Athena

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Yes, but how many of us think scientifically? Scientific thinking is empirical and religious thinking is not empirical. Understanding human values is ...

I have 1950 values. Ideally, until the children are old enough, women do not work outside of the home but make an important economic contribution to t...

Please, don't expect me to remember anything. I have not been diagnosed with Alzheimer's yet, but I am struggling to just live in the present. :lol: I...

How are Enlightenment values not Romantic values?

I am confused. What you said is true and doesn't that make our disregard for nature, the problem? But we are smart enough to develop the science that ...

Oh, yes you have my attention. :grin: "The teachings of the Lyceum did not sit well with Epicurus, who quickly moved on to study the atomistic system ...

Okay, you are saying he is an empiricist because he is a materialist? That is he believes the cosmos consists only of atoms and voids, and it is the m...

Why do you not agree with the Wikipedia definition of the Enlightenment? Thomas Jefferson plagiarized John Locke when he wrote the US Declaration of I...

How is that so?

Oh my God, I love you! The difference between "empirical reasoning" as opposed to "Universal Reason" is a wonderful thing to contemplate! Oh dear, I a...

I think many of the US founding fathers were romantics. The history for this begins with the crusades and the discovery of Greek and Roman classics re...

I have been thinking about what I saw in a documentary about art in that period, a kind of rebelliousness against established art standards and the el...

Okay, I had to look up "homeostasis" and "general will". Homeostasis in the context of human behavior needs a better explanation. "General will" is ex...

You got my attention from the beginning when you distinguished a difference between the live and let live attitude or the everyone has to live "this w...

Those thoughts were closer to what I am pondering. I like the East Indian notion that when we speak of one thing we speak of its opposite as both are ...

Alain de Botton has studied philosophy and he says the Ancient Greeks had a very different notion of love than we do today. The ancient Greek notion w...

That is an interesting notion. I know my brain started shutting down when we were in lockdown in Oregon, even though I got on the internet daily. I co...

I love trying to think with a consciousness of the past. An impossible thing because we can not unknow what we know. But if it were possible, wouldn't...

I really like what you said about it being difficult to measure intelligence but I think our easy lives have so muted our ability to think that we wou...

Asia surpassing the west is interesting. Computers were developed in the US with government funding the research but it was Japan that latched on to t...

Our computer knowledge has no value unless we actually think and make an effort to be well informed. I just left a history forum where people love bas...

Really having people on the supreme court is so outdated. Shouldn't the decisions be made by a computer to avoid bias?

I do not engage with disrespectful people. Out of curiosity, I read a little more of what you said, and it makes for a much better discussion than you...

What you said is true. It is also true that in nature we can see patterns and cycles. I was thinking of the big bang and the holy books that say in th...

You keep using insulting labels like "green commie". There are respectful people and disrespectful people. I have a preference for respectful people. ...

Things are getting too unpleasant.

Right now the world is on the brink of war. Russia controls Much of Europe's supply of oil. Oil is essential to war, so if Russia stops sending Ukrain...

I love pictures for helping me understand. Geothermal technology is very hopeful but not the answer for everyone. https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C...

Perfect! Yes, it is a shortcut and that is what is wrong with it. What will happen to your thinking if you do not use that shortcut? What will happen ...

Different points of view are a good thing. I don't think anything would convince me to believe overpopulation is not a very serious problem and you wi...

Hope for what? Not even if we had unlimited cheap energy would that make life on a finite planet unlimited. That does not mean I do not have hope. I h...

My dear, I am the poor. It is a real good idea to avoid assuming. As one of the poor, it is obvious to me what the effect of too many humans means. To...

I think being sustainable does mean less of all those things and a totally different lifestyle from what we are accustomed to. I think our values must...

Huh? What about the ice ages? I don't think you are working with all the facts.

That is a good point. I have not said there is no God. When the Bible is read abstractly the Jews who wrote the old testament, and I, do not have a pr...

I just posted there must be death for there to be life. How many people want to think about that? I suspect most non-religious people are in as much d...

That sounds wonderful and I watched a show last night about Bill Nye the Science Guy and his fight to get religious leaders to accept science, We all ...

Absolutely and I am having a hard time not understanding our delay in doing that. It seems obvious to me when a tornado, hurricane, flood, fire does a...

Very nicely worded. Not many people know what science has to do with morals and democracy but you do. In my eyes that makes you are a very valuable pe...

Even if that is so, it is still necessary to discuss how humanity will deal with it. Many civilizations have fallen because the people exhausted their...

James Carter was our president from 1977 to 1981. His focus was on reducing our dependency on foreign oil so we would not applaud his policies, but he...

I don't think that is a good idea. That is kind of like standing on the railroad tracks and wondering if the train will stop before passing you. It wo...

There is a saying that when we resolve one problem we create three more. We really do not know as much as we need to know and if we were okay with tha...

I like your explanation of chaos theory. But when it comes to being a climate denier or believer I am on the side of believers. Most of Oregon has exp...

Oh dear, I am supposed to be doing payer work so I can get a paycheck, but I think you have given me a new subject I need to write about in the Blog a...

I have been puzzling over this for a long time. I think forums are our best meeting place. I have started a Blog but I am just learning to use it. Rel...

Please, may we all understand the miracle of democracy is bringing out the best in each other. In a democracy, we are not subjects. We are equals as t...

Then it is not just me seeing this. That is exciting. All through history, things have swung this way and that way. When we experience enough shared p...

I think we are experiencing a new dramatic change that is mobilizing the people who believe in cooperation and who are compassionate. I have started a...