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Comment on Is War Inevitable? by Carl Coon

Carl Coon — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:50:09 +0000

Sorry. I hope you develop an immunity to being disturbed by not reading things that are too long because quite a few of them, even ones worth reading, are.

Comment on Is War Inevitable? by ANONOMOUS

ANONOMOUS — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:35:08 +0000

I find this page very disturbing due to the fact that its very long and i cant be bothered to read it

Comment on When Terrorists have Drones by Jay

Jay — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:37:05 +0000

The information from wikipedia that you posted seems pretty accurate Thoth. However members of the Legislative and Executive Branch would not go to Cheyenne Mountain. The President would most likely go to Mount Weather, which is a Presidential bunker, Congress would as well or perhaps go to the Bunker underneath the Greenbriar resort, And there’s also Raven Rock or site R, which is sort of like a backup pentagon. Site R was one of former Vice President Cheney’s “undisclosed locations” that he would go to after 9/11. And if I recall correctly, the Cheyenne mountain facility probably wouldn’t survive a direct hit from one of today’s nuclear weapons, which I believe are more powerful and more accurate than the ones from the Cold War days.

Comment on Humanism vs. Atheism by Mike

Mike — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:49:24 +0000

Sincerely, Logic.

Comment on Humanism vs. Atheism by Dominic

Dominic — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:49:17 +0000

Mary won’t be suprised if she’s wrong. She’ll be gone

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Comment on Advice for a Declining Superpower by sddgfgf

sddgfgf — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:08:19 +0000

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Comment on Advice for a Declining Superpower by B Spicer

B Spicer — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:24:41 +0000

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Comment on Moral Implications for Differing Reproductive Strategies by zhonggou

zhonggou — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:23:53 +0000

You’ve got beautiful insights there, Carl Coon. It’s nice to see you engage in phylosophical thinking while on a vacation or maybe it’s just the background to get everything started.
I’ve been living in New Zealand and there is a story of Maori people about how the universe started, it goes like this:
In the beginning there was no sky, no sea, no earth and no Gods. There was only darkness, only Te Kore, the Nothingness. The very beginning was made from nothing. From this nothingness, the primal parents of the Māori came, Papatuanuku, the Earth mother, and Ranginui, the Sky father.

Papatuanuku and Ranginui came together, embracing in the darkness, and had 70 male children. These offspring became the gods of the Māori. However, the children of Papatuanuku and Ranginui were locked in their parents embrace, in eternal darkness, and yearned to see some light. They eventually decided that their parents should be separated, and had a meeting to decide what should be done.
source : history-nz.org

Their story actually shows us another aspect of life and an alternative way to understand it.
- The nothingness. This is quite a rational argument based on the idea that life or any kind of consciouness and beings should start at some point. However, to me, it represents the need to apply everything similar and comfortable to human beings to things that we want and need an explanation. That is a mind-set trapped in the framework of time and cant afford to comprehend anything against the flow or beyond it.
-The mother Earth and the father Sky and their children. Yes, that’s right. Another derivative of human’s sexual activities involving a male and female. And to us, it is how a new life starts after the very begining. Another pivotal point is the Earth and the Sky. The Maori did recognize where they’re really from and placed themselves in a web of relationships between the nature and the “self”, between this “self” and that “self”.
-The separation. I interpret this as a sign of consciouness and “self”, the “individuality” trying to get rid of the common, the source, the unconsciouness and selflessness.

I think there are some flaws in your argument and the main one is that you’re trying to rationalize everything from your “separated self” ‘s perspective and . You never see much from only 1 window, right? I suggest you shouldn’t think how important a whale or any Martian aliens should be to us or to anything. Just feel it, feel yourself as a next stage in a chain of life, another living creature just like every creature else, a point in an inter-connected map, a son of your mother nature. Use your insightful intuition and appreciate lives. A life is a life.
Best Regards,

Comment on Words of Wisdom from East Asia by zhonggou

zhonggou — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:52:06 +0000

Very interesting post. Being a British-educated Singaporean of Chinese descent, Lee Kuan Yew do have credibility to discuss about a “new world order” with 2 superpowers China and America as leaders.
China with its pride and sometimes arrogance steemed from the fact that it has been cultural, technological and economical center before European colonialism is increasingly a threat to the stability of Asia. And America with its advanced militarism, weaponry and economy offers Asia Pacific countries a way to balance Beijing influence
However, I think you’ve got some delusions here.
The future will not be like a wealthier and more influencing China with America still being the center of the world and symbol of the free world, of the true values that Westerners believe they represent.
And to say the fact that Americans speak the lingua-franca makes it more easily accesible is just plain idiotic. In terms of soft power, China is incomparable to U.S. However, the shift in power and influence doesnt stop here.
China is winning Africa, Latin America due to a patriotic approach and colonist mind-set of the West with those charity organizations paying the officials enormous salaries and leaving the Africans a few pennies and the media misrepresenting the continent in a hopeless, hellish image. Earn the stand in those rich natural resource regions and hugely potential markets or you’ll lose it. Change your attitude before they find China a safer and more respectful one to deal with.
Lee Kuan Yew says once China opens its door, it’ll never close.
I don’t believe in the superiority of any cultures or societies or neither am I a pro-CCP. But I do expect the coming century of China after the century of humiliation, not the spread of Communism or Red China with its lack of human rights respect, corruption and cheating practices it’s encouraging, but the splendid reshining of Chinese civilization and values

Comment on The Nature of Faith by Richard

Richard — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:36:08 +0000

Hence my belief that everything is perfect just the way it is as the universe makes no mistakes it just doesn’t alway meet our expectations, which is a perception by humanity, perfect in its imperfection.

Comment on Humanism vs. Atheism by Dawn

Dawn — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:09:52 +0000

and unfortunately for you Mary, if you turn out to be wrong, you’re in for a hell of a shock.

Comment on On Human Intelligence by Evoition vs. Creationism | morgan15

Evoition vs. Creationism | morgan15 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:49:40 +0000

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Comment on Humanism vs. Atheism by mary

mary — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:08:10 +0000

The proof is in the pudding as “they” say…I suppose both you and I will find out when our spirits leave our bodies. Unfortunately for you, if I, a believer turn out to be right, you are in for a rather unhappy surprise.

Comment on On Human Intelligence by Paul D. Purches

Paul D. Purches — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:28:07 +0000

None of us is as smart as all of us. TUVM and best wishes from Center To Advance Human Intelligence.

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Comment on In Defence of Darwinism by Pat o

Pat o — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:08:34 +0000

It takes much faith to believe in evolution. I have no problem with biological changes occuring within a specific phyla bases on adaptation of environment…etc. I do however, strugle with the belief in Darwin’s poor hypothesis.

Even after the discovery of millions of fossils we have seen no good evidence of this. We cant even say this is because of the non-vertebrae creatures that do not fossilize because we have seen fossil records of bacteri. We even have good sedimentary rocks dated pre-Cambrian. Nothing.

I think it is interlectually laziness that causes one to eliminate a creator from the equation.

Comment on Humanist Ethics by God, Dogmatism, and Morality

God, Dogmatism, and Morality — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:57:59 +0000

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