Athena

Please explain that. Who decides how much a tax payer will pay, and who pays taxes? What is the process of getting more money from tax payers? What ar...

Yeah, once again I left out an important word. I have corrected the post. Amazing what a difference one word can make. Especially when the word is "no...

This thread is about the economy and I suppose we could talk about housing the homeless. We have come to that time of year when people freeze to death...

The homeless will be glad to know they get so much free.

Your thought needs our attention. Primitive people learned they must invest in the land to get food. When I speak of being materialistic, my intention...

Interesting discussion you two are having. I will argue we do not get things for nothing when we are no longer dependent children. Even what nature gi...

For sure our brains are designed to run on automatic without too much thinking. But as our reality changes we need to understand that change and how t...

Well "anthropocentric" is a very fancy word and I had to look it up. I totally like that word and would not throw stones at people because that is tru...

Why would the reason for the person's poor decision matter? Usually it is ignorance. Often it is good intensions. So, why does a person's reasoning ma...

I think a better understanding of our economy might include a study of Christianity. Especially Protestantism, that is tied to Calvinism, a very mater...

And we all live happily ever after, NOT. We no longer live in labor intense economy. Factories that once employed 300 people are run by a handful of p...

That is not exactly true. We can talk about the cost of pollution, environmental degradation, deforestation, global warming. Here is a google page tha...

What happens when a vital resource for a product becomes hard to get and the demand is greater than the supply?

I am not sure how your idea of an economy works. Think of this as a computer game. describe your area, does it have a sea port? Is it inland? What are...

I please there seems to be more agreement here than I expected. Okay, what can we do to get the whole world operating on a better understanding of rea...

For thousands of years the woman's and the poet's reward was intrinsic . During the great Depression the arts were funded but we seem very reluctant t...

What you have said is kind of like figuring the value of a homemaker. Traditionally a man supports the woman, and we know his value by what he earns. ...

Heavens no. I don't go along with the hype because I am too skeptical. But I only know enough to know how much I do not know. This may have nothing to...

I hate labels! The only thing we should label is a behavior, not the person, with a few exceptions that have biological causes that can be validated. ...

That is an interesting thought. I absolutely love it. I tried to warn people of the housing bubble several years ago and no one would listen. Somehow ...

Oh, oh, oh I think it should be obvious to everyone that our body and brain are not separate. I believing our bodies hold information and memories our...

I guess that depends on how we define the subconscious. We surely can not be aware of all the information stored in our brains. Would not the informat...

Pot was made legal sometime ago and there are stores selling everywhere. We have also moved from stiff criminal sentences for possession of drugs to t...

It seems today everyone is ready to attack anything and everything. This is a serious spiritual disease. That is something materialist have a problem ...

Freud was as accepting of homosexuality as the Greeks were because he got a good share of information from the Greeks. Here Hippocrates is important t...

Freud was materialistic, right? Matter follows laws, right? Logos, reason, the controlling force of the universe, is nothing like the God of Abraham. ...

After dealing with post trauma syndrome it is hard to believe we do not have a subconscious. What is the argument for that?

I have been confident individuals and cultures have a consciousness and a subconsciousness. What is the explanation of Freud being wrong about that? T...

You seem to speak in favor of authority over the people? I can not read any further until I express my objection to your understanding of our rights a...

I do not believe our education was about benefiting the ruling elite because I have books about the history of education, and collect old books writte...

Whoo, I got busy and forget about this thread. Amazing considering this my favorite subject. I am surprised by the responses because there is a huge p...

You missed the hundredth monkey theory. That being when enough monkeys know of something, that knowledge is in our universe and can be received by oth...

Please PM me the link to your other thread. I wish everyone would become familiar with fast and slow thinking. There are YouTubes on the subject. The ...

Edward T. Hall wrote of culture as group consciousness and subconsciousness. An example of our cultural subconscious is it is taboo to think about can...

Psilocybin and other psychedelic drugs can give us an interesting view of our consciousness and subconscious. Some have argued natural psychedelics pl...

A problem I have with Freud and Oedipus is there is not an equal story for females. It is normal for the mother and daughter to clash and for jealousy...

For women, back in the day, it was the size of our breast. The bigger the better, and this led to enlarging our breast with surgery if we were not wel...

Good morning. I wish I could undo all my comments and get in line with your intended purpose. I listened to a lecture about Freud last night and was s...

It is my aim to encourage the success of your thread. The best I know to do, is to use a link to open up the conversation. Is there anything in the li...

I have a rather low opinion of thinking book learning equals having knowledge. I will go with Thomas Nagel and the notion that there is an explanatory...

Perfect, Freud and Nietzsche agree about Christianity being a form of neurosis. They also are sexist and have stood against the self-actualization of ...

I should really pay more attention to what you read before making an argument but :lol: I have no self control.. I understand sex is important to some...

Whoo, we are focused on dog eat dog reality, but really? Humanity has survived because we worked together to achieve what has been achieved? In part, ...

:lol: Well thank you darling but I am more like a moldy loaf of bread or an old car ready for the junkyard. My epitaph needs to read "gone to get a ne...

Well, I am iconoclastic and drawn to less obscure thoughts. I hope I am not offensive but useful in keeping the discussion alive. And I am noticing an...

It's all good. You are dealing with my female resentment of Freud's sexism and my pagan resentment of Christianity. Sometimes I am impressed by how st...

I am not sure Freud should get so much credit for the concept of our subconscious? Many were working with the notion of subconscious and when we conte...

Well, thank you for the flatter, but I am old enough to know how much I do not know, and I am very sure I am far from genius. :lol: I am so unsure of ...

I think Freud was influenced by Christian beliefs and the patriarchal culture in which he lived, leading to wrong conclusions. I should disclose I hav...

It is not Daniel Kahneman's explanation of fast and slow thinking verses philosophy. However, your reply is an example of fast thinking. You reacted t...