Sat 14 Nov, 2009 05:23 pm - Generally, I don't think one can dismiss the importance of ego, id, or superego as an apparatus for the functioning human mind and even consciousness. I think it is impossible to [U]not[/U]... (view)
Fri 3 Jul, 2009 09:32 am - I think natural selection has propagated humans with genetic violent tendencies. Humans have the potential for great violence because it has served our species. Violent behavior in a group of... (view)
Sun 17 May, 2009 01:13 pm - [quote=Bonaventurian]Even the Stoics, before the word of the Lord Jesus Christ was proclaimed to all men, understood that in nature there is a heirarchy of being, ranging from the... (view)
Sun 17 May, 2009 07:35 am - [SIZE=85]It could be argued that the Ten Commandments are a result of Adam eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This knowledge of good and evil (the tree) is the beginning of... (view)
Sun 3 May, 2009 11:43 am - [SIZE=85]The commandment was "thou shall not kill". What was the original intent of the command? What does it mean when we place modifiers onto it to allow killing of things we... (view)
Sun 3 May, 2009 07:11 am - OK, plants are not human or animal life. I find it interesting how easy it is to justify killing plants and how we regard life at various levels.
If you cut them do they not bleed?:bigsmile: (view)
Fri 1 May, 2009 06:58 pm - [SIZE=85]It is useful and pragmatic to make a distinction about the demarcation of imaginary possibility and practical reality. Would any of us reach out and expect to grab hold of a tiny mountain... (view)
Sun 4 Jan, 2009 04:05 pm - Good and evil are concepts. They are subjective distinctions or judgments that we make. It is usefull for us to make these determinations and so we navigate in the world applying them to all... (view)
