> Who has the evidence for the atoms? Scientists may. Advanced
> university science students may. You say you are one of the latter,
> so you may. But most people *believe* in atoms, just like they
> used to believe in God. Ask the ordinary man in the street for
> proof that the earth goes aro
(Sally?) Would you send the list instructions to the list
and would you do that about once/month so people who
are stuck here against their wishes may be released...
Eva
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Go on then, Eva Durant. Wine, Beer or something new?
MM
Durant wrote:
> > In a world of pure self-interest, can there be any paradigms of
> > communication?
> >
>
> The world is not more self-interested than before
> but we know more about the pattern of this self-interest and in the
> way it w
> In a world of pure self-interest, can there be any paradigms of
> communication?
>
The world is not more self-interested than before
but we know more about the pattern of this self-interest and in the
way it works best as a force to integrate and cooperate
humans to live in societies without w
THE LONELY NET
A two-year, $1.5-million study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon
University, funded by the National Science Foundation and major
technology companies, has concluded that Internet use appears to cause a
decline in psychological well-being. A director of the study says, "We
are not t
Yep, if that makes any sense, though I don't know about the zen bit. So
can we expect a golden socialist future of mutual understanding based on
some scientific knowledge tempered with wisdom? Or the same old
dialectic between opposite understandings?
MM
Thomas Lunde wrote:
> >In a world of pur
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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 12:32:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Weissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Guardian: A Crisis of Liberalism (fwd)
>From Barry Coates of the World Development Movement in the UK
Greetings all,
I heard this discussed briefly on NPR(US Nat'l Public Radio), and don't
agree given my personal experiences. Gregarious people living in rural
areas can expand their personal contacts in a focused fashion using topic
classified lists. Sort of like a short wave radio with a searchin
Malthus: More Relevant Than Ever
by William R. Catton, Jr.
August 1998
http://www.npg.org/forums/catton_malthus.htm
Agree?
THE LONELY NET
A two-year, $1.5-million study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon
University, funded by the National Science Foundation and major
technology companies, has concluded that Internet use appears to cause a
decline in psychological well-being. A director of the study says,
> Agree?
I certainly don't agree with the claim that this was an "extremely careful
scientific study" based on the information provided in the short excerpt.
Did the researchers consider the possibility that the cause and effect chain
goes the other way -- that is that people who are becoming so
>In a world of pure self-interest, can there be any paradigms of
>communication?
Thomas: This question sounds like one of those zen koans where you feel
there should be an obvious answer and every time you put one forth, the
master answers "nyet". My point was that when self interest, whethe
In a world of pure self-interest, can there be any paradigms of
communication?
MM
Durant wrote:
> It depends how you define and in whose interest rational thought is
> used.
>
> Eva
>
> ...
> > In my sense of our current historical position, the rational
> argument has
> > become the de facto o
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