The perils of plenty is his theme here. I'm always most anxious about the environmental side of that, what it means for the environment if a few billion more people get what by all fairness they should get--the comfortable standard of living that we have in North America and Europe. For me the ques...

What happens when the discussion is about the nature of evil, and the existence of demons are brought into question? I would say two discussions are possible there. One being that the concepts of any non-measurable aspects by our current abilities be removed (such as supernatural forces) from the p...

I do not see the influence of an instrument at the quantum level changing particle behavior as being the same physical phenomena as that of changing something literally by measuring it by air escaping when measuring pressure. I am not sure if you are oversimplifying this for the speed of making a po...

How could any thought of depth and revolutionary proportion have emerged without out a "there might be"?

Love it and so glad that you are here! Look forward to hearing more of what you have to share. I am another 'newbie' here. gari LisaRose64, you already checked in. Look at the post above yours. That's a list of people that have checked in. ;-) I saw that. I told you I did not know what I was doing. ...

Welcome to the group Lizzy. I noted you are new to booktalk as well. I have not read this book but will now look at it with intent to do so. gari That's how I feel about Dark Confessions of an Extraordinary, Ordinary Woman. It was a wake-up call for me. Helped me realize I was in a destructive relat...

Even the reality of gravity is in question and time and space only exist as humans construct it hence, everything we believe we know is only as good as the information we have available and how we desire to interpret this, hence the comment we know nothing. The spin of an electron around a nucleus i...

Thx Interbane. The point is to pull in your definition to exclude those possibilities but I would assume that there are folks out there who could go on and on about a demon. What do we know? Nothing really hence we define terms with boundaries not to be right but to be discussing the same thing. gar...

Thx Interbane for the welcome! I would say that if a person unintentionally hurts a chicken it is not evil unless there were an outside force acting on the person or unconscious fear such as let's say for fun a demon. Then the act is not evil on behalf of the human, rather the demon and it is consci...

Interbane, Can I jump in back here and ask about clarifying what is meant by evil here in this discussion? One loose definition that I usually apply personally is based on somewhat of a Naturalist viewpoint mixed with subjective distinction about what defines evil. It goes something like this: To ha...