Basically, that with so many people around the world, who are curious and inquisitive, that we ought to have more teachers in the world to help guide them in their spiritual and epistemological development. — Posty McPostface

Have you been in a school classroom recently? Most kids do not have much interest in learning.
"Why do I need to know this? If I ever need this information I can find it on the internet" is something I hear every single day.

I have a student that cannot speak English properly but is developing a Pakistani or Indian accent because of the amount of times he watches tutorials on Youtube. The internet has taken a lot of the teachers influence over kids away.

Shhh. — Banno

That reminded me of a TV advert in England, Maybe early 70's.

Sch weppes.

How many of those guns in circulation that we keep hearing about are ever actually used to kill people? — WISDOMfromPO-MO

Since there are supposed to be millions of guns in the USA and only a few thousand gun deaths and counting that quite a few of those deaths were probably caused by the same gun being used multiple times I would calculate a small percentage of the guns were involved. But that is only my guess.

Did you ask him for his sources? X-)

The ultimate goal of all humans is to be happy — TheMadFool

You did not get this from the internet did you?

2. There are more reasons to be sad than happy — TheMadFool

Maybe you have not found what makes you happy yet. But I think that there are probably an equal amount of reasons to he unhappy as there are to be happy.

Having kids for some people is happiness, for others it is a burden.
Having no kids for some people is happiness, for others it is a sad incompleteness.

So no, we don't have to have a reason to be happy, we can just accept things as they are and smile about it.

But we do need reasons to be unhappy.

(Y) (Y)

Ah, just venting... my ex is trying to move with my 2 daughters to a city 6 hours away. Pretty sure she won't be able to, but still causes unneeded stress. I currently live 5 minutes away, and see them over 80 times a year. She wants me to see them 12 times a year! >:o — CasKev

I understand how you feel. Both of my EX's moved to other continents and I never got to see my kids.

News flash, the latest on the web.

World governments eliminate all source of fake news and offer rewards to all that denounce people creating news that is false.

If you know of someone that is trying to make public on the WWW any information that is not true call the following hotline and receive your reward.

555-4321 or 123-4567 if you are in Washington DC.

Assuming that’s a true story, forty people who waste a college education. — praxis

College education is not a 24/7 way of life, you do have free time occasionally. We also had competitions to see which group could put more people in a telephone booth or mini car. And a lot of other pranks.

This reminds me of the time when I was a teenager and I waited at the side of the road for a car to stop to let me cross. Then, once a car had stopped, I stuck my middle finger up at the driver and walked away from the road without crossing. — Sapientia

When I was in college we used to play follow the leader. Sometimes there were 40 people. The first would stand at the side of the road and just and wait for a car to stop. When the car was getting ready to move the next one would step out. You can imagine how that went on. That used to get people pissed of.

When someone you're with says "sorry" to someone, follow it up with "I'm not". — Sapientia

I usually say "Yes you are." and they look at me really weird. Most people don't know they other uses of sorry.

She can't have her cake and eat it too. Especially when her cake is actually our cake! — CasKev

What cake?
Where the hell is it?
Who is trying to eat it?

Okay, i will try to get something bigger although my goals focuses on sharing thoughts and what other people could think of. — Scalpounet

So what you need is bigger ideas to hit people with. When I said get something big to hit them with I did not necessarily mean sticks.

My guess is yes but lurking because you are back in school teaching those that are following after us. — ArguingWAristotleTiff

Our school year starts in February and end in November so we are just about finished. Lucky me.

it's like herding cats with a squirt gun! X-) — ArguingWAristotleTiff

Bulls, like herding big stupid bulls and nowadays they can be just as dangerous. Kittens can be led or at least bribed to to things.

To fight without the slimmest chance of victory is foolish, don't you think? — TheMadFool

Doing foolish things and being foolish are 2 different things.

But the old bastard is still in business so he must have something going for him.

I read(listened to) the book a years or so ago I think it was. I remember that I found some parts of it interesting but don't remember what.

I'll have a look at the video and maybe get back to you.

I have no idea what that means. :-O — Lone Wolf

Tell her which part you don't understand, I'm sure she will explain in simple words. X-)

No further discussion only because we all accept the Devil is evil — TheMadFool

No we don't.

and this doesn't affect my argument that he is impotent and a fool. — TheMadFool

If he is as impotent as you seem to think, where does he acquire the power he wields? And while it is true that a lot of rulers are stupid, he rules a massive empire as a sole dictator so he cannot be that much of a fool.

The omnimalevolence part is obvious and needs no further discussion. — TheMadFool

No further discussion?

To show that he is evil, I think that you should start by defining what evil is.
Morally objectionable behavior
That which causes harm, destruction or misfortune
The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
Morally bad or wrong

Based on morality, the devil is only evil to people that use god as a moral guide.
Based on causing harm, exactly what harm has the devil caused?

To fight or rebel against an omnipotent being (God) is clearly a stupid thing - moron. — TheMadFool

So you think it is stupid to fight for the things you believe in? Most people think that their bosses are omnipotent so the never bother asking for a raise. They are stupid.

Compared to an omnipotent being (God) anyone, even Satan, is obviously impotent. — TheMadFool

That might or might not be the case, but just as many people fear him as believe in god.

How would you define Satan then?

As an angel that has fallen and now opposes god.

Well, in this case, they most likely didn't realise that the forum has been fucked for the past two years right up to the present.

If this is the case, why the hell are they even trying to go there when they don't know how to read.

The shoutbox tell everyone that the place is dead.

Given that the Devil is the exact opposite of God,

The devil is not the exact opposite, he is a lesser power altogether. He is not a god but a fallen angel.

I didn't know you could link to a Pandora station. Anyway, I've just started. It isn't that populated yet. — T Clark

I'm not sure if you can link to it, Pandora is not available here, but I thought that if someone has a link to a stream I might be able to listen in.

I've just set up a Pandora station from that era. Gary U.S. Bonds, Beachboys, Otis Redding, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Dion. Such wonderful music.

OK, fantastic. :D

I had a collection of about 4500 singles and maybe 1000 LPs of music from between '54 and '65.

Where is the link? 8-)

That was a great time for music. It showed the world what not to do.

RIP
Fats Domino dead at 89.

Another great one left the world.

Virtual heckler... congrats, you succeeded hissing on a philosophy forum. :-} — TimeLine

I certainly am not, a heckler that is. But I could be virtually anything if I wanted.
I had to read the second part twice, I thought you had accused me of wetting the forums walls.

I want to discuss the process of thoughts. — Scalpounet

Mankind's basic thought process towards growth can be summed up fairly easy.

Get something bigger to hit it with.

Hmmmm now we need something to celebrate at the end of the day. Maybe Happy End of Everything Going Wrong? — Lone Wolf

Expect

Restless Tossing and Turning for a Long Long Time. — Lone Wolf

How many lightbulb jokes does it take to screw a comedian? — Baden

About as many as it takes to screw up a joke thread on a philosophy forum.

Good night.

A man walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder.
The bar man says that there are no pets permitted.
And where the fuck am I going to tie him to if I leave him outside? Asks the parrot

How many women does it take to change a light bulb? — Michael

None. That's one of the few things men are useful for.

In other words, Genghis wasn't afflicted by a sickly inability to use force. Maybe Lenin and Stalin were his students. Lenin once said that there was no place in the regime for that "quaker and papist nonsense about the sanctity of human life". — Bitter Crank

He was worshiped as a hero in his time. The speed of the empire's growth was unheard of in those times and for many years to come. Total destruction of everything that opposed them as they moved, stopping only to collect the riches from the conquered. It must have been scary as shit knowing they were coming.
If the Khans had continued to rule those that surrendered to them and continued to collect tributes for centuries who do you think would have been a world power today? What language would we be speaking?
I shudder to think what someone like that would be capable of in today's world.

Genghis Khan, quoted by an historian:

Genghis Khan “The greatest joy a man can know is to conquer his enemies and drive them before him. To ride their horses and take away their possessions, to see the faces of those who were dear to them bejeweled with tears, and to clasp their wives and daughters in his arms.”

For Genghis the meaning of life is conquest, theft, suffering, and rape. Note what does not even make the list: the love of a child or the passion of a woman or the joy of creating or the excitement of achievement.

Genghis was a predator in practice.

In his son's, Ogadai, life time was when the bigger part of the empire was acquired. The total time was only about 60 years.

And the British even better. — Banno

Yeah, but they did not do it all in one man's lifetime.

Long live the Khan.

Up until then folk pretty much left each other alone. — Banno

But the Mongols did it better and more of it.

How many Irishmen does it take to change a light bulb?
Five.
One to hold the bulb.
Two to pick him up and turn him.
One to read the instruction manual.
One to get the Guinness.

Growth is a relatively new fetish. I blame Alexander. — Banno

Genghis Khan and his killing of millions as he rampaged through Asia and Europe started it all.

a human is trying to survive, which constitutes his primary objective. — Scalpounet

This is confusing. You state here correctly that humans' primary objective is to survive, then you say that he was doing so by growing. Humans barely managed to survive for thousands of years with little or no growth. As the traveled around searching for food there was no way the could accumulate possessions because there was little to actually possess and there was even less worth carrying around.
Several developments made it possible for them to survive easier.
Taming animals and planting(not agriculture) made no difference to their main objective, it was still survival.
Learning to breed captive animals (domestication) and the beginning of agriculture still only made it easier to survive because the population had started to increase. But this made it necessary for them to spend most of their time in one place.
Once there was enough food available and they had learned ways to store it life became easier, and then it was possible for the groups to maintain a certain number of craftsmen that specialized in creating things that again made life easier. Now they had things that they could own and a place to own it.