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http://www.positivepsychologyinstitute.com.au/images/MentalHealthSpectrum.jpg We certainly want a much larger proportion of the population residing in...
September 15, 2018 at 20:21
This is a deadly 'instrumental' approach: feeding children through the educational processing plant to prepare them to fill slots in the capitalist ma...
September 15, 2018 at 20:14
My idea of progressive education is about as far from current practice as factory farming is from having chickens wandering around the barnyard doing ...
September 15, 2018 at 20:04
In an ideal world, the goals of education would be to... First, aid the individual in discovering what his native traits are -- the who and what I am....
September 15, 2018 at 19:53
How strongly do you believe in this prospective act if you are not willing to claim it personally, by name?
September 15, 2018 at 06:43
Both the ascetic and the engineer are extremely dedicated to the work and discipline. They both are probably somewhat indifferent about social nicetie...
September 15, 2018 at 06:40
As I indicated, I don't believe in education as it is now practiced in the US (and maybe elsewhere too), but "happiness" is a worthwhile goal IF happi...
September 15, 2018 at 06:28
Oh... the current education system... what a god damned fucking dreary topic. Around the time I was in teachers training, back in the mid-1960s, books...
September 15, 2018 at 06:18
Evolution operates through breeding, whether it's kind of choosy or a free-for-all (my favorite kind). I haven't read Quinn; is he a rivetingly good a...
September 15, 2018 at 05:45
I think what Wood meant is that you won't get credit for good outcomes, and you will be blamed for bad outcomes. Why? Because in spilling the beans, y...
September 15, 2018 at 00:41
Some marriages are mirages. Most seem to be mixtures of hopes, fears, love, high expectations, and at least in the beginning, enthusiastic commitment....
September 15, 2018 at 00:33
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September 14, 2018 at 21:37
So, we monotheists think that our God wants us to be happy, and if we are clever, or very, very good we will figure out what the formulae is. Polythei...
September 14, 2018 at 21:30
This is a question I have pondered from a personal POV for decades. What the hell DO I want? At certain times it was clear enough. I wanted to be in c...
September 14, 2018 at 21:08
Setting aside what kind of world we would like to live in, we do -- in fact -- live in a world where right and wrong are often ambiguous, and the appr...
September 14, 2018 at 20:22
1) "Let them"? Who gives authority over people outside the relationship to "Let" anybody live the way they are living? 2) "Unhappy marriages"? Many ma...
September 14, 2018 at 19:57
I highly doubt we have acquired new traits - de novo. Traits are generally developed from previously existing traits, or potentials. (Like, writing an...
September 14, 2018 at 19:23
Some jobs (in the US at least) come with mandatory reporting requirements. If you, as a teacher for example, or social worker, or a few dozen other jo...
September 14, 2018 at 05:45
Agriculture stopped evolution? Nonsense. Think... Plagues continued after agriculture, and those who were most resistant to plague survived Chronic di...
September 14, 2018 at 05:22
Is it the severely disabled continuing to live that bothers you, or is the "taxpayer supplied checks"? Paleontologists found a Neanderthal skeleton of...
September 13, 2018 at 17:14
Don't forget Thorsten Veblen.
September 12, 2018 at 21:54
Keep reading. When will you be finished and have a full understanding of how modern life unfolded from the beginning of making stone tools? If you chi...
September 12, 2018 at 21:48
I do, and I object. Where is your complaint department located?
September 12, 2018 at 03:02
The squeaking wheel gets the grease. (That's a folk saying. Squeaking wheels are similar to complaining individuals. People who complain get fried in ...
September 12, 2018 at 02:52
I don't have a problem with your assumption that atheists must have religious beliefs, provided religion is sufficiently broadly defined, like "where ...
September 11, 2018 at 15:04
So, I'm seeing your point here. Minutia mongering: Excellent. I submit that we have probably passed our capacity to monger all the minutia we have to ...
September 11, 2018 at 14:34
How could an infinitely knowing, present everywhere at all times, unlimited in power being reveal the Divine Existence to primates who have been sort ...
September 11, 2018 at 05:56
I asked the Universe if it was at all dependent on me. I have not yet received an answer. I'm guessing not.
September 11, 2018 at 00:55
So far, in my 72 years, I have met and interacted with one person who was not male or female sexually -- this 40 some years ago. This person was self-...
September 11, 2018 at 00:45
That's nice. They should be as progressive as they want; just keep it in the family. They seem to want everyone to march in lock step. Surely progress...
September 10, 2018 at 21:29
You may not be aware of the time and energy devoted to nouns and pronouns in liturgical circles. Where once (and still usually) the priest said, "in t...
September 10, 2018 at 21:22
If a particular person rejects gender, then I think they should deal with that decision themselves, and not require that everybody else also deal with...
September 10, 2018 at 19:47
The value of fiat currency comes from real production and trade. The cartoon desert island has nothing to sell, nobody wants to go there, and the two ...
September 10, 2018 at 19:21
I don't think we are getting anywhere. Nor do we have anywhere to get to. Were we to go on a tour of factories, I think we'd both point out the same t...
September 10, 2018 at 03:32
Who are the best? One instance where "the best" technology is bought, where tech is tech, is in the purchase of patents. Large tech operations sometim...
September 10, 2018 at 02:06
You can call it technology if you want, but if it's defined so broadly enough it could just as well be called output, production, GDP, or whatever. I'...
September 10, 2018 at 02:00
An economy might need consumers more than inventors. 70% of US GDP is personal consumption spending. I buy a little tech every now and then. Most of w...
September 10, 2018 at 01:23
True, and not true, maybe. I'm not all that knowledgeable about this. For a Roman, a gold coin was the value of gold. It didn't represent anything, it...
September 10, 2018 at 01:17
I can come up with more scenarios, but I need positive reinforcements. Drop a quarter into the slot, every now and then.
September 09, 2018 at 23:06
Creators, inventors, come up with new ideas. Labor brings them to fruition. In a capitalist economy workers are wage slaves and without paid work star...
September 09, 2018 at 23:00
A World Made by Hand is fiction. Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation and The Long Emergency are nonfiction. Simil...
September 09, 2018 at 21:33
Even philosophers will grant that emotions have a strong influence on how we "feel". Happy, sad, angry, loving, bored, etc. Philosophers generally do ...
September 09, 2018 at 04:19
What makes depression worse? Isolation. Loneliness. Boredom. Anger. Wallowing. Etc. What makes depression better? Engagement. Companionship. Interests...
September 09, 2018 at 01:39
I have known a couple of grandmas who told their little grand children that there was no Jesus, and no Santa Claus either. Good people, actually. Kind...
September 09, 2018 at 01:16
Word games. Like "I am an AIDS survivor" or "I am living with cancer". "I am not a "victim". That's nice, but you still have AIDS, cancer, whatever. A...
September 09, 2018 at 00:41
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock for 2018 at 11:58, p.m., or two minutes before midnight (Doomsday). Why 2 minutes, and not 10...
September 08, 2018 at 19:21
And scoffing is very important to us. I like to scoff. Sometimes it turns into a scoffing fit. Great word that, scoff.
September 08, 2018 at 16:46
In another forum long ago and far away you asked if Pegasus existed. Literally? Figuratively? Millions of people will recognize a drawing of Pegasus; ...
September 08, 2018 at 05:43
I expect Jove will have to hurl lightning bolts from Mt. Olympus to so much as get their attention. Then turn them from anxious Anglicans to mild mice...
September 08, 2018 at 03:26
Any given human misfortune will be "relative" to another human's misfortune. The Black Death killed 25,000,000 people in the late medieval period. Inf...
September 08, 2018 at 02:10