[Terrapreta] Ponder the Maunder

[lou gold]

Jim,

As interesting aside. You say:

"I know that Albert Einstein was ever the skeptic;"

His was an interesting case. He was a strong believer in God. When he could
not wrap his head around quantum physics he famously said, "God does not
play dice with the universe."

Perhaps God and Einstein were wrong?

I'm not trying to be either clever or difficult or down-putting. It just all
seems a lot more nuanced than you seem to be suggesting. I think that most
creative people (scientists included) will say that there comes a time to
act -- to follow our intuitions.

I'm just asking if you have any strong intuitions about terra preta and what
they might be?

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:47 PM, lou gold <lou.gold at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fair enough. I'll try to elaborate.
>
> Some of us believe that terra preta will make the world a better place.
> That is why I am on this forum. I have no hard evidence to prove that terra
> preta will make the world a better place but I have both feeling and faith
> that it will. If I doubted it or if I was skeptical I would not be here.
>
> I guess that I'm asking a parallel question of you because I know that
> there comes a time to put doubt aside and act. I *feel* that now is the
> time for terra preta and that the difference that makes the difference
> between now and other times (when we could not have cared less about terra
> preta) is our growing desire to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
>
> How does it work for you?
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Jim Joyner <jimstoy at dtccom.net> wrote:
>
> >  lou gold wrote:
> >
> >
> >   lou gold wrote:
> > >
> > > Please excuse my directness but I want to ask a personal question. Do
> > > you think that we can make the world a better place through endless doubt?
> > >
> > >  No, of course not.
> > >
> >
> > Ok. Now, what is the good positive thing that you believe in for making
> > the world a better place?
> >
> > I guess I don't know what you are looking for. Basically, I eat when I'm
> > hungry, sleep when I tired; raise my kids; grow my garden. What else is
> > there?
> >
> > Not sure I have any such beliefs. We'll either get it right or we won't.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
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