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"What thou thinkest, the relationship between p" | MySpace Forums on 2009-11-22
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Should science be the template from which to form our philosophy, filling in the
gaps between what is considered truth from a scientific perspective, or should
we seek a philosophical view that accepts contributions from science?
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has science become our culture's philosophy? -
Philosophy is a science. The difference between in and the physical or
particular sciences is fundamentality. It is the science which deals with the
broadest abstractions and sets the terms for all other sciences. Before we can
make conclusions about our observations we must know the validity of our
observations, which means of our senses, and how to properly reason from them to
a valid conclusion. We have to know the basic nature of reality and our
relationship to it (in some terms, implicitly or explicitly). And such is the
subject studied by philosophy, the basic nature of reality and our relationship
to it. - 1 more annotations...
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Official: Obama wants his war options changed | General News | Comcast.net on 2009-11-12
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though military and other officials have said he appears near to approving a
slightly smaller increase than the war commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, wants
at the outset.-
Daniel Beringer on 2009-11-12
Obama is edging away from a very profitable war for military officials and the related business, and so when Obama goes hardline against troop buildup, they foster a rumour that Obama may consider a smaller force. If Obama is not interested in this option, he now has some public opposition by way of people thinking the smaller force is a compromise. Those officials may have known from the beginning that they wouldn't get 40,000 and so asked for more than they really wanted, knowing that they would be able to settle for their original intended troop increase. Maintaining this goal could be a powerful motive when money is involved. Which is why I don't think Obama is as close to accepting such a compromise as these "military and other officials..." say he is, and that they know it. This lie sows the seeds of discord in turbulent times to further private ends.
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The Secret Life of the Brain : Mind Illusions on 2009-11-09
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Daniel Beringer on 2009-11-09
Wow! What a trip. I tried it first on a picture on a white wall,
and then on just the wall. It's hard, but it seems that you
force your self to focus on the wall again. Also, moving in
seemed to increase the speed, moving back, slowing the
speed.
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- Global Issues : social, political, economic and environmental issues that affect us all — Global Issues on 2009-10-27
- Find Product Reviews and Ratings from Consumer Reports on 2009-10-21
- PBS on 2009-10-21
- Welcome to The Next Step on 2009-10-21
- FORA.tv - Videos on the People, Issues, and Ideas Changing the Planet on 2009-10-21
- The 2009 Statistical Abstract on 2009-10-19
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Mankind's Next 50 Years of Space Exploration on 2009-10-19
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In October
1946, the RAND Corporation, think tank of the Army Air Force, and representing
the crazed utopian faction in the military, proposed that "air power" and
psychological warfare be the post-war tools of military policy. RAND put forward
a program to use the coming technology of rockets as a way to project the "aura
of power," against the Soviet Union. "The psychological effect of a satellite
will in less dramatic fashion parallel that of the atomic bomb," RAND's analysts
wrote, in "Time Factor in the Satellite Program." While Bertrand Russell and his
co-thinkers were proposing pre-emptive nuclear bombing of the Soviet Union, RAND
proposed that, "combined with our present monopoly of the A-bomb, such a
[satellite] threat ... will give pause to any nation which contemplates
aggressive war against the U.S. ... [I]t would be well to give the world
the impression of an ever-widening gap between our technology and any
other possible rivals" (emphasis added).-
Daniel Beringer on 2009-10-19
RAND put's out it's report, Russia hears of it, and rushes
to put up a satellite of it's own. Meanwhile, U.S. interest
wanes in space technology, right up until Sputnik. From
Sputnik comes a peaceful space race, with peaceful
consequences.
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