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Louise Fresco on feeding the whole world
luke
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Lessons from Sci-Fi
luke
So, I went to see the new Star Trek movie recently on it’s opening day. My girlfriend, Joni, is a former-semi-closet-now-unashamed Star Trek fan and I had hardly seen much Star Trek before (not a single episode until the Christmas just gone by).
The movie was great, as I’m sure you have heard (or know from [...]
luke
To come: new job, BC-STV missing out, adjusting to life, future plans and my new place…
Are British Columbians mathematically challenged?
luke
I awoke this morning to read yet another article about the perceived complexity of the BC-STV. In Terry O’Neill’s article in The Tri-City News he stated that he “can’t fathom the complicated vote-counting mechanism it employs.”
Throughout the campaign we’ve heard political pundits and former politicians like Bill Tieleman and David Schreck state outright that they [...]
Set up to fail? Democracy or plutocracy?
luke
Recent anomalies in British Columbian and Canadian election results have re-ignited electoral reform as a prominent topic of debate. The British Columbian Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform in 2004 was the first successful implementation of deliberative democracy with directly legislated decision-making powers.
The assembly’s recommended voting system, the British Columbian Single-Transferable-Vote (or BC-STV), was supported by [...]
Next step, social enterprise...
luke
W2 presentation done, First, finish my thesis and then onto my next social enterprise… WorldSocial.net!!
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Anika
Re: Control Freak
luke
In response to my last post: the things I like to control are not sinister, in fact the one that most often runs me up the wrong way is that I like do whatever I can to make life easier for other people – the factor I can’t control is whether they will appreciate it [...]
Control Freak!
luke
I had a bit of an epiphany this morning, I just realised what it is that’s been bothering me and why it seemed to hit so quickly and come from nowhere!
Yay!
I am a control freak at the most subtle levels. I like to be able to control my life. Even being able to adjust my [...]
Life's not simple, I should get used to it!
luke
While I feel like I have blogged a lot recently, I look back at my posts and realise that most of it has been writing a private post (sorry guys, you miss out on a lot!) and then deleting it a few hours later realising that I’ve overreacted to something in my life. I don’t [...]
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Lee Down
Luke,
Very touching post, and I can related to much of the feelings you express. Life is a challenging path in which many obstacles come our way. Each is an opportunity and a lesson, as we endeavor to find our way around, under, through, or over the obstacle.
I’ve been through a lot in my own life. In spite of being knocked down, which I too have been brought down good and hard, I have managed to get back up again. I’m grateful as well, for some of the people who have been a part of that success.
One important distinction I’ve made about that, as I find myself observing more of the devastation on the streets around me, is I didn’t give up. I did the work. I took action – even in my darkest hour when I was convinced it was pointless.
The truth of the matter is this: No one’s Life is pointless.
You are not pointless, and neither are your dreams. The question now becomes one of how to adapt and overcome.
Wish you the best, Lee
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lukefreeman
Thanks Lee, I appreciate it. A friend of mine commented on a very old post of mine (from 2004) and looking back made me realise how comforting it is to see how we go through very similar, yet different things in so many similar, yet different ways. Nothing is new, yet everything is new. Nothing is old, yet everything is old.
The Apocalypse: 6.8 Billion Resume's
luke
As a society, we are increasingly obsessed with defining ourselves. Think about most introductions that people make: “Hi, I’m John, and I’m a Student,” or “Dr. Smith at your service, surgical doctor, that is.”
While we do change our introductions based on who we are talking to, we have a reasonable small circulation of them. The [...]
woot – how did it go? Hope all’s well back in Vancouver!