Athena

We can not end death and we may not want to. I have heard the gods think we are better off because we are not immortal. :chin: Perhaps we should start...

Heck, many wives can't even get their husbands to help with housework and child care. I do not see egalitarianism coming any time soon. Also, I work a...

I love your post. I strongly disagree with you about the importance of Scholasticism, but everything else is moving in the right direction. Something ...

I could understand that part of the lectures I am learning from. Just before everything went so wrong, they had overpopulation and could not produce e...

Pefect!! "Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, Michael Allen Gillespie reveals in this landmark study that modernity is much le...

:lol: I accept that I do not meet a higher standard of writing. I will always be more personal than technologically correct and I will always wonder a...

That looks like a good account of what happened. I am learning from The Great Courses and I am having a devil of time comprehending the break up of Ro...

Star Trek is a fantasy. On a ship, all things are provided by the shipping company. This was so for Star Trek and the three ships Columbus led across ...

Why would people want that? How does an economy without money work?

And how is that organized?

Yes and what is that enough, of which you speak? Who started the peasants' rebellion? Might the trouble have begun with people with a degree of wealth...

The closet organization is in another state. There is nothing in the northwest of the US. I need to look into the organization very carefully because ...

"God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called '...

I want to work with what I am learning about the Renaissance and the Reformation so that I can gain a better understanding of it. Working with the top...

I bookmarked that site. It is something I want to look into. I think I would very much like to join like-minded people in an organized manner. The soc...

I am listing to a professor's lectures on the Renaissance and Reformation, times of big changes. I think we come to another period of big changes. Is ...

So we agree religions are made up by people, but we are at a cross road that demands a new story. For more and more people it is impossible to become ...

I am listening to a professor's lectures about the Renaissance and Reformation. The1400s was a terrible period in history with overpopulation then pla...

I am sure the story of the creation of Adam and Eve should not be understood literally. It is most likely a plagiarized Sumerian story about a river t...

I like life as it is because there is so much to change and we have the potential to make that change. Let us play with the understanding of God. Chri...

Wow! I cheated and edited what you said with Grammarly hoping to make it easier to understand because you express such deep thoughts and I want so muc...

Maybe God wills that for you, so you must buy lottery tickets because that is what God wants you to do.

In part because of their stories. If we lived with Greek gods or a creator who didn't have favorites nor an evil counterpart, we would be different fr...

I very much like your argument. Who would want to play Monopoly if every game were the same? I thrill at the possibility that things could be differen...

Last night, I watched a Nova explanation of "intelligent design" being a modern way of explaining "Creationism" and why it is not science. Creationism...

You all inspired me to look for a definition of the word "fact" Now I need to know what a datum is and this definition causes me to think about the Gr...

Hey, should we start a thread for that? Everyone can pick his/her time in history and place and say what should be changed, why, and how? I loved Geng...

Why would anyone leave Bangladesh? I think of Bangladesh as very exotic and with a rich history. Meaning, that some of the earliest people at least pa...

That is a delicious question! But I want to point out the killing of which Truth Teller speaks is emotional and I don't think the US has ever dealt wi...

Not where he grew up. He has dealt with a lot of killing and lawlessness. There are areas on earth that are not healthy for humans because humans tend...

For darn sure we are not going to achieve our full potential with the God of Abrahman and Biblical explanation of reality. As long as we cling to supe...

Where do you live, Chicago, New York, L.A. the jungles of Africa? We institute governments to protect ourselves from ourselves. However, that alone is...

A notion of a New Age was carried by Masons and the forefathers of the US. It is part of the Enlightenment and hope for our democracy. Spirituality ma...

Be careful you might get what you wish for. It might not be what you want. I have no desire to go to heaven. The idea of living eternally in perfectio...

At this point in time I don't know if there are any good solutions but I am very excited about the possibility of a New Age that could be more moral t...

Cooperation with whom? We are very diverse and we hold different ideas about God and God's will for us. I sure as blazes will not cooperate with peopl...

I am sure freedom was not the grand Christian idea of what is desired and all German philosophers were influenced by Christianity. Martin Luther thoug...

How about you are both right? I think we need to start at a base line. How would we behave if we did not have language and therefore the ability to ar...

:gasp: Just because the factory farm produces plants instead of meat, that does not make them sustainable. It is not possible for us to use soil over ...

And so do most animals. What makes us different is our ability to think about such things. We want to believe our wars are just wars, whereas animals ...

We used to read our children moral tales and at the end of the story ask them what is the moral of the story. The moral was a matter of cause and effe...

I am not sure I understand you correctly but I do know doing something nice for others is one of the best ways to feel good. We know our sexual behavi...

Looks as though you put some serious effort into expanding your consciousness and writing your reply. I want to respect that. I also want to move the ...

I agree with you. We do need to know the difference between a fact or an opinion. Believing in a God can not be a belief about fact because there is n...

Freedom from what? I for one, would rather have a sense of duty than freedom. I want a life based on principles, not a life without them. And I want a...

"God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called '...

The relationship between cause and effect.

:scream: Nazi, Germany-fascism! The essentials for that are firmly planted in the US because it adopted the German models of bureaucracy and education...

I was going to start a thread about Christian Nationalism and Shia law and Muslims. In the US past people did not discuss religion as we do today, and...

This argument might do better in a different thread. What exactly is the experience? Words can be "heard" but they do not "show" meaning. Any sense of...