All Root And No Blossom

From Joe Brewer

So as I observe the accelerating collapse of sense-making in the United States right now, all I can say is that there are many of us who saw this coming. Some of us took actions to change our lives in service to the root causes of our planetary predicament. Others fell into reactionary patterns at the level of symptoms.

— Joe Brewer

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When Jesus and the Jewish prophets condemned the religion of their day, they were not condemning Judaism- they were rejecting fundamentalism. Fundamentalism is religion that is all root and no blossom. Jesus and the prophets were saying, if religion does not bear the fruit of universal human rights, it is stillborn

— Jim Rigby

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Each organism presumably assumes its umwelt to be the entirety of objective reality. Until a child learns that honeybees enjoy ultraviolet signals and rattlesnakes see infrared, it is not obvious that plenty of information is riding on channels to which we have no natural access. In fact, the part of the electromagnetic spectrum visible to us is less than a ten-trillionth of it. Our sensorium is enough to get by in our ecosystem, but no better.

— David Eagleman

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