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How would you do that anyway with just 64 characters?NOBODY is practicing critical thinking on social media or EVEN in the "squawking head panel" version of event/news analysis.. ..
When God gives you every plant and animal for YOUR benefit and asks politely -- just don't mess with MY fruit tree -- that's somehow elevated into a symbol for remaining remaining dumb and stupid.. That's more than idiosyncratic navigation...
You actually think the "Tree of Knowledge" is best understood to be a fruit tree?
When God gives you every plant and animal for YOUR benefit and asks politely -- just don't mess with MY fruit tree -- that's somehow elevated into a symbol for remaining remaining dumb and stupid.. That's more than idiosyncratic navigation...
You actually think the "Tree of Knowledge" is best understood to be a fruit tree?
In the same fashion that the Torah is often referred to as the Tree of Life? Sure.. In Hebrew, it's not a tree of SIMPLY knowledge. It's a tree of knowledge of GOOD and EVIL... Picking at THAT tree and experimenting with Good/Evil is simply a harder life than relying on the commandments and good will in that Tree of Life book that God authored...
This all says NOTHING about being cursed to remain stupid.. Says NOTHING about Jews not winning their fairer share of Nobel prizes or EXCELLING in difficult tasks.. It's simply laying out a map for where you GRAZE when determining your moral structure..
Not a weapon of God in any way to restrict your ability to explore and reason and create...
Holy crap, what an incredibly interesting, big-picture topic. Kudos, big time.Are we doomed to continuing to use the brain in excess of our power to control ourselves, thus sooner or later eliciting extinction from the universe?
An interesting point about our race is that small groups and individuals often establish the essentials for next steps on the grand scale. Small example; Gorbachev, despite being the product of a severe political system had the realism to peacefully resolve the impasse of Soviet decline. I would have thought the 'old régime' would at least have used its military might to hang on till the end.Holy crap, what an incredibly interesting, big-picture topic. Kudos, big time.Are we doomed to continuing to use the brain in excess of our power to control ourselves, thus sooner or later eliciting extinction from the universe?
It's as if there is a race going on - will our emotions win and we use what we have created to destroy ourselves, or will our intellect win and allow us to control our baser impulses before it's too late?
Early returns are not promising, not when we have people who choose to create and live in essentially 17th century conditions looking to destroy others with 21st century tech. It also does appear that we're allowing technology to replace our most important critical thinking skills.
One thing we may not have realized as we continued to develop more advanced materials and technology was that those very things would make us intellectually lazy and reliant. And, perhaps most dangerous of all, incurious. We see that across our culture and (obviously) politics right now. Our best qualities are fading.
Where does that lead us next?
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Yeah, there are a few examples of intellect overcoming dogma, but not nearly enough at the moment. And the trajectory certainly seems to be going in the opposite direction.An interesting point about our race is that small groups and individuals often establish the essentials for next steps on the grand scale. Small example; Gorbachev, despite being the product of a severe political system had the realism to peacefully resolve the impasse of Soviet decline. I would have thought the 'old régime' would at least have used its military might to hang on till the end.Holy crap, what an incredibly interesting, big-picture topic. Kudos, big time.Are we doomed to continuing to use the brain in excess of our power to control ourselves, thus sooner or later eliciting extinction from the universe?
It's as if there is a race going on - will our emotions win and we use what we have created to destroy ourselves, or will our intellect win and allow us to control our baser impulses before it's too late?
Early returns are not promising, not when we have people who choose to create and live in essentially 17th century conditions looking to destroy others with 21st century tech. It also does appear that we're allowing technology to replace our most important critical thinking skills.
One thing we may not have realized as we continued to develop more advanced materials and technology was that those very things would make us intellectually lazy and reliant. And, perhaps most dangerous of all, incurious. We see that across our culture and (obviously) politics right now. Our best qualities are fading.
Where does that lead us next?
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What if someone or group developed technology that would prohibit humanity's self destructive tendencies?
In any case, it doesn't look as if we could count on collective intelligence. All that grey matter currently applies itself to illusion and waste.
"Good" and "evil" are only in the universe in so far that they are in the mind of man.
Christ returns.Holy crap, what an incredibly interesting, big-picture topic. Kudos, big time.Are we doomed to continuing to use the brain in excess of our power to control ourselves, thus sooner or later eliciting extinction from the universe?
It's as if there is a race going on - will our emotions win and we use what we have created to destroy ourselves, or will our intellect win and allow us to control our baser impulses before it's too late?
Early returns are not promising, not when we have people who choose to create and live in essentially 17th century conditions looking to destroy others with 21st century tech. It also does appear that we're allowing technology to replace our most important critical thinking skills.
One thing we may not have realized as we continued to develop more advanced materials and technology was that those very things would make us intellectually lazy and reliant. And, perhaps most dangerous of all, incurious. We see that across our culture and (obviously) politics right now. Our best qualities are fading.
Where does that lead us next?
.
Intellect can never overcome dogma because dogma is above intellect being based fairly directly on axiomatic Truths, at least as perceived by the believers.Yeah, there are a few examples of intellect overcoming dogma, but not nearly enough at the moment.
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Christ returns.Holy crap, what an incredibly interesting, big-picture topic. Kudos, big time.Are we doomed to continuing to use the brain in excess of our power to control ourselves, thus sooner or later eliciting extinction from the universe?
It's as if there is a race going on - will our emotions win and we use what we have created to destroy ourselves, or will our intellect win and allow us to control our baser impulses before it's too late?
Early returns are not promising, not when we have people who choose to create and live in essentially 17th century conditions looking to destroy others with 21st century tech. It also does appear that we're allowing technology to replace our most important critical thinking skills.
One thing we may not have realized as we continued to develop more advanced materials and technology was that those very things would make us intellectually lazy and reliant. And, perhaps most dangerous of all, incurious. We see that across our culture and (obviously) politics right now. Our best qualities are fading.
Where does that lead us next?
.
As we now know that "matter" itself is illusion, what is declared in the above post affirms what was said earlier about "good" and "evil". These are 'things' that, after all, are the manifestations of how we perceive combined with how the mind works. They are equally "real", meaning equally subjective."Good" and "evil" are only in the universe in so far that they are in the mind of man.
No, good and evil are as real as the matter in your hand, and they do far more constructive and destructive things than man will ever find enough oil to duplicate.
So how real would a bullet in your head be? Purely subjective?As we now know that "matter" itself is illusion, what is declared in the above post affirms what was said earlier about "good" and "evil". These are 'things' that, after all, are the manifestations of how we perceive combined with how the mind works. They are equally "real", meaning equally subjective.
Well, you can serve THAT summons.Check his DNA.Christ returns.Where does that lead us next?
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If a bullet were to pass through my brain, nothing would matter anymore.So how real would a bullet in your head be? Purely subjective?As we now know that "matter" itself is illusion, what is declared in the above post affirms what was said earlier about "good" and "evil". These are 'things' that, after all, are the manifestations of how we perceive combined with how the mind works. They are equally "real", meaning equally subjective.
I am not threatening you, I hope you realize that, but I am making a point.
Reality is that intrusive environment we 'live' in that forces us to change our behavior given certain circumstances.
So Love, integrity, morals, good, evil, sine and cosine are all intangible but nonetheless very real and exist at some level.
Not everything that matters is matter.
If a bullet were to pass through my brain, nothing would matter anymore.
Agreed, and that's what has me concerned here.Intellect can never overcome dogma because dogma is above intellect being based fairly directly on axiomatic Truths, at least as perceived by the believers.
