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In: God will exist at 7:30pm next Friday  — view comment
Excuse me, are you speaking of Jesus or some other God? How will this God manifest? I mean is He going to sit on a thrown like Zeus, or walk in a gard...
February 26, 2020 at 01:35
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
What is a moral system? Just this morning while listening to a lecture about Aristotle and ethics, I got we can learn virtues and we can develop our a...
February 26, 2020 at 01:20
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
Perhaps we should have a thread for education? Do you watch movies about teachers who have made a real difference in students' lives? I love these mov...
February 26, 2020 at 00:17
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
Universal laws exist but our knowledge of them is incomplete and most certainly the knowledge we have is not universally known. We are not born with t...
February 25, 2020 at 23:26
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
That is a total bummer! Lets us work on that problem and see how much we can eliminate that in our lives. Some people may not like this but eliminatin...
February 25, 2020 at 23:16
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
I would love to invite everyone to the community room where I live and we could eat snacks while listening to lectures about Aristotle and then discus...
February 25, 2020 at 15:31
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
:love: What is important is teaching the young how to think, not what to think. Education for technology is all about teaching them what to think, and...
February 24, 2020 at 16:17
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
OMG :love: I may fall in love with you with questions like that. :lol: Your answer begins with Socrates, and Cicero and finally the reasoning for our ...
February 24, 2020 at 16:12
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
If you click on the red letter you will get your quote. You speak of your consciousness when making choices, or at least that is how I understand your...
February 24, 2020 at 15:48
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
I am quite sure what you said is totally awesome, and I do not understand it. For me, it is like poetry created of words I know, but with a meaning, I...
February 24, 2020 at 15:36
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
Beautiful! :grin: And given what you said, what do you think education should be doing?
February 24, 2020 at 15:04
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
I think we have agreements but I want to tweak on what you said. Might we change the word "conduct" to individual "consciousness"? It is morally right...
February 24, 2020 at 14:48
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
Your post is excellent. We do not normally think of animals being "moral" but all social animals have agreements about good social behavior and they e...
February 24, 2020 at 13:49
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
How full is your belly and how safe do you feel? We are nice to each other when our bellies are full and we feel safe. Hunger and insecurity lead to a...
February 23, 2020 at 16:29
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
You make me think it is a fool's game to compare that past with the present, but awareness of people being very concerned about morality is highly imp...
February 23, 2020 at 16:09
In: What should religion do for us today?  — view comment
I agree about the importance of math. Unfortunately, the video is blocked where I live because of copyright issues. However, I have several videos on ...
February 23, 2020 at 15:01
In: On The Value of Debate  — view comment
Aristocles, Socrates would have agreed with you, and this thread goes nicely with the one on morality. Socrates thought the sophists who taught rhetor...
February 22, 2020 at 03:58
In: What should religion do for us today?  — view comment
Wow I am very impressed by your explanation! Comparing religious thoughts and arguments with mathematical thoughts and arguments is consciousness expa...
February 22, 2020 at 03:19
In: What should religion do for us today?  — view comment
What should religion do for us today? Mythology is essential for transmitting cultural knowledge and transitioning youth to adulthood. The problem wit...
February 22, 2020 at 03:12
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
Ah, I think there is a moral reason for having and following the traffic law. Not having driving agreements, or violating the traffic agreements, can ...
February 22, 2020 at 02:45
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
So there is hope after Trump or is he just the set up for worse dictators to come? :lol: That comment got a really bad grammarly tone detector judgmen...
February 22, 2020 at 02:34
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
That depends on your society. It is not possible in a society based on democratic principles. Slavery in the US was based on the Bible, not democratic...
February 22, 2020 at 02:25
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
Is that an explanation of reason or something different from reason?
February 22, 2020 at 01:56
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
That is sweet but perhaps a little immature. The past standard for an adult was a person who welcomed responsibility. That had something to do with ou...
February 22, 2020 at 01:53
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
Buddhism and Hinduism and Taoism are not religions equal to the God of Abraham religions, Judaism, Islam, Christianity. The god of Abraham religions a...
February 19, 2020 at 19:02
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
It sounds terrible! Would you live with your parents to avoid the responsibilities of being an adult?
February 19, 2020 at 18:37
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
What is a better option than democracy? Change is the purpose of public education and should be the purpose of public broadcasting and newspapers. We ...
February 19, 2020 at 18:32
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
Things are dramatically changing. I don't think anyone would disagree with that. It is a matter of if the change is good or bad. Rick Steves recently ...
February 19, 2020 at 03:29
In: The Limits of Democracy  — view comment
I think the word "freedom" is problematic especially in a population that does not strongly believe a moral is a matter of cause and effect. I prefer ...
February 17, 2020 at 22:23
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
Whose story of God are you using? Do you prefer one holy book over another? Why? How divine is it to destroy the planet we live on? Whose morals are e...
February 17, 2020 at 22:04
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
The masses are too ignorant to have power. They have extremely little control of their lives and have willingly given up their power, and far too many...
February 17, 2020 at 21:53
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
Morality is based on reason, or on faith. I can not think of another foundation for morality.
February 17, 2020 at 21:41
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
It is the Christian Right that supports the conservative presidents and the skyrocketing growth of our military budget and wars fought without being b...
February 17, 2020 at 21:40
In: The Limits of Democracy  — view comment
Democracy is rule by reason. Trump and his supporters are not about rule by reason, and it looks like the end of the democracy we defended in civil wa...
February 17, 2020 at 21:31
In: The Limits of Democracy  — view comment
I thought Socrates gave his life for freedom of speech and Athens's democracy. He had the opportunity to escape and live elsewhere but he chose to res...
February 17, 2020 at 21:22
In: The Limits of Democracy  — view comment
Oh yeah, I know of the The Project for a New American Century. Not a very democratic organization but with a lot of power to control the expense and u...
February 17, 2020 at 20:16
In: The Limits of Democracy  — view comment
The rate of homeless deaths in the US is on the increase. https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&hs=BR&channel=fs&ei=TkxHXteBOPvG0PEPt5Si2Ao&q=ra...
February 15, 2020 at 01:52
In: The Limits of Democracy  — view comment
What happened in 1980 to bring about this change? Does this have something to do with Reagan and the Texans who got Eisenhower, Reagan and Bush electe...
February 15, 2020 at 01:43
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
We have the necessary information because of anthropology and the fact that primitive people living on isolated islands can be studied. Primitive huma...
February 15, 2020 at 01:31
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
Oh, ah, that assertion comes from knowledge of the Age of the Enlightenment and development of thinking leading to science and democracy. :lol: Pickin...
February 15, 2020 at 01:05
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
Around age eight our brains become physically changed and so does our thinking. This is when critical thinking begins and parents stop looking like go...
February 15, 2020 at 00:38
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
The South depended on slavery and did terrible things while seeing themselves as good Christians. There was a time when good Christians beat the devil...
February 14, 2020 at 05:03
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
Looks to me like you want to return to the good old days when Martin Luther thought witch hunters were necessary, and God chose who would rule and who...
February 14, 2020 at 04:46
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
:lol: Isn't it awful when there is nothing to argue. I think our most serious problem is we lost the memory of what science (reason) has to do with ov...
February 14, 2020 at 04:32
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
Nothing makes people more willing to fight for what they believe than the notion that they know the will of God and are fighting for God. In the US bo...
February 14, 2020 at 04:00
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
Thank you very much for this explanation.
February 14, 2020 at 03:50
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
If you sincerely want more information google "higher order thinking skills" and read the links that are attractive to you. Your knowledge of the subj...
February 14, 2020 at 03:48
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
There is an important difference between story telling as Hebrews did to get across a point and teach morals, and interpreting them literally. Hebrews...
February 14, 2020 at 03:32
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
What form would education take? Number one, it would return to transmitting the culture we defended in two world wars. Number two, it would prepare ev...
February 14, 2020 at 03:18
In: How many would act morally if the law did not exist?  — view comment
The establishment of the Military Industrial Complex. The 1958 National Defense Education was only part of the establishment of the Military Industria...
February 14, 2020 at 03:10
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