Athena

I am totally cool with a god being outside time and space, but how could such a god be a being like us? Such a god could not experience what we experi...

I love your explanation of logic. :cheer: Wars are good for religion and religion is good for war. :wink:

We need to look no further than (Christian) Nazi Germany and Communist countries to answer that question. People who believe they can know absolute tr...

Yowee! you got me in a corner. I was hoping someone else would understand this difference in education and the difference in abstract and concrete thi...

I will agree constructive criticism is a benefit. And so is just looking for information about how to write, how to publish, and whatever information ...

I love "The Never Ending Story" and also "Sophies World". What I like about "Sophie's World" is learning about classical philosophy with the added mys...

How about Christians preventing education in the higher order thinking skills, as was the agenda of the 2012 Texas Republicans? How about Christians i...

If we focus on the difference between concrete thinking and abstract thinking, we might change the argument enough to make some progress instead of re...

Trump is the result of replacing abstract thinking (liberal education) with concrete thinking (education for technology) and that is the end of the de...

We do not directly experience God, therefore God is unknowable. All we can know is stories of gods, not God. God is an abstract concept, that can be d...

This assures me important principles are being practiced. Why did you feel a need to add the warning to your statement of principles? What is happenin...

But are they abstract thinkers of concrete thinkers?

In a democracy with people who value liberty, what can more important than debating a ruling? Wouldn't that lead to rule by reason, rather rule by aut...

May we consider what education has to do with how we interpret a holy book? The masses were not educated for scientific thinking until the twentieth c...

Christianity is not compatible with democracy and for me that is a huge problem. The US used to have education for good moral judgment and that is ess...

Thank you :cry: I can not watch it because it is too upsetting but we should know it was not that long ago when we beat the devil out of our children,...

Yes, it is one of my favorite lessons from history! A lesson we might consider when considering we are born in sin and need someone appointed by God t...

I see you are Australian. :grin: Australians have a history that should make them very aware that Christianity is not about liberty and democracy beca...

The mentality for democracy and the values essential to liberty came from the Greek and Roman classics. The immigrants who came to the US were mostly ...

What if all the churches put their holy books on a shelve and focused on teaching the technical skills of reading and writing and preparing the young ...

Oh my goodness and by what magic do individuals hear this word of God? I am afraid you and I got off topic, but we can get back on topic with the noti...

I wish we all had agreement on twhat you said. When I read a book explaining what was written in Sumer, it was so obvious at least five biblical stori...

Because your words were so profound, I didn't expect you to be a real person here and now. :grin:

Let us start with how are the masses suppose to know what you said? Unless we have education for democracy, the masses will not know what you have exp...

Excuse me, where do you get your information? It is different from the information I have. The World Bank has influenced education around the world an...

What are the values held by international banking and how do you feel about the bankers determining what our children learn? Which do you think is pla...

You have made the Hindu concern about ego even more interesting. The Luciferian intent looks like the anti-Christ? I have not held this combination of...

BrianW Those words are worth repeating. What can you tell us of Tomseltje? What is his geography and time?

I so remember when I thought it possible that sounds/words could have magical power. I also remember I was afraid I was possessed by Satan. That was a...

I am not sure I am understanding your post. The book "Suicide of the West" speaks of a return to tribalism and the education that prevents that. Would...

My goodness, what you said is fascinating! I want to focus on what you have said but once again I have spent way too much time in the forum. The day i...

:scream: :sweat: :grin: I love that line. We fought two world wars against Germany's mechanical society and then proceeded to imitate it is every sign...

PM me. I am hoping that as increasing numbers of us enter our later years, we will use the internet to reinvent a more humane society. I am sorely dis...

Might this be the book? Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind: George Makari ... https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Machine-Invention-Modern-Mind/dp...

Oh put that way, I have a whole different understanding of what you are getting at! I was trapped in hell until one day while riding down the freeway ...

:chin: I am not sure we want our values to be too fluid? :cool: you tickle me with the idea our values should be fluid because it causes me to think. ...

I think most of our thinking occurs in our subconscious without our conscious awareness. In fact, trying to remain conscious of figuring out a problem...

What is your idea of how to judge truth? My idea of judging truth is to use the scientific method. I also try to remain aware that I should never be t...

Liberal education taught people how to think, not what to think. Unless we learn how to think abstractly, we don't. Nothing is wrong with anything sai...

I think in a democracy our faith is supposed to be a faith in humans, however, with this faith is an understanding of the importance of education that...

How about the story of Adam and Eve should be interpreted abstractly as should all the parables be interpreted abstractly. Interpreting the Bible lite...

I accept the "thumbs up" from Terrapin Station and pass the "thumbs up" on to Lif3r. It takes courage to expose ourselves and you obviously did so to ...

Can we start a movement and do something about our barbaric criminal justice system?! in a Micheal Moore show, "Where to Invade Next" is a prison with...

The bottom line for me is moral is a matter of cause and effect, and we should be held responsible for the effect of our words and deeds. That means b...

I am in favor of what you said, however, I would add taxing all substances including sugar to cover the harm done by the substances. Use the taxes to ...

[ What a wonderful philosophical question. I can think of few things worse than bringing a child into this world without being prepared to care for th...

Ignorance of the law cannot be allowed or forbidden by a judge. It just is. From there the ignorance is something to take into consideration before pu...

There are problems with waiting until the pain gets our attention. Diabetes is known as the silent disease because we can have it for a long time befo...

For sure we live in a society obsessed by being technically correct and I believe this is a serious threat to our liberty. In the past, we cared more ...

Those are words of wisdom. And I am motivated to give your words of wisdom a try.