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Thanks Doug, your link is quite relevant. The description of that project concludes.... If I understand correctly (I may not) the project assumes that...

Logic is a poorly developed ability of a single half insane semi-suicidal species on one little planet in one of billions of galaxies. A useful tool i...

You dare accuse President Jake of irony??? To the gallows with you!!!

If you ask this question again, we'll immediately take you outside, push you up against the wall and shoot you. What the heck, your family too, bullet...

Hmm.... How about the Amish? I'm not claiming I know a lot about the Amish, or that the Amish are all the same, or that we should all become Amish, bu...

I can agree with this. My best guess is that little to nothing will be done about it until some epic calamity forces us to face the issue. Or maybe we...

This seems a pretty good summary of the group consensus, generally speaking. It's this group consensus that I'm attempting to inspect and challenge. D...

Ok, but if the knowledge exists and offers some ability to manipulate our environment, isn't somebody going to turn that knowledge in to a technologic...

Do you want to prevent certain research? A question to one and all... That's interesting. If you feel you can share the name of your country, please d...

Yes, indeed, and that includes me as well. Thus, this thread. The goal here is to generate as much discussion on the topic in as many places as possib...

@BrianW, thank you.

Yes, agreed, not a likely outcome either, imho. I'm referring to the collapse of modern civilization in my concerns. Some would surely survive a nucle...

Thank you ChatteringMonkey, good plan. I've been meaning to break the thesis up in to a series of concise assertions so that readers can more easily t...

Hi ChatteringMonkey, thanks for engaging. To keep things tidy, you were referring to this... I could likely use help in making the argument clearer. H...

Hi Nathan, thanks for joining us. First, don't buy in to the ideas, kick the tires as hard as you can. Members would actually be doing me a favor if t...

Wow, this is great. Excellent discussion guys! Thank you for that. Doug, I hope you will free to comment in any direction your reasoning takes you. I ...

Doug's sentence above seems a good summary of the objections many or most people would have to the opening post, so let's focus on this a bit. Everyon...

Hi Doug, many thanks for your thoughtful reply. I'm delighted that the post on the Cocoon site paid off. First, yes, of course the piece above can be ...

The question "does a god exist" typically presumes that there are only two possible answers, yes or no. It presumes that things either exist, or they ...

All publications everywhere are limited by the abilities, interests and experience of the editors. On net forums this is particularly true, given that...

Thanks Baden, appreciate the kind words, same to ya. Regarding staying or leaving, here's a thought experiment which may assist that calculation. I'll...

Yes, that appears to be the case. Ok T Clark, you win, congratulations dude. The forum gets to have you instead of me. I'm gone guys, adios, good luck...

1) No where in my posts have I expressed a deep contempt for men. I have instead specifically said I'd be happy for men to remain if the problem of vi...

BitterCrank has summed up my perspective pretty well. To expand on that a bit... The last century was characterized by a knowledge explosion which gav...