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Share Your Most Dangerous Idea
GabrielF writes "Every year The Edge asks over 100 top scientists and thinkers a question, and the responses are fascinating and widely quoted. This year, psychologist Steven Pinker suggested they ask "What is your most dangerous idea?" The 117 respondents include Richard Dawkins, Freeman Dyson, Daniel Dennett, Jared Diamond -- and that's just the D's! As you might expect, the submissions are brilliant and very controversial."
That there is a being called the Devil that is the source of all human
urges towards violence and selfishness. That he and his hordes live in
a parallel dimension that we cannot see yet can be affected by. That
human life itself resides in the context of the constant struggle with
this being. That most human beings are not aware of this struggle and,
worse yet, will believe the devil's own implanted idea that he does
not, in fact, exist. Still worse, that the people who should know how
to fight this being (which is one of the purposes of the one religion
that is the source of all religions), are instead consumed by him and
then are pitted against each other as his pawns.
Mod me down, whatever; I know it's coming, but this is the worst horror
film you can imagine, and it's the exact truth.
Wish with your heart to reach God spiritually in your lifetime so that
you may serve God - Who only wants for our happiness - and you will
succeed in throwing off the yoke of Satan. This is the message of the
Age of Hidayat.
Peace be with you all. May all love all.
In Linux - everyone seems to think that the technology is more important that the freedom in making the business case for using it.
In monitary policy - everyone seems to think that other measures of inflation and growth are more important, than the freedom from controll that the gold standard offers.
In public education - everyone talks about what kind of education the kids need, and noone talks about the financial freedom lost in paying for it, or the very influence that such has on the kids.
In social security and medicade/ medical care - everyones worried about how will we take care of the needy and elderly and noone talks about the people that need to be financially coerced to make these systems work.
In copyrights and patents - everyone talks about the poor starving inventor or creator, and noone talks about all the people that need to be coerced to make these systems of incentive work.
In the genocide of the poor - noone would even dare mention that the best solution would be to arm them and seciure their right to bear arms first.
Yes, I know it is an insanely radical shocking "lunatic" proposal and people would shudder at the thought that people might actually be "allowed" freedom and empowerment. Perhaps you should just mod me to minus infinity now to save society from the terror that such an outlandish notion would inflict.
Pick a list of people to ask that isn't the same !@$%^&* names again and again.
Rudy Rucker? Stewart Brand? Danny Hillis?
FOR !@$%^&* SAKE, I am so sick and tired of hearing from these people.
There are so many legitimately fascinating brilliant thinkers, writers, artists, poets, scientists, and on and on living on this planet.
How is this for a DANGEROUS IDEA? PICK SOME NOVEL NAMES.
Sheesh.
He was right they are all sluts, parting desperate sad bastards with their money. And I think it's both justice and amusing that his thumb went up her ass, the only objection these whores have is that he didn't pay for the honour. Blokes who go to strip clubs and lap dancing clubs, are probably all closet gays saying look at me i'm so hetro. The girls are laughing at you, and despite your assertion that you were going to go clubbing, she was stringing you along. The girls would never go with a sad punter.