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- Mon Nov 26, 2012 2:32 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Cognitive Transcendence
- Replies: 95
- Views: 19044
Cindy, is unconscious thought, thought? -Rom Even though you asked Cindy, I do not mind jumping in here. If thoughts originate in our brain, then there is no reason to suppose any distinction between conscious or unconscious thoughts. What differs, if I may speculate, is mostly just the belief in h...
- Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:04 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Technology and Nature
- Replies: 1150
- Views: 151767
Am I participating joyfully in the sorrows of the world? Should we get the governments to subdue our natures and get them to legislate the use of fish catching technology? -Rom A fair question...so what do you think? One could even take it to the point of discussing whether or not the idea of perso...
- Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:01 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Technology and Nature
- Replies: 1150
- Views: 151767
It's not complicated for me. I try to do what I can (sometimes I don't). -nandu I know that you do not feel that it is complicated for you, but I wonder how that informs your political views, which are how we as a society determine the nature of governance. Not all of the following questions are me...
- Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:08 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Technology and Nature
- Replies: 1150
- Views: 151767
Nandu's and James' statements about personal responsibility got me thinking about the complexity of these issues. I wonder where we can effectively draw the line between personal action and the function of organizations created through government. Am I obliged on a personal level to pick up trash th...
- Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:50 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Technology and Nature
- Replies: 1150
- Views: 151767
- Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:51 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Technology and Nature
- Replies: 1150
- Views: 151767
Alas poor Venice: http://news.yahoo.com/photos/flooding-in-venice-slideshow/ I know, I know: No global climate change here; right? -James Climate change is likely a significant factor. However, other factors are involved. Short term vision is one. The needs of serving commerce by building a port is...
- Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:46 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Technology and Nature
- Replies: 1150
- Views: 151767
- Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:40 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: General Crosstalk - A Spot for the Odd Comment
- Replies: 1992
- Views: 306120
We have become so polarized that this could very well become a very serious possibility. The power holders of this nation will have to marshall all of their forces to figure out how to rein the growing divide that threatens the union. These power brokers have for the last half century used clever ma...
- Thu Nov 08, 2012 11:25 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Technology and Nature
- Replies: 1150
- Views: 151767
A free market economy can work if it is played fair. -Neo How does one regulate a free market? It's a contradiction. In my mind there are two problems there. First, nothing is "free". Producers will always try to dominate a market and consumers will almost always toss ethical considerations aside i...
- Thu Nov 08, 2012 11:13 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: General Crosstalk - A Spot for the Odd Comment
- Replies: 1992
- Views: 306120
An interesting election fact from this year is that in the places where the majority of the Superpac money was put into use against Obama he actually gained more votes than in 2008. Billions of dollars....that's BILLIONS with a B, wasted. Thrown away on ads with no tangible benefit for anyone in our...
- Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:27 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: General Crosstalk - A Spot for the Odd Comment
- Replies: 1992
- Views: 306120
- Mon Nov 05, 2012 11:29 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Technology and Nature
- Replies: 1150
- Views: 151767
This seemed relevant...
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/04/politics/ ... ?hpt=hp_c3
"We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are." -- Anais Nin
- Sun Nov 04, 2012 11:30 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Truth and Dogma
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4863
- Sat Nov 03, 2012 4:53 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Technology and Nature
- Replies: 1150
- Views: 151767
- Sat Nov 03, 2012 11:22 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Technology and Nature
- Replies: 1150
- Views: 151767
Science is the search for truth regardless of its quixoticness, whereas post modernism is the denial of truth as a truth? -Rom I would say you got that last sentence wrong...it is better said that it is the denial of truth as Truth. The capitalization matters quite a bit. Are you able to separate y...