Athena

Wow is that one nostalgic for me! Reminds me of when I was a child in Hollywood, California and my mother would take my sister and me to the Woolworth...

:lol: funny boy. I never heard of that humor before. Isn't the internet wonderful? It makes our world bigger and expands our understanding of others.

Yes, human relationships have ethical values. Why, because humanity would have not survived without the value of our relationships. We need each other...

What is your goal? A mother is not someone who lives alone. At least the traditional wife and mother cannot be fulfilled without human relationships w...

You already did what? The world is watching what? I am not good at interpreting poetry. I need better explanations than you are given. what is nvm? Yo...

For sure those who have fame today are unlikely to go down in history like Socrates, Pericles, Cicero, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and Hamilton. I...

Wow that is a curious statement. To whom are you speaking? People I admire are not offensive but yet they are bold when asking for what they want. I e...

Where did you get that picture? It looks like it is a small piece of a larger picture. That came from this link http://masculine-style.com/historic-st...

I think I disagree with you? I have not been as successful in life as I think I would like to be because I was way too defensive and pushed people awa...

My goodness you say such interesting things! Hitler and Trump are the result of education for technology for military and industrial purpose and Pruss...

What I want to know is, if a law saying we must have medical insurance is unconstitutional, is it also unconstitutional to have a law that requires us...

I love your relating democracy with biological function. Have you read John Dewey a past expert on education? He speaks of an organic democracy and th...

Whoo, wait a minute am I wrong or was that a little misogynistic? What was ever said about Mother Mary for you to say she is concerned about punishing...

I wish you would say more. I think privacy is very important. Do you disagree with that? I think feeling safe is important. Do you disagree with that?...

Jump on it. Start the thread and pm me. The religious debate is not just are the Hebrew, Jewish, Christian, Islam stories the only true story, and it ...

God bless you for that good laugh. :lol: :rofl: I really needed it. Doctors are giving me information that I do not like and if it weren't for family,...

I think social agreements are very important. Are you saying they are not?

Don't forget Islam. Jews were opposed to Greek nudity and their females had to be virgins to assure the child would be the man's child because only th...

That was fun reading but a little of topic. :rofl: How about a thread "does the clothing make the man?" I am sure with all of us we could come up with...

For sure. Christianity is blended of paganism. It was put together with Roman Law of Nature. That isn't a study of nature, but a legal tool taking wha...

And there has to be life after death, because surely I am not a 72 old women, and what is seen as an old woman is only a delusion. The reality is I am...

I love your post! :love: You said "The Greeks particularly worshipped Priapus, a fertility God, whose symbol was an erect penis. These Priapic statues...

I absolutely loved that! I remember having to wear short skirts and how painfully cold my legs got in winter. I complained to my mother and she sent m...

I will point out there is a difference between our private lives and being public. Our new technology has seriously disrupted the privacy we once had,...

Whoo, that is an awfully big subject! Right now I am bothered by what looks sexual confusion to me. So many people don't appear to know what they are ...

I don't think I want to get into an argument about how men think and how women think. I will just clarify I am a woman and we have fought for a couple...

Those are excellent statements but I thought you also said democracy is the problem. I think we need to be careful about that because when we say demo...

My concern is that, in general, we have trashed human dignity and made everything meaningless. We have created anarchy and because anarchy becomes int...

I don't know? The way you worded that sounds appealing to me. I think there are lines to be drawn, but I am not sure where those lines should be drawn...

I do not believe it is good for society to make intimate behavior public. I also am not at all in favor of freedom of expression. I am strongly in fav...

Please consider what education has to do with the change in our democracy. I am asking you this, because we need a revolution and to take back the con...

I love your post. :love: But, but being stupid idiots is not about being a democracy! Far from it! The whole point of democracy is having good judgmen...

BrianW, I would love to get my hands on the book you read. Are you aware of the importance of the Greek and Roman classics that were the foundation of...

Going on this information I found this fascinating account of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam books that were covered in jewels and destroyed in disasters. h...

Okay, and how did this change happen? Our local newspaper was privately owned until just recently. It is called the Register Gaurd because we had an u...

Okay, I am dying to know how you came to that notion of democracy and the mention of what science and (rule by reason) have to do with democracy and l...

You said there is more to democracy and I am very stressed about not everyone understanding what you said. Government is only part of democracy. "Demo...

One way we might protect our democracy is to strictly limit paid political advertising and put more pressure on journalist and media in general to do ...

"Oh yeah, is that what you do?" Of course, I use the power of my mind and I facilitate workshops that include understanding the power of our minds. It...

Yipes I am not understanding your last sentence "There isn't a lot like scientific details, as there isn't in an account of history, a baking recipe, ...

"Good observation. There are greater differences between conservative Catholics and liberal Catholics than there are between the average Catholic and ...

Ah, I didn't see a lot of science in those religious sentiments. It appears to be a belief system that is not compatible with democracy and all the pr...

The reason for having freedom of speech is democracy is rule by reason. This is sometimes mistaken as rule by popular vote, and this mistaken idea fol...

"Democracy is rule by popularity". That is a really poor understanding of democracy and it is not worth defending people who believe that.

Oh yes, those European countries are Christian. :lol: And they all believed God was on their side when they fought wars against each other. Why do peo...

"I'm just saying, democracy is evolving and it's even affecting our instinctive choices. The more intelligence we apply to our interactions the more w...

Public education was about realizing the dream of the Age of Enlightenment and also resolving the problem of the immigration time bomb that concerns y...

Democracy is not authority over the people. Unfortunately, the US modeled its industry after England's autocracy and Christianity has been the dominat...

I love the way you used history and mythology to make your point! :love: I have given a great-grandson the gift the history by reading history to him ...

I really do not like gifts because I don't want to hurt others by getting rid of the gift and my home is really cluttered with gifts. But then my purp...