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Davis are you aware of any nations in which there is such teaching? Or even individual schools?

We are on the cusp of a revolution in disinformation/misinformation and perhaps ascribing subjectivity to truth. It has never been more needed. Religion has had a profound negative impact on the aforementioned but the destructive capability of AI…[Read more]

On second impression the notion that education with an emphasis in thinking is a solution to our problems is pretty sophomoric.

There is a pink elephant in the pantry. The Bertrand Russells are the exception. It is an open question whether we can be taught to think. Maybe the Russells are born and not created. To the extent that training in…[Read more]

Pope, you have touched on an important point. Education is critical to our future. Not only have we arrived at the point in a novel that is too farfetched to suspend disbelief but we are approaching Idiocracy.

Thinking is a subject that ought to be added to the curriculum beginning in first grade. We need individuals to understand their biases,…[Read more]

Simon, that is not knowledge.

Simon you are making an assertion that requires knowledge. How do you know that?

Asserting the absence of certainty over the validity of mythology is useful how?

Agreed that we cant be utterly certain about gods or anything else. But for practical purposes it is a nonmutha fucking entity. It is as likely as Unseen feeling spry some morning after having bagged one of those super models and jumping for joy at his conquests as…[Read more]

When the planet of the apes ape du jour evolves to have culture it will project its own Jesus Jelly boo boo Bear. Way cuter than pony jesus and more a security blanket than Linus had.

Throughout the universe there are civilizations projecting their characteristics onto their makers and mythology. My crystal ball is so pellucid. It babbles like a…[Read more]

And i think that for any human who has not been mind-indoctrinated it is incredibly juvenile and narcissistic to posit gods. And what the fuck is up with the fetishism of Jesus? Jesus is my bf or gf and i have a personal relationship with Jesus. More childish tripe.

It is the first time i have heard an atheist with a line like a theist. Theists have their saving possibility in you can not prove it does not exist. Unseen flipped the script and says I am certain you are mistaken. Prove i am wrong. I like it.

But the problem with using contradictions to assert impossibility is that we may not have a handle on physics.

Unseen i approve of the way you put the onus back where it belongs-on the Balhoonians.

Cogito ergo wish, if you don’t like fish…an amalgam of pike, perch, whitefish in gelatinous mass…consider lox, salty and slimy and perfect with bagel, cream cheese, onion. Don’t eat meat, pig’s feet or fecal residue on a seat…that is my wish

a filter is a gefilte fish without the gefilte fish.

Yes, Unseeen, if the consensus of scientists is convinced our future is that limited then it is a no-brainer. No issue either with showing right wing nuts that climate science is not aligned with the rapture.

Damn Skippy, Unseen!

Lets suppose Trump arrogates the presidency. He is constructing a wall that is part concrete and part bodies of the ILLEGALS WHO ARE MEXICANS, RAPISTS AND MURDERERS (some of em are okay i guess..) and those bodies are removed from detention center concentration camps. Political enemies of the Orange state (not the house of…[Read more]

Our democracy is mucous laden, fetid, disintegrating, irremediable, and utterly for sale. Thus it is chimerical to elevate this democracy as some platonic ideal, sacrosanct and inviolable.

Alright Unseen…genocide is more n enuff to disband the ties that ties us. Climate change so smashing it smashes us and buries Florida and Louisiana.

Unseen, you indite i spake a tautology in asserting that only ideologues are singular issue voters. If so then by extension your question is both rhetorical and tautological. I could not assume you would be asking a nonquestion so i interpreted your question.

Of course a feckin hatchet-job loony bird will overthrow a gov to have their pie. For…[Read more]

Unseen, it is only an ideologue who will assess a government on the basis of one issue.

Even in a failing democracy there are civil rights to consider. In an authoritarian government those rights are or can be modified or eliminated. The greater the exercise of individual or institutional authority the greater the oppression and abuse. It is…[Read more]

I would never back a dictator. Even an enlightened dictator is temporary while the return to normalcy in autocracy means a return to one of the worst forms of governance.

Disenfranchised groups require a change in mores and often an economic boon. The government irrespective of its form can not legislate mores-if the majority despise x group…[Read more]