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Re: namana

From: Christel
Category: General
Date: 16 Feb 1999
Time: 15:07:00
Remote Name: ip177.boanxr4.ras.tele.dk

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A letter with the subject title Namana in the Communications section.......and with no content....??

Must be some attempt to communicate, but...what does it say, I wonder? <ss>

"Namana"...sounds intriguing, but what does it mean, I wonder <ss>

Love & Joy, Christel

If we had the cash, is this the moment?

From: Maynard S. Clark
Category: Inter-Species
Date: 18 May 2006
Time: 13:40:14
Remote Name: w098.z064002138.bos-ma.dsl.cnc.net

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On another blog I contributed to the social process of envisioning how one might use massive winnings of cash, as sometimes befalls the unsuspecting contest entrant. I wrote: "What I had always wanted, though it's now too good to be true, and it probably is. But, as I worked out the details, the shocking goodness of this, for all of you, my readers, my audience, my family and friends, my contemporaries, it really IS too good to be true. And that's why you read this as if it were a novel - not merely a historical novel, but to you a novel, one you likely won't believe, whether in your more sober moments or your most dreamlike states. But my one truest wish would be to enable several ventures into truth -- research -- scientific research -- that entrepreneurs and capitalists and even universities dared never attempt: 1) means of communicating with intelligent nonhuman species 2) educating the entire human populace of our time - all 6.5 billion of us - about the health, ethical, ecological, justice, and humanitarian benefits of plant-based economies and diets 3) uniting the humane implulses of all human beings - present, past, and future - into a global social movement towards humane global culture, where animal exploitation and abuse would fade from view and eventually even from human imagination 4) the emergence of interspecies dialogue through hitherto-undreamed-of technologies and accretions of scientific and social understanding of the ways and even intentionalities of other species - not merely of domestic animals like cats and dogs and parakeets and gerbils, nor even of cows and sheep and pigs and fish, but of all species with neurological complexity sufficient to be what Professor Tom Regan of North Carolina State University called (in The Case for Animal Rights) "subjects of a life", who are sufficiently aware of "loss" in a biographical sense to know when they are stopped from realizing their most basic goals and rightful self realizations, because of the interventions of the malicious folks in a dominating (and domineering) species, whose goals are often trivial, often not fully understood or even explored. Would cash infusions really make a difference? Oh, my wildest wishes had, in the past, been abruptly stopped with thoughts that humungous financial costs of such projects could not be met, even if relevant and suitable bearers of such a vision could emerge from among us. Now, other limiting conditions began to unfold to consciousness: this might not be the historical moment for such a dramatical and revolutionary development." http://360.yahoo.com/my_profile.html;_ylt=AvadhsNBwUxVHakvYM_Fkgy5AOJ3 http://360.yahoo.com/maynardclark/

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