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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (62838)	10/21/2007 4:51:27 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

I came out of a tough town, Richmond California, stumbled into college quite uneducated, where I got aquainted with the great minds of the world. What did they know I wondered? So I studied them. First thing I learned is that they all had crazy ideas sometimes, so I learned we are all sort of nuts-lol. In my journys, given we are all nuts the only truth I found was kindness. Now some see kindness as a sort of weakness. But it isn't, it takes the greatest strength to be kind. And it is a compass that always points in the right direction. And a person can make a free will existential decision to be a decent human being i.e. kind. In fact in existentialism, the way in which you live your life determins one's valdity as a human being. Life/reality is colored by our life experiences, knowledge and how our minds work. Even though I have posted here off and on for almost 7/8 years?I seldom left the mining stock trading theads until just a few weeks ago, when I took some intellectual safari's to go look at some political threads and see what people were saying. What I found was too much shouting and too little thinking. Following my thesis that we are all basically nuts, somehow-lol, maybe a good way to judge the validity of any philosophy is to see how the worlds great universities see any particular thinker. That way, you are sort of getting a statisitical sample population of objective review, of sophisticated thought by people who understand it. A sort of peer review which scientists rely on for establishing validity. Good ideas usually stand the test of time. e.g. Einsteins theory of relativity and theories of Quantum physics are prretty much accepted as strong valid theories by almost everyone. As is Darwin's theory of evolution. P.S I really do not know how to answer your questions directly as I did not see any that did not end in a sort of he said, she said type of argument? That is pointless.