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Ruphus
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RE: Learn everything (in reply to hamia)
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Richard, Your school experience quite ressembles mine, with most remarkable personal exception that my learning by heart used to be rudimentary ( and still is ), leaving me with mediocre performance at given didactics, which again often times got noted below objective level, as means of taking revanche against my unadapted ways of thinking. In the subjects of music and history there even was to be coped with original nazis for a while, which wouldn´t do it any better. There were times when teachers didn´t even need to disguise their personal dislike, and when their ways of grading would be immune against questioning by official rules. And I don´t agree that they couldn´t be doing better. There have on the contrary always been pedagogics like Moore around who were able to demonstrate human understanding, democratic approach, individual support, tolerance and goodwill, notwithstanding common standards of their individual times. It´s like with soldiers in the field. Some allow themselves to do crimes as allowed while a minority retain humane consciousness. - Last time that I analyzed to a teacher what an arbitrary, suppressing and creativity-killing spirit he was, the guy got furious instead of rethinking. quote:
ORIGINAL: hamia There seem to be lots of forces conspiring to bring about the end of civilization. Religion is a big culprit. I used to think that the world would evolve so that people became more rational and scientific minded but it doesn't seem to be happening. The internet has to take some of the blame - a breeding ground for conspiracy theorists and religious fruitcakes. Eugenics is the way forward. It's got a bad name for some reason but it could be our only hope. First of all, it didn´t need the occurrence of internet for mythology or conspiracy to front. Secondly, your equating of existence-threatening conditions with the phenomenon of religion only indicates that you are neglecting profane facts. If not neglecting, you would be realizing since the past ~ 5 years at the latest, how scientifical evaluation and prognosis on environmental conditions are increasingly turning out worse than predicted ( meanwhile revised / updated to the worse roughly every 3 months). Considering these life threatening news as "conspiracy", only shows that you ignore facts for inability to bear the truth ( and maybe for indignation to support endeavours to change ). And what the downhill of civilization in terms of degenrating culture is concerned, science is gradually confirming the very obvious developments that have been taking place since almost 50 years now. It is understandable how you might be wanting things idle, but seriously degrading conditions won´t go away by wearing pink glasses. You don´t want crumbling ethics, reign of mafia, dispossession of the people through mercyless and irresponsible profit policies, dying oceans and deserting continents, pure insanity? Then better have a closer look at the mentioning of circumstances that you preferred to deem as mere hysterical conspiracy. Nasty facts can only be tackled after realizing. - To be frank: You guys with that stubborn ignorance leave me desperate. How the heck are you expecting to be going on in 20 years, when its is recoreded today that 150 species are going extinct every single day!? And what the steadily advancing deserting, burning down / lumbering of 1 mio hectares yearly of forest and toxicating of waters is concerned: Of what size do guys like you actually fancy this planet, that it could be taking all this yet for decades, with you then proceeding still like every year, taking showers, hacking your steaks and going outdoor to watch some wildlife? The earth at dimensions of a Jupiter, or what? I would seriously like to know how such blue eyes work. Is it exclusively reading the sports part of the papers, programming one´s TV for only movies ( or maybe merely FOX news?), taking certain pills, or an isolating layer in the brain; how does it function? How in the world? Ruphus
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