Athena

Huh, wasn't Bush a conservative, elected by conservatives and strongly supported by the Christian Right? Why are you lying this wrong on liberals?

I will make a note to return to this thread. Security gaurd said it is lock up time, bye..

Surely the informal social agreements of small populations, enforced by social pressure, is not possible for large populations, but I must argue, educ...

The level of moral judgement a person attains depends on the person's belief system and education. Now if the belief system explains it is our nature ...

I want to support your statement by adding to it....A sign that our democracy is falling is that we no longer understand that democracy is rule by rea...

Ah you said nothing of what families have to do with democracy. Without an understanding of what family has to do with democracy, we do not have an un...

What is neoliberal consensus? Is this the same problem almost every country in the world is facing, or is it special to the US?

Our consciousness can be very selective. I think it is unconsciousness of others that leads to serious social problems. Those who enjoy abundance have...

I think you have described the evolution of patriarchies, but I think before patriarchal civilizations there were matriarchal civilizations. Patriarch...

And how are we to understand homeless and the death of homeless people exposed to the elements and prevented from sheltering themselves? I would say p...

I think education has a lot to do with shaping our values or lack of them and our consciousness in general. In the US we stopped educating for democra...

I want to argue,Trump is not mostly responsible for the culture change the US has experienced but he is the consequence of cultural change brought on ...

I can not imagine anyone dismissing the importance of information on the internet. My concern was the cultural importance of books, especially the cla...

That appears to be a good explanation of the gang problem in some cities, the instinctual desire to belong and have status in the group.

Isn't the end the cause of the next thing? We could passively kill the homeless just by denying them the right to meet their human needs, or more over...

That is an offensive remark isn't it? What good can come out of offending people? Some of you appear to take yourselves very seriously. This seems to ...

Disneyland. I do not mean that after Disneyland is made manifest, it can not be measured and confirmed, but that it would never happen without free fl...

Exactly what is this consciousness conscience of? I think there is a connection that is matter, but not a connection that is thought. Sort of like God...

Is it possible the universe is conscious?

So will IA come to understand humans better then men understand women or women understand men? Is having information the same as having a sense of mea...

I think we need to understand how books are different from the internet. Come to think of it, what information would a robot find important? What moti...

It depends on the children's education. In Oregon our schools are educating children about climate change and the children have become politically act...

With books and this did not becoming really meaningful until the west learned about paper and printing from the east and the books were made available...

Oh my goodness is that idea wrong. You will not find the valuable information that is in old books such as the series of books recording the early con...

:lol: How old do you think I am? What do you think we should be doing now? Personally, I am in favor of doing what I can do. My sister is taking colle...

I don't get it. Why would robots make anything better? What happens to the humans? If life is not good for humans what is the point?

How about shared hallucinations?

Ah, the earth has way too much humanity, adding more is like dropping bombs, because each one will add to the already too great consumption of earth r...

Democracy is about citizens ruling themselves rather than being dependent on authority about them. That is why education is so important. Do we have a...

Just for fun, here is Bob Hope and Jane Russell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvqRMEdU8Kk but this is a better version of Buttons and Bows. https://...

Boy oh boy, is that true! I do workshops on healthy living designed by Standard, and they are so academic they don't relate well to the real human bei...

I think possibly the best book ever written for common people and understanding how our world works, is Youngquist book "Geodestinies". I knew him and...

If I understand you correctly, your argument is that robots are better than humans? This is such a wonderful subject it deserves its own thread. Why w...

So many of the predictions are happening, the language of scientist is has gotten stronger and the warning now says the changes are happening faster t...

I believe there is a good reason to have faith in humans, but that is conditional and we have met those conditions. That means our faith in humans is ...

I did EST and I chose to break contact with those people.

If you are interested in Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, know that Plato wrote the lessons of Socrates and taught Aristotle. Know that everything Socrates...

I think that is a wrong assumption. Only if we value a study of history do we keep ourselves as informed as we need to be. Unfortunately, with educati...

Heavens no, I wasn't thinking that. I just know when we (all of us) have different opinions it is usually because we have read different things. :lol:...

I am excited about reading your explanation of that statement.

I just realized this thread spins of pervious threads about language games. Here is a quote form a link about language games. "Wittgenstein was intent...

Oh my goodness it is so nice to read something written by a well-informed person. The future of India looks very bad! https://economictimes.indiatimes...

Excuse me but I must disagree with you. Not only do I find little value in life without humans, but robots also demand finite resources. A problem wit...

My goodness, that is a strong criticism. I am not exactly sure which statements you find so bad. But I think there are books that would change your mi...

If we were brains in a vat, what could we know and how could we know it? We experience life with our bodies and without them, we might record and regu...

So what can know about string theory and how can we know that? :naughty:

Oh, I thought you were going to say, "rather than bravely engaging in life". I think contemplation of death occurs, and reoccurs, at different periods...

Are you speaking from the teachings of Buddha? Happiness is conditional on security and learning to be happy. After doing workshops on healthy living,...

:lol: Robots just don't fit into my fantasy of what is valuable. I am old and as far as I am concerned if humans do not thrive, nothing matters. I car...

Good grief, I associate death with loss. I suffered the loss of my mother when she died, and I don't even want to think of the loss of a son or daught...