TogetherTurtle

Whoever said we had endless resources? All I'm saying is that once you understand everything about something you can control it. I know all of the pro...

Shelter isn't necessary. Food is. If I had to hunt for food like our ancestors I would die only because I was not raised to have those skills. What yo...

With all due respect I don't worship it. I know people who worship it. A worshiper will be devout and will not change. If you made a good point I woul...

Yes, when my science teacher separated hydrogen and oxygen through electrolysis it was all smoke and mirrors.

Oh, I almost forgot. There's this great website called tumblr.com that I think is more your speed. You should check it out. They love activism.

A human being doesn't actually need a warm home or good food contrary to popular belief. Our ancestors slept in the cold open and ate very rarely. The...

Aren't you the one getting a little angry? So, what would you consider, "ego fueled smoke"? Why do you think this though? You cling to this truth but ...

Why do I need a thread on something to have interest? Have you ever considered that if you can't prove a point to anyone, you may be wrong? It may be ...

You can't make an omelet without cracking a few eggs. Nuclear energy is fine for the most part, it's coal and nukes I'll focus on. The end goal I see ...

We are what we choose to be. If technology made by us furthers our goals then it might as well be a part of us. We are making no compromises in who we...

Ah, a good visit back to the antinatislt type argument where any negativity invalidates all positivity. You forgot about nuclear power. You forgot abo...

Are you bored of that? I’m not. Perhaps you should make a good point before you start preaching about your crusade to convert heathens. And go easy on...

I never said I knew where we were. His argument was that we were near the bottom on A physical scale. I proposed that we were not on such a scale. I a...

I don’t know where we are, but I do know we’re on the right track. No one knows where knowledge will end but we do know that we have some. We should u...

Your mistake is confusing physical scale for our position on a scale of knowledge. The universe is big but it’s almost entirely made up of the same st...

And why can’t we change ourselves to use technology more safely? Cybernetics to enhance physical strength and memory are advancing all the time. We ca...

Criticism is absolutely necessary for open discourse. Criticism doesn’t have to always be positive in nature to be useful either. I do my best to be k...

The fundamental difference between science and religion is that while religion attempts to explain phenomenon, science seeks to understand and control...

They observed that certain materials had certain properties and then theororized that atoms existed and those materials had different properties based...

No, it just means you have to prove what you believe. Typically first comes an observation, then the process of human imagination thinking up an expla...

I don't blame you for wanting to do that. It seems our minds take the path of least resistance and most fun and I most certainly would have done the s...

So do you think we should create an artificial culture to keep people from creating problems? Most cultures waste things and its par for the course. Y...

Feeling that things are right or wrong is natural, but how do we decide what is right or wrong? We are socialized into it. In one culture you can eat ...

One of the things I love about advice from elders is that they add stuff like this. Of course, I love the practical applications too. I think that spr...

This seems like some good stuff, thank you. It’ll take me some time to look into it but I’ll try and get back to you.

My apologies amity. I didn’t mean to leave you out, it just looked like your responses were aimed more at others. I’m not at home right now so I’ll gi...

that’s the spirit, you can’t do anymore than what you can do after all. If that isn’t good enough then we’re doomed anyway so we might as well try.

So a call to action? Maybe that is necessary. I guess the question now is what to do after that.

And what if you are still alive? I suppose if you have no hope then there’s no point in going on anyway. Regardless that sounds more like an excuse fo...

It sounds like your grandparents would have been a great resource for this kind of thing. I have wondered for a long time why we don’t at least docume...

Truly if we are to survive we must be willing to cooperate. Hostility isn’t great when conditions are bad and anything we can do to reduce such a thin...

Ah, I see the issue now. I implied that there was a greatest strength when the point I wanted to get across was that I think we have many strengths. I...

This one is interesting. It seems implied that I am not human from this, because I didn't meet the standard of understanding singular and plural. Eith...

A techno-democracy of sorts. I have played with the idea before. Since it was my dead end on the subject, how do you propose we stop hackers from play...

I apologize if I offended you or others. That was not the intention. For future reference, what do people who question if climate change is real go by...

I question if selfishness is learned, an innate part of the human mind, or both. I think we could hope to separate ourselves from it over time, but it...

Potential seems very important. Convincing the public that a bright future is ahead of them is nigh essential to creating a bright future, it seems. I...

I think in my attempt to avoid a conversation about climate change I failed to direct a conversation on rebuilding a shattered world better than it wa...

And what you see is all there is to see, I'm sure.

It seems that is our first hurdle. A psychological disposition to give up when odds are low. It turns out that giving up is a bad idea when what you a...

And so it all comes back to this. Pleasure in the short term. Hedonism without the work of creating the world of a hedonist. I don't see myself ever b...

I think an ideology has to come from somewhere. For it to be a way of life, that way of life must be desirable in some way, no? A society needs a comm...

Perhaps he did. It's hard for experts to get a grasp on what the people of the past knew, let alone doofuses on the internet like me. Maybe he was pro...

My speculation above is all I can provide. It's a shame we can't ask him.

So no doppler effect for space-time? Interesting.

It sounds like Aristotle didn't have too much to go on in terms of the natural world and of course, we can't blame him for that since he lived so long...

These seem to be questions about the very nature of the universe that can't (currently) be observed in any way, and observation is necessary for deter...

Interesting perspective. However, it's a bit too authoritarian in my taste to tell people what is good or bad. What makes things good or bad? Well, th...

I don't think anyone should be banned from anything. Call me a libertarian, but I think challenge is essential to progress. Even if this is a "smear c...

I've been thinking about this one for a while and I believe you are right. There is still something to say of his aversion to talking about positives ...