You have lived under the republican/democrat two party nation in the USA. I have lived under the tory/labour two party nation in the UK. Party politics has failed in my opinion. — universeness
Do you think we need a new politics? Do you think it would be progressive to remove all political parties from politics and governance? Do you think 'Vote for a person, not a party,' should become the loudest political clarion call? — universeness
it's easier for like-minded to come together to form a small commune (where people can come and go), — jorndoe
Any societythat gravitates too much towards either sidewill collapse. — Christoffer
There is a big debate on the word "blackmail", because apart from being a negative action, it has racist connotations. — javi2541997
hen I was growing up, "gay" was a common insult, but now it isn't, or at least I'm pretty sure it isn't. — Judaka
Yes, that's basically my point. If we want children to develop critical thinking skills then absolutely the worst thing we can do to bring that about is further impose on their freedom by force-feeding them lessons on it before making regurgitate it for grades like show ponies doing tricks.. — Isaac
Why do you think that? — Isaac
That people do is not an argument that they ought, nor that they must. — Isaac
I've questioned the necessity of 'teaching' as opposed to self-directed learning. — Isaac
could — Isaac
would — Isaac
Learning and teaching are two different things. — Isaac
Do you have any cause to believe that, have you tested it, or read of anyone having done so? — Isaac
Is your ground for believing it sufficient to imprison children against their will and punish them for failure to comply? — Isaac
I don't think it includes anyone. No one needs formal education, it's a myth designed to produce compliant little consumers. It stops people thinking because they expect all the information they need to be handed to them, they don't develop enquiring minds, but instead are hewn into mindless cogs. — Isaac
This sounds like something you might say about me. — T Clark
I can't go on I'll go on. — green flag
Although suicide is a mental health issue not everyone who becomes suicidal suffers from mentally ill. — Fooloso4
The majority of suicides by gun are not mass murders. — Fooloso4
You can afford not to be paranoid because other people have guns, because other have the will to defend you wherever you yourself refuse to. — NOS4A2
Guns can definitely be used for defense. If you choose to go without, just know that your final victory was that you didn't live in fear. — frank
A halo of talk forms around an unclaimed center. It's as if belief in enlightenment ends up doing the work of enlightenment, by giving the believer a purpose. This makes me think of faith in faith itself. Zizek comes to mind also, who says we let other people do our believing for us. — green flag
As we age, he argues, the size and complexity of the networks of neurons in our brains increases – electrical signals must traverse greater distances and thus signal processing takes more time. Moreover, ageing causes our nerves to accumulate damage that provides resistance to the flow of electric signals, further slowing processing time. Focusing on visual perception, Bejan posits that slower processing times result in us perceiving fewer ‘frames-per-second’ – more actual time passes between the perception of each new mental image. This is what leads to time passing more rapidly.When we are young, each second of actual time is packed with many more mental images. Like a slow-motion camera that captures thousands of images per second, time appears to pass more slowly.
the rushing by of time as we age is because the vast machinery of a personality has long been assembled and is now settled and has been running without much trouble — green flag
if you attach supernatural powers to me just because I say God exists, I wouldn't really mind it. — Raef Kandil
the degree of faith in such movements is very little. Such movements can be blamed more on religion more than faith. I don't think that someone will have faith that "gay people are bad". This seems to personal and involved. Faith tends to be more timeless. A person with faith is less likely to change his faith anywhere, anytime. A person with faith allows for recurring images in his head or un-repressed thoughts with the intention to find himself which he realises as his own safety haven. — Raef Kandil
I am anti-religion and a true believer in God. Maybe you think these things don't mix, but they do. — Raef Kandil
Prophets are not religious, but they have faith. — Raef Kandil
Religion is an act of fear. Faith is act of liberation. Prophets are not following dogmas. They are essentially defying all the society rules to favour their truthfulness to the experience they are having. — Raef Kandil