Athena

I would tell the story with the intention of convincing people another reality is possible. I think if we are moral or not is a matter of culture and ...

Do you think the City of God or the Imitation of Christ are more important than other philosophies and mythologies? I can understand how some factions...

Thank you. And the Church was not all wrong when it objected to putting the Bible in the people's language and being interrupted by laypeople.

Das Kapital is not exactly what I in mind. I am an old-fashioned female and my concern is much cultural than political. If it had been Dr. Seuss's goa...

What are the names of those theologians, so I can look them up? As for revelation being allegorical, the allegory of the beast is one of my favorites!...

Back in the day, we read children the classic stories which we also call moral stories and folk tales, and then we asked "What is the moral of that st...

That explanation of the creative process is beautiful. :clap:

Thank you for that contribution. :clap: The similarity between Spinoza and Hinduism and Buddhism has been noticed by many. I find your post quite agre...

The notion of evil is curious to me. Doesn't it go with a belief in a supernatural being of evil and demons? I can see a big problem with ignorance an...

For sure, the notion that we can fly is making up shit, right?

Sure there is science behind technology, but when the science is not known it doesn't matter. It matters a lot when the science is known. That is when...

Not when they are beautiful things because it is as we make it and when we believe in beautiful things that is what we make.

How do you justify that statement? It seems a little sour and dour to me? I really don't think my love of discovery and science is superficial, but ra...

If that is not the result of philosophy it is not worth doing. :grin: What you said speaks of complex concepts, and truth often is this and that. I ha...

Trinity of the soul. The first part of that trinity dies when our bodies die. We are judged and may or may not enter the good life (heaven) and the th...

Democracy with liberty and justice for all.

I think we assume science and technology are the same thing. They are not. Human beings have always had technology but we did not always have science....

That thought does not lead to freedom and it does not support liberty and leads to authoritarianism. It leads to suffering, not happiness.

Absolutely and I do not believe this was so before changing education and then removing legal motives to be better human beings, such as divorce laws ...

I am not sure I completely agree with Maslow but I would like to read his explanation of the need for God. Is there a specific book title I should loo...

Many of the US founding fathers were Deist. They thought religion was important but did not hold the Christian belief in a God intervening in our live...

Okay, we had liberal education starting with the day we entered school. Our school system strongly opposed government interference in education until ...

I have a very old book explaining logic and it clear states we can never know enough to be absolutely sure of what we think we know. When we get older...

I was not aware that William James was interested in religion and psychology. I have his book about the psychology of education and only knew him as a...

When this pandemic is over, I am going to make an effort to find a group I want to be with that is more creative. At the senior center, I participated...

This was said when I was in a public speaking organization and I think I have just experienced why that is important. After reading your comment, I wa...

Well, you are certainly saying what I think needs to be said. And I think what said is a good idea. Of course, I developed my own community of people ...

Education in the US did tackle the power issue. It is popular to say education has always been preparing the young to be products for industry, but th...

It is interesting to me how some people around the world come up with the same ideas, but we are kind of clustered in groups that do have different po...

Oh dear, I am sorry to disagree with but I do not see myself as an anarchist. However, I think I like the spirit of which you speak and we might call ...

I like your questions and your comment. And I almost worship Jack because he is well-read and we agree on what is really important yet he manages to t...

I had science and technology confused, until I listened to a professor's explanation of the difference, and his explanation made perfect sense to me. ...

:lol: That is hysterical :rofl: . Philosophical discussions are redundant because Wikipedia has all the answers. Requiring nothing of us right? Don't ...

Interesting to contemplate the combination of technology and the pandemic. I think the effect of the pandemic will hit the young the worst because the...

Oh, I can not say the word that is on my mind. :zip: Ah, how about this- just like human beings can not psychoanalysis nations can also need psychoana...

When my grandmother was a teacher, teachers thought it was their purpose to help children discover their own interests and talents. Learning math was ...

I love you for saying that! That is exactly what I wish everyone would understand. In many years of trying to get people to understand that, you are t...

I don't know if others can find statistics for their local university but here are the statistics for my local university and I am rather alarmed by t...

I most know, why do you know something of the history of education? It is my favorite subject and it is so exciting to come across someone who knows s...

Thank you. In another forum, a political one, the reaction to what I said would be very different. Folks there would see me as weak and undeserving. I...

Oh my goodness. Check your other thread. While you were working on this post, I was working on a post in your other thread and that one addresses what...

I love your example of not taking advantage of others or intentionally trying to get the advantage because I am such a looser. I could be a great sale...

You are so right about throwing people out of institutions and leaving them to fend for themselves without being prepared to do so. It is not natural ...

To me this subject seems the same as your thread about discrimination. :lol: You make me laugh as I think of how silly these discriminations are and i...

Thank you for expanding our awareness of prejudice and including people who are overweight. I think we could add cognitively challenged people to the ...

Can I access the "Life in Medieval Times" that you used in class? What was said of feudalism? According to the information I have, the Catholic church...

What do you mean by all subjects? How much time do you spend on art and music? What history are you teaching? I don't mean to be mean, but I strongly ...

Israel and Palestine have this problem. The Jews comment about how the Palestinians stink and believing the Palestinians to be inferior justifies trea...

The greatest discrimination is against poor people and conversely against rich people. We are perversely waging war on each other, rich against poor. ...

I love what you said. :clap: Here is the crux to the problem. Maybe if in Galileo's day the Church had embraced his vision of reality history would ha...