Athena

I know historically when we harnessed electricity and could lite our streets, people thought we were in the Age of Enlightenment. Humanity has not alw...

I may still be in the church with a leader like John Shelby Spong. I struggled with superstitious fears when I was young and this became an extremely ...

Well thank you. It seems to me denial is a large part of believing. I have heard and read that Satan played a much larger role in Christian beliefs th...

It would be wonderful if we could use this technology instead of drugs. How about replaying history and changing it and watching what happens when his...

I am sorry but I do not have the information necessary to understand what you said. I do not know what matrix style is or VR/AR worlds. Do those lette...

But that is what the Reformation is about. The Reformation is putting an end to men tinkering with the Bible and creating a religion that deviates fro...

I think we can agree that creation stories are not intended to be anything like scientific truth. They are stories made up for psychological and socia...

What is the name of that book or where do I find that information? I have heard the New Age is a time of high tech, peace, and the end of tyranny. The...

Martin Luther King, would not have the huge success he has today if his principles were not coming from our documents such as our Declaration of Indep...

I really think that is a matter of power, who has it and who does not. With power comes respect and the more important education is to getting things ...

In this case, who is authority about "God" and what makes the authority legitimate? Are there any verifiable reasons for believing the Biblical explan...

What other explanation can there be? I am not Christian and I do not have a problem with the notion of an universal god. For me it is futile to argue ...

Each god and goddess is an archetype of a purposeful life. When I was younger I followed Demeter the goddess of motherhood and growing things. When my...

His organizational backbone was democracy coming out of the enlightenment and the belief that science and preparing everyone to be good citizens would...

All cultures live by social agreements. I am glad I am not living in a conservative Muslim society where a woman can be killed because her head was no...

I think some people here have no knowledge of the rest of the world and how lucky they are to be in a democratic society where human rights are protec...

That was an awesome explanation of our responsibility. May I ask where and when you got your education? Are there any books you recommend? I have a co...

Where is the break in my explanation that is a problem? I did not mention how Plato and Aristotle and Greek dualism, in general, influenced the church...

The Age of Enlightenment is about very different reasoning. How good is your knowledge of history? The Age of Enlightenment follows Scholasticism. The...

Good question. In ancient times slavery did not have the same moral characteristics it has today. In the past, a slave was simply someone who lost a w...

First, it means maturing and being okay with knowing individuals do not know that much. It is being old enough and experienced enough to begin to unde...

I took action that resulted in changing a city law and another period of action created a law that gives Grandparents rights totally changed the depar...

Ouch, democracy is far more than choosing leaders. It is also about being one of them. Democracy is o about producing leaders and those leaders must h...

Clearly you speak of Plato's forms and also Aristotle's declaration that only matter is real. Your picture shows the movement of water and the movemen...

I replied to you 4 days ago, but didn't quote you so I have copied and pasted my reply with the hope you will reply. Yes, a lot of ideas in a big pot ...

Of course I want people to ask questions and think about what I am saying. As for they US being #1 in tertiary education, that has nothing to do with ...

Bureaucratic order is everything. It is really important to understand what bureaucratic form has to do with the power of government to control or inf...

I love that explanation. :heart: It fits perfectly with what I was thinking. Life is constant change but our language focuses on material manifestatio...

Those geometric patterns emerge through natural processes. :wink: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/11/why-is-irelands-giants-causeway-shaped-like-that/...

I have had a super great morning so far. I unexpectedly found something in my files about the WWII war crime trials that is perfect for my arguments. ...

If the purpose of education is about preparing the young for a technological society with unknown values, what happens to the nation?

The good and the bad of our education does not stop with individuals doing well in life. How well individuals do depends greatly on how well their fam...

Yes, a lot of ideas in a big pot is a complex concept. Democracy is a complex concept. If we can bring back my grandmother's way of teaching, our demo...

Did you learn that in school? I believe you did and it is why I keep hammering away at what is wrong with education for technology and blaming those w...

You missed something that is vitally important about our identity. Our identity is tied to feelings of belonging or feelings of alienation. Our identi...

In the 1970's we announced a national youth crisis. My son and daughter were part of that and I take the change in education very seriously. I was in ...

Your reply is the problem we have today! That is the result of education no longer transmitting the culture that was transmitted before the 1958 Natio...

Why do they fail? Who is the child following if not the parents? It is not culture unless it is what a society holds as valuable and this is why I kee...

Awe technology! We live in an information reality different from anything in the past. Thanks to computers and the internet we can gather and store hu...

Absolutely yes. That play yard is constructed with knowledge of averages. The school policies and class planning is built on knowledge of averages. Bu...

Can we imagine we are native Iroquois and talk about what is important about being one of them? Do we want our children to know what is important abou...

Average people are mathematical reality. That does not negate the reality of variety.

I am confused about who is arguing what. Education was overhauled by the 1958 National Defense Education Act that ended education for citizenship and ...

What? You believe the priority of education should be transmitting a culture based on what was best of the Greeks and Romans? Then we do not have a di...

That would have been the educated people who learned the culture promoted by educated people.

My grandmother wasted no time but opened opportunities to thousands of young people and successfully defended the US democracy in the classroom. The s...

Wow who is the better person and why? I am afraid I can not give a good answer. You caused me to doubt my firm position on education because you made ...

Why didn't they stop the steal? Number one all those people knew no more about education than you do. Nor do Americans know any more about philosophy ...

Come to my home and I will show gladly show you the evidence. Or you can start your own search for the American values every child was taught. That is...

Yes, it is more important than the large volumes of books printed since 2000 if the subject is democracy. Some good books about democracy have been wr...