Athena

No apology is necessary. I think we should recognize we are coming from different cultures and that this may lead to misunderstanding. We have lost si...

That is some heavy thinking. A couple of points hit a nerve. Mostly at this moment, I can not stop thinking of all those good people who stormed the c...

Unless you knew people of my grandmother's generation, I don't really care what you think. It is like talking about being an overwhelmed nurse in a ho...

Duty and honor go hand in hand. You are smart but what you wrote lacks wisdom. Your story associates doing the smart thing with killing which most cer...

It certainly is not my fault if the masses are ignorant of reality and what reasoning has to do with knowing universal law and the importance of livin...

This would be highly dependent on our culture, associations, and the books we read. Social animals have what some call a pre-morality. They are wired ...

We are the only animal that can imagine things differently than they are and then manifest the reality we imagine. That is pretty special and we need ...

Thanks but he took way too long to get to the bottom line. Did he ever mention what education has to do with this and what the 1958 National Defense E...

I apologize for being so gross, but what comes to mind is if you can not get your zipper down you can not pee. But nature isn't so reasonable and some...

Laugh, believing we are free to do anything we want seems to lack awareness of consequences. Because there are consequences resulting from what we do,...

:heart: I love your OP. Absolutely correct and when that is not understood as a truth and it is not passed on by the culture, there can not be liberty...

Hi, has anyone made progress on a New Year's resolution? I have organized most of my apartment, and now areas that I thought were okay now look like t...

The value of humans is something I think most of us wonder about and I like the way you handle the subject. I think a favor being pragmatic and Greek ...

The book A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe explains sacred math. The numbers 1 thru 10 having powers or forces that we can see in nature...

That is indeed one of the popular beliefs but it is not supported by my experience. :lol: :heart: I like the Hindu notion of reincarnation better and ...

Jack, I really do not know what I am talking about. We need someone who understands math theories. but I think.....Three dimensions are required for t...

Hum, did Descartes learn of Hinduism? I think a few of the past philosophers did. Our existence ending when the dreamer awakes is Hindu. Then the drea...

I don't think there is such a thing but I am not sure of anything. I think we have different awarenesses but one would not be truer than another? And ...

Someone who communicates with those who have crossed over said they do not know they are dead. When we are dreaming we do not know we are asleep. It i...

I have a friend who lives his life as he does because of a couple of times of dying. He died in medical settings and the medical team was able to get ...

Journalling is a great practice. I find the thinking process very different when writing. When I was going through a hard time, I wrote a lot and it w...

Alright, alright, I will organize at least one area of my apartment today. I have to admit it is pleasant when things are organized. I might begin wit...

:lol: I think only a philosophical person would consider all the different ways to look at something. I mean this as a compliment.

When I do workshops for healthy living, we have people make action plans. An action plan has to state what a person will do, when (what days and time ...

Life is full of coincidences that can make us wonder. I believe I have entered spaces and felt an energy. This is most likely for me if the space was ...

It is hard to imagine my computer, books, desk, chair, etc. as animated. Effectively we are living in a dead world when we are separate from nature. I...

I want to provide a better explanation of the change in bureaucratic order that has been adopted by all institutions including schools and hospitals a...

I can not praise what you said enough, but I add very valuable information to what you said. We adopted the Prussian military-bureaucratic order becau...

We can not rely on parents to teach children how to think because of the fast thinking and slow thinking factor. Slow thinking requires learned thinki...

Your comment makes me think of things someone I love gave me versus something I bought for myself. If it came from someone I love, and it is damaged, ...

I would have no desire to live with no chance of experiencing life on this planet and the humanity that goes with it and you are making me ponder this...

The focus of education needs to be how to think, not what to think. The some of the Greek philosophers were fanatical about education being how we exp...

Suppose we lived in space capsule where all our needs to sustain our body were met. How long would a person want to live in that situation knowing it ...

The Bible speaks of the beast and we can turn to Roman history and US history to understand that beast as reliance on military might to acquire essent...

Well, knowing the history of Germany would help immensely, but I have already set myself up to be the target of emotional people, and I don't think I ...

Do you remember when journalism was consider essential to defending our democracy? Our local newspaper was named Register Guard and journalist took pr...

The role of education was to make our democratic republic strong and united and to manifest the hopes of the Enlightenment of improving life on earth....

I don't know what I think until I participate in one of your threads. This time I mentioned being happy now that I am past my years as wife and mother...

What Janus said makes perfect sense to me. It is also very Christian to be devoted to God and heaven and renounce this mortal world. If we cling to a ...

:grin: From time to time your childhood brainwashing seems to come to your consciousness as unquestioned truth but in general you have done a heroic j...

I claim morality is essential to our liberty and democracy. If this is true, why do we need a false god and a false belief that is divisive? You have ...

Christianity is not going to away that easily. Look at what the Jews endured during the holocaust and they became even stronger in the defense of thei...

I would be happier at the moment if we were celebrating the winter solstice that pagans everywhere once celebrated. Calling the winter solstice "Chris...

Thous shall not eat thy neighbor is a culturally taboo demonstrating relativism. There are cultures that embrace cannibalism. However, when we drink t...

There was a time when I thought it good to have no attachments and to let go of my ego, and I like what Chattering Monkey said "almost every top playe...

I rarely join a thread that is more than 3 pages, and unless I am having a one on one discussion as you and I, and Metaphysician Undercover and myself...

It depends on which side of the bathroom door are you? Inside or outside. :lol:

All cultures do not experience time the same. We can have serious communications with indigenous people when we assume their sense of time is the same...

I think your explanation of the way I Ching works is reasonable. And now that you mention it, I don't think my copies of I Ching made it through the m...

I think you want to read "The Mayan Factor". It says things that are totally weird to our western thinking and it can be hard to get past that, especi...