Surround yourself with people,
in whose presence
You can strip your strength off,
like a shirt.
Knowing full well that
the nakedness of your soul
is well cared for
in their loving hands.
(from my Facebook-Friend Malca Goldstein-Wolf)
Surround yourself with people,
in whose presence
You can strip your strength off,
like a shirt.
Knowing full well that
the nakedness of your soul
is well cared for
in their loving hands.
(from my Facebook-Friend Malca Goldstein-Wolf)
This study looks at the positive environmental effects of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a topic which has been well established in the scientific literature but which is far too often ignored in the current discussions about climate change policy.
All life is carbon based and the primary source of this carbon is the CO2 in the global atmosphere.
As recently as 18,000 years ago, at the height of the most recent major glaciation, CO2 dipped to its lowest level in recorded history at 180 ppm, low enough to stunt plant growth. This is only 30 ppm above a level that would result in the death of plants due to CO2 starvation.
It is calculated that if the decline in CO2 levels were to continue at the same rate as it has over the past 140 million years, life on Earth would begin to die as soon as two million years from now and would slowly perish almost entirely as carbon continued to be lost to the deep ocean sediments.
The combustion of fossil fuels for energy to power human civilization has reversed the downward trend in CO2 and promises to bring it back to levels that are likely to foster a considerable increase in the growth rate and biomass of plants, including food crops and trees.
Human emissions of CO2 have restored a balance to the global carbon cycle, thereby ensuring the long-term continuation of life on Earth.
This extremely positive aspect of human CO2 emissions must be weighed against the unproven hypothesis that human CO2emissions will cause a catastrophic warming of the climate in coming years.
The one-sided political treatment of CO2 as a pollutant that should be radically reduced must be corrected in light of the indisputable scientific evidence that it is essential to life on Earth.
Found at Wattpad.com, posted by brownielover1
At the 1994 annual awards dinner given by the American Association for Forensic Science, AAFS President Don Harper Mills astounded his audience in San Diego with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story.
“On 23 March 1994, the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound of the head. The decedent had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to commit suicide (he left a note indicating his despondency). As he fell past the ninth floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast through a window, which killed him instantly. Neither the shooter nor the decedent was aware that a safety net had been erected at the eighth floor level to protect some window washers and that Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide anyway because of this.”
“Ordinarily,” Dr. Mills continued, “a person who sets out to commit suicide ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended.”
I want to briefly describe a process that I successfully applied to myself on several occasions when I wanted to change a disturbing behavior of myself. I developed a three-step process for this purpose.
Principle: You are not your reaction. If people hurt you and you react hurting them, then this is first and foremost a reaction to your own injury. We do not actually mean the person we are facing, but really only want to defend ourselves. Therefore: You are not your reaction. Your reaction is learned behavior. There are other possibilities than to compensate in this way. These only have to be learned.
When God created woman, he worked late on the sixth day.
An angel came by and asked, “Why spend so much time with her?”
The Lord answered. “Have you seen all the specifications I have to meet to shape her?”
The angel was impressed: “With only two hands … impossible! And this is the standard model?”
The angel came closer and touched the woman.
“But you made her so soft, sir.”
“She’s soft,” said the Lord.
“But I have made her strong. You can’t imagine what she can endure and overcome.”
“Can she think?” asked the angel…
The Lord answered, “she can’t just think, she can reflect and negotiate.”
The angel touched her cheeks…
“Lord, it seems that this creation is leaking! You’ve placed too many burdens on her.”
“It’s not leaking. These are tears”, the Lord corrected the angel.
“What’s that for?” asked the angel.
The Lord said, “Tears are her way of expressing her grief, her doubts, her love, her loneliness, her sorrow and her pride.” …
That made a big impression on the angel, “Lord, you are a genius. You’ve thought of everything. A woman is really wonderful.”
The Lord said: “Indeed she is.
The angel asked, “So, she’s a perfect being?”
The Lord replied: “No. She only has one disadvantage. She often forgets what she’s worth”.