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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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rshow55 - 08:35am Dec 31, 2002 EST (# 7157 of 7168)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

There needs to be more mercy, too.

Quite a lot more.

Casey was short of that. We fought about it just a bit. He said he couldn't afford it - and challenged me to contradict him. I couldn't - then.

He wanted to find better ways. But he was stumped about them - and he had to act - chose to act - did act - where he was.

Now, I think we can do better.

We need much more mercy - as a general thing.

But somewhat less, in some spots.

lunarchick - 08:44am Dec 31, 2002 EST (# 7158 of 7168)

Counting down the minutes to the hour and January 2003 here Showalter ....
New Year's Resolutions have to be considered
--- on the wider basis

What resolutions would be good -- for the world -- in 2003?

rshow55 - 08:49am Dec 31, 2002 EST (# 7159 of 7168)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

Here are important ones.

Try to stay awake.

Try to have good judgement - which means you have to doubt so you can check.

This sermon is excellent on these points - and I think it is a beautiful exemplar of a religious sermon that would stand (and a kind of religion that would be substantially unchanged) whatever science learns, and however our social arrangements change in workable ways.

WHEN THE FOUNDATIONS ARE SHAKING by James Slatton http://www.mrshowalter.net/sermon.html

Darwin would have enjoyed it, too. So would Bertrand Russell have.

lunarchick - 11:44am Dec 31, 2002 EST (# 7160 of 7168)

PEACE 2003

Not sure how they celebrated New Year in Darwin .... but ... this was Sydney http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/31/1041196644199.html

lunarchick - 11:49am Dec 31, 2002 EST (# 7161 of 7168)

Hope: New Philosophies for Change:

^{[ Sydney Morning Herald -- Mary Zournazi, writes in her new book ]}

"We live in a world where our belief, faith and trust in political or individual actions are increasingly being threatened, leading to despair and uncertainty.

It is easy to be pessimistic with wars, ecological disasters and increasing social inequality all around us ... Hope is a basic human condition.

It is the stuff of our dreams and desires, our ideas of freedom and justice and how we might conceive life."

lunarchick - 11:58am Dec 31, 2002 EST (# 7162 of 7168)

Charity

^{Island Lighthouse suffers Redundancy}

Or should the spotlight shine on
Faith Hope and charity

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