Alex McManus
Founder, International Mentoring Network
Creator of Voxtropolis and the Culture Pubs
Part of the IMN Global Network
Washington Mutual Bank failed this week. This is the largest bank failure in US history. Continue reading »
26
September
Were We There When America Ended?
23
July
The Age of Interconnectivity
A few years ago I suggested that postmodernism was on it’s last leg and projected that by 2020 it would be “history,” as they say. Continue reading »
10
July
Discussion Forum: The Future
The past is closed. It cannot be changed. The future, on the other hand, is open. It hasn’t been settled yet. In fact, there is no such thing as “the future.” There are only the futures (plural).
25
June
Discussion forum: Seven Conversations Plus
21st century planet Earth is engaged in a global conversation with seven participants plus. Imagine this global conversation like you would seven people seated around a dinner table. There is the Christian, the Secularist, the Jew, the Muslim, the Buddhist, the Primalist/Animist, the Communist.
Continue reading »
5
June
REALIGNING THE SOUL TO THE HEART OF GOD
I talked to a man who cheated on his wife. In his mind what he did was natural. He did nothing more than any animal in the wild would do, he explained to me.
Photo: Performers Jason Sharp and Ansus Berkana with part of the Crew from Thousand Oaks, California at Voxtropolis 2008
10
March
Taking a Walk on the Human Side
Taking a Walk on the Human Side
Monday, March 10, 2008
Orlando, Fl
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“If you learn this you will know something about Jesus that many Christians do not know,” I told them. Continue reading »
26
November
Saving the Planet for Whom?
Toni Vernelli works for an environmental charity.
At 25 years of age, Toni became pregnant and aborted the baby
in order to “save the planet.” Continue reading »
31
August
Nothing to it…
We look up at the night sky and marvel at the sprinkling of stars. We know that there’s more to it than we can see. Well, now we know there’s less to it too.
Astronomers have “stumbled” across a “tremendous hole” in the universe. The expanse measures some 1 billion light years across. That translates to 6 billion trillion miles of nothing.
In a successful attempt at humor, the article quotes retired NASA astronomer Steve Maran who said of the discovery: “This is incredibly important for something where there is nothing to it.”
Is it the power of gravity pulling dense things together and leaving wide open spaces of nothing? Or is it just more space for God to continue His work of creating?
Enjoy. See you in the mystic…
Alex
24
July
Is it possible to think too much?
Last March, I commented on several chapters from a book titled the Culture Code. [Interestingly enough, last May I met the author's (Clotaire Rapaille) former Polo coach when he approached me because he had read my post]. Today, in an article –that collaborates Rapaille’s premise too well to ignore– titled “New Leaders Say Pensive French Think Too Much”, the New York Times quotes Finance Minister Christine Lagarde who “bluntly” advised “the French people to abandon their ‘old national habit.’ That old habit is a kind of “national laziness” and Lagarde hopes to push the French to work harder, earn more and maybe even get rich.
In a country where the rich are heavily taxed (and thus flee to greener pastures), the people expect a welfare state to take care of them, and the law mandates a 35 hour work week, it seems that the French want to eat their cake and have it too.
The article reports that some of the french elite can’t believe their ears. After all, France is the homeland of the Enlightenment, the land of Descartes dictum: I think therefore I am. Rappaille (who is also French) tells us in the Culture Code that the the single-word code that exegetes French culture is IDEA.
Maybe Lagarde brings an idea to the French whose time has come.
See the article here: “French think too much”
See my post on The Culture Code and the French
Enjoy. See you in the mystic…
Alex McManus
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17
May
Bots on the Ground
Check out this article in the Washington Post on the use of robots in war. It will make you laugh and startle you at the same time. The emotions that the robot evoked from the Colonel will only magnify as Bots become more human like.
HT (i.e Hat Tip) to Tony Sheng who pointed us to this article in the comment section of a previous post titled “Getting Under Your Skin“.
God, I love this planet.
See you in the Mystic…