Changing Perspective

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Changing our perspective is often one of the most difficult tasks we face. We are often so busy we don't have time to stop and think about anything from an angle other than the one we've already got set in our minds.

The New World Dictionary defines perspective as a way of regarding situations, facts, etc, and judging their relative importance . I see our society more and more as judging relative importance and this generally involves ranking our own importance/views/etc. above those of others. We've lost our ability to respect and value differing opinions. But isn't that what makes our world so fascinating? Thank goodness, we aren't all the same. How dull would that be?

The Middle English origin of the word is the past participle stem of perspicere to look at closely . I prefer this definition as it really tells you that you need to pay attention at look at the various aspects. In order to look at something closely you must look up/down, left/right, close/far and every other way possible.

You Can't Fool Mother Nature - GMO foods

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Do you remember the slogan from the 1970's for Chiffon Margerine? "You can't fool Mother Nature." In their commercial, of course, you could fool Mother Nature. A lot has changed in the relationship between man and nature in the past 40 years. Man has begun to manipulate nature in ways that would have been inconceivable back then. Giant leaps in the science of genetics have made it possible to do the unnatural with nature in myriad ways.