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Thank you for restating the mysteries, and yes, the separation is about not taking your thread off-topic as we kept moving in a political direction an...
May 11, 2021 at 20:36
So far I am not well impressed by the Fabian Freeway book. It really is a conspiracy theory. Maybe it is written that way because murder mysteries are...
May 11, 2021 at 14:02
Exactly! However, I do not think there is a goal to cancel Western culture. I think the purpose of education is defined by military and economic needs...
May 10, 2021 at 14:23
Okay, I agree that fortunately, we all tend to be good people. I think that is because like other animals we are social animals and we learn from each...
May 10, 2021 at 13:50
Exactly. For me the thought goes like this- There is life on other planets and that life depends on that planet, even the souls who have passed. Now i...
May 10, 2021 at 13:30
I would not at say we might as well be China. We have a very different culture and we need to get back to educating for that different culture. Howeve...
May 09, 2021 at 15:45
Sorry about that misunderstanding. It was something you said to someone else that I thought was a personal attack and now I am embarrassed about makin...
May 06, 2021 at 16:54
I have seen some pretty ugly people and the idea that in heaven they might look in the mirror and see an attractive person, and others were attracted ...
May 06, 2021 at 16:36
I love the historical view of things because so much is a reaction to something else. Considering your concerns you might want to know what bureaucrat...
May 06, 2021 at 16:08
Attack the thoughts, not the person.
May 05, 2021 at 14:23
Could it be said, the Athenian interest in arte and individualism is the opposite of Hegal and "the state is God". Hegel and Sparta are a good match, ...
May 05, 2021 at 14:21
It is Greek and Roman philosophy that is important to understanding democracy. We know German philosophy lead to a military industrial complex and two...
May 05, 2021 at 13:51
Yes, but as political creatures, in a democracy, it is important to decide what is the right thought (truth) and the right action. Our abyss is an eco...
May 04, 2021 at 23:15
Great that should be enough to feed all of us if we have a symposium. :grin:
May 04, 2021 at 23:05
Interesting notion floating around without bodies. Does not sound good at all. However, being one with God might mean without an ego that necessitates...
May 04, 2021 at 22:20
You said that so beautifully I could cry. I recently said something close to that to my daughter, telling her how sorry I am that I could not give our...
May 04, 2021 at 22:03
Now that is a highly intellectual consideration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQJjbJQdymA
May 03, 2021 at 15:45
When growing up, I remember if an uninvited guest came for dinner and there was not enough to feed everyone, my mother went without dinner. As a grown...
May 03, 2021 at 15:18
That is sweet, and the invitation is like putting a horse at the starting gate of a race track. I have no idea how to get people interested in the fac...
May 03, 2021 at 14:41
Jack is a super person who encourages discussion. However, we have gone off-topic and I don't like that, but, but... you asked how to make democracy s...
May 03, 2021 at 14:24
:love: I love you. You are using the language that turns my heart on, virtues and arte. Once desires and fears have been brought under control, the ey...
May 01, 2021 at 17:40
Okay believing in evolution and being spiritual can go together. I love the subject of morality built on sound reasoning! I am perhaps even fanatical ...
May 01, 2021 at 17:18
You speak of history and what war did to Egypt, Athens, Roman, the Aztecs, or any civilization that is victorious in war. I am speaking of bureaucrati...
May 01, 2021 at 17:06
I just watched an awesome program about what can happen when we speak to our hearts and listen to our hearts. When we live in our heads, what we think...
May 01, 2021 at 16:31
This forum does not seem to use links so I am reluctant to do so, but you mentioned Einstein and the participant-observer role with a question about h...
May 01, 2021 at 15:57
You have worded those thoughts very well.
April 30, 2021 at 16:58
I think the Germans/Prussians are pretty awesome people, and that is why I began reading about them. You missed the point of why I write about Prussia...
April 30, 2021 at 16:50
:lol: You don't want to take on Granny from the TV show Beverly Hillbillies. Being a rugged individual can be the result of living in a harsh environm...
April 30, 2021 at 16:18
Burying our dead may be an emotional reaction we share with animals, and may not rely on culture, nor thoughts of an afterlife that are purely imagina...
April 30, 2021 at 15:34
With words, we can imagine things that were totally not imaginable before we became so technologically advanced. Our homes are full of magic! We have ...
April 30, 2021 at 15:22
Wow, I really like your observation! Our raw, animal instincts will always be part of us and this is what makes education for self-control and underst...
April 30, 2021 at 14:59
Yes, but someone in the Historium forum makes it extremely unpleasant for me so I rarely go there unless for some strange reason I have nothing better...
April 28, 2021 at 14:08
Conformity was very much a part of the 1950s but that does not mean a lack of independent thinking. However, your argument certainly does push for a b...
April 28, 2021 at 13:30
Thank you! I love how you worded the important difference between Pirard bringing us together to make a decision and Kirk moving us forward. Kirk was ...
April 27, 2021 at 14:09
We know Christians had a war with each other. Those who thought Jesus was the son of God, killed those who thought Jesus was God and visa versa. The p...
April 27, 2021 at 14:03
Interesting statement. Surely those who see everything as animated and those who are materialistic believing things are only matter, have very differe...
April 27, 2021 at 13:50
Most interesting. I do not mean to be argumentive but the notion of conscious, and our inability to have the consciousness of the past, intrigues me. ...
April 25, 2021 at 17:52
We can not have empirical information about God because we do directly experience God. Some people have died and their hearts have been restarted brin...
April 25, 2021 at 17:32
Our clash with China is basic east and west differences. Our clash with Russia could be the same, as it is argued they are oriental, not western. In I...
April 25, 2021 at 17:05
What a delicious argument. :grin: Truth often is not this or that, but it is this and that. I absolutely love how, in an argument, both people are rig...
April 25, 2021 at 16:34
Yes, and without men like Bill Gates (John Wayne), we do not have the industrial wealth that benefits all of us. Being able to educate and feed everyo...
April 25, 2021 at 16:27
That is an interesting observation. My knowledge of the change was the day all the teachers in my school were in shock. It was very frightening becaus...
April 25, 2021 at 16:06
Hum, what would we want in a captain of the ship or a captain of industry? Bill Gates is a take-charge person and he has accomplished a lot. We might ...
April 24, 2021 at 16:24
An interesting thought, but how responsible is the egoless, person? What can of leader will this person be? As we argue about communism, socialism, or...
April 24, 2021 at 16:15
I have to draw attention to social change, education, and Star Trek. If you can, watch the original Star Trek and the Second Generation Star Trek. As ...
April 24, 2021 at 16:07
You reminded me of the day I went through an art museum with my eyes closed and experiencing everything through touch. Touching was a big no-no but I ...
April 24, 2021 at 15:51
Huh, we do have echolocation technology. I like example of people with mental health problems. Here our bodies are the same but our experience of life...
April 20, 2021 at 14:14
:lol: It would be great if our doctor's understood our pain and the best way to live with it.
April 18, 2021 at 14:35
:lol: There are few things I hate more than a young person replying to something I have said about myself with "I understand." No, we do not understan...
April 18, 2021 at 14:30
I believe there are different scientific points of view. https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/03/03/134167145/i-sniff-therefore-i-am-are-dogs-se...
April 18, 2021 at 14:10