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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Lake Neuron - Latest Comments in Book report</title><link>http://lakeneuron.disqus.com/</link><description>John I. Carney's home on the web</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 08 May 2006 10:39:32 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Book report</title><link>http://lakeneuron.com/2006/05/07/book-report/#comment-1224120</link><description>Ooookay ....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I suspect this is comment spam, since it doesn't really have anything to do with my post about the Ferguson book, but since I'm not 100 percent sure I'll leave it up for now.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">LakeNeuron</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2006 10:39:32 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Book report</title><link>http://lakeneuron.com/2006/05/07/book-report/#comment-1224119</link><description>Consider:&lt;br&gt;  The missing element in every human 'solution' is &lt;br&gt;  an accurate definition of the creature.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;  The  way  we define  'human'  determines our view &lt;br&gt;  of self, others, relationships, institutions, life, and &lt;br&gt;  future. Important? Only the Creator who made us &lt;br&gt;  in His own image is qualified to define us accurately. &lt;br&gt;  Choose  wisely...there are results.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;  Many problems in human experience are the result of &lt;br&gt;  false and inaccurate definitions of humankind premised &lt;br&gt;  in man-made religions and humanistic philosophies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;  Each individual human being possesses a unique, highly &lt;br&gt;  developed, and sensitive perception of diversity. Thus &lt;br&gt;  aware, man is endowed with a natural capability for enact-&lt;br&gt;  ing internal mental and external physical selectivity. &lt;br&gt;  Quantitative and qualitative choice-making thus lends &lt;br&gt;  itself as the superior basis of an active intelligence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;  Human is earth's Choicemaker. His title describes&lt;br&gt;  his definitive and typifying characteristic. Recall &lt;br&gt;  that his other features are but vehicles of experi-&lt;br&gt;  ence intent on the development of perceptive &lt;br&gt;  awareness and the following acts of decision and&lt;br&gt;  choice. Note that the products of man cannot define &lt;br&gt;  him for they are the fruit of the discerning choice-&lt;br&gt;  making process and include the cognition of self, &lt;br&gt;  the utility of experience, the development of value-&lt;br&gt;  measuring systems and language, and the accultur-&lt;br&gt;  ation of civilization.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;  The arts and the sciences of man, as with his habits,&lt;br&gt;  customs, and traditions, are the creative harvest of&lt;br&gt;  his perceptive and selective powers. Creativity, the &lt;br&gt;  creative process,  is a choice-making process. His &lt;br&gt;  articles, constructs, and commodities, however &lt;br&gt;  marvelous to behold, deserve neither awe nor idol-&lt;br&gt;  atry, for man, not his contrivance, is earth's own &lt;br&gt;  highest expression of the creative process.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;  Human is earth's Choicemaker. The sublime and &lt;br&gt;  significant act of choosing is, itself, the Archimedean &lt;br&gt;  fulcrum upon which man levers and redirects the &lt;br&gt;  forces of cause and effect to an elected level of qual-&lt;br&gt;  ity and diversity. Further, it orients him toward a &lt;br&gt;  natural environmental opportunity, freedom, and &lt;br&gt;  bestows earth's title, The Choicemaker, on his &lt;br&gt;  singular and plural brow.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;  Human is earth's Choicemaker. Psalm 25:12 He is by &lt;br&gt;  nature and nature's God a creature of Choice - and of &lt;br&gt;  Criteria. Psalm 119:30,173 His unique and definitive &lt;br&gt;  characteristic is, and of Right ought to be, the natural &lt;br&gt;  foundation of his environments, institutions, and re-&lt;br&gt;  spectful relations to his fellow-man. Thus, he is orien-&lt;br&gt;  ted to a Freedom whose roots are in the Order of the &lt;br&gt;  universe.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;   Let us proclaim it. Behold!&lt;br&gt;  The Season of Generation-Choicemaker Joel 3:14 KJV&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;   - from The HUMAN PARADIGM</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Choicemaker</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2006 10:26:26 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>