universeness

That really depends on so many factors. There are many bad teachers, impatient teachers, 'moody' teachers, authoritarian nutjobs, slightly psychotic t...

You still have 'us'!!! There are many aspect of our current global civilisation that I hope are absolutely doomed! So, we both think our species will ...

Hope you have a brilliant time! That sound like good philosophy to me! The personal philosophy people use and live by every f****** day! Surely has a ...

:100: I am a democratic socialist and a secular humanist. I have spent my career in Computing science and AI can be a fantastic assist to humanity, in...

:up: and such comes :100: from the human mind and I get sooooooo annoyed when some folks give credit for such moral standards, completely, to the god ...

You do what you can Athena, as will I. I would rather be too busy, than be too bored. My work in education burnt me out but since my early retirement,...

To me, that describes what true spirituality is, when it is directed against injustice.

That's all that matters to me. As even though you are prepared for, or perhaps even expect the worse, you will continue to strive for the best, why is...

Then I think the imagery and invocations involved in an emotive but accurate statement, such as 'we/they/I will be back and we/they/I will be millions...

But I don't put a time limit on my proposals of what would be a better way to live as human beings. I do insist that we will get there however. Even i...

From Wiki: Pollyanna is a 1913 novel by American author Eleanor H. Porter, considered a classic of children's literature. The book's success led to Po...

What are Pollies?

In my early career, I had good relations with line management and senior management, all the way up to local authority level. As the years went by and...

We might surprise you yet, ya auld doomster, pessimist, curmudgeon. :joke:

BS remover, is now the most important job we all have. BS creator's are the common enemy.

WE CAN! If the masses would just occupy the common ground between us all. Perhaps we do need something like AGI, to help us make the required transiti...

I agree. Very flimsy evidence for a big Boltzmann style brain, imo, at the scale of galactic superclusters.

Did you not also experience anger that something as pathetic as money, dictated the availability and quality of education for any individual human? It...

Ok, that's all well and good. Your statements are becoming less comparable with mere lazy notions such as 'our universe was created by an eternal mind...

Thank you. I loved being a teacher and I remain so angry, that a human invention such as money and how it is employed, makes a great concept such as i...

I appreciate your kind words Athena. When I started at the classroom face, my enthusiasm was at 100%. I was a showman and over the years of my teachin...

Ucarr, ucarr, ucarr :halo: This OP, for me now just reduces, under cooking, to another 'god of the gaps' proposal. All of the 'evidence' you lay out i...

Right back at you! and watch more docs on old tribes! Do people deliberately do that? :roll:

They would still have such as freedom of travel. Yes, I was referring to older tribal systems. I say. Most tribal systems are similar and there is not...

Which atheists claim it does? I am also an atheist and I don't claim that the fact that lightening is a natural phenomena and not a product of angry g...

Do you agree that any excessively rich and powerful individual can be, identified and scrutinised, whenever a popular focus, lands on them? There have...

Limited land boundary. Limited knowledge base. Living under a hierarchical authority system, often with a single leader at the top. A small tribe on a...

Good quotes. But we can always find quotes to support one view or another. JFK said: We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other thing...

I think psychedelia began way way before James Joyce. It probably started even way before the first drug induced prophecy, uttered by a wacked out ora...

I think the difference is that I advocate unison via consent and not force. Your paragraph above describes a history of conquest and not cooperation t...

You have stated a great deal, but is your OP mainly about the statements made? Is your goal to get readers to consider the validity of the statements ...

This is partly why the exchange I had with @"Athena" and @"Vera Mont" took a more political direction. I advocate for working towards the further dilu...

Yeah, I think that's what @"Athena" has been stating since the beginning of this thread, even in her OP. Where Athena and I disagree with each other, ...

In recognition of the possibility, that it was mostly my mind jumps, rather than the contributions of @"Vera Mont" or @"Athena" that caused what you c...

"Hope springs eternal." Alexander Pope in An Essay on Man (1732) Humorous sidenote: Pope is an interesting second name. There is a Glasgow story about...

No, but my unfit old body does, as does my lack of motivation to make my body more physically fit.

Sounds like a man who experienced a lot of self-contradiction. He probably died quite young in a car accident.

I use the term spiritual, as referring to human breathing and movement and nothing of the transcendent or esoteric. I would never attempt to restrict ...

No, you keep missing my main message to you. I am as disappointed with your dalliances with theism as you are with my total rejection of theism. All o...

Getting them to care, is the problem. That's just not true. I very much agree with Education! Education! Education! I just don't see much value in any...

For me, the word freedom, forms as a list of what I want to be free from. The problems come when one persons sense of freedom clashes with another's. ...

The hell you speak of is a product of your own primal fear. It only exists in your mind, put there by liars. You as a human, are far more able to affe...

:lol: Oh please extend this challenge to me. May my (non-existent) eternal soul be dammed to the worst hell any theistic mind or ucarr mind or Christi...

Yes.

I have watched debates/discussions between theists and atheists online, for many years. I am very familiar with the nonsense arguments peddled by thei...

I have encountered this diagram before on youtube. It has been used by such con men as Kent Hovind and his son Eric Hovind. This 'trinity' video and i...

You might find the following interesting. Victor T Toth, is a very respected part time physicist on Quora. Even maths professors such as @"jgill" here...

I wanted to answer this with a bit more detail. Extracted from the data table from the wiki article List of epidemics and pandemics: 1 Black Death 75–...

I would prefer 'wonderful organic, sentient, intelligent, progressive, unique, lifeform,' to 'meat payload.' As an omnivore, I can eat meat, but not h...

Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My! :scream:, but the wicked witch get's her ass melted and her troops switched to Dorothy, and her little dog to! Pity ...