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To: E. Charters who wrote (17136)	7/29/2006 2:26:35 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78419

Good post EC, yes history does hold the solutions. But then one needs to know history. In the Scientic American article I am quoting: The Expert Mind: They said there is a 10 year rule which states that it takes spproximately a decade of heavy labor to master any field. Clinton clearly spent 10 years mastering an understanding of how the world works. He was a Rhodes Scholer, graduated 5th in his class at Yale law school (Hillary graduated first and said Bill didn't work very hard)and was a policy wonk. He knew his subject. Bush 0 years. C student and no interest in scholarly things. And he is not a reader. A friend once said he didn't think it took a smart man to be president. I said it did. It looks like we were both wrong, it takes a person who heavily studies the issues for 10 years which,Clinton clearly did and bush clearly did not and explains Clinton's success and bush's failure. PS women generally work much harder than men, so I am guessing women eventually will take over the world which will be a good thing, in my opinion. In the African american community twice as many girls go to college as guys. And more women are becoming both lawyers and doctors.

To: E. Charters who wrote (17136)	7/30/2006 3:20:12 AM
From: koan	Respond to of 78419

That was very eloquently put EC-lol. And I agree with all of it.

To: E. Charters who wrote (17136)	7/30/2006 1:05:12 PM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 78419

Seems to me that to resort to faith, in any form, is to suspend logic. As long as there is a religious component in man, and it seems there always will be, as argued below, the answers will remain elusive. Faith will always trump logic, and therefore the outcomes will always be illogical and thus random. "Religions, by whatever names they are called, all resemble each other. No agreement and no reconciliation are possible between these religions and philosophy. Religion imposes on man its faith and its belief whereas philosophy frees him of it totally or in part. … Whenever religion will have the upper hand, it will eliminate philosophy; and the contrary happens when it is philosophy that reigns as sovereign mistress. So long as humanity exists, the struggle will not cease between dogma and free investigation, between religion and philosophy: a desperate struggle in which, I fear, the triumph will not be for free thought, because the masses dislike reason, and its teachings are only understood by some intelligences of the elite, and because, also, science, however beautiful it is, does not completely satisfy humanity, which thirsts for the ideal and which likes to exist in dark and distant regions that the philosophers and scholars can neither perceive nor explore." cis-ca.org