by those who stand to gain by preventing solar energy from coming into widespread use. The great fear of the utilities is that solar power can be decentralized. The thought of losing control of our electricity supply, and of losing the monopoly prices which such control gives them, terrorizes the utility industry."

And our President prior to his 2nd term boasted willingness to look for alternative energy sources.  I guess it takes the genius of a Yale graduate to dupe the public by funding nuclear power as an alternative energy.  I don't know why people ragged on Kerry for seeming elitist when Bush had the exact same opportunities.  They were both priveliged, but one took advantage of the situation, and the other took it for granted.

Interesting site for anyone looking for other opinions on the news:  democracynow.org

Random finding:  When Ghandi was asked his opinion on Western civilization, his response was, "I think it would be a good idea."

The global market is a bothersome imposition.  In order to be successful in a global market, it seems like you have to disavow all loyalties to your locality.  It's almost like friends who leave high school to go to different colleges.  You have to embrace your new surroundings to some extent. 

Why do I have to compete with kids in sweatshops in a 3rd world country?  I dont' have anything personal issues against them succeding, and I'm sure they have none against me.  I don't know about Bush's comment that Americans aren't motivated.  Hell, I have no problem picking fruit for a living if I thought I could support a family with it, or at least if the pay would keep me above the poverty line...there's so much nowadays that's interfering with people who are willing to work it's insulting for the President to say something like that.  By entering the US into a global economy, everyone is being forced to become specialized....graduate top of the class....go to college...even that's not enough....some employers demand a masters from competitive employees...

We are being pressured to invest so much effort...and for what?   To compete with some person overseas?  Like I said, I do not consider myself too good for any job...but for some reason rich people think it's ok to create job openings that you can't make a living from.  Sometimes I think it might be nice to drop all this dog-and-pony, conform-to-expectations stuff...that maybe even farming and earning my own way would provide enough satisfaction...But even that is taken away...even the farmers are now on a global market...and even if I grew just enough to feed myself, that would not pay the taxes on my property, and there's so much pollution in the environment neither the soil nor the seasons are reliable...if they weren't sporadic enough already as it is.  As the world becomes more developed and humanity "progesses," there is no place for the laborer.  All of natures abundant resources will become privatized property, and the laborers are being forced to compete in a system that favors only a small percentile.  Indeed, the fate of humanity is becoming a lottery.  Unsatisfied with what we have, we are allowing our dependable lifestyles to be sacrificed for the hopes of striking it rich, or achieved "the American Dream."  This choice is not being made by the majority, but by the few who already have struck it rich.  They seek to secure a system in which they have superiority.

There's already huge wealth disparities in the US as it is.  If such a scenario were adjusted to a global level, that would not change.  There would still be very rich people, a middle-class, and very poor people.  However, the differences between the classes would be much greater, and the top 1% would possess an incredible amount more power and influence compared to what they do now.

Thomas Jefferson was opposed to banking because he thought it immoral that bankers make money without living by the sweat of their labor.  What pride can we take in this country's goals, when one of our greatest founding fathers  would decry all that it stands for?  As independent thinkers, we must be agressive in questioning what is presented to us by potentially hostile or unsympathetic sources, yet we must also be humble enough to question ourselves.