20190630 SAVERS for SUNDAY

SILENCE

Tried to do it for 60 seconds.  Didn't succeed, but at least I tried.

AFFIRMATIONS

1. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
2. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
3. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
4. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
5. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
6. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
7. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
8. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.

Also said aloud for 60 seconds.

VISUALIZATION

I AM A SAFE AND COURTEOUS DRIVER.

EXERCISE

Did my base-70 routine for a Sunday:

1. ankle/wrist circles 70
2. toe/finger stretches 70
3. bicycle crunches 70
4. shoulder rolls 70
5. inversion table 3 70-second sets
6. squats 35
7. push-ups 35

READING, WRITING

Read for 60 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says that back then, as well as now, the codes upon which human beings based their collective behavior, are largely based on MYTH.  He'll explore 2 examples:a.  The code of Hamarabi (c. 1776 BC), and the US Declaration of Independence (1776 AD).  And he'll attempt to answer the question:  "How can myths sustain entire empires?"

I am at a loss as to how to respond to the direction this book is taking.  It seems to me that Harari has made some generalizations, assumptions, speculations, etc. about how we as a species have evolved.  He might be right, and he might be way off.

But he made them, and now will (I think) base his discussion on these "tools" as if they were facts.

Or will he?  Perhaps he'll qualify his next segments all the way through.  Perhaps he'll hope that the reader will conveniently forget that his phrasing included "possible" and "might be," etc.

We'll see.  But for whatever reason, I'm on guard for possibly unfounded statements, etc.

The rest of my writing today will be composing 2 emails to Bill Laursen.