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Maybe "blame" wasn't the correct word to use. Maybe "responsibility" would have been better. The point I was trying to make, however, is very much like the point you have made: the blame game is not helpful. At the same time, abrogating responsibility, washing one's hands of involvement, or...

Thank you for the sensible reply, Netti-Netti, and for addressing some of the concerns of the OP. Vajradhara and seattlegal, you both seem to be, in your particular favorite ways, obfuscating the question at hand: sg by her trademark flourishing of some gibbering mystical oriental riddle, and...

From the politics board: Guilt, collective or individual, when carried to excess, is unhealthy. With this I agree. I think that guilt can be a functional emotion, though. If someone feels guilty, that should be an indication that perhaps something is wrong. Within the Buddhist tradition...

Hey Paladin! I've been pretty good. Good to see you back around these parts, too. Anything happening in Colorado?

Naw, you add me. :p ;) Find me. I'm in there.

Not for the easily offended: YouTube - KATT WILLIAMS Cartoon - "Gangsta Tigers" (UNEDITED) :D :D :D

YouTube - Echoes Love this song.

And you are a moron.

Nick A... man, give it a rest. First time I've heard of him. What a creep.

The mind boggles.

lol... that's an interesting perspective, The Dude. My image of the Goddess is not a narcissistic princess staring into a vanity mirror, but kind of a dual image: a compassionate, nurturing maternal figure, embedded in community, for one; the other side of that is a fiercely individualistic...

What, specifically, are you referring to? What specific contribution of yours has been "intentionally ignored" in this thread? I don't know that anyone here is saying that it's possible to return to the past. I specifically have written that I believe that Technological progress, to me...

YouTube - Religulous Trailer - www.LennonAldort.com I went to see this one Saturday night. Bill Maher is funny. The movie did make me laugh a lot, and I agree with Maher to a point. I think his agenda with this movie is a bit too dogmatic, though, especially seeing as how the film comes out of...

No Smoke Without Fire: Elephant In The Room I just spent a portion of the morning watching this documentary about 9/11. It covers the "truth movement" to further investigate 9/11 as well as the declining health of first responders. Very sad, very unsettling.

Yes, Tao. Go gnaw on a twig while your at it. :p :D Dogbrain, I think that there is some wiggle room between the two extremes of accepting all technology as a given (which we could not possibly live without, is that it?) and living the life of a forsaken bum tossed into a thunderstorm...

Woof, Dogbrain. I think Jerry Mander put it well in his book In the Absence of the Sacred, where he wrote, "length of life is meaningless as compared with quality of life, which due to increasing pollution and devestation brought on by technological overdevelopment, is now in sharp decline."...

Awesome. Sweet avatar, too, the Dude. **** it, let's go bowling. ...anyway, I fall under the Pagan and Buddhist categories, I think.

This is probably neither he or there, but I personally would choose living in a "mud hut" in a relatively unspoiled environment with abundant food growing, flying, and running over the land, swimming in the streams; and actually, since you mentioned it, little problems with infectious diseases...

The OP can be found in other forums besides this one. A little googling reveals these results: Critical Thinker Habitually Pulls Back the Curtain I guess, for all of us, a meme that gives impetuous to much of our behavior is the “capitalism is good” meme. This meme, with its closest suburbs...

Thank you coberst for a stimulating post, and welcome to the forums. Luna, I don't think that logical postivism is necessary for critical thinking. Logical postivism seems to me to be a tool of particular use to the exacting, rational, materialistic views of western-centric culture. Believing...