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 not

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 LizR
On 9 November 2013 17:12, meekerdb 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" group. To unsubscrib

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 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 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 LizR
On 9 November 2013 14:48, 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 materiality. If

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 material

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 material

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread spudboy100
nment. Which would you choose? -Original Message- From: Chris de Morsella To: everything-list Sent: Thu, Nov 7, 2013 9:44 pm Subject: RE: Our Demon-Haunted World -Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Beha

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 kno

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 and

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
-- without your plucky Canadian tar sand billionaires (some of whom are Texans by the way) deciding to invest their profits in green technology -- as if they would. -Original Message- From: Chris de Morsella To: everything-list Sent: Thu, Nov 7, 2013 3:29 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted Wo

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread Chris de Morsella
f Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 2:41 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Hi Chris, I can't agree more. If we look at the history of prohibition, it is always either a political tools, or unfair economy, or a way for bandits

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread Chris de Morsella
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 2:35 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 08 Nov 2013, at 03:44, Chris de Morsella

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
: 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: The prob

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
would. -Original Message- From: Chris de Morsella To: everything-list Sent: Thu, Nov 7, 2013 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

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Nov 2013, at 23:12, meekerdb 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. Human inventions are a human invention. Bruno As soon as a class of persons is created that are stripped of th

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
rything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 06 Nov 2013, at 17:45, Chris de Morsella wrote: Exactly. Already the techniques of social engineering are far more advanced than they were even as recently as Goebbels time – and he advanced the art of the Big Lie and

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: Thursday, November 07, 2013 11:03 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/7/2013 9:57 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: >> So if F

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

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 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 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 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 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: The

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 pr

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 spudboy100
likely invent more efficient engines, and also fund the green technologies that you crave. Theres a reason why poor nations do not do technology well. -Original Message- From: Chris de Morsella To: everything-list Sent: Thu, Nov 7, 2013 3:29 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Those

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread spudboy100
al Message- From: Jesse Mazer To: everything-list Sent: Thu, Nov 7, 2013 2:24 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World 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

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 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

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:12 PM, meekerdb 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 society is o

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 totalitarianis

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Chris de Morsella
deny 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 1

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 wort

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:50 AM, 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 fact. BHO's Ke

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread spudboy100
To: everything-list 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”. What about the massive amounts of water pollution

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Chris de Morsella
com] On Behalf 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-w

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 To: everything-list Sent: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 10:27 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Whistleblowers are generally joe average types and they have had considerable influence

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread spudboy100
In 1984, the Proles didn't care about Big Brother, and Big Brother, cared nothing about the Proles, in the novel. -Original Message- From: Chris de Morsella To: everything-list Sent: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 11:03 pm Subject: RE: Our Demon-Haunted World In the near future who knows

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread spudboy100
-Original Message- From: meekerdb To: everything-list 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 dependency does this for th

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread spudboy100
ssage- From: LizR To: everything-list Sent: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 7:41 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 7 November 2013 13:23, 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 pr

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread spudboy100
: LizR To: everything-list Sent: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 7:40 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 7 November 2013 13:19, 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 inc

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 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
t: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 7 November 2013 14:39, meekerdb 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 w

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
thing-list@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,

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

2013-11-06 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 wrote: > On 11/6/2013 11:10 PM, LizR wrote: > > There have always been problems and every gene

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 20:23, meekerdb 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 (more or less) glob

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 meekerdb
On 11/6/2013 11:08 PM, LizR wrote: On 7 November 2013 19:52, meekerdb 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 parts of the world.

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 20:06, meekerdb 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 peaceful revolutio

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 19:52, meekerdb 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 get UP before

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 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 9:58 PM, LizR wrote: On 7 November 2013 17:11, meekerdb mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote: On 11/6/2013 7:44 PM, LizR wrote: On 7 November 2013 16:39, meekerdb mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote: On 11/6/2013 6:32 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: The prob

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 9:58 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 7 November 2013 17:11, meekerdb wrote: On 11/6/2013 7:44 PM, LizR

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 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 LizR
On 7 November 2013 17:11, meekerdb wrote: > On 11/6/2013 7:44 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 7 November 2013 16:39, meekerdb 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 an

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 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 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 wrote: From: everything

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 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 another corruption wil

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 mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote: On 11/6/2013 6:18 PM, LizR wrote: On 7 November 2013 14:39, meekerdb mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote: There's a continuum of behavior which at the extreme absence of e

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 LizR
On 7 November 2013 16:39, meekerdb 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 the system until

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 16:30, meekerdb wrote: > On 11/6/2013 6:18 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 7 November 2013 14:39, meekerdb 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. Some

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 soc

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread meekerdb
On 11/6/2013 6:18 PM, LizR wrote: On 7 November 2013 14:39, meekerdb mailto: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

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 wrote: > On 7 November 2013 13:19, wrote: > >> Liz i do not see joe average in any nation state in charge or influencing >> anything. It seems to all sort of a plutocr

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 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 instead? Do we need clearl

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Samiya Illias
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 wrote: >> >> There's a continuum of behavior which at the extreme

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 15:57, 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:

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 7 November 2013 15:52, Chris de Morsella 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

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 15:52, Chris de Morsella 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-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 wrote: There's a continu

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 We

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 wrote: There is not going to be any revolution here. not for a long while. The owners of America have

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
ps.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 the m

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 14:39, meekerdb 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 Neanderthals? > >

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread meekerdb
On 11/6/2013 4:43 PM, LizR wrote: From: Chris de Morsella mailto: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

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 y

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
From: Chris de Morsella 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 has to be some reali

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 13:23, 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 this message be

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 13:19, 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 been changed be

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread spudboy100
Regardless, it is all mixed together worldwide, plutocracy for the rich, the queue line for the workers. Move forward comrade. -Original Message- From: Chris de Morsella To: everything-list Sent: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 10:41 pm Subject: RE: Our Demon-Haunted World And also distinguish

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread spudboy100
internet can be better used for bringing people together to problem solve? -Original Message- From: meekerdb To: everything-list Sent: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 9:28 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/5/2013 5:21 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Just a few points: The advantage of

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread spudboy100
pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 6 November 2013 14:44, <spudboy...@aol.com> wrote: Marxists like BHO want people taken care of. They also want people dependent on government servicesnso they, the pols, can have control over the dumb serfs. And again, all the fashionable Marxist

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread spudboy100
Original Message- From: LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 8:43 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 6 November 2013 14:38,  <spudboy...@aol.com> wrote: We could offer a 20 or 100 billion dollar prize

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 05:45, Chris de Morsella 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 "Brave New World" than

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
oups.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 wrote: On 11/5/2013 8:03 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: In the near future who knows… you may breath in some nano d

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 t

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread LizR
On 7 November 2013 07:13, Richard Ruquist 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 because you are sub

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 wrote: > I guess it's impossible to avoid these discussions. Maybe we should > create everything-politics? > > I will reply with my apologies to Craig, with w

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 wrote: > On 11/6/2013 12:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > There i

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
control and the peasants believe they are a bunch of free birds. -Chris From: everything-list@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

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 is

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
ekerdb Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 6:10 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World One needs to distinguish Fascism and Nazism. Fascism bound the nation-state into a super-organism. Nazism added a mystic racism about blood (volk) and soil, Christiani

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