Yes, I guess you could say that. The cycle goes something like this: There is a pack of lemmings, milling about. etudiant, I have a way of working forums, developed for more than a decade of time and some effort, and that method is to simulate conversation by reading some of the text offered, respo...

I'm interested in the relation between life and non-life. I share a similar (sympathetic?) perception, inspired by the viewpoint offered by Bloom. In terms of progress, or evolution, or growth, or just that which occurs, there are now living things where once there were only non-living things, meas...

Re-reading chapter one brings back my initial fury concerning how the book appears to sweep specific crimes committed by specific people under the rug, to apologize for crime. I can get past all that and work on the objective perspective offered by Bloom. Of late, after reading much of the book, dig...

Robert, My interpretation of your viewpoint on this part of this discussion is one of near perfect agreement. The introduction to the book lays out a specific goal and from there the book proceeds to follow through with that goal. I am going to move ahead to the next topic in this well organized dis...

My own interest is to establish a major new world industry in the transport of fresh water around the ocean and production of algae biofuel, as I have discussed at Booktalk threads on the Spragg Waterbag and the Algae City in the Gulf of Mexico. Bloom points out it is crazy people like me who have ...

I can offer my services; sure, I have a few ideas. Will the existing work be left published; where each chapter is listed as separate topics? I can begin commenting in each topic? Perhaps I am more qualified to be an assistant leader, an apprentice perhaps?

Hail, or To whom it may concern, The following link is on topic if the topic concerns the meaning, or the context, in the book which is the topic. I am curious and interested in borrowing other brains, other perspectives, concerning the relevance of this next link to the topic. What, exactly, is to ...

But statistics will not nail down a situation that has so much of the subjective in it, and statistics will apply to some segments but not to others DWill, If the idea is deception, then statistics can be as good a weapon as any other, in the right hands, aimed at the right victims. If the idea is ...

So these two terms, liberal and conservative, identify two camps but have little meaning. DWill, We are wandering off the topic and although I welcome any new data from any source, especially interesting data such as the words you offer, my habit or discipline pushes or forces me to connect this pa...

With the quote from Machiavelli and your feeling that I 'm harboring a negative about interconnectivity, could it be conservatism you're sensing? DWill, I don’t know what there is to conserve, or is conservatism like an operating system where things are conserved by default? My guess was a stab in ...