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Athena

['Member', 'Subscriber']Joined: November 16, 2018 at 05:38Last active: February 25, 2026 at 16:5552 discussions3737 comments
Location: Oregon, USA

Bio

I use the name Athena because she is the goddess who taught men to govern themselves. I think Greek mythology has much to teach us about being human and democracy. I am obsessed about defending the democracy we inherited and the Enlightenment dream of human dignity and honor built on Greek mythology and philosophy, against the Military Industrial Complex.

Favourite Philosopher

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Webber, Kant

Favourite Quotations

“God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.” Cicero

Discussions (52)

War

January 08, 2026 at 16:24 5 comments The Lounge

Why not AI?

August 20, 2025 at 17:33 87 comments Feedback

What is love?

September 25, 2024 at 14:24 56 comments Humanities and Social Sciences

What is a Fact?

September 11, 2021 at 00:28 798 comments Philosophy of Language

Toilet paper

April 19, 2020 at 15:13 0 comments The Lounge

Comments

In: The Biological Roles of Men and Women  — view comment
Job choices. Here is the reseach... https://www.google.com/search?q=who+puts+career+decisions+above+family+decisions+male+of+female&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS99...
February 25, 2026 at 16:51
In: The Biological Roles of Men and Women  — view comment
Protection is very much the right word for the relationships. And a woman with children is not a free person. I like this Charokee proverb https://dea...
February 25, 2026 at 05:48
In: The Biological Roles of Men and Women  — view comment
For me, @AmadeusD expanded my thinking on the subject when he argued that the Cherokee have been matrilineal. I hate it when I speak of the value of w...
February 23, 2026 at 04:36
In: The Biological Roles of Men and Women  — view comment
Congratulations, you said that very tactfully. Importantly, matrilineal may include the inheritance of property and titles that go to the woman, not t...
February 23, 2026 at 04:01
In: The Biological Roles of Men and Women  — view comment
You are right. I have always had a problem with Athena favoring the patriarchy. I think a matriarchy may be better. Such as the Cherokee have. But ide...
February 22, 2026 at 21:17
In: The Biological Roles of Men and Women  — view comment
And what happens if a woman does want to be a woman and to have children and stay home to care for them? What happens if she wants a man to be a man?
February 22, 2026 at 18:10
In: The Biological Roles of Men and Women  — view comment
If that is true, demonstrate your knowledge of biological differences and justify that it is the least important fact. Personally, I feel like a woman...
February 22, 2026 at 17:54
In: The Biological Roles of Men and Women  — view comment
:lol: I think the best way to end thinking is to deny the truth of what is said. Because there can be multiple reasons for something, it does not make...
February 22, 2026 at 17:15
In: The Biological Roles of Men and Women  — view comment
I do not know your meaning. If you are supporting the value of women who do not have college degrees and fantasic jobs, thank you. I do want to raise ...
February 22, 2026 at 16:54
In: The Biological Roles of Men and Women  — view comment
That's fine. I was just a housewife. What do I know?
February 22, 2026 at 16:49
In: The Biological Roles of Men and Women  — view comment
Yes, and thank goodness for the difference. Dishwashers are useful, but they don't do laundry as well as laundry machines designed to wash clothes. Wo...
February 21, 2026 at 15:56
In: The Biological Roles of Men and Women  — view comment
Please keep our hormonal differences in mind. Get the information about hormones before making your argument. It might be harder for a woman to leave ...
February 21, 2026 at 15:29
In: The Biological Roles of Men and Women  — view comment
That is the science. I did not provide the link because it is AI. This field of science changed and changed. At the beginning of women's liberation, t...
February 21, 2026 at 15:01
In: If existence is good, what is the morality of intelligent life?  — view comment
I like this explanation of the intelligence of trees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOFPqbvD-vE
February 20, 2026 at 17:31
In: The Biological Roles of Men and Women  — view comment
I am sure of this because I believe the science that supports it. I don't think we would have survived the ice age without innate drives. I think the ...
February 20, 2026 at 17:17
In: AI condemns Donald Trump  — view comment
I am struggling to understand how there can be reason without postulates? That is like having a balloon with nothing holding the air. Morals are our u...
February 19, 2026 at 17:40
In: The emergence of Intelligence and life in the world  — view comment
Chardin said, God is asleep in rocks and minerals, waking in plants and animals to know self in man. This video is long and detailed, but it is also a...
February 18, 2026 at 16:52
In: AI condemns Donald Trump  — view comment
That looks like a difference between males and females. The field of artificial intelligence and machine learning is heavily male-dominated.
February 18, 2026 at 16:18
In: AI condemns Donald Trump  — view comment
What is the fact that the number 3 represents the trinity? That thought is larger than the value of a number, and this difference relates to our under...
February 18, 2026 at 16:10
In: AI condemns Donald Trump  — view comment
Interesting, you are using the business model to determine worth and not a social benefit model. What I like is using reason to determine morals. What...
February 18, 2026 at 15:55
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
I love your explanation of yenkeedom. Here is a picture of the western movement. Interestingly, the American Spirit is a female. This is so in the mur...
February 11, 2026 at 17:43
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
This thread is about the separation of church and state because I think the Bible and religions are very problematic. Normally, we can use reason to r...
February 11, 2026 at 16:05
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
Well, I didn't think there was anything more important than the word of God. I also think there is a distortion in thinking that only dark-skinned peo...
February 09, 2026 at 17:22
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
Oh, your comment makes me feel a little crazy. :naughty: Recentally the US president lost popularity because of putting pictures of Obama's head and h...
February 08, 2026 at 19:38
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
Self-centredness is biological. We are doing good to know the names of 500 people and a fact or two about them. We do not have intimate feelings with ...
February 08, 2026 at 18:57
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
I really like JSTOR as a source of information. Those values seem influenced by the Enlightenment, ancient Greek, and Roman values. I believe that in ...
February 06, 2026 at 17:42
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
:lol: Good luck with that. :up:
February 06, 2026 at 17:25
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
[ I was thinking that the problem with serfdom and slavery is the same problem, and to me, it seems cheating to use different words for basically the ...
February 06, 2026 at 17:24
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
Are you sure it doesn't include the problem of slavery? I am really curious because I have learned the South argued that slavery is an important part ...
February 02, 2026 at 23:36
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
Oh boy, I googled for a book and got my favorite online used book store and a few different offers included the one in your post. As much as I want on...
February 02, 2026 at 23:04
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
That is certainly so for Franklin Graham, the son of Billy Graham. Eisenhower and Billy Graham sat together planning how they would expand the the pow...
February 02, 2026 at 22:51
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
Thank you so much for that information. I googled it and for me the important part is they turned to phonics and gave children extra help if they need...
February 02, 2026 at 22:05
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
I have to argue this point. Again a flash back to the past when we read children moral stories and would ask, "What is the moral of that story". The e...
February 02, 2026 at 18:46
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
I am frantic about the United States being united. Education in the US was based on the Athenian model of education for individual development and goo...
February 02, 2026 at 18:24
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
Very interesting. I knew nothing about the spread of Puritans across the Northern states. Is there a book explaining that division and why the South i...
February 02, 2026 at 17:40
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
I wonder how old you are because I remember when things were different. My grandmother never talked about religion, and neither did I until Bush junio...
February 01, 2026 at 21:53
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
Ah, how delicious. I love history. But it can be ironic. The Puritans in their North American colony did not practice religious freedom. They drove pe...
February 01, 2026 at 19:03
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
That is a very interesting explanation. I am going to have to think on that for a while, because it is so far beyond anything I have experienced. I lo...
February 01, 2026 at 18:22
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
We still are not at peace with the meaning of "human rights". Both the North and the South thought God was on their side, making the war worse than it...
February 01, 2026 at 14:53
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
Where did you get your information about the White Christian Nationalism? I have a couple of books on the subject, and I was shocked when I first lear...
February 01, 2026 at 14:42
In: Is Separation of Church and State Possible  — view comment
What forces separated Sweden's Church and State? Billy Graham established a relationship with Eisenhower during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Th...
February 01, 2026 at 13:56
In: Mechanism of hidden authoritarianism in Western countries  — view comment
What were the lives of people living off the land, like before they were kicked off the land? How much responsibility should the landowners have had f...
January 31, 2026 at 18:59
In: Mechanism of hidden authoritarianism in Western countries  — view comment
According to AI Fox News heavily favored Donald Trump and the Republican party during the 2020 and 2024 election cycles. https://www.google.com/search...
January 31, 2026 at 18:20
In: Mechanism of hidden authoritarianism in Western countries  — view comment
Now wait a minute. If nurses and hospital staff were as willing to work for low wages as they were not so long ago, medical care would be more afforda...
January 31, 2026 at 18:05
In: Mechanism of hidden authoritarianism in Western countries  — view comment
"Borlaug is often called "the father of the Green Revolution", and is credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation." https://e...
January 31, 2026 at 17:47
In: Technology and the Future of Humanity.  — view comment
:lol: :rofl: Not nearly as much as the brains of most of the people I know who make no effort to learn anything, and evidently have zero curiosity. Th...
January 31, 2026 at 14:21
In: Technology and the Future of Humanity.  — view comment
What are those applications that are disturbing? I look around me and see a lot of ignorance. With AI there is no excuse for ignorance because it is s...
January 30, 2026 at 17:34
In: Technology and the Future of Humanity.  — view comment
:lol: I have to laugh at myself because I know better than to post things when I am tired, and yet I do it. Why is it sometimes so hard to go with our...
January 30, 2026 at 16:43
In: Technology and the Future of Humanity.  — view comment
I have just deleted my reply because I am listening to an explanation of a computer problem, and it has nothing to do with what I think is important, ...
January 30, 2026 at 05:40
In: Technology and the Future of Humanity.  — view comment
I want it clear that I build my foundation on science. Who in blazes says the US has created a perfect legal, banking, and government system? :brow: I...
January 29, 2026 at 18:22
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