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Esoteric Karate
By John Kedrowski

No one knows who wrote the Bubishi. As far as researchers can tell, the book was the work of a several hundred year old Chinese Martial Arts student who took diligent notes and transcribed everything the Sensei taught. According to apocryphal karate history, this book somehow made it to the island of Okinawa where it was copied, by hand, as part of the transmission process that delivered karate from teacher to student.

The Importance of Mystery…

When many people think of the word mystery, images of Scooby Do and the Mystery Machine are conjured. This is because our culture has largely lost the importance of Mystery in our daily lives and as we grow throughout our lives. The definition of Mystery is multifaceted and revealing of its powerful nature. According to Dictionary.com, Mystery is…

1. Anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown: the mysteries of nature.

The Forgotten Purpose

In 1918, the Alexander Inglis, an emeritus professor at Harvard, who now has a lectern named after him, wrote a book called "Principles of Secondary Education." We can trace the origin of our overall school structure in the US to this book and this time. This is because Inglis was specifically writing a book that would be pushed by the major industrial foundations in order to change the paradigm of American education.

What’s The Point?

Counting is a miraculous invention. It allows us to make an abstract representation of the universe and then analyze it separate from its original context. When it comes to education, we use this invention in order to measure a student’s knowledge. This is done via a process of assignation of numbers to snippets of various subjectively chosen bits of knowledge. What affect does this have on the epistemology practiced in our schools?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/busted-pentagon-why-the-p_b_209...

Recently, I've been looking around for a place to stash some pith and vinegar and I thought about this blog. I haven't posted in a while and I am totally sick of trying to talk to morons about any opinions that might differ from the mainstream. So, rather then waste my time on them, I'm going to build some content here and see what happens.

Here's to all of the Modern Prometheus' who choose to withhold their fire until a time when humanity withholds it's crows. John Galt has a posse.

LOL!

How a Liberal decided that Big Government Couldn’t Work

[b]The Religious Impulse and Extinction[/b]
By John Kedrowski

Much has been made lately about the importance of religion in our lives. We see the religious impulse growing and growing in the world around us and many of us reasoning folk are left to wonder and worry about it. I am convinced that religion is a maladaptive trait in humanity and will lead to further conflict and possibly our extinction. Thusly, it should be discarded. Others argue that it is part of the human essence and cannot be dispended.

There is no human essence.

The Joys of Real ID
By John Kedrowski

This "Real ID" stuff could really be a great thing...

Yeah, having all of our personal data accessible on a single nationalized database makes it easier for people to steal your identity, but that is because we are using an out-dated technology!

So, lets get with the times!!!!

Enter, the chip...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6237364/

This wonderful piece of technology could do so many things!

First, our social security number and our government information could directly be implanted into our bodies so that it will never be lost and NEVER stolen.

Peak Oil and WWIV
By John Kedrowski

In the 1950s a famous geophysicist, M. King Hubbert, made a startling prediction. Based on the amassed drilling data compiled from oil industry sources from the biggest oil in the nation and based on the geologic behavior of oil wells, Hubbert predicted that a peak in US oil production would occur sometime in the early 70s. After the peak, production of US oil would fall no matter what kind of technology was developed and no matter how much we searched.

The reasoning behind this is simple. An oil field is not an empty space under the earth filled with oil. An oil field is made of porous rock where oil is trapped between the granular spaces. Thus, when one drills into these traps, the amassed oil is not totally recoverable. In fact, only 50% of the oil comes out easily. The rest takes more and more work, becoming more and more expensive.