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The Chinese culture causes madness, especially in women. Women are not only not valued, but in many ways, seen as a liability. Women are expected to work harder, longer hours. Female infants have been seen as such a liability that China's one child policy caused most female infants to be abandoned, ...

much of humanity, certainly almost all Americans, have way too large of an ego to listen. And yet you appear to see no problem in eating its current major fruit like its various political-scientific conclusions on climate? Perhaps you think science safeguards us all from ego? Either I misread that,...

Things do change, and significantly, outside of human influence. This does not negate the fact that humans have had, are having, and can continue to have an impact. You, Deebs, seem to be supporting the unconscious flow of nature, while I am supporting the conscious planning and wise intentional act...

Pam Seeback wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2017 11:50 pm
Someone having a strong opinion about politics is the perfect place to start, not in the context of debating content but in the context of questioning the nature of the "I" that feels so strongly about this (and not that).

Sounds good. Basically change the topic to philosophy.

A few months old, but still relevant: When Will Climate Change Make Earth Too Hot for Humans?

While no one storm is a pattern, and many people have made excuses about why so many record-breaking weather events have happened recently. how many weird events have to take place this year before just about everybody, including most Americans, start believing that this is real, and that since we c...

Impermanence is permanent.

Is anyone here good at explaining why we should care about philosophy to someone who knows nothing at all about it? No idea about enlightenment, metaphysics, ultimate reality, or anything like that? Start by discussing something that they are interested in. Don't get too heavy too quickly. I find t...

Too bad we can't just use Harvey water and Bangladesh water to put out the fires throughout the west coast of the US. Good luck with Irma, people. Did you actually ask why "we" can't just "use" Harvey or Bangladesh water to put out fires throughout the US west coast? Well, I gue...

You' seem dishonest here Elizabeth. just changing the goal posts at will > you always win! My post was not addressing any "fires" and neither was yours. You say I seem dishonest, and as evidence you flat out lie to me? Found my timeline prediction (March 9, 2007, this thread). Okay, I kno...

Deebs, good job at totally ignoring the fires, and reclassifying the pattern of worse conditions as "one event" I didn't bother to update to include Katia, Jose, or Maria, but if you want an actual single marking event, seems like we've really done it this time: https://www.forbes.com/site...

Found my timeline prediction (March 9, 2007, this thread). Okay, I know now that the tidal wave theory was off, but I was on target for when we would see major effects from global warming. Too bad we can't just use Harvey water and Bangladesh water to put out the fires throughout the west coast of t...

Trump is a disaster, and Kevin's support of him makes me wonder if Kevin has gone mad. The notion that Trump will drive out the feminine does not fly with me because I see precious little about Trump that this forum would call masculine. I see greed, self-absorption. and an undisciplined temperament.

OK I will revamp 11. There is infinite energy propelling all things. I think you are creating a false dichotomy. You are proposing that there is an "infinite energy" that is separate from all things, which somehow still leaves room for all things. Things and energy are ultimately one, and...

Diebert, would you please explain your perspective more fully, as I don't see how anything, save possibly the Absolute itself, is uncaused. Even the Absolute could possibly be argued to be self caused, thereby not uncaused.

OK I will revamp 11. There is infinite energy propelling all things. I think you are creating a false dichotomy. You are proposing that there is an "infinite energy" that is separate from all things, which somehow still leaves room for all things. Things and energy are ultimately one, and...

Consciousness exists (insomuch as anything exists), but it is caused.

Not only is there nothing that is True behind the scenes, there is no lower-case truth that we can all agree on. And it should be that way. No, yes but irrelevant, and no. There is Truth behind the scenes, in front of the scenes, in the scenes. The scenes are Truth. Lower case truth does not requir...

Thanks for the better article about the reef. Yeah, about the same planets theory, although Dan's birthday is the day after mine, due to the international dateline, our birthdays do overlap, so maybe you have something there ;) I'm fine. I was in a shelter a couple of months, and am in transitional ...

Actually have not heard from or about Dan in years. How's he doing? And anyone else for that matter. Anyway, one eye-opening proxy for the past temperature is the most recent GRIP2 ice-core analysis in Greenland. Some of the most recent reconstructions... Interesting that you would use the term &quo...

I was looking for my original prediction because this looks kind of like what I think I remember predicting, but I can't find it. Oh well, this is interesting anyway:
Climate Catastrophe Will Hit Tropics Around 2020, Rest Of World Around 2047, Study Says

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Very close, but I can't completely agree. Man's immaturity is not self-incurred, but caused by preceding factors. Although there have been individual exceptions, mankind has not ever been a mature species. Immaturity is the inabili...

Urizen, I think that we are saying basically the same thing, but using different language. I just want to clear up some semantics to make sure. Spirituality certainly involves experience, but the Absolute as such is beyond all experience. One can not experience the whole of the Absolute without bein...