But the whole point of religion is having faith that one knows the will of God and is protected by this God as long as one does not do something that ...
What is evil? Is the plague evil or the will of God? Are the Mongols evil or did God send them to punish us? Why are the Muslims winning wars with Chr...
I am totally confused by this thread. What is a non-believer? Everyone believes in something and it seems dishonest to me to label someone a non-belie...
I was agreeing with Jack. If our souls depend on the planet we live on, when it dies so do our souls. Now, this may not be true because our souls may ...
I have read some of Hall's books such as Beyond Culture and our concept of time is cultural. Telling native people a dam must be completed by Septembe...
Son of a gun, in all these years I have not come across anyone with knowledge of the oil-banking-economy reality. I learned of it through a geologist ...
That explanation of the take over of the Soviet Union is fascinating. How many people are aware of the banking and business deals that actually rule t...
Okay, and do computers ask questions? Does any other animal ask questions? For sure many animals are curious, but do they question what consciousness ...
I think that is a typical problem today. People thinking the right information and the right argument is what leadership is about, getting angrier and...
In reading the different philosophers, I have been amazed by the questions they have asked. Perhaps the most important thing is discovering how to ask...
China kind of got frozen in time because of a cultural bias for tradition. I think Christianity and Islam can both hold people in the past. That is be...
In a thread started by Apollodorus, I realized communism turns everyone into a commodity and destroys human values. Marx and Engels find fault with a ...
I am struggling to understand why anyone would think eliminating the industrial leaders would be a good thing. Marx wasn't even capable of supporting ...
Democracy is a shared consciousness and shared power. I believe it is possible we have greatly increased our shared consciousness and that we are at a...
Wow, I would say that cultural bias makes a huge difference. Right now advanced nations are biased for technological correctness. Christianity without...
That was a funny story of people jumping to the wrong conclusion. But at the moment I think it must have been quite frustrating. That is a brilliant s...
Good point. However, until recently China was known for its internal wars and then becoming one empire and then not expanding. For philosophyical reas...
:lol: I just got reported to the authorities as a possible suicide case and 3 people in uniforms showed up to be sure I am okay. As I perceive society...
There was a time when we all depended on our tribe. We shared the earth's resources in common and defended our territory just as dog packs and chimpan...
China is expanding into South America as the US has expanded around the world. The terms right and left are meaningless to me. What matters is nations...
I doubt that everything happens for a purpose but we can find meaning in anything. :lol: When we reach old age and our bodies break down, there does n...
Who thinks about business and economic matters? What does it mean to think about either? As I understand governing, it is what makes sure everything w...
Laugh, you may be losing sleep because of this forum but I am not getting necessary daytime stuff done, like the laundry, washing my hair, and other s...
Ah, I love this, sometimes we need to keep communicating to actually understand each other's meanings. I can appreciate that as I struggle to communic...
I am so thrilled to have DVDs of John Edwards communications with the deceased, much as he did in his TV show "Crossing Over". It is impossible for me...
That is for sure and is especially so for older people who are slipping into dementia and dying. My job as a Senior Companion is on shut down, but the...
But then what fun would life be? My mind jumps to the Hindu god waking up, and reality as we know it disappears like a dream, only to start all over a...
I used to experience stuff like that a lot more than I do now. I went through a phase when I bought books about clairvoyance. Such as Edgar Cayce's bo...
:lol: What choice do youth have? They do not know enough about life to make well informed decisions. For give me, this thread seems to be making me aw...
Where do you stand on all of that? I thought we agreed private property is a good thing? However, workers need affordable housing and that requires go...
I need to see the quotes with the replies, otherwise, it is like walking into the middle of a conversation and not knowing what people are talking abo...
Perfect, I agree with that 100% and one of the stupidest things in all time is our use of TV for advertising and appealing to our lowest instincts to ...
That is one reason we should pay attention to history. Our education for a technological society may be smart but it sure isn't wise. We can forgive p...
That is as smart as all the different religious leaders taking their flock in a different direction, and basing their understanding of life on a ficti...
I really need to move on to my mundane life, and I hate doing that in the middle of a really hot debate. You said Why did they regret it? But when it ...
That is not how I understanding economics. We can measure everything, and with the right measurements, we can predict the future. Let me explain mysel...
The miracle of democracy is the group mind/consciousness. I wish I were a faster reader so I could read Apollodorus links to the books before saying a...
Have you sat on committees that were developing policy or gotten involved with political activist work? When you think something needs to change, how ...
I seriously doubt that past economic advisers were capable of giving good advise because they just were not thinking of the greater economy. Even in T...
Why would their plan have any resistance? Really if the decisions are not made through the democratic process, how are they made? :lol: I have tried t...
I think the big mistake communist made is to eliminate the business people. Philosophy just is not the subject to study for a good economy and if the ...
I never speak of the Democratic Party. I speak of the democratic process and my ideas of that come from the ancient Greeks. I am also in favor of spor...
When I got involved with a group of grandparents fighting for grandparents' rights, I was horrified by the fighting for control that almost destroyed ...
That seems like an important statement. Which generation enjoyed that new money and what changed that made that new wealthy posible? "gold and diamond...
Edward Carpenter was not exactly a wealthy industrialist. His family was wealthy and left him a nice inheritance, but he was not an industrialist. But...
How many of those leaders experienced terrible poverty as children? H. G. Wells is one of them who was malnourished and suffered a lot because of pove...
That is certainly true! But what makes those in power willing to listen and share power? The Steampunk movement is the result of disappointment about ...
From the mother thread. :grin: I have been pondering thoughts all night. First for the word "conspiracy". It originates from Latin meaning to breathe ...
You have me tracting down information and reading as fast as I can and I don't have anything worth saying yet, but I am having a wonderful time. Thank...
Oh my, that is back to the thread this one sprang from. Empirical scientists being no better than the church of old. These discussions can make a pers...
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