Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread meekerdb
On 11/8/2013 12:10 AM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Ending the era of Prohibition will not mean kids will start smoking pot Hint they already are, and have been for a long time. Ending this dark era of Prohibition will mean that the greatest illicit funding engine ever devised will shut down

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread meekerdb
On 11/8/2013 2:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I read a paper arguing in that direction, showing that Jordanian have much less tryanny thanks to the absence of oil. That makes sense. It is easier to do that type of business with Tyrant, than with elected people. Sure, in political theory it's

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread meekerdb
On 11/8/2013 5:48 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: If you hold the Rational Optimist view aka Matt Ridley, people will act altruistic much more, if they get a reward, then in they get jack. A dictatorship of your own preference is suitable for many, but not for most. Plus, think about pure

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread meekerdb
On 11/8/2013 5:48 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: If you hold the Rational Optimist view aka Matt Ridley, people will act altruistic much more, if they get a reward, then in they get jack. A dictatorship of your own preference is suitable for many, but not for most. Plus, think about pure

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread LizR
On 9 November 2013 14:48, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: If you hold the Rational Optimist view aka Matt Ridley, people will act altruistic much more, if they get a reward, then in they get jack. A dictatorship of your own preference is suitable for many, but not for most. Plus, think about pure

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread Chris de Morsella
Demon-Haunted World On 11/8/2013 12:10 AM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Ending the era of Prohibition will not mean kids will start smoking pot.. Hint they already are, and have been for a long time. Ending this dark era of Prohibition will mean that the greatest illicit funding engine ever devised

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread Chris de Morsella
@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/8/2013 2:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I read a paper arguing in that direction, showing that Jordanian have much less tryanny thanks to the absence of oil. That makes sense. It is easier to do that type of business with Tyrant, than with elected

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread meekerdb
On 11/8/2013 8:00 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Perhaps you may not know that opiates were given to infants in the Victorian era to calm them down -- and yes it did keep them quiet and happy (until they required another fix of that special syrup... hehe). But did they have a right to it?

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread LizR
On 9 November 2013 17:12, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: So why complain about the opium trade. As far as I am aware this is still prohibited, which causes the existence of black markets. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 5:49 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World If you hold the Rational Optimist view aka Matt Ridley

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 8:12 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/8/2013 8:00 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Perhaps you may

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread meekerdb
On 11/8/2013 9:11 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: *From:*everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *spudboy...@aol.com *Sent:* Friday, November 08, 2013 5:49 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Our Demon-Haunted World If you

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 10:03 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/8/2013 9:11 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: From: everything

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 2:24 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 06 Nov 2013, at 17:25, meekerdb wrote: On 11/6/2013 12:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: There is nothing wrong being rich, unless

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 7 November 2013 14:39, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: There's a continuum of behavior which at the extreme absence of empathy we call psychopathy or sociopathy. But that doesn't mean more empathy is better. Sometimes

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Nov 2013, at 07:28, Chris de Morsella wrote: From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 9:58 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 7 November 2013 17

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Nov 2013, at 07:57, Chris de Morsella wrote: From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 2:52 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 06 Nov

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread spudboy100
...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 7:40 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 7 November 2013 13:19, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Liz i do not see joe average in any nation state in charge or influencing anything. It seems to all sort

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread spudboy100
- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 7:41 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 7 November 2013 13:23, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: BHO is barrack hussein obama, BHO. Government goodies dependency does this for them

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread spudboy100
- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 8:30 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/6/2013 4:23 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: BHO is barrack hussein obama, BHO. Government goodies

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread spudboy100
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 7:43 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 6 November 2013 16:41, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: And also distinguish Fascism from Communism. The former is bound to nationalism as its core bonding

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread spudboy100
Not in China, not in Russia, the US and the UK, for sure. -Original Message- From: Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 10:27 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Whistleblowers are generally joe average

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Chris de Morsella
Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 6:50 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Fur sure, that was the truth. Now we got's shale gas, which seems to pay a lot better, is safer to go after, and is cleaner, carbon-wise. Unless you are buying

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread spudboy100
cdemorse...@yahoo.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Nov 7, 2013 11:44 am Subject: RE: Our Demon-Haunted World It sounds like you are reading straight form a shale play company press release. You have been sucked up by the hype of America “the next Saudi Arabia

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:50 AM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Fur sure, that was the truth. Now we got's shale gas, which seems to pay a lot better, is safer to go after, and is cleaner, carbon-wise. Unless you are buying into technological unemployment (robots, software) then we have to face the

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Chris de Morsella
Those plucky Canadians -- as you term them -- are criminally destroying vast swaths of Alberta turning it into a poisoned chemical saturated moonscape as well as sucking up vast amounts of water from other potential uses -- including agriculture. Will the bitumen sweated out of that sand be

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Chris de Morsella
this, we deny our own humanity. -Chris From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 2:52 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 06 Nov 2013, at 17:45

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread meekerdb
On 11/6/2013 6:42 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Either all humans enjoy human rights or none do. Human rights are a human invention. As soon as a class of persons is created that are stripped of their basic human rights society is on a slippery slope down into the dark hell of

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:12 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/6/2013 6:42 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Either all humans enjoy human rights or none do. Human rights are a human invention. As soon as a class of persons is created that are stripped of their basic human rights

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread meekerdb
On 11/7/2013 2:47 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:12 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/6/2013 6:42 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Either all humans enjoy human rights or none do. Human rights are a human invention. As soon as a class of persons is created that

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread spudboy100
- From: Jesse Mazer laserma...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Nov 7, 2013 2:24 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:50 AM, lt;spudboy...@aol.comgt; wrote: Fur sure, that was the truth. Now we got's shale gas, which seems to pay

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread spudboy100
3:29 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Those plucky Canadians -- as you term them -- are criminally destroying vast swaths of Alberta turning it into a poisoned chemical saturated moonscape as well as sucking up vast amounts of water from other potential uses -- including agriculture

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 2:12 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/6/2013 6:42 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Either all humans

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Chris de Morsella
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 4:26 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Not to be sarcastic, but probably yes

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 2:32 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 07 Nov 2013, at 03:32, Chris de Morsella wrote

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread meekerdb
On 11/7/2013 5:47 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: *From:*everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *meekerdb *Sent:* Thursday, November 07, 2013 2:12 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/6/2013 6:42

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 7:34 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/7/2013 5:47 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: From

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread meekerdb
On 11/7/2013 8:46 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: *From:*everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *meekerdb *Sent:* Thursday, November 07, 2013 7:34 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/7/2013 5:47

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 9:03 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/7/2013 8:46 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: From

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread meekerdb
On 11/7/2013 9:57 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: So if Florida repeals it's law giving the right to stand your ground, we will all be living in a tyranny? I am not sure I get the point you are trying to make? As far as it matter my opinion on stand your ground laws and those who advocate for

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Nov 2013, at 02:43, LizR wrote: On 6 November 2013 14:38, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: We could offer a 20 or 100 billion dollar prize for a new clean energy source and award the winner. The contestents would have to get bank or private equity funding to accomplish this. We can do the

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread meekerdb
On 11/6/2013 12:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: There is nothing wrong being rich, unless the money is stolen money, and that's the case today. There's nothing morally wrong with being rich, but it creates an ethical problem. Being much wealthier than others bestows a lot of power. If there

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 11:11 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 6 November 2013 17:10, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/5/2013 8:03 PM, Chris de Morsella

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Telmo Menezes
I guess it's impossible to avoid these discussions. Maybe we should create everything-politics? I will reply with my apologies to Craig, with whom I cut-off a political discussion earlier. On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 5:25 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/6/2013 12:58 AM, Bruno Marchal

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Richard Ruquist
BS: In my view, the path to more democracy is less government, and more voting with money. On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.comwrote: I guess it's impossible to avoid these discussions. Maybe we should create everything-politics? I will reply with my

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 07:13, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: BS: In my view, the path to more democracy is less government, and more voting with money. That is definitely not the path to more democracy. It is, by definition, the path to a plutocracy. -- You received this message

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Nov 2013, at 17:25, meekerdb wrote: On 11/6/2013 12:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: There is nothing wrong being rich, unless the money is stolen money, and that's the case today. There's nothing morally wrong with being rich, but it creates an ethical problem. Being much wealthier

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
Of LizR Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 11:11 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 6 November 2013 17:10, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/5/2013 8:03 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: In the near future who knows… you may breath in some nano dust

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 05:45, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: There is not going to be any revolution here… not for a long while. The owners of America have everything under control and the peasants believe they are a bunch of free birds. That's the point. That's why it's more

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread spudboy100
5, 2013 8:58 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World The ideas had better be convincing because we don't have unlimited time to sort out the mess the world is in thanks to the 'tragedy of the commons. On 6 November 2013 14:56, lt;spudboy...@aol.comgt; wrote: Well that's a challenge

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread spudboy100
-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 8:57 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 6 November 2013 14:44, lt;spudboy...@aol.comgt; wrote: Marxists like BHO want people taken care of. They also want people dependent on government servicesnso they, the pols, can have control over

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread spudboy100
the internet can be better used for bringing people together to problem solve? -Original Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 9:28 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/5/2013 5:21 PM, spudboy...@aol.com

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread spudboy100
: RE: Our Demon-Haunted World And also distinguish Fascism from Communism. The former is bound to nationalism as its core bonding principle; whereas communism had an internationalist dimension and framed its core binding arguments in terms of class... the workers of the world unite rhetoric

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 13:19, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Liz i do not see joe average in any nation state in charge or influencing anything. It seems to all sort of a plutocracy with some social benefits if ones income is low. Well Jo Average has a certain influence. Various govt policies have

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 13:23, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: BHO is barrack hussein obama, BHO. Government goodies dependency does this for them. Piss them off and they can take it away. Thats leverage. To a private company, you can tell them to go screw themselves. Like Microsoft? -- You received

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
From: Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com We -- all of us really and almost without break for all history -- suffer under misrule by organized psychopaths who invariably control the vertices of power and use it to ensure that they remain in power, long term. But no matter -- MWI -- there

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread meekerdb
On 11/6/2013 4:23 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: BHO is barrack hussein obama, BHO. Government goodies dependency does this for them. Piss them off and they can take it away. Thats leverage. To a private company, you can tell them to go screw themselves. ?? A private company isn't gonna give

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 14:39, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: There's a continuum of behavior which at the extreme absence of empathy we call psychopathy or sociopathy. But that doesn't mean more empathy is better. Sometimes it's good to be hard hearted. Should we have been nicer to the

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
Marchal Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 2:24 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 06 Nov 2013, at 17:25, meekerdb wrote: On 11/6/2013 12:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: There is nothing wrong being rich, unless the money is stolen money

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 2:56 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 7 November 2013 05:45, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: There is not going to be any revolution here. not for a long while. The owners

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 5:39 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/6/2013 4:43 PM, LizR wrote: From: Chris de Morsella cdemorse

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 6:18 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 7 November 2013 14:39, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: There's

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 15:52, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *meekerdb *Sent:* Wednesday, November 06, 2013 5:39 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Our Demon

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 7 November 2013 15:52, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 5:39 PM

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 15:57, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *LizR *Sent:* Wednesday, November 06, 2013 6:18 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Our Demon

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Samiya Illias
, November 06, 2013 6:18 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 7 November 2013 14:39, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: There's a continuum of behavior which at the extreme absence of empathy we call psychopathy or sociopathy

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
Oh all right, I'll do it. On 7 November 2013 16:18, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Modifying the DNA to fix psycopaths sounds promising, but going with the assumption that the world is controlled by psycopaths, what if they control the biotechnology and create Frankesteins

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Richard Ruquist
Whistleblowers are generally joe average types and they have had considerable influence. On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:40 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 November 2013 13:19, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Liz i do not see joe average in any nation state in charge or influencing anything. It

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread meekerdb
On 11/6/2013 6:32 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: The problem of any system ever devised is that eventually it will become corrupted -- through one path or another corruption will become endemic and increasingly it will parasitize the system until eventually the empty husk of the hollowed out

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 16:30, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/6/2013 6:18 PM, LizR wrote: On 7 November 2013 14:39, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: There's a continuum of behavior which at the extreme absence of empathy we call psychopathy or sociopathy. But that doesn't mean

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 16:39, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/6/2013 6:32 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: The problem of any system ever devised is that eventually it will become corrupted – through one path or another corruption will become endemic and increasingly it will parasitize

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread meekerdb
On 11/6/2013 6:57 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: *From:*everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *LizR *Sent:* Wednesday, November 06, 2013 6:18 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 7 November 2013

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread meekerdb
On 11/6/2013 7:40 PM, LizR wrote: On 7 November 2013 16:30, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/6/2013 6:18 PM, LizR wrote: On 7 November 2013 14:39, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: There's a continuum of

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread meekerdb
On 11/6/2013 7:44 PM, LizR wrote: On 7 November 2013 16:39, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/6/2013 6:32 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: The problem of any system ever devised is that eventually it will become corrupted – through one path or

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 7:08 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 7 November 2013 15:57, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Samiya Illias Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 7:18 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Modifying the DNA to fix psycopaths sounds promising, but going

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 7:30 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/6/2013 6:18 PM, LizR wrote: On 7 November 2013 14:39

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 17:11, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/6/2013 7:44 PM, LizR wrote: On 7 November 2013 16:39, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/6/2013 6:32 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: The problem of any system ever devised is that eventually it will become

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 7:40 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/6/2013 6:32 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: The problem of any

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 8:00 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/6/2013 6:57 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: From

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread meekerdb
On 11/6/2013 9:58 PM, LizR wrote: On 7 November 2013 17:11, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/6/2013 7:44 PM, LizR wrote: On 7 November 2013 16:39, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/6/2013 6:32 PM,

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 2:52 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 06 Nov 2013, at 17:45, Chris de Morsella wrote

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread meekerdb
On 11/6/2013 10:13 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: *From:*everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *meekerdb *Sent:* Wednesday, November 06, 2013 7:40 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/6/2013 6

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 19:52, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: There is no out of the system. A Medieval Prince, and a Medieval peasant, would have agreed, yet we seem to have jumped out of that system, at least in some parts of the world. I'm suggesting we look at the UP. How did systems

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 20:06, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: How about incidence of violence, c.f. Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature. Or the below-replacement birthrate throughout most of the OECD. How about the fall of communist totalitarianism in Russia and China. The

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread meekerdb
On 11/6/2013 11:08 PM, LizR wrote: On 7 November 2013 19:52, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: There is no out of the system. A Medieval Prince, and a Medieval peasant, would have agreed, yet we seem to have jumped out of that system, at least in some

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread meekerdb
On 11/6/2013 11:10 PM, LizR wrote: There have always been problems and every generation has had its doomsayers. I think the monopolization of power is hardly even a problem. Do you want to run the government? I certainly don't. I'm thankful there are people who want the damn

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 20:23, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: But that just means you have to start over with new systems and try to make them last longer. Well that was what I was saying about how in the past civilisations have risen and fallen. That's how it used to happen - but having a

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
You mean there haven't been enough people wanting it yet? (There have been a lot of protests and demos and so on, but I assume not enough as yet, in your opinion?) On 7 November 2013 20:25, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/6/2013 11:10 PM, LizR wrote: There have always been

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 11:06 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/6/2013 10:13 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: From

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
Regarding government totalitarianism in Nazi terms: Carl Schmitt reasoned that corporations have the potential to become states. If the government doesn't keep their authority in check, they will enslave people and government through market influence. We're perhaps still running dominance over

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding government totalitarianism in Nazi terms: Carl Schmitt reasoned that corporations have the potential to become states. If the government doesn't keep their authority in check, they will enslave

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
In the meantime, the corporates are doing their best to enslave world via the internet... http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/298-185/20253-focus-were-about-to-lose-net-neutrality-and-the-internet-as-we-know-it On 6 November 2013 02:24, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Tue,

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
The so-called Deep Net is according to this last issue of Wired is many times bigger than the Internet we all know and apparently almost impenetrable. Perhaps we will all switch to the Deep Net http://www.rogerdavies.com/2011/06/dark-internet/ On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:26 PM, LizR

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Richard, On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: The so-called Deep Net is according to this last issue of Wired is many times bigger than the Internet we all know and apparently almost impenetrable. Perhaps we will all switch to the Deep Net

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
Ah yes I've heard of that. Well it's the classic response to prohibition, isn't it, to figuratively go underground? On 6 November 2013 11:34, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: The so-called Deep Net is according to this last issue of Wired is many times bigger than the Internet we all

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:26 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: In the meantime, the corporates are doing their best to enslave world via the internet... http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/298-185/20253-focus-were-about-to-lose-net-neutrality-and-the-internet-as-we-know-it Net neutrality

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Nov 4, 2013 8:22 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Ah, good point. I have even seen The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. I should have remembered. So basically America (and various other Western democracies) currently have fascist governments - the twist

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
capitalism in american politics. -Original Message- From: Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 7:52 am Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Regarding government totalitarianism in Nazi terms: Carl Schmitt

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
with their rule. I am no different in this. -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 4:26 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World In the meantime, the corporates are doing their best to enslave world via

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