"These studies have now shown that events as significant as the end of the last Ice Age occurred over only a few years each, and perhaps in single years. Scientists had presumed that such major climatic events were long and gradual processes, occurring over centuries or millennia. If global climatic change can occur practically instantaneously ( Read more... )

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I was looking at the field lines of the sun yesterday on the telly -- the tangled and confused mass. And i was minded of the Sun in Havoc. And consider if the whole Sol System is about to move from phase 6 to phase 7. Such a profound change, the magnitude of which hasn't been seen since the Sun first ignited ( Read more... )

"the individual human being cannot by himself obtain all the necessities of life. All human beings must co-operate to that end in their civilization. But what is obtained through the co-operation of a group of human beings satisfies the need of a number many times greater (than themselves ( Read more... )

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"They do not know that the heat of the sun here among us is its light, because of the reflection of the rays when they hit the surface of the earth and the air. The sun itself is neither hot nor cold. It is a star of an uncomposed (substance) that gives light." Ibn Khaldun

?? what a strange thought...uncomposed substance... ??

"One well-studied example is the North China craton, which carried a temperate to tropical flora northward to collide with Siberia in the Late Paleozoic/Early Mesozoic at a time when Siberia was close to the North Pole ( Read more... )

"Among the later Sufis, removal (of the veil, hashf) and matters beyond the veil of sense perception likewise came to be discussed. A great many Sufis came to speak about incarnation and oneness." Ibn Khaldun ( Read more... )

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"The 'ideal city' (of the philosophers) is something rare and remote. They discuss it as a hypothesis." Ibn Khaldun ( Read more... )