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Wednesday, September 26th 2012

Kelsy Silvaniuk Sarang Kumar Cassidy Nyman Brandon Anstey

G and A

- Room technician is Blair

- Treat him with appreciation and acknowledgement please

Law of Periodicity

We are in a changing time and moving into a new period December 21, 2012 This is an astronomical reality
Mankind will be witnessing some significant changes in the coming months.

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Deep Truth 3 The key to addressing the crises threatening our survival lies in building partnerships based on mutual aid and cooperation to adapt to the changes, rather than in pointing fingers and assigning blame, which makes such vital alliances difficult

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Our Hidden History: There were various secret societies. Ex. Illuminati, Qabbalists, Rosicrucian's , Freemasons, Hermeticists
Passed down knowledge through oral means (stories) kept the Ancient Truths alive

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Age of civilization

The pyramids and the sphinx; much older than what people believe Gobekli Tepe, Turkey ~ 11,500 years old Gulf of Khambhat, India ~ 9,500 years old

Caral, Peru ~ 6,900 years old

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Traditional/Conventional Thinking

Civilization has evolved once in human history Civilization has developed in a linear way from less to more evolved The history of the world is ~ 5000 years The oldest civilization is Sumer (~ 3500 years old)

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Revised Thinking

Civilization has developed multiple times in human history

Civilization has developed in a cyclic way, with each cycle developing from being less to more evolved
The most recent of the world's civilizations is ~ 5000 years old The oldest known civilization in the world is Gobekli Tepe, ~11500 years old

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Deep Truth 4 New discoveries of advanced civilizations dating to near the end of the last ice age provide insights into solving the crises of our time that our ancestors also faced in theirs

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Greenland:
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Is melting Image of puddles turning into lakes

Normalcy Bias:
Everything will be ok o Assume that things will return to the way they were
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Human Origins

Biologists generally define life as something that meets four criteria: metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction Life in general, and human life in particular, is only known to result from biological material that is already living At the Eight-cell stage of Life, a mysterious process that is still not fully understood awakens the code of life. The DNA, with the traits that make us who we are and what we become, is activated

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Darwin Assumptions

Evolution assumption 1 Life may arise spontaneously from non-living material Evolution assumption 2 Nature does not endow a species beyond what it needs to live

Evolution assumption 3 Existing species may evolve into entirely new species over time

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Intelligent design

Intelligent Design assumption 1 there is an order in the Universe Intelligent Design assumption 2 - The complexities of living systems can best be explained by Directed, rather than random, processes

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Irreducible Complexity
If any portion of a system stops working, the entire system stops working EX. a watch

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Deep Truth 5 A growing body of scientific data from multiple disciplines, gathered using new technology, provides evidence beyond reasonable doubt that humankind reflects a design put in place at once, rather than a life-form emerging randomly through an evolutionary process over a long period of time

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See blackboard notes for War Doesn't Work slide

We Betray our Peaceful Nature When:

We feel personally threatened We feel that our families are threatened We feel that our way of life is threatened

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Deep Truth 6 A growing body of scientific evidence, gathered from more than 400 peer-reviewed studies, is leading to an undeniable truth: violent competition and war contradict our deepest instincts of cooperation and nurturing

Questions
1. What are the four criterion that biologists use to define life? A: metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli & reproduction

2. What is the oldest known civilization?

A: Gobleki Tepe, 11,500 years old

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3. What is the normalcy bias? A: Everything will be OK, assuming it will return to how it was before

4. Define irreducible complexity and give an example.

A: If any portion of a system stops working, the entire system will stop working. Ex) a watch

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5. Name 2 of Darwin's 3 assumptions A: i) life may spontaneously arise from nonliving material ii) nature doesn't endow a species outside what it needs to survive iii) species evolve over time 6. The Sphinx shows evidence of what type of erosion? A: Water erosion

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7. Name one of the two assumptions of intelligent design A: i) there is an order in the Universe ii) The complexities of living systems can best be explained by Directed, rather than random, processes 8. Competition is a motivator and helps us to better ourselves in the process of beating the competitor. True or False. A: False

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9. Present day astronomy acknowledges what date in the very near future does as significant? A: December 21, 2012

10. What is the name of the room technician whom provides us tech support?
A: Blair