Thirty Years to Life on EarthDanhoff writes in a unique style combining prose, poetry and physics. The book is an experiment. He attempts to challenge mans complacency through social-political commentary and word play; free mind play. He succeeds in communicating his theme: intelligence, courage and morality. This is not an essay book to read. His thoughts merit consideration especially the more controversial ideas. Danhoff intended to build the basic foundation on the bedrock of prose, decorated with the art of poetry topped off with theoretical temporal physics. The author considers writing a learning experience and takes his responsibility as a writer very seriously. Danhoff hopes readers will find his work entertaining, educational and enlightening. |
Contents
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ON CULTURE SHOCK | 8 |
DEAR OH DEER | 9 |
ON PACIFIST ACTION | 57 |
PATTERN | 58 |
POETRY | 60 |
QUANTUM INFANTILES HOW MUCH BABY | 61 |
QUOTE UNQUOTE | 62 |
SCARE TACTICS | 65 |
THE MIND RULES | 68 |
THE PRIME DIRECTIVE | 69 |
ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT | 12 |
SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM | 16 |
KNOW COMMENT | 21 |
HARD TO BUILD | 26 |
THE HUTTERITES IN NORTH AMERICA | 27 |
THE CANCER OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION | 29 |
IN THE DARK AT THE FOOT OF THE WALL | 33 |
HIGH JINXED | 34 |
IN THE ZONE | 35 |
ON LIFE SUPPORT | 37 |
ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION | 39 |
THE LONG VIEW | 45 |
THE MILITARYINDUSTRIAL COMPLEX | 46 |
THE NEXT ONE | 47 |
NOW ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE | 49 |
ON OBSCENITY A BEGINNING | 51 |
ON OBSCENITY THE UGLY THE BAD AND THE GOOD | 52 |
ON OBSCENITY | 54 |
ON OBSCENITY THE REVERSIBLE MORALITY | 55 |
ON OBSCENITY EQUAL AND OPPOSITE | 56 |
THE THEORY OF NOTHING | 71 |
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL INFO | 75 |
THE THEORY OF TRANSILIENCE | 77 |
THE THRESHOLD OF TRANSPHYSICS | 78 |
THE TOP TEN OUTLINE | 79 |
THE WAVE EFFECT POETRY IN MOTION | 80 |
THE WAVE EFFECT LIFE CYCLE | 81 |
TRUTH | 82 |
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS | 83 |
THE WEAKEST LINK | 84 |
MIRAGE | 85 |
IN THE DARK AT THE FOOT OF THE WALL | 86 |
IMAGE | 87 |
IAMBIC IDIOT | 89 |
THE INNIS MODE | 90 |
A TIME PRANK | 91 |
TIME PRANK II | 94 |
WALDEN III | 98 |
THEORETICAL TEMPORAL PHYSICS | 99 |
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Page 22 - There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum-trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke...
Page 41 - ... and i hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence unless in necessary selfdefense and i recommend to them that in all cases when allowed they labor faithfully for reasonable wages...
Page 24 - The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.
Page 43 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected.
Page 40 - The wisdom of the view of the Secretary of State struck me with very great force. It was an aspect of the case that, in all my thoughts upon the subject, I had entirely overlooked. The result was that I put the draft of the proclamation aside, as you do your sketch for a picture, waiting for a victory.
Page 30 - ... people will refuse to jettison the conventional idea of marriage or the familiar family forms. They will, no doubt, continue searching for happiness within the orthodox format. Yet, even they will be forced to innovate in the end, for the odds against success may prove overwhelming. The orthodox format presupposes that two young people will "find" one another and marry. It presupposes that the two will fulfill certain psychological needs in one another, and that the two personalities will develop...
Page 25 - I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats — any kind of threat, whether of jail or retribution after death — • then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer in the circus with his whip, not the prophet who sacrificed himself.
Page 29 - The family has been called the "giant shock absorber" of society — the place to which the bruised and battered individual returns after doing battle with the world, the one stable point in an increasingly flux-filled environment. As the super-industrial revolution unfolds, this "shock absorber" will come in for some shocks of its own.
Page 25 - It has always been assumed that the most important things in the Gospels are the ethical maxims and commandments. But for me the most important thing is that Christ speaks in parables taken from life, that He explains the truth in terms of everyday reality.