Moral obligations for atheists (Commandment, bible, evolution, morals)
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Your posts -- including one thread you named after yourself -- are too much about your ego regarding your beliefs. Too much about how much more intelligent you are than the other posters. And yet you refuse to take your ideas to a more scientific place for support...cause you know it won't be there. You'd do much better here if you climbed down off our pedestal.
My ideas are not any more welcome in the science forum than here, Phet. The bold is just more of your presumptuous pretense at psychic abilities. I am currently jousting for the pedestal with Irkle and mensaguy brandishing our IQ lances in another thread, It is a riot. Actually, mensa refuses to reveal his lance and accurately points out that it is our EQ that matters more in here.
I was thinking the same thing. Great question, and I'm quite certain the answer is no. Certainly not always, but a dominance of men in many an arena, organization(s), has proven to be a clear case of chauvinism that is pretty well impossible to deny. Not as often a case of sexism when it comes to women-dominated jobs, though some of that is a result of chauvinism too. Perhaps a topic for another thread and probably not in this forum, but again good question that's worth a closer look before drawing conclusion(s) as to what's actually going on. Cause/effect.
The hegemony of the male human is explained with mild sexual dimorphism. The male is larger, more aggressive, and produces millions of sperms. The female is smaller, less aggressive, and up until 1960 was saddled with multiple pregnancies during her youth. Try having a career with eight children. That is how humans evolved. BTW, in other species the female is dominant.
Existence for men was not a cakewalk. They often died in battle in an era where 97% of the world population was poor. The men that were powerful and educated were an extremely tiny percent and yet most men are judged by the standard of the exceptional and not the average. When they say most CEOs are men that also means that most men never make it to CEO.
My ideas are not any more welcome in the science forum than here, Phet. The bold is just more of your presumptuous pretense at psychic abilities. I am currently jousting for the pedestal with Irkle and mensaguy brandishing our IQ lances in another thread, It is a riot. Actually, mensa refuses to reveal his lance and accurately points out that it is our EQ that matters more in here.
You will notice in this post that I didn't suggest taking your ideas to the science forum here. There's a big world out there beyond City-Data.
The hegemony of the male human is explained with mild sexual dimorphism. The male is larger, more aggressive, and produces millions of sperms. The female is smaller, less aggressive, and up until 1960 was saddled with multiple pregnancies during her youth. Try having a career with eight children. That is how humans evolved. BTW, in other species the female is dominant.
Existence for men was not a cakewalk. They often died in battle in an era where 97% of the world population was poor. The men that were powerful and educated were an extremely tiny percent and yet most men are judged by the standard of the exceptional and not the average. When they say most CEOs are men that also means that most men never make it to CEO.
We are a long way from might is right, hunting and gathering. When we decided all men are created equal it did not just mean white men. This is a concept that is hard to grasp for many, even some women.
We are a long way from might is right, hunting and gathering. When we decided all men are created equal it did not just mean white men. This is a concept that is hard to grasp for many, even some women.
That is social Evolution. It is the natural progression of a society and of humans, attempting to bring about a better, more successful society.
After the Unite Right Rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville that resulted in 3 deaths and 33 injuries, Trump declared there are good people on both sides. That is not balanced, it is insane, and yes it creates balance in such a head. That is acquiescence in the face injustice, inequality, terrorism.
I understand what you mean now. Thank you.
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Originally Posted by Arach Angle
exactly how I see it. It took me a while in life to see its more like a barrel on a seesaw. It rolls back and forth to reach "balance".
Fool me thought I can do it. Now I realize, a turd like me can only hope to roll the barrel back and forth, trying to keep the ends from hitting the ground, too hard. And sometimes the seesaw swings very quickly back and forth, smacking the ground, a few times before I can reenter. And really, its never "centered" as much ... I don't know the word for dynamic equilibrium of a seesaw.
That's a nice analogy.
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Originally Posted by LearnMe
Can't speak for everyone, and I would hate for you to feel your question is being ignored again, so here's my response about what balance means to me. Better yet, here's a dictionary definition that does just about as good a job as I can do with my own words...
"Balance is often mis-understood as making all things equal and giving equal weight to all things. According to the dictionary, balance is defined as: : a means of judging or deciding : a counterbalancing weight, force, or influence : mental and emotional steadiness."
Of course this attempt at balance can apply to many things. Most certainly the effort to have a "balanced life." I used to work as an Executive Coach and often explained to people that achieving that balance was key to achieving success. With their career, their personal relationships. Their life. Ultimately their happiness.
Also why I try to maintain a proper balance in this forum. AKA not to spend too much time here...
Thanks, LearnMe. And you don't have to respond to all of my posts, but thank you for your thoughts on the matter.
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May not be anything that has to be done, but it is something we all do at some point...
To me, decision making needs concrete action. A belief can just stay in my head.
After the Unite Right Rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville that resulted in 3 deaths and 33 injuries, Trump declared there are good people on both sides. That is not balanced, it is insane, and yes it creates balance in such a head. That is acquiescence in the face injustice, inequality, terrorism.
I challenge you to verify the accuracy of your statement. You are referring to the popular narrative, not the facts. The facts are easy to find. I’m not much into politics but I do care when a widespread, repeated narrative is a fabrication.
I challenge you to verify the accuracy of your statement. You are referring to the popular narrative, not the facts. The facts are easy to find. I’m not much into politics but I do care when a widespread, repeated narrative is a fabrication.
Take it to the political forum. We are discussing moral obligation of atheists.
We are a long way from might is right, hunting and gathering. When we decided all men are created equal it did not just mean white men. This is a concept that is hard to grasp for many, even some women.
There is no equality. Even identical twins with the same DNA achieve differently. BTW, there is only one human race.
There is no equality. Even identical twins with the same DNA achieve differently. BTW, there is only one human race.
Equal opportunity. There is no race, there is only human. Race is a devilish construct invented to exploit people deemed lesser. That is why we need laws to cure it.
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Actually, mensa refuses to reveal his lance and accurately points out that it is our EQ that matters more in here.
