Monthly Archives: August 2015

Childhood influences

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Ted Howard NZ

Question of the Day, August 29-30 2015 ~ The Environment You Grew Up In How much do you feel the environment you grew up in influences the way you live now compared to what you’ve experienced since becoming ‘independent’? Glad … Continue reading →

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Emotion and spirit

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Ted Howard NZ

Emotion and Spirit Andrew Ask: Please explain whether or not you believe emotion is anathema to spirit or, put another way, what are your thoughts regarding whether it’s possible for a person to be under the influence of their emotions … Continue reading →

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Reading, writing, …

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Ted Howard NZ

Reading, Writing, and… In addition to reading and writing, what’s the single most important thing you learned in school? Hi Laurie If you are going to break rules, don’t do it in crowds. As soon as a crowd starts to … Continue reading →

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A roadmap to sustainable abundance

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Ted Howard NZ

Anticipating 2040: A roadmap to sustainable abundance? Hi Richard, What I have done is actually to look at things from a systems point of view. Taking that view to a second order abstraction, one gets to see what the systemic … Continue reading →

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NZRFC

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Ted Howard NZ

NZRFC essentially non-functional Updated 1 Nov 2016 Below is what I wrote in August 2015. I changed it on the RFC website, because it seems it was being misinterpreted by some. I am leaving it here in its original form … Continue reading →

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Genetic Talent

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Ted Howard NZ

Question of the Day, August 23-24 2015, Genetic Talent Is Talent Genetic? Interesting question and answers thus far. It seems that the answer to the old nature nurture debate is that it is both, in about equal measure in most … Continue reading →

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Dilemma of human enhancement

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Ted Howard NZ

The dilemma of human enhancement Choice TV We’ve been here a lot before. For me, I can imagine living a very long time – millions of years. I’ve been able to do that since 1974. The logic is clear, all … Continue reading →

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Ideapod – smart subconscious

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Ted Howard NZ

Ideapod – Your subconscious is smarter than you might think Certainly the subconscious is vast and almost all knowing and all powerful in comparison to the conscious. And the conscious has a power of context selection that is not to … Continue reading →

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Ideapod – ego inverse of knowledge

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Ted Howard NZ

Ideapod – Ego inverse of knowledge Between the size and complexity of this reality we find ourselves in, and what seems to be the nature of the infinite realms of potential infinities of possibility available to us, it seems that … Continue reading →

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Ideapod – Surviving the next Toba

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Ted Howard NZ

Threats and opportunities Surviving the next Toba [surviving market values] The image above is Lake Toba, the 100km long crater whose explosion 70,000 years ago seems to have put enough ash in the air to cause a winter several years … Continue reading →

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