Today I attended three panels: "Hardwired to Believe,"
"Bench the Eagle: The End of the American Empire," and
"The Real Reasons Iran is the Next Target." They were
all three interesting, but I found the first one the
most interesting. Fintan Steel whom I mentioned earlier
and is an MD molecular biologist researcher was on this
panel and said that there are interesting findings on
how genes influence our behavior including our emotions
and our tendency to be religious. He also pointed out
that even if you had a "religious gene" you might or
might not be religious because there are so many other
influences. But he is a great speaker and did have
much to say on the subject. Akim Kodderman who is a
philosophy professor also spoke, but spoke so fast it
was hard to keep up with him and for the most part,
I felt he was talking nonsense. There were two others
on the panel, one was a devout Muslim and he said that
Islam says that "people ARE in order to worship." Humans
are created to "believe." The final panelist said that
he enjoyed investigating religion and trying to determine
what is reality. He said then, that any one looking at
me would say I do not have perfect vision because I
wear glasses, but they would be wrong because, and here
he took off his glasses and showed they had no lenses.
The panelist on the 2nd panel were primarily concerned
about the lack of state-hood in our foreign policy and
that the defense department has such a huge budget and
that State has such a small budget that more and more
Foreign Policy is being taken over by Defense. It
was all pretty chilling.
And finally, Iran. The general consensus was that it
is in the plan. Cheney is determined and that, of course
it is all about oil and has been all about oil.
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