Tag: intelligence
group name: forall
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August 22, 2007 10:56 AM EDT --
I want a new word to be born. I am so often subject to guilt by association, in the form of various terms based on the word ‘Christian’, that I simply wish there were a word people . . . more
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July 24, 2007 09:29 PM EDT --
Ah yes, that silly, but well meaning man . . . so incompetent, so dogmatic, so unintelligent . . . why, he could never become the dictator of America. He’s obviously too stupid, . . . more
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June 12, 2007 11:34 AM EDT --
It’s all the rage, and apparently has been from the get-go, to proclaim some wonderful thing we have concluded to be true, and insist that all ought to agree with it. It’s that last . . . more
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January 29, 2007 07:54 PM EST --
I think we’re going down. I think we’ve crossed a line, reached a "tipping point", entered a death spiral from which we cannot pull out. Like the cartoon character . . . more
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January 31, 2007 09:29 PM EST --
That’s right folks, we’re in a very complex universe. This can be quite frustrating, and it can lead to much mischief, and many difficult decisions, but . . . would you really . . . more
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February 09, 2007 08:39 PM EST --
It is clear that a human being cannot be absolutely certain of anything. Regardless of what one may think is true at any given moment, it is conceivable that one is dreaming, drugged, mentally . . . more
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February 22, 2007 09:19 AM EST --
Roughly a million years ago, when I was a young boy, Len told me a joke. Len was my grandfather, but I didn’t know that at the time. He was my step-grandfather actually, and that, when one . . . more
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June 18, 2007 08:07 AM EDT --
Money is: Human labor.
It is something people will accept in exchange for their effort, on the assumption that such a something can later be exchanged for the work of other people. If people . . . more
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February 20, 2007 06:22 PM EST --
When we eat a bite of fresh ripe fruit some very pleasant things happen.
When we eat a piece of delicious candy, similar, but more pleasurable things happen. Candy is stuff created specifically . . . more
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February 24, 2007 11:25 PM EST --
For there to be meaningful dialog, one must be aware of ones own interests and motivations. I see little indication that you are. How one approaches a matter has a great impact on what is perceived. . . . more
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May 17, 2007 08:54 PM EDT --
"Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods . . .
except he first bind the strong man?"
It is a very good thing that our President is a decent . . . more
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November 22, 2007 08:31 PM EST --
There is a logic which, if employed, results in a rather convincing illusion. The logic goes; To be free, the mind must not be encumbered by belief in any specific "truths" or . . . more
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February 16, 2007 10:00 AM EST --
If I think of someone doing something cruel or destructive, something happens inside me. I can feel it happening, and I don’t like that feeling. If I think of someone doing something . . . more
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March 20, 2007 09:04 PM EDT --
No one can make you understand anything. You are free to not get it. This however, is not really an indication that what is being presented is irrational, or even difficult to grasp. It . . . more
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June 26, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
Humans are capable of a vast array of feelings. Some so subtle they go virtually unnoticed as we contemplate things, or interact with others. Some overwhelmingly powerful, and liable to "sweep . . . more
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July 05, 2007 04:30 PM EDT --
I remember seeing something in a movie, called ‘El Mondo Cani’ I believe, which illustrated something very basic about human fallibility. There were these folks on a remote island, . . . more
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November 26, 2007 07:29 PM EST --
It’s become all the rage these days to rail against religion, and when done, there is generally a very unflattering "package" of ideas and images drawn from, for fuel. . . . more
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February 25, 2008 01:34 PM EST --
Children who are fed INADEQUATE amounts of a key nutrient will have inadequate brain growth and development resulting in lower IQ's, reduced language development, and slower fine motor development. . . . more
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November 17, 2007 09:04 PM EST --
There is a rather bizarre view of what the Bible tells us, which has come to dominate most discussions of it’s nature, and the nature of what is happening in the long term sense . . . more
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June 15, 2007 08:44 PM EDT --
We are going insane. We are losing our collective grip on sanity, and it has little to do with our stance on various "issues", or our devotion to various "values".
A person . . . more
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