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Cosmic Hard Drive in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

If all life on the earth were destroyed today, tomorrow would resort to its nature and begin again. If the planet were totally obliterated the mystery of the cosmos would eventuate the likes of another: this is the nature of the Supra-being who thrives on cognition -- nay, is cognition intertwined with prescience. To think otherwise is a contradiction of the very subsistence directly responsible for the being forging the misconception, which is sense of the other, however distorted. So, too

Reply to Values - Precise Language in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

How would your philosophical mind evaluate the ethics and morality of the current administration in railroading the gullible citizenry to accept a war of choice through arrant misrepresentation?

Reply to Nano-Evolution - How the DNA Really Evolves in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

In a universe that is overwhelmingly chaotic, it is no surprise that the "junk" in DNA is pernicious and unpredictable.

Reply to Draginol = Brad Wardell in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Brad, I just want to say that you have created one great blog site. I belong to another blogger and there is no feedback, no dialogue among the members. Congrats on your baptism.

Reply to Beware of Attempts to Revive Military Draft in Current Events JoeUser Forums

A draft is supposed to mean that a professional army is reliant on citizens called to duty for their country. There's something noble about all of our nation's youth expected to serve, rather than as now youth entering the "profession" because that seems to be the only opportunity to better themselves, despite the risk. However, if we continue to engage in wars of choice and not necessity I am against the draft. I enlisted in WWII because the country was deliberately attacked and so many other y

Reply to Class Warfare: or telling it like it is? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Occult: Upward mobility is not necessarily a device to get rich, but to exist in dignity but you're right in many cases in order to get there one must cowtow to the rich. Larry: Thank you. I more or less read the same in The Nation.

Reply to Service to The World in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The faltering British empire is an excellent illustration. It seems inevitable that all gobal busybodies fall.

Curtain Call in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Out of the logically, rather, mythologically, constringent density of the Absolute, there springs a Child of Spirit destined to become the embodiment of his Father's repressed urge to glory. As this child gaily bursts into space and time created with every skip and jump in order to mold clouds of images with which to play, and like all children afterwards, cherishes some, coldly discards others. The child enjoys the destruction of his v

Reply to To Atheist & Believers in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Thanks for the brevity.

To Atheist & Believers in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

God, a kindly mother or father, is without saying devoutly to be wished. Many of us would settle for the reality of the highly structured hierarchy of the Grecian divinities who in the main control the visible world and are protective. Alas, it is but a wish, a grand fantasy to give us hope that in the end there resides a high purpose to heretofore unspeakable sacrifices and atrocities of early and current development. We pray that our departed loved ones have not died just to be tagged by p

Reply to Thursday in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Try hitting the return several times after each paragraph.

Reply to Class Warfare: or telling it like it is? in Politics JoeUser Forums

I've noticed you're a stickler for stats; yet your outrageous comments are never backed up. If you include upward mobility for a college kid working at McDonald's for tuition and then upon graduation works as a waiter or waitress in a swank restaurant, then I agree upward mobility has been on the rise. And how do you explain all the baby boomers?

Reply to The beggining of the Fascist Era ... in blog form ! in Welcome JoeUser Forums

I doubt that you're serious about this site!

Service to The World in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Since the US is primarily a service oriented nation — 80% of GNP — did you ever wonder how the base economy of production can support all this? Of course, 20% is still a thriving, tidy sum, and apparently insufficient to carry the massive services on its shoulders — or is it? The spin-off effect is geometrical progression. Just as the efficient farmer needs to market his produce and therefore requires an initial service of packing and trucking, which in turn requires outlets for retail, so, too,

Reply to New years resolution in Misc JoeUser Forums

A resolution for you is that in light of courting a gal for over two years it's time for a commitment--take the giant step.

Reply to Thinking about education in Minnesota. in Misc JoeUser Forums

As for text books there should be less input from education professors and more from classroom teachers. Tests should be standardized to a point but allowing for cultural and demographic variables.

Tongue in Cheek On Women's Lib in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

‘74 PROPOSITION: Man apart from his mate is perversion; woman apart from her mate is equally so, both of whom are repressed and blind to the fissure of life that in the end must be welded by love. QUESTION Is Women’s Liberation a faddish hoax; is it a sob in the wilderness rustling the paranoia of the times?. Article 1 WL is based on the supposition that man denies woman the chance to become a person who is a subject rather than an object. Obj

Reply to Good Bye Year2003 in History JoeUser Forums

Agreed, a sovereign nation is sovereign, but non-combatant devices are essential in coercing a nation that is sovereign only to its crude leaders.

Reply to Reality?! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I'm gratified that both of you acknwledge the sadness and pathos of it all. I t appears that the common denominator reigns supreme, particularly when it makes money. Who would ever believe that Grammy Awards go to Rap "artists"--oh, for the days of Judy Garland!

Class Warfare: or telling it like it is? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Upward mobility has dropped dramatically since the golden years immediately following WWII and the GI Bill— thanks to college grads saddled with huge student loans and the fact there are fewer opportunities in an economy rigged for those of the inherited class — affirmative action for those with connections. Oh, one can argue till blue in the face that there are greater opportunities for the Horatio Algers by falling back on those who made it during the internet bubble by ignoring that thes

Reply to Why the left hates Bush in Politics JoeUser Forums

The crux of Bush winning the election was not the 3000 in Palm Beach, but that Gore failed to win his home state and therefore deserved to lose. Of course, Nader didn't help and is actually considering running again--ugh. Hatred is a strong word: I simply don't agree with GW's hardnose policy--I'm sure the survivors of the GIs feel the same way.

Reply to It's the right that's been naive about Iraq in Politics JoeUser Forums

The reality show endures in Iraq; there's little we can do about it now, just as the Reality shows on TV are apparently here to stay. Once war has begun, by definition its variables are unpredictable--anxieties are with us; for how long we don't know.

Reply to Mad Cow Disease in United States in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

The moral here is to be a vegetarian.

Reply to Successful Management in Business JoeUser Forums

Aye, a viable union would serve as a defense mechanism against bean-counters and so-called efficiency experts. Alas, as you know, Unions are ghosts of the past and today's workers know nothing of the good they contributed to make this country a thriving[not so now]middle class.

Reality?! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I remember very early television in the late 40s and early 50s when Hollywood only leased out silent films and grade B westerns from the early 30s that were awful. Actually it motivated TV to offer some very good programing by shifting the radio shows to television, like the Goldbergs, Jack Benny, and Milton Berle, along with some excellent, original drama broadcasts, such as “Marty” before it was a movie. Of course, the Soaps were simulcast as well. Because of the innovations to TV, Hollywood f