"For example, a mother may sacrifice much for her child, but those sacrifice's make the mother emotionally happier." Oh yes, hormones affect how we fe...
If you do not agree with what said, then you are not familiar with the science. I will be interested in what you have to say after you are better info...
Your limited understanding of human motives is really sad. :cry: Some of us hold ideas to be more important and we will make great sacrifices to for o...
"You must buy the idea of unconscious mental phenomena. I do not." Most of our thinking is unconscious. At least 80% of it is automatic thinking. Auto...
The gods argued with each other too. Arguing about what is desirable and what is not desirable is how gods and humans increase their understanding unt...
Ah shoot, I had a burning need to add a PS to my last reply and I really hope you will respond to what I say of liberty and freedom and the education ...
"I’m familiar with your views. I know you lean toward the pessimistic and I cannot blame you too much for that because you’re willing to listen and ta...
When the bottom line is the dollar, the decisions may not favor the people. When the bottom line is a healthy democracy, consideration of human needs ...
"I would suggest some sort of feudalism-democracy fusion where planetary systems are governed by elected officials like a senate, congress, or parliam...
"I also want to reiterate how our education and means of production are involved with each other. Expressed another way, the way we work and what is t...
"However you could say that a moral judgement comes after life starts to exists so the judgement is created by the data. Life just happens to tend in ...
What I realize is the tightening of opportunity and the horror that our children maybe not be competitive and may themselves become jobless and homele...
"If their raison d'être is staying in power, what difference does the public good make to them? The public be damned!" :strong: Absolutely! President ...
Government on the state level, and then the federal level, forced communities to provide education for all children regardless of their parents' abili...
"Good is what's right in the long term" — Devans99 I agree 100%. We are immoral when we are ignorant and unaware of the bigger picture. We have democr...
I don't think anyone knowledgeable of history would think things are worse than they were 300 hundred years ago. Not even freemen had the freedoms we ...
For me, moral is a matter of cause and effect and it is weighed in favor of life. In Greek philosophy the question of good and bad comes up many times...
"I agree with your sentiment on education, but again, who decides on what is good moral judgment and what isn't?" Thank you so much for your question ...
Why wouldn't our present situation meet the definition of fascism? This thread is about education, democracy, and liberty. Compared to liberal educati...
"There are both specific and general features of fascism, but large bureaucracies in themselves aren't one of them." For me, the difference is who is ...
The purpose of education has changed many times in the last two thousand years. For most of this time, religion was the only education available to ma...
Exactly! Without education for the higher order thinking skills, the US is not worth defending, and the 2012 Texas Republican agenda opposed education...
I am so delighted to converse with someone who is so well informed! Compared to my experience in other forums, what is happening is amazing! I would l...
Hot diggity you know Tocqueville! Oh my goodness there is too much to say. What is the rule about quoting from the internet? I think we should be work...
Brilliant post. I have said too much already, so I just to emphasize what I just said about education. The change in bureaucracy was necessary, howeve...
Frank's question about merit hiring is too important to miss. "I don't know what you're talking about. What's the alternative to merit hiring? Affirma...
Amazing! You are so much better than people I attempted to engage with in other forums! Like I am in a state of shock and almost speechless to come ac...
Frank, you are amazing. I was afraid of having another very bad experience, but with this new to me forum, and posters like you, I think I may have fo...
I am looking forward to addressing your post but held it off because your post is far more complex than the others, and I am short on time. I am hopin...
I am reminded of the story of three wise men who were blindfolded and each one was told to touch a different part of the elephant and describe it. Wha...
Are you in agreement that the US adopted the Prussian bureaucratic order? I want to be sure of what others are saying about this. It is much easier to...
To answer your question about who should make education decisions. Traditionally, the people in each community are by law responsible for providing ed...
We better think about what you said because it could be a total nightmare and we do not want to walk into that blindly. At the beginning of the indust...
Okay, I see Deigo T also made a cultural statement that would be fun to chew on. I like Frank's suggestion of beginning with Jefferson's interest in e...
"they have very refined tastes, preferring to eat ornamental plants and gardens in the summer, corn in the fall, and then... various stuff in the wint...
:grin: Look at all those jobs! Inefficiency may be good for keeping people employed. :lol: On second thought, might all those jobs be done by a comput...
Freedom of expression is a terrible idea because it is far too inclusive. In your list of what we must have to have freedom, you did not include educa...
Hopefully much more will be said about the democratic model for industry. The US adopted England's autocratic model for industry and this is dreadful,...
Nicely said. The American Revolution began as a consciousness revolution long before the New Land was discovered or any shots were fired. You mentione...
None of us have complete word freedom. Plenty of people in the US think they do, but lately, more and more people are losing their careers because of ...
Should I start a thread for discussing what education and the military-industrial complex (New World Order) has to do with being like the Germany we d...
Where did you get your information about education? :chin: I have studied the history of education and Germany because we adopted German Education. I ...
:rofl: Our understanding is best when we have a good sense of humor. I have been watching videos on how our brains work and the importance of exercisi...
"You are the only (one) responsible for your decisions and the only one who will suffer its consequences." Unfortunately, or perhaps, fortunately, our...
Not only is an armed revolution morally questionable but if there is not a revolution of consciousness, the destruction is unlikely to make anything b...
It is our duties to the universe that we act on what is right. Perhaps our action seems relatively powerless and that the will of average citizens doe...
I am old and do like the insinuation that being old is being stupid. Yesterday I bought postures to put my wall for my great-grandchildren and one rea...
That is hilarious! I live in Oregon a forest and timber state. I would love to see Trump sweeping our forest floor. I don't think Trump has a good und...
I must take issue with these words..... "Whatever else is the case, the freedoms and rights you refer to are created, defined and enforced by humans. ...
Rereading what I said, I am displeased with my wording. To clarify, it is not my intention to criticize but to be factual. I don't see things as black...
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