The Dance of Shiva http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/forums/10 Once and future visions. Does our entire future lie in the seeds of our history? ]]> en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:22:36 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/forums/10 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ Cycles of climate ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1278/t/Cycles-of-climate.html Midwest/northeastern/Pacific coast N. America: record and near-record snowfalls.
West/central Europe: cold waves and the storm waves coming in from N. America.
Central N.America, from top to the Mexican border: bitter, often record cold -- and that too has now drifted into parts of Europe.

The last time these kinds of snow records were set in the east, the heartlands plunged into the 'Dust Bowl' of the Depression --... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1278 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:22:36 GMT <![CDATA[ An illusion of scarcity ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1019/t/An-illusion-of-scarcity.html
Property held and tended in common will be individually abused, so long as human beings choose to see themselves primarily as individuals. This much is true: but its application to communally-held property is a special case, a specific symptom of a deeper cause, in much the same way that our perception of gravity results from our not having the full picture. The primary lesson the tragedy of the commons has... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1019 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:25:43 GMT <![CDATA[ the evolution/de-evolution of intelligence ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1021/t/the-evolution-de-evolution-of-intelligence.html if intelligence is a selected for trait would language (the ability to use it and the appreciation of such use) be a relevent measure of same?

if so, is language as an indicator of intelligence continuing to evolve?

or have we crested that hill already? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rhui Chatar) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1021 Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:27:02 GMT <![CDATA[ discussed at how the bible is used! So how about this.... ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1023/t/discussed-at-how-the-bible-is-used-So-how-about-this-.html





BAN THE BIBLE.
What three words could be more threatening or offensive to believers in this christian nation than these three words? Even people who do not profess to be christians can he offended by these words. Shouldnt normal human beings be secure enough to not be threatened, as they are, by these three words? Such insecure people believe that the Bible is The Word of God (His name is Yahweh) that must be used to determine how one should be acting. So, they... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (exhorter) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1023 Sun, 13 Apr 2003 06:34:04 GMT <![CDATA[ Man in Crisis ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1024/t/Man-in-Crisis.html feeds@yuku.com (MH Ecthelion) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1024 Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:33:30 GMT <![CDATA[ The role of public relations ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1025/t/The-role-of-public-relations.html
Does the answer change if "in history" is replaced with "among the current populace"? Does it make a difference whether that populace is "local" (the one to which that individual/group belongs or leads) or "other"? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Kyle Altis) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1025 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:36:50 GMT <![CDATA[ Postmodernism ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1026/t/Postmodernism.html
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What I mean by the post-modern perspective is the ability to deconstruct everything into power relationships, which naturally denudes the subject of legitimacy. If everything in our world is simply a product of power, it's hard to say that anything is "right," "wrong," "better," or "worse." It's just contingent, or the result of historical processes; perhaps, in fact, what's "right"... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Kyle Altis) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1026 Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:48:13 GMT <![CDATA[ There and back again ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1028/t/There-and-back-again.html
Several current commercials and non-related fundraising events context one or another of the elements of September 11 in order to sell a product or... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Kyle Altis) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1028 Sun, 10 Feb 2002 05:58:02 GMT <![CDATA[ Pearl Harbor: then and now ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1031/t/Pearl-Harbor-then-and-now.html feeds@yuku.com (Kyle Altis) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1031 Sun, 16 Sep 2001 11:18:25 GMT <![CDATA[ History is a Misleading Teacher ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1030/t/History-is-a-Misleading-Teacher.html
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Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.


This aphorism is commonplace enough to have become contentless. Yet, I believe that for the most part, while history has much to say, we have little to learn from it.

In a very basic sense we learn much from history. Once we learn that touching a hot stove hurts, we stop doing it. There are some "enduring principles"... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Padmewan McGregor) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1030 Sat, 15 Sep 2001 18:28:48 GMT <![CDATA[ Who cares about heroes? ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1027/t/Who-cares-about-heroes-.html
Yesterday I took a long bike ride on the Minuteman Trail past Lexington and read a brochure describing the trail and in particular, Paul Revere (whose midnight ride is paralleled by the trail). And then I remembered all the admirals and generals we were were taught in high school, whom I've since... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Padmewan McGregor) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1027 Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:30:05 GMT <![CDATA[ Today's backpage news, tomorrow's myth? ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1032/t/Today-s-backpage-news-tomorrow-s-myth-.html Titanic debate in Starbucks ...

There are events which are identified as legends even as they are experienced (Mao's "Long March" comes to mind) -- and then there are those events and people which only evolve mythic status as those who lived them... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Kyle Altis) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1032 Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:06:00 GMT <![CDATA[ Love is the death of character. ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1022/t/Love-is-the-death-of-character-.html feeds@yuku.com (Jedi Eowyn) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1022 Mon, 09 Jul 2001 07:54:02 GMT <![CDATA[ And after hegamony ... ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1033/t/And-after-hegamony-.html
How is the balance of power likely to shift? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Kyle Altis) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1033 Tue, 03 Jul 2001 06:51:58 GMT <![CDATA[ The art of interpretation ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1035/t/The-art-of-interpretation.html
Can the concept of "forgive and forget" coexist with any retelling of history? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Kyle Altis) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1035 Mon, 12 Feb 2001 06:41:35 GMT <![CDATA[ Timelessness in a timed society ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1034/t/Timelessness-in-a-timed-society.html
One finds the Amish and Old Order Mennonites driving horse-and-buggy side by side on the highways with rushing automobiles. One finds the Romany, Tinkers,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tien Lung) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1034 Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:53:47 GMT <![CDATA[ The Study of History. ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1036/t/The-Study-of-History-.html
There is a problem with that. Is it actually possible to know history? If we cannot know everything that is happenning right at this moment in time, how are we to know everything that happenned before?

Thusly, the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (YODA the all powerful) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1036 Tue, 31 Oct 2000 03:17:26 GMT <![CDATA[ The road to (galactic) Empire ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1020/t/The-road-to-galactic-Empire.html
Science fiction echoes this trend. The majority of the great epics... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tien Lung) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1020 Sun, 15 Oct 2000 14:16:33 GMT <![CDATA[ Flogging a Deceased Equine... ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1029/t/Flogging-a-Deceased-Equine-.html

There was an old film that I remember first watching wth my mother -you know the type...glorious (that is, garish) technicolour, twee incidental music and the entire range of good to bad acting. The film was set in China, just after the revolutionart period, and was all about a young missionary, who assists a senior bible-thumper in... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (MacTusken) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1029 Sun, 15 Oct 2000 11:59:39 GMT