### mind:

Human mind
* All human minds work on fundamentally similar principles.
* Every human mind is chained to established practice and custom
  - the repository of past thoughts or samskaras
* Most human minds create ideas.
* act and react.
* are capable of great clarity and intensity of experience
  - great pattern recognizers
  - like all complex systems in that they can exhibit a wide range of behaviors
* enable symbols to carry meaning, or have content.
* find order in chaos by instinct.
* have a great capacity for producing ideas
  - mental contents or semantics
* is inferior to divine mind
  - open to spiritualization
* tend to wither and ossify if intellectual curiosity goes unnurtured.

Open mind
* are capable of complete sentences
  - healthy minds
  - the key to learning
  - tools
* can open doors for individuals, families, and communities.
* tend to face reality as it is and as it can be
  - hire open minds and closed minds hire closed minds

Mine
* All mines also produce large quantities of waste rock that are usually piled on the surface.
* Many mines float so that after heavy rains they are found in unexpected locations.
* Most mines also produce some degree of dust and noise pollution.
* Most mines cause ecological damage
  - severe ecological damage
* Most mines have a high sulfur content, which produces high sulfur water, which is toxic to fish
  - large herds of antelope, deer and elk
* Most mines occur on cotyledons and the first true leaves
* Some mines affect biodiversity
  - forest biodiversity
  - are all the way underground
* Some mines contain heavy metal
  - move more air, pound for pound, than they do ore
* also kill livestock.
* are attacks
  - blisters in which orange maggots feed
  - bombs
  - conventional weapons
  - excavation
  - facilities
  - in a semiarid environments where sediment yield is large and highly variable
  - inexpensive weapons which are highly effective in the littoral environment
* are located in deserts
  - homes
  - mountains
  - man-made by blasting, which fractures and weakens the surrounding rocks
* are the begining of the nuclear cycle
  - greatest violators of international humanitarian law
* are used for destruction
  - explosions
  - very dangerous places, often more unstable than caves and much more liable to 'bad air'
* become more dangerous over time, exploding more easily as they corrode.
* buried in farmlands and along roads prevent farming and the transport of food to market.
* can also detect targets by the wake they create in the water
  - collapse or gradually subside, affecting surface and subsurface water flows
* cause contact
* cause severe damage
* change over years.
* come in a variety of warhead sizes, from a few hundred to a few thousand lbs. of explosive.
* deprive children of the chance to enjoy many of their basic rights.
* employ people.
* have an average life span of fifty to one hundred years.
* includes readsides
  - sections
  - shafts
* inflict ravaging wounds, usually resulting in traumatic or surgical amputation.
* kill and maim parents.
* kill, maim and mutilate tens of thousands of innocent civilians every year.
* represent environmental and public health hazards.
* typically cover approximately half of the surface area of a normal-sized alfalfa leaf.
+ Battle of the Somme, Mines
  * Mines are a way to blow up the enemy and really shock the enemy. However these were activated remotely by a defender lighting a very fast burning fuse at the appropriate moment. The British used 10 mines on the first morning of the Battle of Somme to startle and damage the German front line. The holes left by the mines were used by the Germans for machine guns though.

### mine:

Antipersonnel mine
* are also weapons of terror employed directly against civilians.
* have little to no utility against forces mounted in armored vehicles.
* kill and maim thousands and thousands of civilians each year.