Friends and Colleagues, The US has committed insufficient troops to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to bring the wars to conclusions. Could it be that the...
Friends and colleagues, The reference to the subject paper is http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/406/3?etoc . This paper will appear in...
Friends and colleagues, John's post of the article by Neal Brandvik (appended below my signature subject to Bill's discretion as to how much should be...
I think I have responded to your writing on morals before, but it was some time ago. I am disturbed that I found no mention of the inter-dependence of human...
Arthur, Good to hear from you. I shall consider your criticisms carefully. Undoubtedly, your complaint about the many omissions is well taken. I hope to...
Tom, Good to hear from you, too. Perhaps I should have emphasized more the need for society to be a team, rather than denigrating the capacity of the common...
Friends, colleagues, allies, and detractors, In my general post about boycotting Exxon-Mobil I wrote that "the price of gas is determined by energy returned...
Jay, Much has been said in this forum concerning Human Nature. Is it possible that we have been confusing Human Nature with Animal Nature? I have been...
Unfortunately, the long URLs used by Yahoo to point to files archived on Yahoo group websites are not amenable to tinyurls. The broken links, then, are...
... I'm interested to hear the difference between human "nature" and "animal" nature. On a related note, a link to a recent article on animal (including us ...
Beau, Thanks for replying. Presumably, human nature is animal nature refracted by the prism of logic. I copied this from the truthout link: More discomfiting...
clipped from: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RunningOnEmptyPolitics ... That's been my mini-/semi-project for the last few years. "Semi" because I have too many...
... So, I'm not alone! I've been trying to tell neo-con Christians for years I was the "conservative," and they were the "radicals." I'm not sold on ...
... Note added in proof, from the evol-psych list. The moderator's comment at the bottom is important; i.e. remember that America IS exceptional in this...
One more thing, then I'll stop (promise). --AEL http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_03/008409.php March 12, 2006 Guest: Steve Waldman I...
it's my opinion that little can be done about those baby boomers who harbour a seemingly irrational hatred of religion it's my opinion that little can be done...
Beau, You wrote: And while I have major problems with growth capitalism, I still believe there must be some sensible middle way, whereby we can have the simple...
The URL for the subject paper is http://www.rmbowman.com/catholic/econom2.htm . Dear Archbishop Bowman, You wrote: We must work toward a system which balances...
I agree that faith in something seems to be part of human nature. It isn't hard to see why. We get faced with needing to make decisions about how we will...
the issue is hatred hatred is by its very nature damaging to your health hatred is always predicated on belief yet all belief is flawed therefore there is...
This goes too far. Empirical observations can tell us about ethics and beauty, about right and wrong. Possibly Michael Lerner doesn't like the answers...
... We might be arguing definitions here. I would agree that anger can be damaging to your health if it goes on too long, anger is usually fueled by adrenaline...
<It is not enough to believe it can be done. We need a model that shows it working. I don't see such a model and because of basic principles around ...
anger is healthy - it is a healthy emotional response to stimuli though being in a state of anger can disadvantage you when the need is for cool-headedness ...
Ah, but he did in fact talk about whether people were deserving or not. In the parable of the assembly of the wedding party, when the wedding party was...
Some of what you list I would say, yes, that is a potential example of shooting yourself in the foot, to hate a large group of people around race, ethnicity,...
I mostly agree. The only thing I have a problem with is the idea that we can do much with local communities. If those local communities are made up of people...
hate liars? yet you also are a liar. you are human yes? then you must be a liar - because ALL humans lie - with the exception of a small number of people who...
... I modified what I said about my hatred of lying, no need to start sifting gnats and swallowing camels. I wrote I was most concerned about lies that...
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