That's how I've been calling it, too, when I say civilization was where the human race went drastically wrong. But, in fact, the previous, low-density...
Yeah... I was referring human civilization. There have been lots of plans and schemes and strategies and agendas, but always short term - a couple of ...
They would not be able to guess the position of the planet in relation to the sun, or how much time had elapsed while they experienced nothing. They w...
If he has a body, he experiences time through the changes in his body. Most urgently, increasing thirst, and by the end of five or six days, dying. If...
Scandinavian countries are not really socialist in principle, they've just been more democratic than the US - no classes of citizen excluded from the ...
It's no accident that these are some of the longest-surviving species - ants go back 150+ million years, fundamentally unchanged, while constantly ada...
Not so much, if you consider the amount of outside interference to make sure they failed. https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-cuba-relations https://venez...
Only, you've already said what the action needs to be: connect up all the nodes. We're half-way there with the interweb; stick Universeness' AI in the...
It sounds good as a fable... Still, I have some reservations and quibbles, not the least of which is crediting civilization with something akin to vol...
We just watched - again - the STNG episode where the archeologist Galen discovered that all the humanoid life-forms in our galaxy are related, having ...
That's the most bizarre thing about this system. The Republicans, who yell loudest about Freeedooom!!! always line up in formation behind their candid...
I didn't bring that up; you did. You can't experience nothing. Which is probably why, in a coma, people don't experience or remember anything. That's ...
There is no functional democracy in the United States. A representative and relatively uncorrupted democracy tends toward socialism, simply by the pow...
Logically inconsistent with what? You have this uncaused, unembodied, dimensionless consciousness counting nothing and philosophizing about nothing. I...
Past present and future as experienced by a sentient being. That category of 'thing', however, depends on pre-existing material substance. And not par...
Time doesn't exist now, when there are many things. Material objects exist. Time is a concept, a measurement of change in things. Where there is nothi...
I'm glad we adopted ours when we were in our thirties, not our sixties. Substitute "convey something" for communicate. If the original message is lost...
.... Ergo, what these same people, and many more will be doing, once they have no 7-3 and 5-midnight jobs to be on time for or get docked on their alr...
It's out there! The economy would fall on its face without the people helping - that's beyond their own family obligations - without financial recompe...
Two people viewing that same sunset is more like :starstruck: :starstruck: :hearts: Which is why my SO immediately calls me when he notices something ...
That's a whole other issue. Since retirement, I have had time for creative endeavours that I only dreamed of while I had a family and a full time job....
Case by case. Some past efforts were seriously misguided; some had the right idea and tried to achieve their goal by the wrong means; some chose unwis...
I like some of it, too. But after a while, they're all too much alike. Perfect forms, perfect faces, perfectly coloured inside the lines. Like all the...
I think posters, rather than artwork. Of course, I have the same reaction to quite a lot of human-produced graphic art. I see a great deal of overlap ...
It wasn't a comment on your proposal; it was on your view of achieved and achievable progress. Anyway, some psychologists consider that attitude healt...
That sure resonates! I was lucky in my regular job, too: hospital laboratories are better managed and have better atmosphere than many other workplace...
That is not necessarily the case. This was a run-down, trouble-prone housing project near the hospital where I worked. It got better since that time. ...
Oh, sure, since I can remember. When my grandmother urged me to finish all my dinner (she was too generous with the helpings); think of the starving c...
Quite a lot, seems like. And have, including the use of corn, yams, peanuts and tomatoes. Indigenous Peoples’ contributions are essential in designing...
Yes, this is true, and a comprehensive definition. It is, however, very little help in formulating a political philosophy. When discussing freedoms wi...
How did Adam beget all those kids without impregnating a woman? Probably Eve, there having been a scarcity of women at the time. Right. So God is a Tr...
So... which? Then I guess either God or John was lying. So... which? Really? If that didn't happen, how did Jesus get to be a god? God was not really ...
On my part, it's not a case of dismissing tribal cultures, but rather of differentiating tribal cultures from urban ones. What people usually consider...
Yes! This has been one of my contentious issues with the American notion of freedom. "The land of the free and the home of the brave" had a population...
IF. If he was Man, he was born of Woman, thus "coming by" his humanity. If he was also God, that Woman was inseminated by God, and that is how he woul...
Of course they are. The concept of freedom - all the freedoms: freedom from restraint and constraint, freedom of movement, speech, association, freedo...
No I don't think they're the same. Free will is a sort of illusion we can't avoid. While everything that happens, including our own actions and decisi...
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