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 Author Thread: Creationism in schools
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
Msg: 269 (view)
 
Creationism in schools
Posted: 10/1/2012 7:24:07 PM
Nope. Because creationism is not a scientific idea. The burden of teaching creationism is just like the burden of teaching the lessons of Christ. It's the burden of the church, not the state school system.
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
Msg: 119 (view)
 
Has society bred stupidity?
Posted: 5/21/2012 3:09:20 PM
In an unintended way, I beleive so. It would be more accurate to say that the "automatic babysitter" that we call television has a lot to do with it. Personality and character are issues, because many people are merely embodying what the media has told them they should value.
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
Msg: 58 (view)
 
What would a perfect world look like?
Posted: 5/21/2012 3:00:58 PM
But hold on. Indeed, what are we considering to be a trait of perfection in this scenario?
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
Msg: 57 (view)
 
What would a perfect world look like?
Posted: 5/21/2012 2:59:43 PM
Even removing humanity doesn't make it perfect. It's not like things didn't die and get eaten until we showed up. That has always been happening since life began. Even without life, who will stand to call the universe and it's chance happenings "perfect" as it is? A perfect world really would have to have been planned by an omnipotent, omniscient being. You would know every reason for the action, and be hardwired to do everything this being intended you to do. The will of the planner would be undeniable.

That's as close to your "perfection" as I could imagine.
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
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Fish personalities not actual fish
Posted: 5/10/2012 1:48:12 PM
I thought hammerhead fit me pretty good. Both in the animal's uniqueness, and in the possible interperetation of one who is hard headed or stubborn.
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
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arboreal VS aquatic human evolution
Posted: 5/2/2012 3:27:52 PM
Actually, the main advantage of erect standing is in surveillence. Our running endurance stems from the fact that we have sweat glands, and thus do not overheat and die.
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
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Are we living on borrowed time?
Posted: 5/2/2012 3:19:52 PM
In the big picture, we still have a resource vs. population problem. We are indeed living on borrowed time. Just like the dinosaurs, evolutionary success sometimes sets a species up for it's own fall.

And yes, I realize not all of them are actually dead.
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
Msg: 149 (view)
 
No such thing as a selfless good deed?
Posted: 5/2/2012 2:59:10 PM
Maybe I've managed a couple. Just maybe. Talking about the subconscious, when it comes to things I did years ago, it's hard to say.
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
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Is Materialism wrong?
Posted: 5/2/2012 2:42:58 PM
It's wrong when it's all one considers. It's wrong when one measures themselves and everyone around them by the mythical "status" symbolism. It's wrong when they use objects as a facade of superiority over others. Admire character before matters of gain, it's a better path.
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
Msg: 81 (view)
 
Your Personal Philosophy
Posted: 4/16/2012 6:54:20 PM
It tends to change from time to time, sometimes drastically, sometimes less so.
Recently...
- It should be every human's prime directive to contribute to a more responsible posterity, so that we can leave our lives without the notion, or perhaps the knowledge, that dying was the best thing we ever did for Earth.
- In this way, we work toward being worthy of the technological power we have, instead of being more akin to a child with a loaded gun.
- The worse the things we begin to respect, the worse the things the unrespectful will do in turn. There is, in that sense and that one only, a social compass of good and evil.
- Morality will someday be expressed in logic instead of social mores.
Then there's my other mission which includes:
- Learning how to influence and control the way I think, so I can sculpt it myself.
- Find wisdom in all experience. In all feeling, in all concept, there are things to take from life if you just know how and where to look.
- Bring to the world what I've learned through my Prime Ethics and Mental Pioneering.
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
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Nothing unphysical exists
Posted: 4/16/2012 6:30:48 PM
But there, we get into some of our foggy frontiers when it comes to the mind. I agree with an earlier post, time will have to be the judge.
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
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Nothing unphysical exists
Posted: 4/16/2012 6:29:21 PM
You've merely repeated what I said. It has physical qualities, that would make it exist. It in itself is represented but not necessarily being composed of them. I will never see "nothing unphysical exists" on an EEG scan, at least not yet.
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
Msg: 31 (view)
 
Is this really the best we can do?
Posted: 4/16/2012 6:16:26 PM
Implying that nothing in our culture is run in a socialist manner is simply folly. The capitalism/communism debate is as bad as suggesting that a carnivorous animal is only a hunter or only a scavenger. In a 100% capitalist society, you would be absolutely miserable, either left to rot when the top of the pack tramples you, or bargaining and fighting day in and day out to stay in the running. Might as well call it the Greedy Man's Hell. In my opinion, a government that reverts to saying "only the strong survive", is defeating it's own purpose.
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
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Time Travel-Is it possible?
Posted: 4/14/2012 11:20:44 AM
If we found out there were other dimensions, then perhaps found out that one such dimension is further back in time, yet parallel to ours, we could travel to it and be back in time. Now, say that there were differences between the arrival time shift, and there somehow happened to be zero time shift on the return. You could end up back in time, yet in your own dimension, given that the nature of time doesn't automatically erase you out of existence backwards.
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
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Nothing unphysical exists
Posted: 4/14/2012 11:12:49 AM
Your opinion that nothing unphysical exists is definitely unphysical, yet has notable effects on what you are saying. You can effect it, it can effect others, it can effect you. Does it exist then? What about a woman's scorn? You will meet it as an obstacle to your objective just as surely as the end table in front of you. Existant?
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
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What about if Aliens dont exist , and we are it ?
Posted: 4/14/2012 11:05:15 AM
Didn't they find an imprint in a rock sampled on Mars of some sort of worm or microorganism of some sort? I'm thinking Mars was in the "goldilocks" zone at one point, maybe had life just like Earth, but is now well outside a habitable zone. It'll be the same for Earth at some point billions of years ahead.
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
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Is this really the best we can do?
Posted: 4/14/2012 10:58:33 AM
Well I guess I'll answer the title question anyway:
No, this isn't the best we can do. I dreamt of another world in which the international space station was an orbital colony. I was signing up for stuff and was about to take classes on daily operations, lol.
Mankind has some focus issues right now, cultural and economic. If we could get past that junk...
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
Msg: 199 (view)
 
Can culture advance without religion?
Posted: 4/8/2012 9:16:46 PM
Seeing how religions by their nature do not progress, one could say that we have to progress without religion, or we simply won't progress culturally.
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
Msg: 75 (view)
 
What about if Aliens dont exist , and we are it ?
Posted: 4/8/2012 9:03:05 PM
I don't consider it a possibility. The fact that it happened here almost assures that it has to happen elsewhere. Could we be the last ones to the party? Now there's a possibility...
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
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Finding the meaning of life!
Posted: 4/8/2012 7:42:28 PM
Life can definitely be a lesson, so long as one takes it upon themselves to look. I've been along many different lines of thought, many different trails, but from what I've been able to tell the universe has no interest or bias, toward or against life, and in fact is likely not capable of either. If we want our lives to mean something, it's up to us to make it mean something. It may not all be the same, but if we are being honest with ourselves and trying what we think we ought to, then we've done well. That's the gist of what I think.
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
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Let's hope it's just that I'm ugly, lol.
Posted: 4/8/2012 6:40:56 PM
Well, thanks. It's some advice to implement I guess. Wish I knew what the bigger picture actually looked like so I'm actually running with some kind of knowledge on the matter.
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
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Let's hope it's just that I'm ugly, lol.
Posted: 4/8/2012 5:51:13 PM
So, I've been on this thing, and I'm having a heck of a time;
1. describing myself
2. getting a date
- More focused obviously on this half of the equation.

I've been trying to find people, but the ones I do find take one look at my profile, then I hear nothing back. This cycle will probably just continue, but it's just about the only place I'd find someone. What's up?
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
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cutting people out of your life
Posted: 3/25/2012 4:23:16 PM
I've done it a few times, some bridges I burn because the person has changed, whether I can no longer condone their actions or they're just intolerably arrogant suddenly. I cut another one out because I myself just seemed to annoy them unless they needed something from me. They just aren't the kind I keep around.
 RainGrimoire
Joined: 2/2/2011
Msg: 103 (view)
 
How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 3/25/2012 4:11:44 PM
The first occurence, it was a mutated version of my father (who isn't in reality so bad). I got up the street to my grandmother's house, and I asserted that if he tried to enter, he would be destroyed. He did try to enter, and so he was destroyed.
 
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