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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
- 07:21pm Feb 12, 2003 EST (#
8846 of 8849)
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.
Lchic, 8842 asks : "Showalter if someone asked you, as
they did, 'What is your VISION?' would you have a clear
understanding within as to what you wanted to achieve with
your life?
My personal Vison Statement:
1496 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b2bd/1662
1496 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b2bd/1662
1496 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b2bd/1662
1496 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b2bd/1662
from God is the Projection of Mans Unrealised Potential
- Discuss
. Here are some things that lchic and I
are working for – many of them expressed in various ways on
the NYT Missile Defense forum, and on these Guardian-Talk
boards.
I've made a number of postings on that thread - especially
since 1447 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b2bd/1607
7999 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.DbsQax2F3gq.355033@.f28e622/9525
"Lunarchick and I have worked hard to focus some patterns,
and believe we've worked out some. Here are two at the level
needed to think about exception handling . The golden rule (a
principle of symettry) helps sort out a lot of things, I
believe. The notion of disciplined beauty (harmony) helps sort
out a lot of things, I believe.
(search "golden rule" or see http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md01000s/DetailNGR.htm
)
(search "disciplined beauty" or see http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b085/157
- - also set out in 5438-40 5438 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@168.6ypeaWGbV32^117411@.f28e622/6810
of this thread.
http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b2bd/1657
rshow55
- 07:22pm Feb 12, 2003 EST (#
8847 of 8849)
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.
If the president of the USA was asked 'What was his vision'
... he might reply ........ ?
He might reply that he wanted to serve the
United States, and the honor of his family. If he's careful
- - he can.
If an Iraqi was picked out from a crowd and asked ... how
might we expect them to reply?
He'd want a better world for the people he
cares about, I'd expect - - and want to serve the needs, and
fit in with the ideals, of the people he cares about.
So how do all these 'visions' get poured into the
cauldron of life .... and be made to happen?
I think we could all do the things needed to fit the needs
of mankind, and any God there may be - without being any
wiser, braver, or better than we are - if only we'd remember
that - when it matters enough - we have a moral
obligation to find out what the truth is - at the level of
fact. It doesn't seem like so much to ask - but it
would be enough - from where we are - for a much, much better
world.
" People say and do things. .
" What people say and do have consequences,
for themselves and for other people. .
" People need to deal with and understand
these consequences, for all sorts of practical, down to
earth reasons. .
" So everybody has a stake in right
answers on questions of fact that they have to use as
assumptions for what they say and do.
If the bolded point, just above, were more widely and
deeply understood - and linked to the simple points just above
it -- a great many things in the world would be better - and
people, just as they are, could solve many of the most
important and practical problems they face.
As of now, the idea that "everybody has a stake in right
answers on questions of fact that they have to use as
assumptions for what they say and do" is actively denied
whenever anyone with power actually objects.
Instead, the point should be common ground.
Right now, that means that some leaders of nation states
should ask some questions - and insist on right answers. http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md01000s/DetailNGR.htm
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