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  1. Re:a few starting ideas on Improving Education? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Unfortunately, history, in western civ, is biased towards western civ as creators of everything. Slightly exagerated, but mostly true. The history taught in schools is usually just a bunch of dates and wars. why, why, why, why, why???

    Doesn't everybody understand that the only question a student has to learn, and the one that they've been born with but get's beaten down every chance society gets, is 'WHY'???

  2. Re:A defence for computers in schools on Improving Education? · · Score: 1
    Ever wonder why your handwriting is terrible?

    The whole problem with the education system is the whole problem with western civ. It assumes everything is an object and we just dump 'facts' into this object and everything should be ok. If there's any problems we ignore them until something makes the problem not noticeable.

    If we do this, if we do that, etc... doesn't anybody think that it doesn't matter what anybody else does, the only person who can learn is the student.

    If we keep trying to force a narrow view of reality onto humans, and don't let them develop their curiousity to explore it themselves, we're just going to lose in the long run. Long live 'science'! I can't wait till we're past this new religion.

  3. Re:Slide rules? on Improving Education? · · Score: 1
    You're just plain wrong.

    I was doing multiplication, squares, and cubes in my head way before i had been "taught" to memorize multiplication tables. It's simple geometry.

  4. Re:the bell curve has a left lobe on Improving Education? · · Score: 1

    Why call it a learning disability. Just because someone structures data in different ways than the norm does not mean they have a learning disability. There is a teaching disability. People have just been blaming kids for being the way they are, instead of finding out how they think.

  5. Re:the bell curve has a left lobe on Improving Education? · · Score: 1
    The failure then, is in the teacher.

    One does not 'teach', one provides the tools for a person to learn. It could be learning how they learn, or learning math.

    If someone is not interested in learning, or does not know how to learn, it doesn't matter how much time you spend with them. haha, look to the penal system.

  6. Re:Oil isn't the only source of energy. on Fuel-cell Vehicles for Americans · · Score: 1
    Haha, and you fell for that?

    There aren't enough vehicles and consumers for that to make any appreciable difference in the foreseeable future.

  7. Re:Oil isn't the only source of energy. on Fuel-cell Vehicles for Americans · · Score: 1

    ahh, yes, must rape the land because it's the easy way.

  8. Re:NO , its NOT funny , Asshole on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1
    Is it just people from the USA that seem to think that since an error is in widespread use that it's a good reason to continue using it?

    You know, we wouldn't need the term east indian if certain people stopped calling american natives indians.

  9. Re:Typical on Scientists Complete Universe Millennium Simulation · · Score: 1
    I think that's the point of the joke. It's laughable some times how much 'science' runs around building a whole reality when there's already one in front of us.

    It doesn't matter if the theory gets consistent results, it isn't reality. Seems some people get so caught up in wanting to control everything around them that they forget they're supposed to be living life!

  10. Re:Breathtaking indeed. on Scientists Complete Universe Millennium Simulation · · Score: 1
    We don't understand it, that's why we have science. We have workable constructs, but we do not 'understand' how any matter moves. haha, we don't even have a clue what matter is.

    Science is all about control, not knowledge. It doesn't care why, it just expects results.

  11. Re:Breathtaking indeed. on Scientists Complete Universe Millennium Simulation · · Score: 1
    Haven't you heard? It's big bangs all the way down!

    On the real side of things. Let see, all the energy in the universe existing as one in a timeless state, the be all and end all of everything, all of consciousness in one point. Certainly sounds like the Creator. He who set time in motion to divide himself for self discovery.

    The problem with organized religions is that they teach that we are seperate from god. Yet, if the creator is everything, what else could we be made of?

  12. Re:Common sense on Sunscreen Not So Good for You? · · Score: 1

    Make sure it's traditional japanese! The westernization of japan has caused them to have the highest increase in intestinal cancers around the world. Those other cancers as well, but it's the intestine popping ones that count :)

  13. Re:Common sense on Sunscreen Not So Good for You? · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with childish? Every adults physical body has at one time physically been a child. Any negative connotations are those which you chose to ascribe to it.

  14. Re:Common sense on Sunscreen Not So Good for You? · · Score: 1
    haha, who says i'm talking down?

    Western medicine (hiding the problem by treating the symptoms) is a childish approach. equating legal with good is just as childish. People need to stop being children.

    I'm sure most people will just sit back and wait till they're told that they can believe something else. Bunch of mindless sheep lost in their internal hells.

    Everything concerns me, because i'm everything.

  15. Re:Common sense on Sunscreen Not So Good for You? · · Score: 1
    Well, that could be because i'm a pompous ass :) I have the same problem. My brother uses alcohol. I've given up weight training and just do yoga.

    It's amazing what yoga can do for you if you let it, it's a systemized approach to learning/discovering the capabilities of the human body. Note, i'm not talking about the exercise taught in most of north america, though that is a part of it. Unfortunately, it's been westernized and the physical movements have to be 'taught' to the students.

    Unfortunately, westerners in general don't seem to grasp the concept that knowledge isn't given or taught. It has to be something that the individual grasps on their own right.

  16. Re:Common sense on Sunscreen Not So Good for You? · · Score: 1
    Little bit touchy about your drinking?

    Who am i attacking?

    I'm just asking the question when will people grow up and learn to take responsability for themselves.

    IT has nothing to do with the voices in your head that 'elaborate' other peoples words.

  17. Re:Hmm, really was crazy on Royal Society Finds Lost Newton Papers · · Score: 1

    You forgot the indians. Do people just spout the stuff they're told or do they actually try and learn and verify?

  18. Re:Hmm, really was crazy on Royal Society Finds Lost Newton Papers · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    YOu mean, in white peoples reality, newton did more for modern science.

    Westerners would have you believe that it's only by their grace that any other culture can even live, let alone feed themselves or have learned anything about the reality around us.

  19. Re:Common sense on Sunscreen Not So Good for You? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Have you ever laid out in the sun? It's relaxing and pleasant. There's a very good reason that lots of cultures worshipped the sun, and it's not just agricultural.

    It feels good and it's needed. The sun is actually one of the best ways to find out where you're tense and letting it go.

    People with lots of toxins in their system is probably what you're talking about. Nothing grosser than a tanned coffee drinking smoker.

  20. Re:Common sense on Sunscreen Not So Good for You? · · Score: 1

    Or learn what stresses you and deal with it. When will people grow up and start taking care of their minds and bodies instead of expecting a pill to take everything away(though it just masks it). No need for alcohol, unless you're trying to purify your water source.

  21. Re:Common sense on Sunscreen Not So Good for You? · · Score: 0, Troll
    Which is why unlike westerners, large portions of the world don't drink cow's milk, which takes very long to digest.

    They also tend not to kill everything in their milk. Which i never understood how they can do that. Lets kill off every single good bacteria in the food so that it can become rotten and populated with bad bacteria. Then again, westerners almost seem to have an innate fear of anything alive and so do their best to kill everything around them and everything they put into their bodies.

    This is why cultures drink their milk cultured. haha, then again, westerners kill everything in their cultured products as well. Silly westerners, it's a suprise they've lasted so long. Though they should start exploding any time soon as their intestines get more impacted with dead stuff :)

  22. Re:Stop throwing around the term "racist" on Sunscreen Not So Good for You? · · Score: 1

    blah blah blah. Why are you blabbing about a word that, by definition, doesn't exist in reality since there is only one human race?

  23. Re:The Force is *retarded* with this one... on Britain's First Jedi Member of Parliament · · Score: 1
    I think you're asking the wrong questions because you've never read the bible.

    One way to look at it. string theory.

    Everything is dynamic, there are no objects. Everything is constantly popping into and out of existence. Everything is part of god, we are all one, we're vibrations set in motion by the first sound. Supposedly only humans have free-will. If you look at nature everything follows a pattern. The patterns break down when you get to humans. Humans can influence 'random' events, since everything is constantly popping into and out of existence, we are creating reality. We are god.

    People who believe science is truth are dumb because they assume that the foundation that science is built on is truth. Any competent scientist knows this is false. You can't possibly discredit anything if you don't even examine it. All of history is pretty much up for grabs considering that archaeologists seem to care more about keeping the status quo and their reputations than scientifically analyzing anything that is counter to their theories.

    There is factual evidence out there that contradicts the theory of evolution. However, it seems to get drowned out by the freaks on both side of the creationism/evolution debate.

    I won't even get into the religious freaks that are basically like secular society and their understanding of science.

  24. Re:Jesus didn't claim to be a Christian on Britain's First Jedi Member of Parliament · · Score: 1
    So he never said he was god, but it's interpreted as that? If you've ever read the bible, you'll know that there are multiple gods. God says so himself. After all god's children came down and slept with all the women.

    Only by dismissing jewish/christian spirituality beliefs does the bible not make sense.

    God was his father. God is everybody's father. Everyone is god, for does not god exist in every aspect of his creation? We are the cells of god.

    The problem is that everybody lets the church interpret the bible for them, and only the books that the church chooses to be included in the bible.

    Kings of spin, just like the USA.

  25. Re:Let the E-Wars begin! on France Will Be Home To Fusion Plant · · Score: 1
    Win what?

    do people even think for themselves anymore?