Athena

I am not sure if anyone is interested in the subject? Maybe it would help to define fascism and what it has to do with injustice? It is the Italians w...

How can I see what is not there? Do you even know what the subject is? You keep making me the subject of what you have to say, and I am not the subjec...

I picked up another book with an explanation of how Industry has impacted the military. If that sounds interesting to you, please let me know. I will ...

That is your uninformed judgment, you know? For information you need to ask a question, or to make an argument, you need to offer your reasoning, not ...

I think we need to begin with a reality check. What resources does each nation have and how many people need those resources? We live on a finite plan...

Hmm, the title of this thread is Fascism and Justice. That makes your argument delicious. Wikipedia say this: What is the best way to unite us against...

That is what I am seeing today. I want to talk about the essential change in bureaucracy and the relationship with education and culture. In our past,...

I think we can see what Trump is doing with the power of fear. You know like Niccolo Machiavelli. Trump is building on fear. Could I be the next to lo...

Schools were used to mobilize our nation for the two World Wars. Understanding the importance of this is difficult today because we are judging the wo...

I agree with what you said about morality but I do not believe the end result will always be anarchy. There is a notion called "logos" coming out of A...

The stories "Little Red Hen", "The Fox and Grapes", "The Little Engine that Could" are all moral stories. We would read them to our children and ask, ...

At first, I thought I absolutely had to buy a copy of "The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives". But after reading what you said, I a...

I had to look up Nihilistic: "Nihilistic means believing that life is meaningless and that there are no values or truths. It can also refer to extreme...

Trump is not done yet. His support of Israel equals Hitler. His demand that Iceland becomes a US territory because the US needs its resources is equal...

I love you! Exactly things have changed. The US demobilized after every war until Korea. I have a book written after WWII warning what has happened wo...

I could quote from my books to answer your question, but will try to sumerize the important points. Think military order. The Germans were organized b...

I worked over an hour on a reply and deleted it. Now I have to run. There is nothing I rather do than work on a reply, but I must take care of mundane...

It has been a busy day and now I am exhausted, so I will invite you to do the explaining. What do you think fascism is? What is your understanding of ...

You give me hope. At this moment in time, we have a president who could throw the entire world into a depression or a world war and ministers telling ...

Once Aristotle gave the world an explanation of the earth as the center of the universe, no one seriously wanted to investigate if he was right or wro...

The US adopted the German model of bureaucracy and the German model of education for technology, and we can not have an intelligent discussion about t...

as I read your post, I thought of the people who are completely out of their minds because of alcohol, drugs, or mental illness. Right now, a friend's...

While I write about some pretty awful things, always in my mind is the enlightenment and why we have democracy. Education for technology has given us ...

I had a great lesson in what logic has to do with justice. In the 70's my grandchildren were made wards of the state. At that time, the Department for...

Each point you make excites me more. What is the most important information of a nation? May I suggest it is religion? The Bible is about kings and sl...

I have been reading the posts here, and I am not sure what qualifies as a good argument. I am a complete amateur, but perhaps I could settle on my ide...

Thank you, but I can not write anything without others being involved. It may not seem like it, but I rely on what you all think. If I only cared abou...

I like how you understand what I am saying. But that said, I am reading "How to Think" by Alan Jacobs, and I need to warn against the notion that we a...

Thank you. Firing people for saying something that is not liked seems the most threatening thing that can happen to our democracy. It was how Hitler a...

Back to the question of this thread: Could we function without consciousness? Machines function without consciousness, and animals are preprogrammed, ...

I realized that, but since you mentioned it again, I wonder, was it easier for you to do such work when you were younger or do you feel your years hav...

To me, you are totally awesome because you trigger so many thoughts in my head. Your thinking and my thinking go together like a left and right hand. ...

:lol: I don't think that is a discussion for this thread. I just wanted to explain that my mind has been highjacked by current events. I have some dif...

Jack, you know you are one of my favorite people, but civilization as we know it may collapse. In the US, rule by law has crumbled, and many of its hi...

I have heard of animals saving humans from serious danger because the animal is aware of things that do not register in the human experience. Such as ...

That was a lot of work defining different aspects of consciousness. A neighbor had a sign on her door that said "Just because you thinking it, it does...

Your self-awareness and monologue may be the strongest barriers to your consciousness. Buddhists strive a achieve a very different consciousness. Imag...

https://www.pbs.org/video/exclusive-how-fascism-works-author-jason-stanley-plans-to-leave-the-us-eimxcb/ Here is an interview with Professor Jason Sta...

Sorry for taking so long to reply. How I understand spiritual matters is in part is about understanding the Eygptians had a trinity of the soul. The f...

I don't think we can change the past but we can change our interpretation of the past. Our wishes might change after a major event causes us to reflec...

At the moment, I have moved on to the Mayan belief system and need to start a thread for that. Then write myself a note so I don't forget I started a ...

What is behind Trump's success is the Christian mythology of the westward movement being the will of God and churches believing Trump is God's chosen ...

I appreciate everything you said. I am reading a book about the Christian mythology of being God's chosen people and what this has to do with the west...

Trump has announced he would use military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal. This is not any worse than the Neo-Cons and invadin...

I am horrified by Trump's announcement that he intends to take Greenland and Panama Canale and will use military force if need be. https://www.theguar...

I chose this sentence because of the last two terrorist attacks in the US. Both men served in the armed forces when the US was taking military action ...

Wow, you used a word I never came across before and did not know the meaning. Without the knowledge I could not understand what you said so I looked i...

How about smells? That is one of the major elements of communication. I think I smell a god. Well, maybe that doesn't work. However, we can believe so...

I do not understand why you made that argument. An expectation is not the same as a belief. An expectation is thinking with the gut (feeling) not the ...

I think @Ludwig V is right because the dog remembers the bowl is where it found food, but that memory is not equal to believing food magically appears...