universeness

Supposition has it's place ..... I suppose.

I never suggested the solutions were easy, but do you think we can, as a species, learn to react more effectively to horror and terror, used by others...

So, how would you defend yourself and others against such? I disagree. I think the 'kill kill kill the bastards,' is exactly what those who employ ter...

How important do you think it is that all people must do this? based on my op question:

Really? I assume you are not suggesting that 4 year old humans know how to thwart the horror and terror tactics used by nefarious humans. Do you think...

I am fine with your descriptions of the issues involved, but do you have any suggestions as to how we all might better deal with the notions of horror...

I think it's interesting that early theists were so afraid of the human notion of vengeance via terror and horror tactics, that they invented 'vengean...

I also read the study titled 'Chimpanzees are vengeful but not spiteful.' Very interesting stuff, and the experiments involving access to food with th...

Thanks for trying again. Your links seemed fine to me, so I investigated a little further. The problem turned out to be at my side. I was connected to...

I clicked on the link you provided, and it took me to a PNAS page that had titles/links to many articles and vids on many topics, but I could not find...

This 4min video had a strong affect on me, but there are ones that are just as 'terrifying' from the Palestinian side. https://youtu.be/oLdsVNHvy2w Bu...

That's ok and that's a right you have, that I fully endorse. I don't hate you but I hate antinatalism, but I also know that I must not hate it, or see...

This sounds like a good step forwards to me. Is this an example of an EU initiative that considers what is a fairer system for all the entire human ra...

Ok, thanks for your equation, which I now understand, if your . notation means multiply, but when I multiply out the top line and divide by 1001. I am...

So, does this project into a rule or a series? If you had 9 digits or 12 for example. You went from 10^5 to 10^1 with two sets of abc, so for 9 digits...

I accept that such quotes from Thucydides, demonstrate that the mistakes or deliberate nefarious acts made by many humans then, are still happening no...

I didn't respond to your example of a good maths trick prof, as it whizzed right over my head. I did not get the trick, or fully understand the equati...

Future generations will prevent such dry rot getting hold in the first place, at least better than your or my generations where able to. But I think w...

I don't have any particular names and addresses from a few hundred years ago that might fit. Perhaps many of those who still believe we have never lan...

I will leave the scientists to fully answer that one?

You tire too easily Vera. 'If at first we don't succeed, try try again,' has no upper limit on the number of try's. The system we advocate is not impo...

:grin: And your position, to me, is akin to those a few hundred years ago, who thought humans landing on the moon was impossible.

Yes, this is and always has been the status quo, but as it has on many occasions before, the status quo can change, no matter how long it has been so....

For balance, when the scenario starts with 'At our best....,' It is imbalanced imo, to not mention the many historical and current examples, of people...

:lol: Lions and tigers and bears oh my! Wow, your own PA, not bad guy! Good with words as well, hope you pay them well.

:lol: Fair enough Bret!

I finished this one last Thursday. It's not as cheery as yours: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e40693_6cbcf0af58d64213aa2791a9d2ffc8f6~mv2.jpg/v1/...

@"Athena" What do think of this short speech from the film Gettysburg? Do you think that some of the sentences uttered here were an important part of ...

No, just anyone who is paying attention.

Don't get confused between no-one and you! My list was of contemporaries who are involved in the main atheism/theism exchanges today. You asked for 's...

The 'them' mirror. The mirror reflects 'us,' as 'them.' You choose to only see them darkly, as being willing to live like dogs or sheep, with not enou...

I can't spoon feed everyone pal, do your own research. Here are some names to get you started. Bart Ehrman, Matt Dillahunty, Jimmy Snow, Joseph Atwill...

Wow! That certainly is through a mirror darkly.

Yeah , sorry Vera, I forgot you were living in Canada, which in my 'younger youth', I though was an indigenous tribal word for 'new Scotland,' which a...

I joined the Labour Party in Scotland and their cooperative Labour Party section and their young socialists section, when I was 17. I had clause 4 of ...

Nonsense :roll: But, if you have a problem insofar that my personal opinion of theism is not complimentary and nor do I accept that its adherents or p...

I didn't suggest that faith has 'no' role to play in epistemology, I suggested it was a very poor epistemology to apply, when you are seeking truth, o...

I have some familiarity with one or two names on your list. I was referring to staunch atheists, who have professed their atheism publicly, to a simil...

Taking things on faith has a role to play. I do not think that the concept behind the word is completely useless in all cases. It's not useless when i...

Does that invalidate the question, as far as you are concerned?

The fact that there is a spectrum of intensity when it comes to how much an individual is part of a particular problem or a particular solution, does ...

:up: So, like any instructions that cause very negative outcomes, for the majority of all people, we all need to learn how to better identify such and...

How sad you became so defeated, but such has happened to many, even to some in the socialist movement that were my 'heroes' in my youth. I am glad the...

Only if you take such a statement as offering a binary choice, and ignore all of the intended range of possibilities, that realpolitik tends to reveal...

No the difference here, is that the book could exist under the desk via change. I exist, when I die, I no longer exist, but all the sub-atomic quanta ...

How about. We are each either part of the problems or part of the solutions. I think the human race can become a net positive. Each human can help or ...

Your concerns are widely held, understandable and must never be merely hand waved away. It is up to those in the know, and those who 'investigate' and...

Most didn't know enough about it and the nefarious didn't ever care enough about it. Many many, including the like of Carl Sagan, did speak out but th...

Let's ignore language or communicating with others. Do you think it's possible for an existent to perceive 'nothing?' internally? If god was an existe...

:up: Thanks for your clarifications.