Defeating Terrorism
An old friend from grade school reacted adversely to the pic here which I had shared on Facebook, and my comment: “A terrific idea from a wonderful human being.” He wrote: Like the message Craig Shields, but it didn’t work with Hitler or the Japanese, it won’t work with Terrorists.
I respond: Well, here’s one point of education that I would think would be very powerful: An understanding that the Judeo-Christian and the Muslim Gods are the same entity with two different names. “Both” Gods are omniscient, omnipotent and omni-benevolent beings. Yes, religious people in both cultures use different words to name our God because they speak different languages.
More importantly, educated people are more prosperous, less desperate and hateful, less susceptible to terrible ideas, and more capable of seeing through propaganda than their counterparts who were denied these fruits.
In response to my colleague 
This morning I explained to a friend that, in my estimation, Buckminster Fuller was a super-human engineer, architect, author and visionary. He’s perhaps best known today for some terrific quotes he made during his long and rich life, including my favorite: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” 
Even though the delivery of Tesla model 3 vehicles might be two to three years off, getting lines longer than when Apple rolls out a new phone, and 198k reservations, set up a realization for the world that a new reality is being forged, and it has legs. For example, the lines were up to 500 people in San Diego, but a similar phenomenon was going on all over the place, and online. The car is good looking and has great specs. Now the firm just needs to execute, which is no easy challenge. 
“Breath on the Wind” writes on my post: “
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It’s the birthday of the father of modern philosophy, Rene’ Descartes, who began his professional life as a prominent mathematician and scientist in 17th Century France. His much better-known explorations into philosophy came as an accident, when he realized that doubt was a requirement to the scientific method. Famously, he called everything he knew into question, but then began to fear that perhaps there was nothing we could know with any certainly about ourselves and the world around us. 
A colleague in the southeastern part of the US has a huge and rock-solid fuel supply of wood to make into pellets, and, on the basis of that feedstock agreement, I’m trying to help him raise a significant amount (nine figures) of 
