<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21166121.post114394584410786074..comments</id><updated>2008-05-07T16:09:22.302-07:00</updated><category term='garbage'/><category term='obama'/><category term='gas price'/><category term='mccain'/><category term='food security'/><category term='recycling'/><category term='financial crisis'/><category term='politics'/><category term='neuroscience. palin'/><category term='GDP'/><category term='Green'/><category term='neuroscience'/><category term='environment'/><category term='happiness'/><category term='memory'/><category term='peak oil'/><category term='debate'/><category term='farm'/><title type='text'>Comments on clear thinking: Sloth is now a disease</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.georgesonbay.com/feeds/114394584410786074/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21166121/114394584410786074/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.georgesonbay.com/2006/04/sloth-is-now-disease.html'/><author><name>Peter B. Reiner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21166121.post-115884697893464789</id><published>2006-09-21T06:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-21T06:56:00.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'>&lt;b&gt;The link between Mind and Social / Environmenta...</title><content type='html'>&lt;B&gt;The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.&lt;/B&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;B&gt;Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.&lt;/B&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct. &lt;BR/&gt;Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel. &lt;BR/&gt;Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet. &lt;BR/&gt;Subject : Environment can never be saved as long as cities exist. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If there are no gaps there is no emotion. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There comes a time when there are almost no gaps. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Emotion ends. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Man becomes machine. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;FAST VISUALS /WORDS MAKE SLOW EMOTIONS EXTINCT. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;SCIENTIFIC /INDUSTRIAL /FINANCIAL THINKING DESTROYS EMOTIONAL CIRCUITS. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY CANNOT FEEL PAIN / REMORSE / EMPATHY. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY WILL ALWAYS BE CRUEL TO ANIMALS/ TREES/ AIR/ WATER/ LAND AND TO ITSELF. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;To read the complete article please follow either of these links : &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://www.planetsave.com/ps_mambo/index.php?option=com_simpleboard&amp;Itemid=75&amp;func=view&amp;id=68&amp;catid=6" REL="nofollow"&gt;PlanetSave&lt;/A&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://www.earthnewswire.com/index.php?option=com_forum&amp;Itemid=89&amp;page=viewtopic&amp;t=11" REL="nofollow"&gt;EarthNewsWire&lt;/A&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;sushil_yadav</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21166121/114394584410786074/comments/default/115884697893464789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21166121/114394584410786074/comments/default/115884697893464789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.georgesonbay.com/2006/04/sloth-is-now-disease.html?showComment=1158846960000#c115884697893464789' title=''/><author><name>sushil yadav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00450482168013648799</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.georgesonbay.com/2006/04/sloth-is-now-disease.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21166121.post-114394584410786074' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21166121/posts/default/114394584410786074' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1055385896'/></entry></feed>
