0xC0FFEE: "... The tendancy is to ever improving ressource allocations.... "
No offence, but that sounds very Marxist (or something like Marxist) to me. My (closet) hope is that a more fundamental tendency is toward maximizing liberty throughout modern society...
anagama: "... a lot of people didn't learn "how to learn"... "
It may be that technology changes "how to learn" so fast, that we need to relearn "how to learn" over and over, faster and faster. So many may be stumbling over "how to learn how to learn"
I've thought for a while that if some search engine company such as Google had a department of educators, that they could both: (1) put out an amazing educational media package, and (2) keep it up to date as the engine found more/more recent data.
I was hoping the trash problem (or at least the nuclear waste problem) would be solved by a bright guy with a space elevator. Drop it all into the sun. (The space elevator is an easier problem than the NIMBY one.)
More democracy does not necessarily equate to more freedom... see "The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad" by Fareed Zakaria for details.
Actually, Christ did both; he both served the poor and was politically involved. Christ not only fed the hungry and clothed the homeless, but also spoke out very harshly and very publicly against the political and religious leaders of his day.
This is a bit off-topic, but "redefine words that the rest of the world has agreed as to the meaning of, just to suit your own agenda" reminds me of the gender-neutral marriage bill the California legislature passed out here this session...
The usual passages cited are Psalm 96:10 (ESV): Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity." and Psalm 104:5 (ESV): He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. (This is the same passage used against Galileo.)
cuzality,
I had never heard of emergentvillage, so I went to the site - the first sentence starts: "Emergent is a growing generative friendship among missional Christian leaders..." Yow. Generative?? Missional??
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0xC0FFEE: " ... The tendancy is to ever improving ressource allocations. ... "
No offence, but that sounds very Marxist (or something like Marxist) to me. My (closet) hope is that a more fundamental tendency is toward maximizing liberty throughout modern society ...
anagama: " ... a lot of people didn't learn "how to learn" ... "
It may be that technology changes "how to learn" so fast, that we need to relearn "how to learn" over and over, faster and faster. So many may be stumbling over "how to learn how to learn"
I've thought for a while that if some search engine company such as Google had a department of educators, that they could both: (1) put out an amazing educational media package, and (2) keep it up to date as the engine found more/more recent data.
I did a Google search ... are you talking about Phonoscope?
I was hoping the trash problem (or at least the nuclear waste problem) would be solved by a bright guy with a space elevator. Drop it all into the sun. (The space elevator is an easier problem than the NIMBY one.)
Concerning your bullet points, I think you forgot one or more of the basic human needs ... ;)
More democracy does not necessarily equate to more freedom ... see "The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad" by Fareed Zakaria for details.
Actually, Christ did both; he both served the poor and was politically involved. Christ not only fed the hungry and clothed the homeless, but also spoke out very harshly and very publicly against the political and religious leaders of his day.
This is a bit off-topic, but "redefine words that the rest of the world has agreed as to the meaning of, just to suit your own agenda" reminds me of the gender-neutral marriage bill the California legislature passed out here this session ...
The usual passages cited are Psalm 96:10 (ESV): Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity." and Psalm 104:5 (ESV): He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. (This is the same passage used against Galileo.)
Did you really mean "organsim"? Maybe you could get Will Wright interested ...
cuzality, I had never heard of emergentvillage, so I went to the site - the first sentence starts: "Emergent is a growing generative friendship among missional Christian leaders ..." Yow. Generative?? Missional??