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Oh, oh, I think we are getting further and further off the topic of labor and technology, however, when Billy Graham, the Evangelical leader, met with...
November 13, 2022 at 18:39
You speak of modern economic realities that I know very little about. I am sure that information is very important here. I googled an explanation of c...
November 13, 2022 at 17:35
I need to take your post in smaller pieces. :lol: A weak brain you know. Let me begin with I love your post because it is mentally stimulating. I argu...
November 13, 2022 at 16:25
No worry, no one is paying for wars in the US because we do them on credit. :joke: That sounds really stupid but we are not paying for wars as we once...
November 13, 2022 at 15:29
What a delicious subject! :nerd: The historical Roosevelt family would certainly agree with you. “The test of our progress is not whether we add more ...
November 13, 2022 at 14:58
You make a good argument and you speak of the biggest reason I am opposed to Christianity. I have a book about the organized Christian opposition to t...
November 13, 2022 at 14:15
Here is a google page with many choices for learning about the Demming institution. Beside links it is on Twitter and Facebook https://www.google.com/...
November 11, 2022 at 01:04
I believe education is essential to democracy. Democracy is like religion. It can not be the way of life if that way of life is not taught. Same as th...
November 11, 2022 at 00:49
I very much like your awareness of culture and how mass migrations can be very disruptive to established cultures. The original purpose of free public...
November 11, 2022 at 00:05
This thread has moved fast and I lost track of what people are talking about. Sorry, everyone. This post is back to the beginning and I love the lines...
November 10, 2022 at 23:29
I love drumming! How about the Japanese drummers? Do you like them too? The bagpipe is wonderful and my goodness the bagpipe player in the video had a...
November 06, 2022 at 18:04
I think if we educated for a better reality our young would be on a path to a better reality, as our literate forefathers were on the path to democrac...
November 06, 2022 at 17:44
Reading your explanation while listening to classical music is an awesome mental and feeling experience. All the posts here have been extraordinary, o...
November 06, 2022 at 17:01
I never saw that Elvis performance. It brings tears to my eyes. All our democratic campaigns should be using that song. He embarrassed the soul of dem...
November 06, 2022 at 16:11
Thank you for your explanation. Teachers generally feel like I am attacking them and not the system. My grandmother was a teacher when it was a very l...
November 06, 2022 at 15:57
How can the post-crash civilization, which is almost 100% guaranteed, have hope without preparing the young for that? All industrial economies depend ...
November 06, 2022 at 14:29
I won't become a classroom teacher, but from time to time I think about doing programs for schools that might encourage children to embrace their curi...
November 04, 2022 at 14:47
We are in a period of transition and this is not the first time civilizations have been through periods of transition, however, I am very worried abou...
November 04, 2022 at 14:42
I like the challenge of trying to answer your question. I begin with a definition of ethics "moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the c...
November 04, 2022 at 14:26
I studied gerontology at the U of O and as I age, I have a better understanding of what I suppose to learn. From both angles (book learning and experi...
November 04, 2022 at 13:53
About having a ways to go before achieving a better global society. That is such a big subject and I believe technology is a big part of that. The "Ne...
November 04, 2022 at 13:28
And if such words were the Bible, I would read it. I can not praise the people in this enough. I find the posts superior to what can be found in other...
November 03, 2022 at 19:22
The issue for me is education. Reasoning and logical thinking are not the same. If it is not understood that learning math and grammar are important t...
November 02, 2022 at 16:02
They can not make it happen without better information. How many people here know about autocracy versus democracy, instead of left and right, and tha...
November 02, 2022 at 14:59
""we could -- if we so wished -- distribute the wealth created by machines among the laborers who lost their jobs. Yes, that is what I said, and will ...
November 02, 2022 at 14:40
I am glad you gave how we might use our time, some thought. If that is what we want then we have to change two things. I believe capitalism is best fo...
November 02, 2022 at 14:13
That depends on taxation and government spending. Our potential is to let people die in poverty or provide public assistance so everyone has a decent ...
November 01, 2022 at 17:24
This thread needs more arguments about what language has to do with logic. What is beautiful about math is it crosses all language barriers. 2+2=4 is ...
November 01, 2022 at 15:43
Let me begin by saying I am not sure of my arguement but like you, I am trying to figure this out. You may be on to something. Let us test it. When I ...
November 01, 2022 at 15:19
Do you think animalslearn logic? What does it mean to learn logic? I so wish everyone would watch this videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqXVAo7dVR...
November 01, 2022 at 01:31
That cartoon is excellent!
November 01, 2022 at 00:59
I think our problem is our definition of logic and I wish others were here to discuss what is logic and do animals have logical thinking? I think you ...
October 29, 2022 at 15:57
Before Christianity there was Zoroastrianism. The Jews were not dualistic but saw good and evil as a continuum, more or less good or evil. Cyrus the G...
October 28, 2022 at 16:01
In measurements of IQ, Asians are scoring higher than the US. Not only are they scoring higher but China's population is much larger than the US so ar...
October 28, 2022 at 14:57
And what does that have to do with learning grammar as a path to learning higher-order logic thinking skills? I could be wrong but I think the discuss...
October 28, 2022 at 13:25
Excellent addition to the discussion. We can push what you said further by discussing the democratic behavior of animals. Making group decisions invol...
October 28, 2022 at 13:14
:chin: Can birds read each other's minds and communicate with the dead and spirit world? Around the world and throughout history birds represent many ...
October 27, 2022 at 16:32
Too bad the Hebrews and then the Christians gave us a different understanding of creation and the Christians went on to kill and exterminate the pagan...
October 27, 2022 at 16:15
Perfect! And that reminds me of DANIEL KAHNEMAN's explanation of fast and slow thinking. Actually thinking requires huge amounts of energy and most of...
October 27, 2022 at 15:55
There is no such word. I was making a point about the importance of words to our thinking. When we do not have a word for our thought we can't think t...
October 26, 2022 at 15:07
Let me try this again. Reacting to the environment is not logical thinking. What we need here is a better understanding of what logic is and what make...
October 26, 2022 at 14:39
Several areas of the brain are involved with the ability to use language. However, right frontal lobe brain damage really messes up a person's ability...
October 26, 2022 at 00:46
Reacting to our environment is not equal to logical thinking. Reacting to a warning cry is not equal to thinking, as we can observe in dogs that bark ...
October 25, 2022 at 15:22
That depends on one's definition of God. I really hope this thread stays focused on scientific facts and logic. The only thing that clearly separates ...
October 24, 2022 at 16:49
I consider your OP to be one of the most important subjects for us to discuss. Nothing is more important than education and education for technology i...
October 23, 2022 at 17:01
The crow will never explain the universe nor construct a society dependent on technology. Animals can not know logos because they do not have the comp...
October 23, 2022 at 16:58
I immediately flashed back to a time when I felt like an infected boil on the face of the earth. To clarify what I said, I don't think I could have fe...
October 11, 2022 at 17:27
One of my favorite professors was a sociologist and he gave us a textbook explaining we live by social agreements. Instinctively we desire to be accep...
October 11, 2022 at 16:57
I blame patriarchy for the division of those who have power and those who do not. It is my understanding matriarchies have a family order but not the ...
October 11, 2022 at 16:26
Yes and let us have a symposium to talk about these different philosophies! Hum, this forum has repeatedly made me want to go to the coast and invite ...
October 10, 2022 at 16:37