Petri Dish Foundation - The Juncture Where Fundamental Truths Come Together

Part 1 - 21 Fundamental Truths - Analyzing the 2024 Election

Jim analyzes the 2024 election within the context of 21 Fundamental Truths, particularly the human tendencies associated with Hatred and Group Identity. Of particularly interest is the evaluation of the the finite mathematical limits associated with gender and political strategies based on dividing the general population based on group identity.

Part 3 Artificial Intelligence – The Dawn of a 2nd Industrial Revolution - A Rational Perspective on Investments

Jim addresses seven key questions in his detailed look at Generative Artificial Intelligence.
1. What are the most relevant points in the history of modern computing?
2. What are the basic facts associated with Generative A.I. that must be understood for a more rational perspective on investments.
3. What will be the impact of A.I. on the global computing industry?
4. What will be the impact of A.I. on other industries?
5. Can we identify the most likely paths forward for this new soon to be dominant industry?
6. Can we identify the current and possibly the future limitations on A.I.?
7. Why does A.I. imply we are at the beginning of the 2nd Industrial Revolution?

Part 2 Properly Framing the Digital Age and the Industrial Revolution - A Rational Perspective on Investments

Jim uses the common threads of the 1) demand for SPEED and 2) demand for ever-improving methods of information gathering and analysis into historical perspective in this segment to help listeners prepare themselves for the best ways to think about Generative Artificial Intelligence, which is the topic of Part 3, the series finale.

Part 1 Understanding the Nature of Change and Its Impact on Investments - A Rational Perspective on Investments

Jim addresses the nature of change in this segment as he begins the process of preparing listeners to understand the best way to think about the current environment for investments.

Part 11 - Students, Apprentices, and Disciples

Part 11 makes extensive use of Dallas Willard’s book, The Divine Conspiracy, in this segment Jim connects the dots on the previous ten segments. The implications of layer after layer of sweeping evidence are discussed in terms of what should be done by individuals seeking Answers to the Great Question. Observations on Consumer Christians are examined along with some of the traps of superficially conceding the Jesus was who He says He was, without understanding how to process information regarding what Jesus taught were the TWO MOST IMPORTANT COMMANDMENTS.

Part 10 - The Great Transition

Part 10 begins with the recognition of a phrase coined by the late great Dr. Dallas Willard of the University of Southern California. According to Dr. Willard, "The Great Transition," is the period one enters immediately after one recognizes he or she has the freedom to choose their own teacher. The stunning contrasts between the teachings of Machiavelli and Jesus, including the examination of concepts such as “inclusion, anger, contempt, and condemnation," are explored in this segment. Additionally, the evidentiary results of a double-blind controlled scientific study confirming the efficacy of prayer are examined. Context is provided that ties biased policies at higher education institutions, to their curious accommodations provided to other powerful bureaucracies, resulting in the diversion of research funding away from additional studies of prayer.

Part 9 - Higher Education’s Sports Marketing and Entertainment Businesses

Part 9 provides more powerful evidence supporting the troubling theme of the entire series. In this segment, the number of higher education perpetrators expands geometrically. The segment begins with an examination of an announcement by the NCAA, of an astonishing $2.8 billion settlement offer made in May of 2024 to compensate more than 14,000 student damage claims. This segment also explores a broad array of deceptive practices by higher education institutions related to their sports marketing and entertainment businesses,  providing indisputable evidence of obvious choices that involve blatant mission abandonment to pursue profits at the expense of tens of thousands of students.

Part 8 - Who is your teacher?

Part 8 puts Harvard University under the integrity microscope. Eyewitnesses in this segment include Derek Bok who served as president of Harvard University for 20 years (1971 – 1991) and faculty member Dr. Robert Coles who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton in 1998. This segment provides chilling details of how the highest profile institution of learning in the world has abandoned its primary mission, resulting in the exponential growth of academic fraud incidents within the university and its teaching hospital, the Dana-Farber Medical Institute.

Part 7 - Distinguishing Between Teachers and Educational Institutions

Part 7 explores the overwhelming evidence that distinguishes teachers from educational institutions. The patterns of “mission abandonment” by institutions controlling education systems throughout human history are laid bare, including the fundamental tendency of ruling bureaucracies to selectively obscure the findings of mankind’s greatest scientists. We also highlight the profound influence of Machiavelli’ principles for power, wealth, and social status retention embraced by these institutions as evidenced by the exponential increase in outright fraud at esteemed universities like Harvard and Stanford.

Part 6 - Pain, Suffering, and Self-Appointed Gatekeepers of the Truth

Part 6 answers an important student question and also employs basic logic to expose the inherent dangers of “OUTSOURCING” fact-finding processes to scandal-plagued bureaucracies in efforts to Answer the Great Question. Given the obvious abandonment of primary missions by self-appointed, “gatekeepers of the truth,” the film encourages independent critical thinking.
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