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I am very passionate about education and democracy and I seriously do love it when someone is supportive of education and democracy. That is very rare...
September 26, 2023 at 03:48
The rock that rolls down a mountain and crushes a man is being cruel? Your wording is intellectually stimulating. Old age can be very cruel but that i...
September 26, 2023 at 03:37
I think we should consider that possibility. Have you seen the British show "Humans"? It is pretty heavy as it pushes us to take another look at our v...
September 26, 2023 at 02:36
Thank you. I can remember that question from my childhood as my mother could only work for low women's wages and was paid less than a man hired to do ...
September 26, 2023 at 02:29
Your post is one of the most mentally stimulating posts I have read this year. I am going to say a lot and I am not sure how correct these new to me, ...
September 23, 2023 at 19:24
Athens's patron goddess favored the life of a man over a woman's life and I have a problem with that patriarchy. I I think, when it comes to abortion ...
September 22, 2023 at 17:14
It is not knowledge that is the end all but how we process our thoughts. Anyone can be valuable in the discussions providing the individual has had pr...
September 22, 2023 at 16:45
This thread has wandered all over the place and I hadn't noticed it was moved to the lounge but I can live with all that because I think the few of us...
September 22, 2023 at 16:27
Okay, I now hope we can bring Universeness around to the possibility that is the foundation of our democracy- humans will do as well as they know how ...
September 22, 2023 at 15:59
Thank you for the mention. You made me think of today's news about national leaders who appear to benefit themselves by exploiting others. To jump on ...
September 22, 2023 at 15:48
I love you. :love: And our democracy will continue to self-destruct until we all know what you said. Fortunately, someone was wise enough to introduce...
September 22, 2023 at 15:21
What about voting for the opposing party, writing to representatives and the newspaper, and unions? The State took my grandchildren and I joined with ...
September 22, 2023 at 15:13
I am sorry, I do not follow what you are saying. You are saying "no" to what? You do not think religion is a story that shapes our thinking and behavi...
September 22, 2023 at 14:33
:lol: That is preposterous that an evolved species would think itself the ultimate ruler of the universe and so they make a god in their own image. Ex...
September 22, 2023 at 13:37
Considering how rude you were, I can ignore you.
September 22, 2023 at 12:26
Those bad things were not rights. They were a failure to know better. Greek philosophy, if it gets good results it is good/moral. If it gets bad resul...
September 16, 2023 at 18:11
You are right. We are not focused on how what we believe relates to how we behave and that is a problem because we are not developing self-awareness a...
September 16, 2023 at 15:00
I don't know, but do you want to discuss sacred math? Perhaps we can discover why a materialist has a hard time accepting an unknown energy.
September 16, 2023 at 14:06
You do know we are talking about how we use this planet, right? Indigenous people held a spiritual relationship with the land, and our lives and the p...
September 16, 2023 at 13:57
Thank you so much! I think our discussions would be much improved the the notions of logos and prime mover. And from there, even the gods were subject...
September 16, 2023 at 13:41
Oh my, what a delicious field of exploration you have opened for us. Our mental state has a lot to do with our physical state. Being spiritual can lit...
September 15, 2023 at 17:35
Gilgamesh and the present have something to do with human nature. We need to be careful about our understanding of freedom. We have more agreement tha...
September 15, 2023 at 17:21
That is what Thomas Jefferson, and Cicero before him, meant when they spoke of the pursuit of happiness. Before we focused education on the advancemen...
September 15, 2023 at 16:56
That sounds like a familiar explanation. What are the forces that cause the motion? What is gravity? If nothing counterbalances gravity why doesn't th...
September 15, 2023 at 16:39
As usual, your post is so profound I am a bit overwhelmed. My thought seems very little compared to the concepts of your explanation however for the s...
September 15, 2023 at 16:26
Might it be possible that our understanding of energy and matter is culturally biased and also lacks more recent information about quantum physics and...
September 15, 2023 at 15:46
Let me begin by telling you know how much I appreciate how your post pushed me to a new realization of a better way to explain the importance of educa...
September 15, 2023 at 15:22
https://grove.ccsd59.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/1.-Matter-Vs.-Energy-.pdf
September 12, 2023 at 16:35
You have done nothing but insult. Good reasoning requires following some laws of logic and your post is not a good example of that. Name-calling such ...
September 12, 2023 at 16:30
No matter does not move around. If my computer desk decides to move itself to the other side of the room, I will scream and run out of the door. Not m...
September 12, 2023 at 16:24
The book "Great Thinkers of the Eastern World" is easier to read than Fritjof Capra and prepares us to understand Tao which is great for reading Greek...
September 12, 2023 at 16:07
Philosophically I am seeing a question about what makes us good. Most ancient people used a notion of family for social order. Going out and drinking ...
September 12, 2023 at 15:53
I read some of your link and do not understand how it applies to concerns about our freedom. Do you want to explain what concerns you?
September 12, 2023 at 15:29
I understood the song to say that being human is being messed up. I don't know what we might get away with because sooner or later the consequences of...
September 11, 2023 at 16:39
I am not sure but I think your freedom may be, anarchy and I think anarchy is intolerable. On the other hand, understanding culture and the importance...
September 11, 2023 at 15:17
You might enjoy The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra. It is mind-blowing to me that we are still materialists. Everything is energy. Logos, reason, the...
September 11, 2023 at 14:40
I am sorry I do not know what you mean.
September 09, 2023 at 17:11
I liked James song. Last night I saw a show about ethnicity and how rape music gives these victims a voice. James is a good counter to that. Like bein...
September 09, 2023 at 16:25
Yeah! :grin: What you said is so agreeable to me. I remember spiritual concepts such as "He is in good spirits today". Meaning the man was happy. Some...
September 09, 2023 at 15:54
You are right. Logos is the laws of nature that can not be violated without bad consequences. That is nuts! :rage: I am unsure of what you mean to com...
September 09, 2023 at 15:04
Universeness, look at what I found about language- I am very excited because it sort of explains how my understanding of words is not the same as ever...
September 08, 2023 at 15:37
Your first quote above imo, should be used by Jamal to promote TPF. Your second quote is is very well put, and makes me feel a little regretful that I...
September 08, 2023 at 15:14
That is a very interesting term. Is that mob rule? Being caught up in impersonal emotionalism. If it is impersonal, the individual is not responsible ...
September 08, 2023 at 14:45
I believe that concept of power is a delusion because no group of humans no matter how create their numbers or their wealth and technology, that power...
September 08, 2023 at 14:26
Ah, I got you. Wanting change and depending on someone else to change things, is like being a good Jew, Christian, or Muslim praying to God to fix thi...
September 08, 2023 at 13:47
As a woman who was a daughter, mother, and grandmother, I strongly believe we need the concept of family duties. I dearly wish the people who deliver ...
September 08, 2023 at 13:31
What "duty is a noble lie"? Duty is a concept and it is as real as we make it. You know, a concept, an abstract idea, not a tangible reality that eith...
September 08, 2023 at 13:13
I am sorry I am very aware of what happens in other countries. I do not any British people to ask about Brexit. I know US citizens are strongly oppose...
September 06, 2023 at 16:36
It makes me aware and includes me in the mourning even if it may not include you. I very much like the bicycle that is permanently on the corner where...
September 06, 2023 at 15:54
How can self-awareness be increased? I think this needs to go with the awareness of others too. Racism blows me away because it is such an expression ...
September 06, 2023 at 15:35