Recent content by Existential1

The responsibilities are to the meek, and the poor, and the lame: those who simply do not have what it takes, to compete in dialogue shaped to the fulfillment of author's agendas. There is the responsibility to truth, to technical accuracy. There is responsibility to one who sugested we love...

In Europe there is a notion that rights entail responsibilities. In the USA there seems to be an understanding that the rights have such absolute importance: that any introduction of responsibilities is to be fought off, with all means available. My concern is that the USA understanding is...

The antithesis between faith and fact doesn't fly. All being resides epigenetically in faith. We create ourselves and our worlds, in divining assumption. The world associated with faith which endures, becomes fact. Go back down the faith line, reverse engineer any fact, and you retrieve...

Kerry and Edwards wont move on this, even perspectivally, until and if they are elected. Prediction: K&E will attempt an intellectual paradigm shift, a la Roosevelt New Deal; perhaps a la New Society of the 60's/70's; perhaps a la Tony Blair as he moved away from Old Labour. The crisis is as...

Thank you for this link. The article lists a number of cases which have involved application of such laws. Together they seem to show how well the law is working: simply in raising awareness in others, as to how important it is to go the extra mile in faith; not to be distracted into hasty...

Stalin controlled what you thought. These laws refer to what it is criminal to say. You may think what you will, freedom of conscience is preserved. Witness is preserved; you can share whatever you like with a fellow subcriber. Illegality is courted, when what you say is in open public...

I just want, at this point, to log into the debate of this thread. I'm plodding through the early postings, and they are very good: so I have to take time; and it could be some time before I can read through to current postings. But, first thoughts. I welcome the added perspectival dimension...

I've also seen on TV, supposedly therapeutic or remedial approaches to ADD and autistic children, which were very assertive and restraining, suppressing the child's own perspective: which extended to reccomending parents go in for whole body pinning down; in order to get the child to learn to...

"A Swedish court has sentenced Ake Green, a pastor belonging to the Pentecostal movement, to a month in prison, under a law against incitement, after he was found guilty of having offended homosexuals in a sermon, according to Ecumenical News International. Green had described homosexuality...

I'm saying that their culpability goes much deeper than anyhting you suggest. Namely, that this pair took two countries to war against another, based on their own conviction, and their own perspective of conviction: I'm saying that we went to war, crucially, because we had two somewhat...

At the time, of the parts played by GWB post 9/11: this was the only one that I could endorse; I saw a real human being, processing the inconcievable, and I could like the man. As soon as he was again script driven, he left me cold: and my opinion of GWB has gone steadily downhill from there...

What would concern me, would be getting to some understanding of something, that was useful: that might even, God forbid, begin to deal with old fashioned qualities, like truth, fact, data, reason, suggestion. Where dialogue takes place in a wind tunnel of prejudice (pre-judgement not very much...

Not having been reared on the sanctity of freedom of speech: I find dialogue sustained in a prejudice tornado, distressing and unprofitable; reality or truth, its very possibility, is shredded. However, even that principle of free speech, presumably, has to be qualified in seeing it...