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February 23rd, 2011, 10:56 am

Spectrum wrote:However, Christianity is not effective in the long run for the progress of humanity.
At best, the maximum it can reach is grade-school levels on the spirituality scale while Buddhism max range reaches up to the PhD levels.

I strongly disagree. Christianity teaches spirituality, and at the same time tells that you cannot find the true path unless you help others as well. I find this idea very useful for the future of humanity.

February 22nd, 2011, 2:32 am

Ask your Self this: What do you want from life and from your Self? It lies in your power to be what you want, and you can have it. The search is not "out there", but rather within.

Hope this helps.

February 22nd, 2011, 2:25 am

(quote not shown) Buddism seems more dangerous to me. First it renounces the idea of the Self, and calls it suffering. Then it demands all people adopt to it through their own insight. Renounce the Self and your sufferings will be gone. This includes allowing suffering. Buddists do good, but they do...

February 22nd, 2011, 2:06 am

I'm voting for subjective and objective as well. My main stand is that reality is subjective to all, but not all subjectivity is good "enough", if you know what i mean.

February 15th, 2011, 8:41 am

If I believe that I am handsome, I will feel handsome, and will project handsomeness, therefore people will see me as...handsome!

If I believe in God, I will feel God and God's power. And is that not the truest proof of God's existence?

February 14th, 2011, 2:42 pm

I am not sure what meaning there is in satisfying the flesh, but everyone is different. I'd say the meaning exists, but not everyone has found it.

February 11th, 2011, 1:52 am

(quote not shown) I'd have to say that the argument does lie in whether or not the baby is just as human at the start of growth as it is when it emerges from the womb or one hour, 2 min, and 37.32 sec before the beginning of the last week of pregnancy, etc. It seems you think the issue is the mother...

February 10th, 2011, 4:16 am

(quote not shown) That doesn't strike you as inapropriately dismissive? It's certainly dishonest, and a barrier to meaningful discussion. Or do you believe that we don't need to have a meaningful, honest discussion of abortion? What is so meaningful about blaming the victims and calling them murdere...

February 10th, 2011, 4:14 am

(quote not shown) I disagree because there is a lot of humans who do care for orphans and also that anyone's parents can die suddenly, making one's children an orphan. And being sold into a bondage requires growing up within a bondage. The mere knowledge of humans being raised without love, care and...

February 9th, 2011, 11:09 am

(quote not shown) That may, but need not, be true. After all, my post demonstrates that one can be pro-choice without pretending that pregnancy is just a sexually transmitted disease. Moreover, even were such a stance impossible, to dismiss the position of one's opponent as the product of emotionali...

February 9th, 2011, 11:05 am

(quote not shown) I rest upon science, biology and zoology.I think that actual human nature is the nature of the predatory pack animal. A basic difference between the natures of humans and other predatory pack animals such as wolves is that humans learn creatively and with reference to their stores ...

February 9th, 2011, 2:12 am

(quote not shown) That is one, extremely biased and deroratory, interpretation of the disagreement. Another is that every single instance of the question calls for a synthesis of the good of the child, the good of the mother, and the good of indefinitely many social units who will be affected by the...

February 9th, 2011, 2:08 am

(quote not shown) Indeed it might; this hypothesis is at the root of much pop psychology, most notably Dale Carnegie's famous work, and it seems to have some efficacy in practice. Unfortunately, that's nothing to do with this discussion-- you said that a faith in human goodness was necessary for for...

February 9th, 2011, 2:01 am

Love!

Care for others. Smile towards them. Be polite. Wish them well. Help them when needed. Do not think that you must do something grand, do something little instead. If people do not return the favour, do not force them/do not rise to evil. Do not demand anything.

And so on...

February 9th, 2011, 1:57 am

(quote not shown) Yeah, that's why in my example we only do it once. Or, let's restrict my one-time roundup to orphan babies, or to the product of zygotes sold into it, so nobody who has the capacity to fear the future will have anything to fear. Cannot orphans fear? And cannot there be fear from kn...

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