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My main activity on the Internet right now is running the "Comparing Beliefs" Forum on the "Innersence" Yuku Community. This is intended to be a large, Web discussion venue where members representing a wide variety of belief systems can explain exactly what they believe and why, and respond to questions and comments from other members. CB is NOT intended to be a Forum where members try to persuade other members to change their beliefs (advocacy) or to win arguments (debate).
There are lots of Web discussion groups devoted to advocacy and debate, and the CB Forum is intended to move in an entirely different direction. The available evidence gathered by psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists indicates that very few people ever change their beliefs as a result of being "argued into it". If they are willing to take such arguments seriously, they have ALREADY made a decision to change their beliefs and are simply looking for something to change them TO. However, it's obvious that people in this state of mind are better-served by simple EXPLANATIONS of other people's beliefs, without advocacy being in the mix at all.
The definition of "beliefs" being used on CB is a very inclusive one. It includes not only beliefs usually labeled as "religious" or "spiritual", but also beliefs commonly categorized as "philosophical", "ethical" "social", or "ideological". This definition also includes both "faith-based" and "rational" beliefs, because discriminating between the two is itself a subjective value judgment, even if "true believers" in rationalism refuse to admit this. Another facet of this is the postulate that "art" and "science" are not rivals, but partners: all human creative activities contain elements of both, whether the people involved consciously realize this or not.
Here is the URL:
http://innersence.yuku.com/forums/102/CB-DISCUSSION-BOARD#.TvAKCdUeXeY
I also run the Revolutionary Spritualism Yuku Community, which contains extensive archives of my writings on the Spiritual Revolution and the Information Revolution, including a complete copy of my 1988 book "War in Heaven" posted as forum messages, and a large amount of information I've channeled since then. There are also Forums for discussions of these subjects in real time. The URL is:
http://revolutionaryspiritualism.yuku.com/
innersence.yuku.com/forums/102/CB-DISCUSSION-BOARD#.T
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12 Diaries
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Monday, July 19, 2010
The 2000 character limit on comments SUCKS SHARE
If the OEN management doesn't remove the 2000 character limit on comments that members post on articles within a few days, I'm going to stop posting on these boards entirely.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Moral Bankruptcy -- Chapter 13 or Chapter 11? SHARE
If Divine Justice had a civil court, many different recent news events make it obvious that just about every political, economic, social, and spiritual institution on Earth would now be in the dock declaring Moral Bankruptcy. Since "God" apparently either doesn't exist at all or at the least doesn't give a Tinker's Damn about human affairs on this obscure planet in the middle of nowhere, we humans are going to have to take this step informally before we can get our collective affairs in order well enough to take the next step in our evolution as an intelligent race. It looks to me like if we CAN take it, we will be ready to receive open assistance from other civilizations in this infinite Universe, and if we can't, we will become extinct within just a few decades.
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Thursday, June 3, 2010
SpillGate: BP Wins and the World Loses? SHARE
Right now, I am very much afraid that BP will succeed in using the "Top Hat" device to start siphoning off most of the oil from the SpillGate Gusher, and that the right will use this as an excuse to pressure President Obama into refusing to take direct federal control of the over-all effort to deal with the SpillGate catastrophe. IMO, all of us progressives should be prepared to exert pressure on him to take control anyway.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Is BP's "live feed" of the SpillGate BOGUS? SHARE
Various brief clips of BP's allegedly live video footage of the SpillGate leak that I saw on news programs all seemed to look like a clip a few seconds long being repeated over and over. So I visited the site, and what I saw there looked just as much like a loop and the excerpts I'd seen on the air.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
The Neocon Pledge of Allegiance SHARE
"I pledge Allegiance to the Untied States of America and the Republican Party for which it stands: One Notion, Invisible, with God taking Liberties over Justice for All."
Friday, March 19, 2010
Congressional Equality Amendment SHARE
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States".
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Running a poll up the flagpole SHARE
I'd like to congratulate Rob Kall for his 2/11/10 poll entitled "Are You Happy With Obama's Health Care Efforts?" IMO, his five opinion statements really ARE a reasonable sampling of the possible answers for, "Do people oppose reform or do they want even more?", and more important they come close to addressing the full complexity of the issue.
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
Push "Reset" on the Obamacare Bill -- and then push "Single Payer" or "Universal Medicare" SHARE
Rep. John Kline (R-Mn) has just recommended that Congress "push the reset" button on President Obama's health care reform bill. I agree .... as long as the next button they push is labeled "Single Payer" or "Univeral Medicare".
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Health Care Reform -- Flapping the Left Wing SHARE
IMO, the only way we can get REAL health care reform at this point is for the left wing of the Democratic Party in Congress to vote AGAINST the new health care bill unless it meets certain minimum standards to be decided by a caucus of the most progressive Sentors and Representatives.
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Don't Let Michael Vick Out of the Dog House! SHARE
If NFL Commissioner Roger Goodel reinstates Michael Vick, as looks likely, and some team is willing to hire him, I'm seriously considering boycotting pro fooball entirely this year and watching only college games.
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Edging Towards "Edges" SHARE
The question that prompted me to write this was, "What sort of material belongs on the "Edges" Menu?
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
Pig Plague Pandemic SHARE
Well, only a few days after "Swine Flu Epidenic" was taken off the Main Menu of the "Op Ed News" Home Page, news is beginning to break that IMO should put it back on again. Yesterday, I read that surge in cases of H1N1 swine flu in Australia may cause the World Health Organization to soon declare the first flu pandemic since 1968. And today the WHO did just that....
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Friday, July 3, 2009
The Edges of Journalism SHARE
In many cases, citing specific pieces of information as references in a controversial article on current events is a step AWAY from truly objective on-line journalism, and it makes more sense to just give unsupported information and expect readers to do their own searches if they want more details. Citing a reference is tantamount to endorsing it, which IMO invariably introduces an element of "spin"....
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