I have not attended church regularly for more than 20 years. But before that I was active, from my earliest years as a teenager through graduating fro...
I would say that those and anything else that has reduced or eliminated maternal mortality and infant mortality has changed the lives of humans more t...
Freedom through Christ. Just looking at the Gospels--although I am sure the same theme could probably be found in the Old Testament and the rest of th...
I hope that it is correct that certain diseases are "resolved", but I don't think that anything is that simple. For one thing, a case could be made th...
I don't know of anything that can be attributed to the European Enlightenment that aids in that discovery. People like to point to the Gutenberg Bible...
Yes, it does strongly feel like personal and collective spiritual and intellectual life are now in the clutches of narrow secular worldviews that may ...
"In particular, it is supposed, a hundred million dollars from Peter Thiel put toward the project of making a benevolent super-AI will do far more to ...
Maybe I overlooked it. Not a good time for me with respect to mental health. Speaking of time, not much of it. Two jobs, a lot of hours, very little t...
I don't care what the source is--a prophet, a coin toss, dumb luck, an accident, carefully designed rigorous empirical science--I want the truth. If t...
Apparently, according to what I have been reading, elites have never trusted common people with any role in government and some of today's elites are ...
"...you still might get your entire plan chucked into the round file because some computer has determined your business plan will attract automobile t...
This reminds me of a story I saw recently. There's a bunch of tunnels underneath Cincinnati, OH and most people don't know about them (I didn't). They...
I was just showing how a tidbit from my own personal inquiries into geography now has some context. Notice that the two commentators have different vi...
In other words, the ends justify the means. On the other hand, again, those "means"--slavery, child labor, genocide, colonialism, cruelty to non-human...
I thought that it is not about subjective satisfaction. Most people are subjectively satisfied being dumb, ignorant, passive fools who never question ...
Houston Is Drowning—In Its Freedom From Regulations --- More Zoning Wouldn’t Have Protected Houston From Harvey’s Fury, But Less Sprawl Would Have Hel...
It seems that no two people agree much on the nature/character of the Enlightenment and its legacy, but it seems that a dominant element of it is tear...
That is not the story I get when I study intellectual history. Western intellectual history, as it has been presented to me, is not just a bunch of cr...
Science can continue outside of our present spiritual and intellectual structure, just like religion has continued after the Enlightenment. People exp...
At the risk of sending? my own thread way out on an unrelated tangent, I will remind everybody that when the institution of slavery was still at the f...
An introductory course that I took in the Family Studies department in college was titled "Individual, Marriage and Family". In other words, it takes ...
Straw man. Red herring. Collective psychotherapy. We are trapped in destructive, self-defeating patterns of thinking, communicating, and relating. We ...
Okay, then we need the conversation to be about how to tune it all out. As far as I know, no such conversation has ever taken place. And we will be ta...
The problem is that consumption isn't the sum of the choices of individuals. It is an indivisible whole that is part of a system and is required? for ...
It sounds like more of the same. It sounds like more Enlightenment faith in our ability to intervene and manipulate and control things to optimal circ...
But then we will be told that if consumption is dramatically decreased then the whole system will collapse, prosperity will disappear, and we will all...
Apparently I am not making myself clear. I will try again. All of this Marxism; liberalism; "progress"; conservatism; Enlightenment rationalism, auton...
I didn't say that a few paragraphs made me angry. I haven't? been angry enough for 45 years. A few seconds of anger after suddenly becoming fully cons...
So Enlightenment progress means "Thanks to medical advances some of you get to live longer lives and therefore get to be manipulated, controlled and d...
One person in this thread has urged the reading of Chomsky. Until that reading happens the authorities for me on global capitalism are Global Problems...
The article is the first time that I have heard of capitalists directly disrespecting indigenous rights, sacred landmarks, tradition, etc. Before that...
I would argue that they need to join the 21st century. It has been common knowledge as far back as I can remember that the days of completing one's ed...
Apparently it is. From the article: "Companies such as AOL Time-Warner and Disney have powerful friends on Capitol Hill and in the White House. They w...
Be careful there. Anecdotes about your own subjective educational experience and the seemingly superior preparation of students from foreign countries...
"And above all Krauss does not address why the laws of physics exist, why they have the form they have, or in what kind of manifestation they existed ...
But the question of "Why?" remains. People want to know the truth and the complete truth. People want the whole story of reality. Instead of playing w...
"Andersen: I think the problem for me, coming at this as a layperson, is that when you're talking about the explanatory power of science, for every st...
The aforementioned article associates communications technology like this online forum with extroversion and says that communications technology has a...
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