Glen D

Here in Australia they are called ‘aged care  facilities’ and are heavily subsidise by the government .This gives the government considerable control over all aspects of the facilities. from number and qualification of staff to the physical standard of the rooms.

The genera public perception sees “Aged Care Facilities” as ” God’s waiting r…[Read more]

@JadeBlackOlive

You post implies having the death penalty for atheism is because those countries are Muslim, which they are.

I think you might have put the cart before the horse. Another perspective might be:

The causes of this behaviour are poverty  and ignorance together with pre Islamic tribal practices. These include female c…[Read more]

@Popebeanie

‘Outlawed’ ? Do you mean as cloning human beings is presently outlawed? Right. I wish us luck in THAT undertaking..

@ Popebeanie.

Scoff all you like. Your comment suggests you haven’t heard what every school boy knows: The tragic fate of Christopher Columbus and his entire expedition—

—they were trying to get back to Spain from the New World . Sadly, they zagged when they should have zigged, sailed off the edge of the world and were eaten by a giant  t…[Read more]

2 cents

1970 was an important year in the Australian Federal civil service, where I worked.

Equal pay for women was introduced . That meant equal pay for males and females of the same classification. Until that time, women were paid 70% of the male rate.

The rule that women had to resign on marriage was abolished. Maternity leave was still over…[Read more]

2 cents

Started looking into the notion of forgiveness after seeing a doco.  in which a holocaust survivor  confronted and forgave a former camp guard.

The lady said  that forgiveness is powerful and psychologically healthy. She also made a point about hatred; the object of your hatred may not even know how you feel. Not hurting them. Ho…[Read more]

We have ‘bushfires’ which consume thousands of acres. We rarely lose a large  numbers of houses, but it happens  . Summer is bushfire weather ,and is taken very seriously, with weeks of total fire bans. I’d probably be Ok, but still have an evacuation plan..

.Clip Our National capital on fire: (4 lives, 500 h…[Read more]

Ivy wrote:
@Glen D….Wow… Your mom and my dad died on the same day

Yeah, weird, on one level. I guess I was so focussed on my own loss and grief it didn’t occur that a great many people all over the world, had probably died the same day.

—and that’s ok. If we tried to extend our awareness and caring, we would go insane, imo.

2 Cents

Organised religion is the greatest confidence trick ever perpetrated on the human race. The Egyptian cult of Amum was extremely powerful, at one point wealthier than Pharaoh.The Babylonian god  demanded blood sacrifices of children .The pre Columbian religions of south and central America demanded huge numbers of blood sacrifices.

To…[Read more]

It is said “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”

Of course I have admired classically beautiful women. There were two in my neighbourhood;  one was a natural platinum blond with cheekbones which could cut glass. Didn’t know her very well as we were the same age. On one of the few times we spoke ,she told me: “I went out with a Mercedes last…[Read more]

Don’t know enough about US law, perhaps in breach of both 5th and14th Amendments, both of which contain a due process clause.—These current detainees have not been charged with a crime, nor tried..Seems to me the government has no right to detain them. OR if does,  there is a duty of care which they are not meeting.  Not sure about the c…[Read more]

@Popebeanie

Very kind of you to say so.

My short term memory isn’t what it used to be. I have whiteboard for important appointments.—Can’t tell you what I had for dinner 3 nights ago—But, I can remember what  I bought for lunch in Harrods food  hall in London in 1985. Being on a forum is good for mental acuity.

AI: I really don’t know. I’m…[Read more]

Perhaps listen to the edited version (18 minutes) on Youtube .

I’m a pretty weak philosopher, so a clever sophist can flatten me.

Below is a summary of the contingency argument for the existence of God:

If something exists, there must exist what it takes for that thing to exist.
The universe—the collection of beings in space and t…[Read more]

Sorry for your loss Ivy ,and for anyone else who is grieving,..

My mum died on 13 April 2019. My dad died in October 2006 at 86.

It’s said that the coping with the death of an elderly person is easier than that of a younger person.  I think that’s true enough, but it’s still hard, no matter how prepared you think you are..

My dad was in care…[Read more]

@ivy

You’d be welcome to come to Oz. A warning though, we have more than our share of climate and other morons.

A recent prime Minister, Tony Abbott, is a chronic Catholic and climate change denier. Did his best to block same sex marriage.

Of course you probably know that the happy clapper’s response to intelligence, Ken Ham, is one of …[Read more]

@Popebeanie;

Ah, I had been wondering. Consciousness outside of the brain looks a lot like a sneaky way of arguing theism.

But then, I’m old and easily confused.

Don’t believe about what concerning Jesus?

That he existed? A good start; the historicity  of Jesus has never been established. There are no contemporary records of the man or his life.  The gospels often contradict. An especially egregious example is the death and resurrection of Jesus; try reading all four gospels side by side.

In first c…[Read more]

@_Robert_

“Why would anyone assume consciousness has space limitations? Skulls have nothing to do with it.”

Interesting claim. You can prove it of course?  If consciousness/awareness/mind/person is independent of the brain, what happens to it when the brain dies?

As far as I’m aware, there is no consensus in the mind/body dichotomy.

My…[Read more]

Try again:

Old Emile was not entirely  correct; Since Bernadette Soubirous saw her lady in 1858, there have been a few over 60 “officially recognised” cures . But yes, no prosthetic limbs.
How many pilgrim have been to Lourdes? 200 million or more? 60 cures seems such a small number—
.—-especially when you consider the rate of the…[Read more]