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Both shadowdoubters (a certain type of atheists) and rabid creationists are advised not to read this. I’m not trying to provoke a hateful discussion, just putting a load of linked interesting thoughts from my mind to the screen .

Chatting with a new friend who is no less than a priestess of Ishtar reminded me of something else that is missing from the old half-finished article about communities, selfishness and selflessness, and evolution of information (search for it in the libervis wiki). Love.

Selfless behavior usually doesn’t come from rational decisions, it is something we do because our hearts tell us to.  read more »

The Bush Administration's campaign for regulatory reform has now taken aim at guidance documents, a potpourri of messages from federal agencies that tell businesses how to implement regulations. A new directive from President Bush orders agencies to submit significant guidance documents for review by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). It's uncertain how broadly OMB will interpret its new authority. Yet the directive set off a firestorm of alarm among environmental and public-health advocates, who say that an aggressive White House could impede or change agency guidance.

Executive Order 13422, issued by President Bush on January 18, 2007, is accompanied by OMB's Final Bulletin for Agency Good Guidance Practices. These two documents boost White House control over a wide range of regulatory activities.

During the Bush Administration, OMB has often operated under the public radar by issuing documents that attack environmental science; it appears to be the White House's favorite approach toward weakening environmental and public-health regulations, says David Michaels, an epidemiologist at George Washington University. "This was clearly written to target risk assessments by the EPA," Michaels says.  read more »

Be most welcome to a tribute to Mesopotamia, its myths, religion, gods and goddesses. Join us in a journey upon the paths of the soul to meet passionate deities, divine kings, priestesses-queens and all that was sung before the muses and angels. May the Ancient Wisdom be the Light to guide our journey throughout the site and may the old and modern texts come to life to become once again a living force to grow and transform!

Source: http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/

Those words has been written by Lishtar, this my tribute to one of the most important priestesses of Ishtar along the history of the humankind. She is one who really deserves the same title that Enheduanna, the first known writer, worn thousands years ago. 

Both, Lishtar and Enheduanna enjoyed their life with Ishtar.

According to Dr. Bernard S. Butler: this new force within us, a Goddess who challenged rather than mothering us, shocked us so we nearly lost our sanity. She has frightened so many for so long that even today people devote their whole existence to the pointless exercise of ignoring or denying her presence. But She inspired us. We now know that Sumer was not the cradle of civilisation so far as writing etc, are concerned. But Sumer was the culture that brought it all together.

Inanna has been worshipped for longer than Judaism and Christianity have existed. She was adored and feared two thousand years before Genesis was written. Then, at the height of Roman imperialism, we lost sight of Her. She was never lost: we were; for two dark millennia in mainstream Europe, and we paid dearly for it. More death, more violence, more suppression of the natural human spirit, for men as much as for women, than in all of human history.

Now science, technology, and most important, psychology, have advanced to a stage where we can see her again. She is returning to consciousness like a shaft of starlight to enrich our minds and delight our hearts. For She it is who represents the ultimate act of civilised humanity, because She personifies the highest form of consciousness, the final phase of what Jung called the process of Individuation - the act of discovering who we really are - not perfect, just authentic, just human.

"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me." (Immanuel Kant. Critique of Practical Reason, conclusion.) Inanna represents both.

Source: http://www.peninsula.starway.net.au/~bernard/frame.html

If Sumer brought it all together. Babylon made us dwell together: Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, etc. different languages, different races, different thoughts, etc. We all built along 2000 years the most important city in that world. An small world as we all now dwell in an small planet.

As some describe Babylonian laws since Hamurabi code (1760 BC):The population of Babylonia was of many races from early times, and intercommunication between the cities was incessant. Every city had a large number of resident aliens. This freedom of intercourse must have tended to assimilate custom. It was, however, reserved for the genius of Hammurabi to make Babylon his metropolis and weld together his vast empire by a uniform system of law.Almost all trace of tribal custom had already disappeared from the law of the Code. It is state-law; self-help, blood-feud, marriage by capture, are all absent; though the Code of family solidarity, district responsibility, ordeal, the lex murabi, talionis, are primitive features that remain. The king is a benevolent autocrat, easily accessible to all his subjects, both able and willing to protect the weak against the highest-placed oppressor.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_law

Even today, while our planet suffers and all forms of life suffer with it, even today while we have to protect the weak living being (human, animal, tree, plant) against the highest-placed oppressor, I feel what one unknown writer wrote:“As I walk, as I walk, as I pass along the banks of the august river, as I roam along the banks of the Euphrates, as I stand, …, as I pass along the gaudy streets.”(Source: A balbale of Inanna)

As Enheduanna wrote "Since it was full, too full for me, great exalted lady, I have recited this song for you" 

May I make of my life a happy song. May that song be joy for other beings.

Chimpanzees in Senegal have been observed making and using wooden spears to hunt other primates, according to a study in the journal Current Biology. Researchers documented 22 cases of chimps fashioning tools to jab at smaller primates sheltering in cavities of hollow branches or tree trunks. The report's authors, Jill Pruetz and Paco Bertolani, said the finding could have implications for human evolution. Chimps had not been previously observed hunting other animals with tools. Pruetz and Bertolani made the discovery at their research site in Fongoli, Senegal, between March 2005 and July 2006. "There were hints that this behaviour might occur, but it was one time at a different site," said Jill Pruetz, assistant professor of anthropology at Iowa State University, US. "While in Senegal for the spring semester, I saw about 13 different hunting bouts.  read more »