The Candy Shop

June 29, 2011 · Posted in Social · Comment

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June is National Online Safety Month in the U.S. Every day children are lured away by predators using every method available to them, including the Internet. Be aware of your children’s online activities and educate them. Watch the film below, share it with your family and friends.

The Candy Shop from Whitestone Motion Pictures on Vimeo.

Further information here.

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Has Civilization Been Destroyed By Climate Change Before?

May 19, 2011 · Posted in Social · 4 Comments

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The written history of humans generally goes back six or seven thousand years, depending on who you ask. It’s a solid record of how cultures, knowledge, science and religions developed. But scientists tell us that homo-sapiens reached its modern evolutionary state approximately 50,000 years ago. If that’s correct, then humans fifty thousand years ago had the same brain capabilities as humans today. So then, what were humans doing for 40,000+ years? Did it really take modern man that long to develop any sort of language or technology? Just look at what we’ve accomplished in the past five thousand years. We have gone from tribes to computers and space travel. Imagine where we will be in just a short 10,000 years.

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Stop The Candy Shop

October 7, 2010 · Posted in Social · Comment

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A short film coming out in November brings to focus the subject of child sexual exploitation. Keep up with the details at stopthecandyshop.com

The Candy Shop Trailer from Brandon McCormick on Vimeo.

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Bullies and Suicide: Who’s to Blame?

September 30, 2010 · Posted in Social · 5 Comments

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I want to start off by saying that I don’t like bullies. Deriving pleasure from ridiculing and intimidating others is not healthy. It’s a bad behavior that can be addressed and modified. In my opinion it should be treated like any other mental illness.

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Restrictions, Laws and Poverty

April 12, 2010 · Posted in Social, Tao · Comment

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The Tao Te Ching (Daodejing) is the second most translated book in the world today. Let’s take a look at a handful of translations of a particular part of Chapter 57 and see if we can determine what is being expressed:

Beck: The more restrictions there are, the poorer the people.

Chan: The more taboos and prohibitions there are in the world, The poorer the people will be.

Hansen: The more the social world has to elude, the more the people are impoverished.

Legge: In the kingdom the multiplication of prohibitive enactments increases the poverty of the people.

Mitchell: The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be.

Ta-Kao: The more restrictions and avoidances are in the empire, The poorer become the people.