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I totally agree with you about labeling and the book "The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. made the point by storytelling. This book...
December 22, 2020 at 14:53
I can not handle discussing too many different things at the same time. This thread is great, and another one for discussing the gods is very desirabl...
December 21, 2020 at 18:15
I am so excited by what you have said and a book I was told about, that I don't know where to begin. The title of the book is "The Body Keeps the Scor...
December 21, 2020 at 16:29
Years ago I called professionals to ask if they were hiring. It was a requirement of getting an unemployment check to inquire about jobs. One of the p...
December 20, 2020 at 21:24
I think it was common for humanity to fear an angry god. It is not always the fault of humans if a god/goddess is angry but just the same we better do...
December 20, 2020 at 21:10
I must have been rushing because I did not interpret you correctly. :yikes: My sincere apology. I know better than to post when I am rushed or when I ...
December 20, 2020 at 19:36
Sorry I did not specify I was speaking specifically of the US 1958 National Defense Education Act. I was in school when it was enacted and I remember ...
December 20, 2020 at 17:46
I don't think I would like that job because I do not like to be around people who prefer the Bible to philosophy. However, there have been some discus...
December 20, 2020 at 17:09
Good morning love. :heart: You get my day off to a good start. :grin: I love your question about the efficiency of different religions. I think the Go...
December 19, 2020 at 17:23
Bert, you are not understanding schizophrenia. If you are taking a shower and see a violent threatening person, what is the rational response? How do ...
December 19, 2020 at 16:02
Would you say Joseph Campbell is very helpful here? When we have a shared mythology and group identity, we have a comfortable notion of who we are and...
December 19, 2020 at 15:20
Oh, we do have an argument going. :lol: I have to be careful. Are others having an emotional reaction to what is being said? I am having strong feelin...
December 17, 2020 at 16:02
Which religion would that be? What are the important truths? On the other hand, there is a liberal education and learning the higher-order thinking sk...
December 17, 2020 at 15:29
Been there done that. I thought I was possessed and was on the verge of killing people. I had to make a decision- is all that demon, devil stuff for r...
December 17, 2020 at 15:10
That process seems to be broken. In the past, we had myth and religion to process the justification for what we believe. While knowing the truth has a...
December 15, 2020 at 16:01
I think that is another book I should add to my collection. The Greeks knew people around the world were different. They also had a notion of what it ...
December 15, 2020 at 15:51
There are other options and zero need to change human nature. I think knowledge of history would be helpful. The middle ages and feudalism is a very b...
December 13, 2020 at 15:44
I love it. :heart: The ancient philosophers were adamant on the importance of good music. Plato..."Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe...
December 12, 2020 at 17:09
I am so hoping the change in leadership in the US changes the whole ball game for everyone, but we are so divided things could get worse instead of be...
December 12, 2020 at 16:22
I have found doing simple math when I am over-excited by something I am reading, will get me back into left-brain thinking, but until now, I have neve...
December 12, 2020 at 15:54
I just wrote of my intolerance of opposing thoughts and you remind me I see myself as a rather open-minded person. :chin: I think both are true of me....
December 12, 2020 at 15:02
I totally agree with you but I know it is almost impossible for me to read or listen to an opposing idea. I quickly have such an irritable feeling I h...
December 12, 2020 at 14:09
Wise words. You speak of the difference between reacting and thinking. Sleeping on a thought is a wonderful idea as our right brain can chew on the th...
December 11, 2020 at 17:46
Oh great another book I must buy and read. I am a painfully slow reader and I will never complete the book I believe I must write because I am forever...
December 11, 2020 at 17:31
I am glad I am not the only one who gets overwhelmed. This forum really requires thinking, unlike a political forum I am in where no one is thinking, ...
December 11, 2020 at 14:52
:lol: It was my intention to sign out an hour ago, and I worry that I post things that others may not approve of, or I say too much. I think it is ver...
December 10, 2020 at 17:39
Excellent, the condition of being open to persuasion! This begins with knowing how much we do not know and never being absolutely sure of ourselves. W...
December 10, 2020 at 17:24
Our environment is fundamental to what we think. I am working with Joseph Campbell here. Around the world, snakes are part of people's myths. However,...
December 10, 2020 at 16:37
The effort to discover truth can never be silly and pointless. It is the purpose of birds to fly, horses to run, and man to think. God is asleep in ro...
December 10, 2020 at 16:06
Are we sure of what we think we know? "Let us, for a moment, consider a scenario. Let us assume the galaxy to be an immense organism possessing order ...
December 10, 2020 at 15:54
Still chewing on what you said and our notion of reality. :grin: A trinity? Mind, body, life?
December 10, 2020 at 15:33
I think genetically transferred knowledge plays a role in intuition. The PBS show "Finding Your Roots" does genetic studies and sometimes finds the pe...
December 10, 2020 at 15:29
We are spiritual beings having a human experience? We are what we eat. This morning a listened to a lecture about ancient Greeks and the importance of...
December 10, 2020 at 14:32
That does not make sense to me. :chin: It seems to me thought is affected by thought? I have been thinking about this thread and the notion of nonmate...
December 10, 2020 at 00:26
An anthropologist Edward T. Hall wrote of cultural consciousness and unconsciousness. He said, in our culture thinking about cannibalism is taboo and ...
December 09, 2020 at 18:24
Do you mean research like this? and this...
December 09, 2020 at 18:12
I perfer philosophy to religion. I like the Greek approach to achieving human excellence and I think what Confucius says about achieving human excelle...
December 09, 2020 at 17:48
:scream: That is what happened! The 1958 National Defense Education Act, changed the purpose of education and those who are in control of it. Now our ...
December 08, 2020 at 16:25
I love Jack's threads! Not only does he inspire thinking, but the forum members participate so well. And Kenosha, your explanation of the need for dif...
December 08, 2020 at 16:18
Here is where the wisdom Jack Cummins demonstrates, comes in to play. Education for technology is not education for science! The ancients developed a ...
December 08, 2020 at 15:29
I am sorry but I do believe determining creation stories are not factually true is as simple as that. Not only is it simple but ignorance is a terribl...
December 08, 2020 at 14:48
December 05, 2020 at 16:10
:rofl: excuse, please. Youtube has many more interesting explanations and I like this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn4J8RcMGrM
December 05, 2020 at 15:28
Matter vibrates, moves, changes, but what is energy and where does it come from?
December 03, 2020 at 16:11
I love the way you said that. Has anyone here read Jose Arguelles's "The Mayan Factor"? Does anyone know of the Great Cycle as 13 Baktun Synchronation...
December 03, 2020 at 16:08
I have a very old book about logic and it clearly states we should never be too sure about what we think we know. A wise person maintains doubt. I hav...
December 03, 2020 at 15:04
That is very materialistic when reality is all about energy.
December 03, 2020 at 14:26
My goodness, this thread is trigging so many memories that I have not thought about for a long time. I am having a delightful time. I am also thinking...
December 03, 2020 at 14:22
You triggered my memory of reading about genetic memory. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/genetic-memory-how-we-know-things-we-never-le...
December 03, 2020 at 14:07