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No Political Zone Reminder
For our newbies, and our old-bies as well, just a quick reminder to read the two Sticky posts with regards to our focus and posting guidelines.
This is a No Politics Zone - by that I mean no partisan politics. Please control your urge to share your thoughts with this group about the current administration, the upcoming administration, the two major parties, and all politicos, with this group.
Marti In Mexico
This is a No Politics Zone - by that I mean no partisan politics. Please control your urge to share your thoughts with this group about the current administration, the upcoming administration, the two major parties, and all politicos, with this group.
Marti In Mexico
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GROUP PURPOSE AND POSTING GUIDELINES
This group dedicates itself primarily to considering the great eternal themes and universal ideas of a philosophical, metaphysical, and psychological nature. It is not a place to discuss politics - there are a number of excellent groups on Eons better suited for that. It is not a place to proselytize your religious affiliations. In discussions of life's philosophical and psychological issues, religion will naturally come into play, but this group is neither a camp meeting nor a pulpit.
Disparaging and denigrating remarks of any kind will be removed by the group administration without PM'ing the writer. We will not tolerate diatribes or name-calling. You may attack the idea, but not the poster.
While we will discuss most topics, this is NOT an anything-goes group. We will enforce the rules for civil discussion and maintain the peace so that all people feel comfortable in joining the discussion without fear of attack.
Needless to say, DO NOT POST SOMETHING YOU HAVE COPIED FROM ANOTHER SITE WITHOUT GIVING THE LINK TO THE SITE WHERE YOU GOT YOUR POST. Not to give credit to the original author and posting something as if you wrote it yourself is plagiarism. If I even smell it is an uncredited copy/paste job, out it goes.
GUIDELINES FOR POSTING:
- We will not accept videos without your commenting on their content.
- Loooong posts: please make a short teaser main post and put the bulk of your remarks in First Reply.
- We do not accept posts that contain only a View Link. Links should be in support of your point or observation, not the primary purpose of your post. If you feel compelled to post a link, please give a summary of its contents and your opinion or commentary on it.
Disparaging and denigrating remarks of any kind will be removed by the group administration without PM'ing the writer. We will not tolerate diatribes or name-calling. You may attack the idea, but not the poster.
While we will discuss most topics, this is NOT an anything-goes group. We will enforce the rules for civil discussion and maintain the peace so that all people feel comfortable in joining the discussion without fear of attack.
Needless to say, DO NOT POST SOMETHING YOU HAVE COPIED FROM ANOTHER SITE WITHOUT GIVING THE LINK TO THE SITE WHERE YOU GOT YOUR POST. Not to give credit to the original author and posting something as if you wrote it yourself is plagiarism. If I even smell it is an uncredited copy/paste job, out it goes.
GUIDELINES FOR POSTING:
- We will not accept videos without your commenting on their content.
- Loooong posts: please make a short teaser main post and put the bulk of your remarks in First Reply.
- We do not accept posts that contain only a View Link. Links should be in support of your point or observation, not the primary purpose of your post. If you feel compelled to post a link, please give a summary of its contents and your opinion or commentary on it.
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Infinite Physics Catastrophes
Does the disproved "Ultraviolet Catastrophe" provide us with a relevant model of a gravitational singularity such as that of the big bang or the hypothetical infinite mass of an object at the speed of light?
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"A sizable minority of Americans holds beliefs that have been thoroughly dispelled by science. About 40% believe in a biblical account of human origins and as many as 29% seem to think that the earth is at the center of the solar system. Public opinion is divided on the reality of global warming and some even think that the moon landing was a hoax. If there’s one thing we can be certain about, it’s that many Americans have a hard time distinguishing fact from fiction.
How could a country so scientifically and technologically advanced be awash with confusion, anti-science fanaticism, and conspiracy theories, one might wonder."
I couldn't think of a title to this post.
Twenty-nine percent of Americans think that the earth is the center of the solar system??????
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How could a country so scientifically and technologically advanced be awash with confusion, anti-science fanaticism, and conspiracy theories, one might wonder."
I couldn't think of a title to this post.
Twenty-nine percent of Americans think that the earth is the center of the solar system??????
You can read the rest of the article here. view link
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by MartiInMexico
Is It Morallly Reprehensible to Own an iPhone?
Recent media reports and ongoing protests over the reportedly abhorrent working conditions at factories where Apple's iPhones are produced have left socially conscious Americans with a dilemma: Is it ethical to own an iPhone?
Read the whole article here:
So what do you think? Is it?
Read the whole article here:
So what do you think? Is it?
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Apathy
The GOP presidential race has dominated the airwaves, the nightly news and the late-night comedy stages for months. But less than 1 percent of the county has actually cast a ballot in a Republican primary or caucus so far, eight of which took place in the past month.
And yet:
The super Bowl, the biggest game in American sports, posted the lowest attendance numbers in six years, but more people still went to the Super Bowl than voted in the Colorado, Minnesota, Nevada Republican primaries.
The pull of fried butter and Ferris wheels was stronger than that of polling booths and civic duty in Iowa this year. Nearly 10 times as many people attended the Iowa State Fair in August as voted in the Iowa Republican caucus last month.
Only 33,000 voters turned out for the Nevada caucus this year, a fraction as many as turn out for NASCAR races at Las Vegas' Motor Speedway.
In the last Presidential election in 2010, the voting age population was almost 2.4 million, of that less than 91 million actually bothered to vote, less than 38%.
Why is it that everyone has some sort of opinion about government, or how bad this or that administration may be, and yet hardly any one bothers to actually do something about it?
And yet:
The super Bowl, the biggest game in American sports, posted the lowest attendance numbers in six years, but more people still went to the Super Bowl than voted in the Colorado, Minnesota, Nevada Republican primaries.
The pull of fried butter and Ferris wheels was stronger than that of polling booths and civic duty in Iowa this year. Nearly 10 times as many people attended the Iowa State Fair in August as voted in the Iowa Republican caucus last month.
Only 33,000 voters turned out for the Nevada caucus this year, a fraction as many as turn out for NASCAR races at Las Vegas' Motor Speedway.
In the last Presidential election in 2010, the voting age population was almost 2.4 million, of that less than 91 million actually bothered to vote, less than 38%.
Why is it that everyone has some sort of opinion about government, or how bad this or that administration may be, and yet hardly any one bothers to actually do something about it?
Everything Is Permitted
‘If God does not exist, everything is permitted’.
(Dostoevsky never actually wrote that, although it is attributed to him so often that he may as well have.)
Do you think it holds that if there is no God, that everything is permitted? Would we have a code of morality without the deity factor?
(Dostoevsky never actually wrote that, although it is attributed to him so often that he may as well have.)
Do you think it holds that if there is no God, that everything is permitted? Would we have a code of morality without the deity factor?
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Under One Small Star
My apologies to chance for calling it necessity.
My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all.
Please, don't be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due.
May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade.
My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second.
My apologies to past loves for thinking that the latest is the first.
Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home.
Forgive me, open wounds, for pricking my finger.
I apologize for my record of minuets to those who cry from the depths.
I apologize to those who wait in railway stations for being asleep today at five a.m.
Pardon me, hounded hope, for laughing from time to time.
Pardon me, deserts, that I don't rush to you bearing a spoonful of water.
And you, falcon, unchanging year after year, always in the same cage,
your gaze always fixed on the same point in space,
forgive me, even if it turns out you were stuffed.
My apologies to the felled tree for the table's four legs.
My apologies to great questions for small answers.
Truth, please don't pay me much attention.
Dignity, please be magnanimous.
Bear with me, O mystery of existence, as I pluck the occasional thread from your train.
Soul, don't take offense that I've only got you now and then.
My apologies to everything that I can't be everywhere at once.
My apologies to everyone that I can't be each woman and each man.
I know I won't be justified as long as I live,
since I myself stand in my own way.
Don't bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words,
then labor heavily so that they may seem light.
Wislawa Szymborska
Submitted Date : Monday, January 20, 2003
My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all.
Please, don't be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due.
May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade.
My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second.
My apologies to past loves for thinking that the latest is the first.
Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home.
Forgive me, open wounds, for pricking my finger.
I apologize for my record of minuets to those who cry from the depths.
I apologize to those who wait in railway stations for being asleep today at five a.m.
Pardon me, hounded hope, for laughing from time to time.
Pardon me, deserts, that I don't rush to you bearing a spoonful of water.
And you, falcon, unchanging year after year, always in the same cage,
your gaze always fixed on the same point in space,
forgive me, even if it turns out you were stuffed.
My apologies to the felled tree for the table's four legs.
My apologies to great questions for small answers.
Truth, please don't pay me much attention.
Dignity, please be magnanimous.
Bear with me, O mystery of existence, as I pluck the occasional thread from your train.
Soul, don't take offense that I've only got you now and then.
My apologies to everything that I can't be everywhere at once.
My apologies to everyone that I can't be each woman and each man.
I know I won't be justified as long as I live,
since I myself stand in my own way.
Don't bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words,
then labor heavily so that they may seem light.
Wislawa Szymborska
Submitted Date : Monday, January 20, 2003
The Times, They REALLY Are A-changin'
Berliners, sick of politics as usual, voted in the Pirate Party, whose logo is pictured here. Composed of Internet open-source activists, the new party hopes to use online systems to improve democracy.
Did you ever think you would see the day? The entire article is here: view link
In light of the recent SOPA and PIPA issues, this says a lot about our basic human nature, I think. We instinctively believe that all things belong to all of us. The notion of owership, while ancient, is not inborn. It is learned.
Did you ever think you would see the day? The entire article is here: view link
In light of the recent SOPA and PIPA issues, this says a lot about our basic human nature, I think. We instinctively believe that all things belong to all of us. The notion of owership, while ancient, is not inborn. It is learned.
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by MartiInMexico
The End of the World
It's easy to imagine the end of the world. An asteroid destroying all life and so on. But you cannot imagine the end of capitalism. - Slavoj Zisek
When you think about it, this is true. Try to imagine the end of capitalism. Everywhere. Pretty hard to do.
When you think about it, this is true. Try to imagine the end of capitalism. Everywhere. Pretty hard to do.
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