Nice Comment

Comment was by Chris B on April 22, 2022 at 2:37pm

I'm not a parent, but I guess that parents want their children to think like themselves, or they'd feel threatened...

Comment was by Andy Stout on April 22, 2022 at 1:43pm

I relentlessly implore our public education system to teach our children HOW to think, before teach them WHAT to think. Critical/logical thinking skills are (clearly) not intuitive. They must be studied and learned—and the earlier they are learned the better. There are excellent resources available to educators. Imagine a new generation of young minds that can employ critical-thinking skills and can reach rational conclusions based on logic and the rules of reason that Aristotle gifted the world. What is stopping us from raising our children to THINK?

Comment was by Stephen Brodie on October 23, 2020 at 4:23am

Betty is really up there with the best satirists on YouTube 

Comment was by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on October 22, 2020 at 10:32pm

Betty Bowers

Comment was by Loren Miller on October 16, 2020 at 9:38am

A corollary of Lessing's statement:

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Comment was by Davy on October 16, 2020 at 9:02am

Think wrongly, if you please ; but in all cases think for yourself. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729 – 1781)

Comment was by Stephen Brodie on January 21, 2019 at 6:59pm

Is the Atheist Community a Cult?

Comment was by Doone on July 7, 2014 at 8:05am

A Switch For Consciousness

JUL 7 2014 @ 7:29AM

Scientists seem to have discovered one:

In a [new study], Mohamad Koubeissi at the George Washington University in Washington DC and his colleagues describe how they managed to switch a woman’s consciousness off and on by stimulating her claustrum. The woman has epilepsy so the team were using deep brain electrodes to record signals from different brain regions to work out where her seizures originate. One electrode was positioned next to the claustrum, an area that had never been stimulated before.

When the team zapped the area with high frequency electrical impulses, the woman lost consciousness. She stopped reading and stared blankly into space, she didn’t respond to auditory or visual commands and her breathing slowed. As soon as the stimulation stopped, she immediately regained consciousness with no memory of the event. The same thing happened every time the area was stimulated during two days of experiments (Epilepsy and Behavior, doi.org/tgn).

Comment was by A Former Member on May 21, 2013 at 12:01am

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them — isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual? -- Václav Havel

Comment was by A Former Member on April 1, 2013 at 10:20pm

Our comforting conviction that [the] world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. -- Daniel Kahneman

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