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Guns, guns, their noisy, irresistible toot. The more one has, the more one wants to shoot. The more who shoot, likely more is killed. Let’s have open carry, that all may be thrilled (or chilled). AK forty-sevens and AR fifteens, the NRA rage. Dealers galore are on the same page! FEAR...

Okay, she didn't think this thing through (like getting the DA, police chief and others on the same page before taking action). But she raises the debate about guns to a higher level. -- At least I hope so. We need all the ADULTS at the negotiating table! My wife and I own 4-handguns, a rifle...

Bully for Lujan Grisham! Somebody had to step forward to thwart the gun violence in this country! Why should she not have the right of trying to save unnecessary deaths -- it is her duty! The availability of rapid firing weapons is an effrontery to civilized citizens. Why Biden has not...

Sorry ML, for my flippant response. I have googled 'emergent properties' and have found a host of articles about it -- very interesting! And AB, I think that emergent properties, after studying what I have researched, ontology is more than likely supported by EM. Thank you for lifting the...

Imagination is a wonderful thing. You are free to conjure up whatever you want and say "prove me wrong."

Like I have said before, moral ontology is not innate -- not a given. As John Quincey Adams' biographer quoted him generally as saying: "We are not born with a moral code -- it has to be taught. And it is taught by the various schools, churches and synagogues round the country ..." Whether...

Since ontology is that part of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being, why does it have to have the adjective 'objective' to describe it? Of course, one can be objective about ontology or not. It seems to me that ontology is a very personal entity -- much akin to opinion, which brings...

In the various nations' constitutions. In their various ethical and judicial courts of law (which in theocracies are a mixed bag with "the one and only true" religion). Theocratic justice systems are much different than Western systems. That is why the World Court cannot fully function as...

REALLYY! An innocuous self-help effort is stymied by your mind's mediocrity. I had hopes for your website but this action and the inability to start a thread has caused me to bug off.

It has been and will continue to be a trial and error process -- there is nothing innate about it. Understand, our existence is a fortuitous accident of the Cosmos, as yet nowhere else to be found in the universe. How can we intelligently assume an innate (given) morality state otherwise?

Yes there is -- our judicial system (as lame as it is). There is nothing in evolution that dictates that human evolution will somehow spill over to other species.

I admire your last sentence, and I answer your post: that embracing spirituality is not necessary to finding inner peace and happiness.

One skeptic, Einstien, spent little time in the lab. His methods were "thought" experiments -- a sort of intense, disciplined meditation. He was capable of turning meditation into enlightenment-- no easy feat. Most every intelligent human being has wondered about the origin of life and the...

Swami: If you are referring to materialism as facts (matter and energy being all), then I guess I am a materialist. Or are you referring to materialism as being the acquisition of expensive toys to be put on display to impress others? I can tell you that my wife and I live very simply, not...

Exactly! Those prospects you speak of are too smart to run for the office. The political parties need to get off their arses and draft good candidates! Someone thick-skinned enough to ignore the media.

I think Joe Manchin is an opportunist. He certainly hasn't paid his dues to the Democratic Party! And he thrives on being a controversial figure -- like an enigma (if he knows what that word means). He is no Ralph Nader (whom I admired until he syphoned off votes from Al Gore in Florida in...

Yeah, too many believe in it, just like too many believe in Trump's lies -- many of the latter are religious believers! They find solace in the fuzzy blanket of security it affords. Lies told over and over become truth to these susceptible people. To those of religion facts are secondary to...

This is a good and important thread! AB and M; you are entirely right. More candidates of both parties must step up to break the same old, same old of the last eight years. Biden does deserve credit for keeping the economy humming, but I'm a bit leary of his age. My choice too, is a man who...

SVA, I seriously disagree! My suicidal thoughts of my youth were only mitigated when I dropped the baggage of religion. My mother committed suicide and she was religious. Her sister died in a mental institution and she was religious. This is all spelled out in my brief self-help book, "Are...