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The Urantia Book (sometimes called the Urantia Papers or The Fifth Epochal Revelation) is a spiritual and philosophical book that originated in Chicago sometime between 1924 and 1955. The authorship remains a matter of speculation. The authors introduce the word "Urantia" as the name of the planet Earth and state that their intent is to "present enlarged concepts and advanced truth." The book aims to unite religion, science and philosophy, and its enormous amount of material about science is unique among literature claimed to be presented by higher intelligences. Among other topics, the book discusses the origin and meaning of life, humankind's place in the universe, the purpose of evil and suffering, the relationship between God and people, and the life of Jesus. The Urantia Foundation, a U.S.-based non-profit group, first published The Urantia Book in 1955. In 2001, a jury found that the English book's copyright was no longer valid after 1983. The English text became a public domain work in the United States, and in 2006 the international copyright expired....

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This research is framed in the context of a specialized weapon in military aviation: an unmanned multirole fighter capable of replacing manned systems and their respective missions. This paper gives a brief history of unmanned aerial vehicles and their employment as weapons to demonstrate the evolution from ISR platform to unmanned combat air vehicle and then evolves into two main sections of “can we” and “should we” pursue this avenue of development. The primary means of answering the research question is both technical and philosophical. Before being able to answer if the Air Force should pursue an unmanned fighter, it is necessary to determine if it is technically feasible for such a system....

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Religion is a powerful expression of culture that is most obviously expressed in our relationships with nature. As our major meeting point with nature is food, this provides a fertile field for cultivating the wisdom that Professor Falvey concludes is the essence of all sustainability. By bringing sustainability, agriculture, global issues, Buddhism, Christianity and a host of other factors into play, we see that our motivations belie our rhetoric – in environmental actions through to trade and aid. This open-spirited book contains a wealth of analysis and alternative logics that make it essential to serious readers about nature, the environment, spirituality and religion, Asia and ourselves. Beginning with science and spirituality, the discussion moves from immortality to theology to literal misinterpretations and unifies these themes around unacknowledged Western core values. Shifting to philosophy, ethics, and rights, an ecological argument about our selective ‘liberation’ of nature is proffered as an introduction to global issues, including traditional values of poor countries and lost traditions in the West. An engrossing h...

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Contents Page Introduction 1 Chapter 1 10 Seeking Agricultural Sustainability: Science and Spirituality Chapter 2 20 Immortality: Sustaining Ourselves? Chapter 3 31 Agricultural Theology: Why we are Fascinated with Sustainability Chapter 4 47 Literal and Historical Christianity and Agriculture: Our Manipulations and Our Undoing Chapter 5 57 Some Influencers of the Church: Prophets and Sustainable Agriculture Chapter 6 71 From Luther to Jung: Broadening the Insights Chapter 7 82 West Meets East: The Salvation of Agriculture Falvey - Religion and Agriculture: Sustainability in Christianity and Buddhism vi Chapter 8 90 Pantheistic Agriculture: Investing the Gods in Agriculture Chapter 9 98 Agricultural Philosophy and Rights: From Natural Rights to Rights for Nature Chapter 10 105 Sustainable Agriculture and Secular Environmentalism: Emerging Ecological Understanding Chapter 11 112 The Religion of Sustainable Agriculture: Philosophy and Ethics Chapter 12 125 Liberating Nature: Our Rising Awareness Chapter 13 134 Sustainable Development: Having it All? Chapter 14 138 Sustaining Our Role: Global Sustainable ...

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“The Analects of Confucius” are considered a record of the words and acts of Confucius and his disciples, as well as the discussions they held. Written during the Spring and Autumn Period through the Warring States Period（475 BC - 221 BC) the Analects is the representative work of Confucianism and continues to have a tremendous influence on Chinese and East Asian thoughts and values today. In neutrosophy, between two ends there are many, sometimes a continuous range of neutralities (degrees of middle, or degrees of synthesis). Each middle (called “neutrality” or “indeterminacy” in neutrosophy) is a k% degree of truth and a (100-k)% degree of falsehood. We have a paradox if the sentence is 100% true, 100% false, and 100% indeterminate....

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Negative Part 3 You want to know a person truly, not only to understand this person’s words, but also understand this person’s actions and ideas. Commentary on Negative Part 3 Confucius did not mention to understand people’s ideas. While the words and actions are controlled by the ideas. Neutrosophic Part 3 The person’s time and energy were limited. For knowing a man truly, besides one person’s ability, other person’s help is needed in many cases, sometimes even the machine and the measuring appliance and so on are needed....

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Brief Introduction ……………………………………..3 Foreword………………………………………………..5 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 1…...……..13 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 2………….30 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 3………….48 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 4……….....54 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 5……….....58 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 6……….....63 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 7……….....69 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 8……….....74 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 9……….....79 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 10….……..84 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 11………...89 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 12….……..95 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 13……….101 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 14.………108 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 15……….115 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 16……….120 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 17……….126 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 18.………132 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 19……….136 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 20…….…141 Postscript ………………………………………...

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The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison with the second (Malthus)....

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Science, Nature, Philosophy

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A Voyage to Arcturus is a novel by Scottish writer David Lindsay, first published in 1920. It combines fantasy, philosophy, and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with existence. It has been described by critic and philosopher Colin Wilson as the greatest novel of the twentieth century and was a central influence on C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy....

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Science fiction

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While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: Forward, my beauty, my Arab, he said, patting the omnibus encouragingly, fleetest of all thy bounding tribe), it is also an adventure story: Chesterton is not afraid to let blood be drawn in his battles, fought with sword and halberd in the London streets, and Wayne thinks up a few ingenious strategies; and, finally, the novel is philosophical, considering the value of one man's actions and the virtue of respect for one's enemies. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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Adventure, Fantasy

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„Szok szybkości” to esej o fascynującym prądzie cywilizacji, który porywa świat wraz z ludźmi w dziwną przyszłość. Symbioza ludzi i komputerów, końcowy etap postnowoczesnej kultury, rodzi zaskakujące zjawiska, napędzane potężnymi siłami ewolucji i entropii. Świat w każdej chwili może znaleźć się poza naszą kontrolą. Esej odsłania tajemnice nowej, rodzącej się cywilizacji ludzi i komputerów; jest kolekcją teorii naukowych i metafor popkultury, przepuszczoną przez filtry filozofii i zdrowego rozsądku; rozważa rolę i przeznaczenie bytów inteligentnych: ludzi, komputerów, nadczłowieka i boga. Autor tworzy dwa główne scenariusze przyszłości człowieka, których wspólnym mianownikiem są dwie cechy: Szybkość i Dziwność. Metafory, teorie filozoficzne, nowe technologie i odkrycia naukowe, to fragmenty puzzli, z których autor układa obraz dziwnej, miejscami przerażającej rzeczywistości. O tym, że ewolucja trwa nadal wie każdy. O tym, że ewolucja inteligencji nie tylko nadal trwa, ale przyspiesza, wie niewielu. Co będzie końcowym efektem tego przyspieszenia, nie wie nikt. Dokąd prowadzą nas destrukcyjno-kreatywne siły ewolucji? Mając do dyspozyc...

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„To globalizacja oraz symbiotyczna integracja ludzi i maszyn tworzą zalążki nowego, kolejnego superorganizmu w historii życia na Ziemi. Nie będzie się on jednak składał z bakterii czy mrówek, lecz z umysłów i komputerów. Stworzy go to wszystko, co podłączy się do Sieci. Jego architektura i stosunek do ludzi może przybrać przeróżne formy. Rozwijając hipotezę Turchina nie można wykluczyć, że ta nowa ponadosobnicza inteligencja będzie dysponowała jakąś formą świadomości i możliwością kierowania swoim rozwojem.” Str. 60 „A teraz pomyślmy o swoim mózgu. Przecież ludzki mózg składa się wyłącznie z bakterii. Każdy neuron był kiedyś niezależnym organizmem. Bakterią, które miliard lat temu krążyły swobodnie w środowisku. Mózg, to sto miliardów bakterii, które komuniują się między sobą; bakterii, które stworzyły w ludzkiej czaszce własny Internet. Inteligencja człowieka, duch, miłość, nienawiść, to rozmowy tych połączonych bakterii. I rozmawiają ze sobą własnym elektrochemicznym językiem, wszystkie na raz. Każdy neuron ma własną tożsamość, jest niepowtarzalny. Oprócz tych gadających bakterii nie ma w głowie nic ważnego. Reszta mózgu, to zwykł...

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Wstęp …................................................................ 5 1. Komputery wszystko zmienią ............................... 10 2. Neurowrota do cyberprzestrzeni …....................... 15 3. Komputery nie płaczą …........................................ 20 4. Zmierzch Europy? ….............................................. 19 5. Dziwny i szybki świat …......................................... 40 6. Czyńcie sobie cyberprzestrzeń przyjazną …........... 49 7. Komputery wstępują do nieba …........................... 54 8. Śmierć Boga …....................................................... 66 9. Hipoteza samodestrukcji …................................... 80 10. Trwały pokój .......................................................... 86 11. Enter, enterpreneur, enteryzm …........................... 95 12. Inteligencja w przestrzeni publicznej ….................. 110 13. Czy był już Rok 1984?...

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„Szok szybkości” to esej o fascynującym prądzie cywilizacji, który porywa świat wraz z ludźmi w dziwną przyszłość. Symbioza ludzi i komputerów, końcowy etap postnowoczesnej kultury, rodzi zaskakujące zjawiska, napędzane potężnymi siłami ewolucji i entropii. Świat w każdej chwili może znaleźć się poza naszą kontrolą. Esej odsłania tajemnice nowej, rodzącej się cywilizacji ludzi i komputerów; jest kolekcją teorii naukowych i metafor popkultury, przepuszczoną przez filtry filozofii i zdrowego rozsądku; rozważa rolę i przeznaczenie bytów inteligentnych: ludzi, komputerów, nadczłowieka i boga. Autor tworzy dwa główne scenariusze przyszłości człowieka, których wspólnym mianownikiem są dwie cechy: Szybkość i Dziwność. Metafory, teorie filozoficzne, nowe technologie i odkrycia naukowe, to fragmenty puzzli, z których autor układa obraz dziwnej, miejscami przerażającej rzeczywistości. O tym, że ewolucja trwa nadal wie każdy. O tym, że ewolucja inteligencji nie tylko nadal trwa, ale przyspiesza, wie niewielu. Co będzie końcowym efektem tego przyspieszenia, nie wie nikt. Dokąd prowadzą nas destrukcyjno-kreatywne siły ewolucji? Mając ...

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„To globalizacja oraz symbiotyczna integracja ludzi i maszyn tworzą zalążki nowego, kolejnego superorganizmu w historii życia na Ziemi. Nie będzie się on jednak składał z bakterii czy mrówek, lecz z umysłów i komputerów. Stworzy go to wszystko, co podłączy się do Sieci. Jego architektura i stosunek do ludzi może przybrać przeróżne formy. Rozwijając hipotezę Turchina nie można wykluczyć, że ta nowa ponadosobnicza inteligencja będzie dysponowała jakąś formą świadomości i możliwością kierowania swoim rozwojem.” Str. 60 „A teraz pomyślmy o swoim mózgu. Przecież ludzki mózg składa się wyłącznie z bakterii. Każdy neuron był kiedyś niezależnym organizmem. Bakterią, które miliard lat temu krążyły swobodnie w środowisku. Mózg, to sto miliardów bakterii, które komuniują się między sobą; bakterii, które stworzyły w ludzkiej czaszce własny Internet. Inteligencja człowieka, duch, miłość, nienawiść, to rozmowy tych połączonych bakterii. I rozmawiają ze sobą własnym elektrochemicznym językiem, wszystkie na raz. Każdy neuron ma własną tożsamość, jest niepowtarzalny. Oprócz tych gadających bakterii nie ma w głowie nic ważnego. Reszta mózgu, to zw...

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Wstęp …................................................................ 5 1. Komputery wszystko zmienią ............................... 9 2. Neurowrota do cyberprzestrzeni …....................... 14 3. Komputery nie płaczą …........................................ 19 4. Zmierzch Europy? ….............................................. 18 5. Dziwny i szybki świat …......................................... 39 6. Czyńcie sobie cyberprzestrzeń przyjazną …........... 48 7. Komputery wstępują do nieba …........................... 53 8. Śmierć Boga …....................................................... 65 9. Hipoteza samodestrukcji …................................... 79 10. Trwały pokój .......................................................... 85 11. Enter, enterpreneur, enteryzm …........................... 94 12. Inteligencja w przestrzeni publicznej ….................. 109 13. Czy był już Rok 1984? …........................

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Integrating concepts from philosophical, anthropological, and astrobiological disciplines, Cosmos and Culture begins to explore the interdisciplinary questions of cosmic evolution....

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Essays and articles about modern physics, speculations in science, pseudo-science and the alleged incompatibility between God and modern science.

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Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent philosophical thought experiments presented in entertaining ways. Protagonists typically “think” rather than “shoot” their way out of problems, but the definition is flexible because there are no limits on an author’s imagination. The reader-selected stories presented here were written prior to 1962 and became US public domain texts when their copyrights expired. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)...

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Science fiction, Short stories

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Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent philosophical thought experiments presented in entertaining ways. Protagonists typically “think” rather than “shoot” their way out of problems, but the definition is flexible because there are no limits on an author’s imagination. The reader-selected stories presented here were written prior to 1962 and became US public domain texts when their copyrights expired. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)...

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Science fiction, Short stories

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volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Safe in their Alabaster Chambers by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 6, 2012. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation.[3] Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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Fantasy, Nature, Philosophy, Religion, Poetry

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Niels Klim's Underground Travels, originally published in Latin as Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum (1741) is a satirical science-fiction/fantasy novel written by Ludvig Holberg, a Norwegian-Danish dramatist, historian, and essayist, born in Bergen, Norway. It was his first and only novel. It describes a utopian society from an outsider's point of view, and often pokes fun at diverse cultural and social topics such as moral, science, sexual equality, religion, governments, and philosophy....

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Fantasy, Science fiction, Satire

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Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent philosophical thought experiments presented in entertaining ways. Protagonists typically “think” rather than “shoot” their way out of problems, but the definition is flexible because there are no limits on an author’s imagination. The reader-selected stories presented here were written prior to 1962 and became US public domain texts when their copyrights expired. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)...

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Science fiction

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Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent philosophical thought experiments presented in entertaining ways. Protagonists typically “think” rather than “shoot” their way out of problems, but the definition is flexible because there are no limits on an author’s imagination. The reader-selected stories presented here were written prior to 1962 and became US public domain texts when their copyrights expired. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)...

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In The Concept of Nature , Alfred North Whitehead discusses the interrelatedness of time, space, and human perception. The idea of objects as 'occasions of experience', arguments against body-mind duality and the search for an all-encompassing 'philosophy of nature' are examined, with specific reference to contemporary (Einstein, with whose theory of relativity he has some complaints) and ancient (Plato, Aristotle) approaches. (Summary by mb)...

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Philosophy, Science

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Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent philosophical thought experiments presented in entertaining ways. Protagonists typically “think” rather than “shoot” their way out of problems, but the definition is flexible because there are no limits on an author’s imagination. The reader-selected stories presented here were written prior to 1962 and became US public domain texts when their copyrights expired. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)...

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Science fiction, Short stories

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Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent philosophical thought experiments presented in entertaining ways. Protagonists typically “think” rather than “shoot” their way out of problems, but the definition is flexible because there are no limits on an author’s imagination. The reader-selected stories presented here were written prior to 1962 and became US public domain texts when their copyrights expired. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)...

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Science fiction, Short stories