GENIUS FORUMS

1otherS wrote:The Earth will survive in a more cerebral, less instinctual way when we are to follow Kierkegaard's advice.

Do you agree?

I don't know what you mean.

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Instead of only satisfying our Bodily needs, all Mankind will gradually pursue more intellectual goals. Imagine people all over the world adopting Gandhi's main mentality: Peaceful resistance and vegetarianism causing a serious diminishing of human and animal suffering.

Now combine that with Kierkegaard's abstinence-stance leading us to less diseases, unwanted children. Which leads us again to a lower populated and thus more comfortable World, I think.

That makes sense. I just found your language about "ruining this Body we call Planet Earth" and "the Earth surviving in a more cerebral, less instinctual way" confusing.

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Do you also find this solution possible to realise?

Not unless reason takes off as a meme.

Agreed, Dan. If you were a highschool-educator, how would you go about 'installing' this Reason-meme?

Which specific philosophies would you teach?