humanity

What camp are you in? (more detailed questions than in the poll) Are you happy to not be around in the foreseeable future (30 - 50 years and plus)? Because of climate change, A.I., dystopian regimes, corporate greed and future wars, times won't get any better than today. Or Are you sorry/sad...

Sometimes I ponder this question and am left lapping at the dried remains of the tautology that life has whatever value we give it, or that the meaning of life is to live. Is there something more that attributes worth to each individual human life? Or is it all floating debris and lies? If I...

Subconsciousness and Humanity. A speculation regarding Human Subconsciousnesss in relation to Human Life on Earth. No ones personal reality is a fair representation of what is actually real. The only way to get a good overview of our shared reality is to examine Human systems as the Whole...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1070671/Evolution-stops-Future-Man-look-says-scientist.html Discuss.

According to Democracy Now, according to Spanish National radio, according to Haaretz. No wonder Israel is making a case to warn its leadership to be careful with what they say in public! I guess they'll have to bomb those countries that do detain their leaders in the future. Wait a minute, it's...

This sunday during church the pastor pointed out something I hadn't really thought much about before- and what I drew from it was that the way Jesus functioned as a human being during certain situations gives more credibility toward the idea of His actual existence. Jesus is often portrayed as...

What will be the eventual fate of humanity? Naturally, no one can see the future. This is just for kicks, and to see who among us are optimists and pessimists. EDITED TO ADD: There needs to be a time limit so that we don't have to consider a possibly infinite future and try to figure out how...

Focusing on egregious crimes of commission, in no particular order: 1) slavery 2) treatment of afro-americans post-slavery 3) treatment of native americans 4) replace elected government in Chile with brutal dictatorship 5) replace elected government in Guatemala with brutal dictatorship 6)...

This forum…R&P…is depressing. All I see are stories that make me highly concerned for us as humans, and it seems we’ll never run out of such anecdotes. This thread is my pathetic attempt to counter all that deep blue sadness with some inspirational material. After all, what is a Religion and...

While watching the movie Contact this morning, I heard one of the people ask (essentially) this question: Has science been a benefit to humanity? Thinking about it, I realized that a case could probably be made for both a yes or no answer. Positives Medical science improves lifespan...

This topic could have gone in science or politics, but I'd like to find out what the people who read CSSMariner's thread think, so I posted it under Philosophy. From the other thread, I think it would be fair to say that everyone agrees that humanity can be divided into groups (we can call...

Dedicated to Diezel: As human beings, do we have duties? If so, what is their origin and what are they? Do duties differ from obligations? I would like to hear from the Ayn Randians here, since she really despised Kant and believed that the concept of duty was a horrible, irrational, and...