Athena

Which religion would like to rule the nation where you live? We may have a good discussion if you focus on the thoughts and not on me. :flower:

I don't think religion is about truth. I believe we evolved as all animals evolved and we are not specially made from mud by a goddess or god. Which e...

Yes, "preference is most definitely not a thing derived from empirical science". If we rejoice about global warming and the pandemic sweep across the ...

Perhaps you are using an anthropological definition of ideology? That seems to cover a group of people more advanced than primitive tribes. I would no...

That is a serious problem with religion. It totally screws up our understanding of democracy which is rule by reason and dependent on moral reasoning ...

I see problems with religion. If Christianity stayed with the Bible and didn't claim everything good as Christian, that would help. Especially when it...

I am on your side of the argument. I think we need to question what does it mean to be one of us and why does it matter. A society needs a shared ideo...

That does not ring true to me. Perhaps you could describe it more precisely? Exactly what would a common ideology look like? I don't think those are u...

Well in the US they are not playing the same game that started with the democratic republic. I would say the original is about dead. What are we doing...

It appears this was the last activity for Jonmel. I want to raise awareness of sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is easy to diagnose. It is a condition that pr...

I must congratulate you on her tenacity. I will agree some people have children to perpetuate an ideology. Now once the child is born, what do they do...

We should not assume our family is universal and determines our social order for all time. Sparta did not value families. In Sparta males in barracks ...

For whom is it a choice? Is abortion an equally legitimate choice and should we make sure family planning and abortion services are available to every...

Oh dear. I always thought people had sex because of hormones not because of some kind of planned parenthood. However, men did hold a notion that havin...

That is why I talk so much about liberty and democracy. In the beginning of all civilizations, people have nothing but a determination to work togethe...

I should use the user name Ms. Contrary because no matter what is said, I can take the opposite side. I think what we think of having children is depe...

Well I appreciate a reply to my thoughts and an explanation of the new economic slavery. What I have read of the Great Depression totally disagrees wi...

An Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, thought a goddess granted him his mathematical genius. As you think it so it is because we create that in...

That was before women's liberation and different forms of birth control. Life may choose life, but we should not take it for granted that woman choose...

How can wars be possible? Spread the God of Abraham religions and leave the moral training to the church. I hate Christianity because it has so screwe...

Good luck having children if women are not valued as mothers. Trump has not promoted having children as national patriotism as Hitler did.

Who in a religion determines what the religion should do? If we can identify that person, perhaps that person can turn to science to explain the psych...

I am listening to a show now that is attempting to answer what math is. Is math just in our minds or does it exist like Plato's forms? It is not norma...

That is basically the argument I would make. However, when people are mentally disturbed we should not expect them to have good judgment and incarcera...

I agree with that notion. People who can't laugh at themselves are scary. Can you imagine a laughing suicide bomber?

Okay. My daughter says I am bipolar and that could be. But a bipolar god? I was joking when I suggested God is bipolar.

Wow, are we in favor of robots ruling because they would be pure reason without sensory input? If we are judging religions, I think it is very importa...

All truths can be found in the Bible. That means it also contradicts itself. The biggest contradiction is God is jealous, revengeful, fearsome and pun...

:lol: You didn't get I speak of cohorts and cultural change because I have lived through that? Women my age over 70, are homeless and dying on the str...

The gods argued until there was a consensus on the best reasoning and democracy is an imitation of the gods. Ideally, we argue until we have a consens...

Perhaps, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle is a better place to start a discussion of secular morality. Cicero studied in Athens and I think he made an i...

Has it been mentioned that we are born into a particular time and each cohort is different? We are all shaped by the historical events that occur when...

:lol: The definition of bread, does not provide the knowledge of how to make bread. That definition of liberty is just as lacking. Without knowledge a...

:lol: Is it necessary to draw a line between good and moral? I think our democracy starts with the reasoning of Greek philosophers and Aristotle gave ...

No it does not. If freedom has conditions it is not freedom. So it is desirable to stay in the parents home and be free as long as the parents don't i...

"How many would act morally if the law did not exist?" The answer is, it depends on their culture and their culture depends on their education. And th...

I want to cancel the rest of my day and stay with you. :love: Oh my goodness shall we compare each other's education and see what get? Mine was geront...

Ok, and that is exactly what my understanding of liberty and democracy is all about- having that wonderful feeling that we matter and we are capable o...

Which religion? I know I have a problem with Buddhism because I have a problem with being a passive observer and disassociating myself with social and...

Keep in mind those who thought democracy was a good idea were only a handful of people, but they united and shared the cause of throwing off the exist...

The horse will go in the direction it wills?

A system is not unstructured. The God of Abraham religions have structured moral systems. Philosophy does not have that kind of structure, although Ar...

I am sorry. It seems somehow the concept of enlightenment came up and from there I was compelled to mention what enlightenment has to do with liberty ...

I don't really find this too difficult to answer on the surface. Morals are value assertions related to what is good or bad/right or wrong. Ethics is ...

You have missed something very important. The US is not the democracy we inherited because of the deliberate manipulation of a few and ignorance of th...

Excuse me, but I have to get political here. No one saw democracy in the bible until there was literacy in Greek and Roman classics. Our Statue of Lib...

Absolutely. The east has a circular wholistic logic and in the west logic is closed and linear. Western thinking is very materialistic and that makes ...

Well, you worded what I was trying to say much better. Thank you. About different kinds of enlightenment I don't know. I just know my own experience a...

I am posting so this so it shows up in my comments, and I can easily find it. I really want to return to this thread when I am well-rested. It looks l...

Being enlightened is a personal perspective. Being deluded is someone else's perspective. :lol: On a more serious side but definitely related- is the ...