Athena

Years ago when women's liberation was changing everything and my marriage was grinding to an end I sought counseling. I had a sense that the problem w...

:rofl: I know retired who are shocked by how busy they are! May I say, when women were expected to be full-time homemakers that came with taking care ...

I watched a show about Native Americans and have been attempting to see the world from the point of view of people who were here long before Europeans...

Oh yeah, I agree with you! If I were a millionaire I would rent rooms in a hotel with a conference room and pay everyone's way to our conference. Seri...

I will use your post to explain education for good reasoning. I think just about everyone takes good reasoning for granted. Hear is a very simple expl...

Please, I am stretched so thin right now I want to pick up the argument in favor of minding our own business and not trying to save the rest of the wo...

:grin: Socrates would love your argument. That is the problem with learning the technology of rhetoric instead of being prepared for good moral judgme...

Much better-informed people than myself have debated why Athens was an intellectual leader. For sure part of that was their notion of gods, but Egypt ...

Because it is the right thing to do. I totally agree and that gives us immortality because it is not about each of us as mortal individuals, but all o...

That is what a liberal education is about and many colleges are proud of their liberal education programs. My problem with this is not everyone goes t...

I speak of democracy. I am not a nationalist and I am troubled when speak as though the world would not know democracy without the US. Despite all the...

The Peace Core was begun during the Kennedy administration. It has attracted millions of people willing to take risks to help people around the world....

I think when Trump was our president, we experienced the division that was felt during the Civil War. The way he handled Covid and went about other th...

That good is reliant on our abundance and that is very threatened right now. I believe our economy is very fragile right now and if it falls again, th...

What have you read? This is a sincere question because when people disagree it is usually because their sources of information are different. Also bec...

Thank you Vera. We used the Athenian model of education for well-rounded individual growth. This prepared the young for life and self-government and w...

Wow, I gave a lot of time to my explanation and you have not kept your promise to address democracy.

That is reminiscent of Greek philosophy and the monster that consumed everything even itself. That means the powers of creativity and goodness must be...

I will immediately watch the video and I am so thrilled you see something important in Athens and Sparta! Germany was the Sparta of the modern world b...

You asked some very good questions. Not that long ago education was not important to most jobs. Being able to read was not a requirement for the labor...

Okay please list 10 characteristics of democracy and perhaps say something about how they relate to our ideas of right and wrong. Unfortunately, I hav...

My head is like a tornado and I am trying to find the order in all those thoughts while it is still stuck on the concept of our stories verses facts a...

I want to jump all over your comment. I have done at least one terrible thing that I regret, and I know I had no reason for thinking what I did was wr...

My grandmother was a reflection of the good values she learned. Today we are living in complete social chaos and absolutely no social agrrements. We h...

There are some wonderful things about polytheism. Your gods can argue with each other and their arguments expand our consciousness. This is not so wit...

I remember when the fighting in Ireland was in the news daily and there were other such conflicts based on prejudice against "them" and being totally ...

I believe old age is purgatory. My worst mistakes came at a time of confusion. I expected a Dick and Jane reality and that is not what I got. When my ...

How do we get at the truth?! Damn if we could identify the truth perhaps we could resolve our problems. Seriously, I believe humans are capable of goo...

I am so glad you see that. Have you ever done something you knew was wrong? What did you do to make that acceptable to you? I could imagine myself bei...

Socrates said it is most important to know ourselves, to be aware of what we think and why we think what we think. What is our "story". I use the word...

I wish I had more time!! I just read about preparing the young to be warriors for my post above and immediately I see a failure to see life from a dif...

I had a hard time wrapping my mind around "memes". That is a complete abstract. They can not exist without the humans infected by them. I could not gr...

:lol: That is very true. I was traumatized by a couple of them. My mother attempted to get me out of a class where I clashed with the teacher and the ...

I want to respond before I forget what I want to say. :lol: Representatives from around the world are gathering to discuss the possibility of a nuclea...

Hi everyone- I am listening to the public broadcast channel discussion of nuclear weapons and I am highly emotional right now. The best way I can thin...

Please explain. Which religion do I authorize to be the authority? Exactly what is spirituality? For me, it is a feeling. What is for you? Is spiritua...

I do not like labels and I know nothing about socialism because I ignore labels. I also do not pay attention to human names but what a person does wil...

Absolutely not possible that a computer program can be more important to a child's learning than the teacher. What motivates us to learn is not a comp...

Thanks, I do understand. I am taking off for the beach today. It is not a great day for the beach but the recreation center bus goes today and I have ...

Okay, that is so for most schools and hospitals and social services. Reading your story I see only one possible solution that does not mean change but...

What you said is agreeable but who is going to put in the effort to make that happen and how can such a dreamer activate the community? I am in the Be...

:chin: The pothos is not exactly chaos but can lead to chaos. :heart: Golly gee, it is fun thinking about what you said! Excitingly you speak of the r...

Not all the stories are true because there was a deliberate attempt to write the American mythology as the Greeks wrote mythology. I do not know about...

I am running out of time and this might not help but logos is universal law. It happens this way because that is how the laws of the universe make it....

That post is super great. I want to add to what you said that Athenians thought democracies must have a small population. Here is another important th...

What you just said is fundamentally the same as what universeness said. We can not have quality lives unless we meet our human needs and that means mo...

Wow what a story that was. My heart is heavy to think everyone's good intentions came to such a sad ending because they all forgot one thing. To take ...

You and the Universe make me regret I have been too busy to carefully read and participate in the discussion. Please be patient with me. It is past be...

That is so sad. I have never thought of Socrates or Plato getting burnt out as teachers but they did not attempt to educate anyone younger than 30 yea...

I want to assure you of your value. I have noticed I am writing with your influence on my mind. I say something and wonder if it would be agreeable wi...