Polymath

Omnicide is a word coined by philosopher John Somerville. It is an extension of the concepts of suicide and genocide. It means the death of all, the total negation and destruction of all life. Omnicide is suicide for all. It is the genocide of humanity writ large.

Can you imagine omnicide? No people. No animals. No trees. No friendships. No one to view the mountains, or the oceans, or the stars. No one to write a poem, or sing a song, or hug a baby, or laugh or cry. With no present, there can be no memory of the past, nor possibility of a future. There is nothing. Nuclear weapons make possible the end of all, of omnicide

"It turns out that in eight states, plus the District of Columbia, getting beaten up by your spouse is a pre-existing condition.

Under the cold logic of the insurance industry, it makes perfect sense: If you are in a marriage with someone who has beaten you in the past, you're more likely to get beaten again than the average person and are therefore more expensive to insure.

In human terms, it's a second punishment for a victim of domestic violence."

It is incredible that such barbarous marital practices are part of the health insurance , and even more that such domestic violence is part and parcel of the most advanced nation. Where is feminine activism?

Jainism is the least well known of India's traditional religions, yet its ancestry predates Buddhism and it rivals Hinduism in its claim to be India's oldest continuously practiced faith. Its historical founder, Mahavira (ca. 540-468 b.c.), was a near contemporary of the Buddha Shakyamuni. Mahavira is understood as the most recent of the twenty-four tirthankaras (ford crossers), also known as jinas (victorious conquerors)--those who have conquered passions in order to attain perfect wisdom (siddha) and spiritual liberation (moksha). Jainism centers on the veneration of the jinas as role models rather than gods.

I would like to give a link to my paper on the Evolution of Sramanic Jain Tradition and Its Impact on Indic Civilisation & Religious Fundamentalism in the XIXth World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religion, Tokyo, Japan, 2005.

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The Rise, Decline And Renewals Of Sramanic Religious Traditions Within Indic Civilisation With Particular Reference To The Evolution Of Jain Sramanic Culture And Its Impact On The Indic Civilization

THAT IS AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE AND BY THE PEOPLE!!!

IS IT ANY DIFFERENT IN INDIA, OF COURT, WITHOUT ANY SUPREME COURT FIAT TO SUPPORT IT?

I am appalled: What is G-20 doing about this?

That is equivalent to:

1 child dying every 3.5 seconds
17-18 children dying every minute
A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring almost every 1.5 weeks
An Iraq-scale death toll every 16-38 days
Over 9 million children dying every year
Some 70 million children dying between 2000 and 2007

The heart-wrenching and horrible daily accounts of suicide bombings rarely reveal the underlying cause of the bombers' motivations. But a comprehensive database at Australia's Flinders University that has compiled information on these types of attacks from as early as 1981 can shed light on such motivations. And the conclusions are startling, Professor Riaz Hassan, author of a forthcoming book on suicide bombing, tells us. For one, the conventional wisdom that bombers are insane or religious fanatics is wrong. Individual bombers show no personality disorders and the attacks themselves are often politically motivated, aimed at achieving specific strategic goals such as forcing concessions or generating greater support. Moreover, the motivations are complex: "humiliation, revenge, and altruism" all drive the individual to engage in, and the community to condone, suicide bombing. Indeed, as Hassan notes, participating in suicide bombing can fulfill a range of meanings from the "personal to communal."

Today's $2.3 billion settlement between Pfizer and the U.S. Justice Department for unlawful prescription drug promotion may sound large, but it's not enough to ensure drug companies will curb their bad behavior. In fact, it just shows there is competition in the pharmaceutical industry. Pfizer has broken a record just set by Eli Lilly & Company in January for what was then described by the Justice Department as the "largest individual corporate criminal fine" in U.S. history (more than $500 million in criminal penalties for off-label promotion of Zyprexa). Now, a scant seven months later, Pfizer has broken this record with a criminal fine of $1.2 billion, the largest criminal fine ever imposed in the U.S. for any matter. (The rest of the $2.3 billion represents civil penalties.)

"Three years in the making by acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost, and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster), CRUDE chronicles the epic legal battle to hold Chevron accountable for its systematic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon -- an environmental tragedy experts call the "Amazon Chernobyl," and believe is the worst case of oil-related contamination on Earth. While drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon from 1964 to 1990, Texaco, now Chevron, deliberately dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater, spilled roughly 17 million gallons of crude oil, and left hazardous waste in hundreds of open pits dug out of the forest floor. The company operated using substandard practices that were obsolete in order to increase its profit margin by $3 per barrel of crude. Of course, the local people and ecosystems paid the price instead, but they're fighting back."