It is early Thursday morning. It will be some time before the formal heat of the day kicks in. A tropical storm hitting far away in texas resulted in a cooling trend, at least overnight.
I have taken on quite a bit of work this week which has slowed the process of editing to a crawl. It would be less than a crawl if not for these posts.
I think I've had enough of caffeine for a while. I woke up early and fell asleep late and had no real desire for it. Since I'm not really suffering any effects from it, I don't plan to stop drinking it; not in a conscientious way; but I am awfully happy with my decafinated chai tea this morning.
The displaced of the world has apparently hit 60 million, the effect of the wars which look only likely to get worse. This number is impressive, but 3500 years ago it would have represented 150% of the population of the planet.
Occasionally, NLC comes across to me as an unlikely thing with its predestination aspects (which it borrows from traditional physics, of course) and lack of true self-determination, but how could a "highly evolved" species be as stupid as we are otherwise. A lack of self determination provides a better explanation for random violence. Car bombings provide a good example. Typically these are carried out by local residents with the possibility of randomly killing someone they'd otherwise like. Even something more organized like the carpet bombing during World War II shows a complete lack of logical undertaking, the "emotive" of exact chemical reactions playing a bigger role in each than careful logic either in the action or the events leading up to it. It begs us to admit that we are pre-planned creature in a non-random environment, how else could we sleep with ourselves?
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