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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
- 12:23pm Nov 1, 2002 EST (#
5440 of 17697) 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.
In negotiations going on, in rearrangements and adjustments
that are going on, we want reasonable endings - good endings,
endings as happy as we can make them.
. How a Story is Shaped. http://www.fortunecity.com/lavendar/ducksoup/555/storyshape.html
For that to be possible, we need to find shared
space - shared understandings.
. A Communication Model http://www.worldtrans.org/TP/TP1/TP1-17.HTML
For entirely hard-headed and practical reasons, and other
reasons, we need to be able to communicate as human beings.
That means, for the highest levels of function (which can be
practically essential) that we have to be able to find ways to
communicate at the level of our separate aesthetics .
Results on the basis of one set of assumptions or values
may be beautiful - - and the very same result
may be ugly in terms of another set of values
and assumptions.
If the values and assumtions are clear - these things
can be discussed, and arrangements can be negotiated - even
when feelings are very different.
According to almost all standards, muddle is ugly.
The beauty or ugliness of a treaty, or any other
arrangement, can be judged in terms of the context it was
built for, and other contexts, including the context provided
by data not previously considered.
As negotiations proceed - questions of what is ugly, and
what is beautiful, in specific terms, can be very useful.
Definition and discussion of these questions can avoid muddle,
and produce arrangements that can be understood, remembered,
and worked with for long times - in the face of the stresses,
strains, and unforseen circumstances that have to be expected.
MD5437 rshow55
11/1/02 8:40am
It seems to me that the Security Council, and the nations
involved, have a chance to make the world a more beautiful
place than it is today in very practical, specific, and
important ways.
When the people involved have strong emotional feelings -
strong aesthetic feelings - that is practically
important - and to adress the reasons for those feelings -
it seems to me that the formality of "disciplined beauty"
described above can be useful.
lchic
- 02:06pm Nov 1, 2002 EST (#
5441 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Showalter predicting 2002 as a DIPLOMATIC
MILESTONE
correction ...
' a beautiful diplomatic milestone '
lchic
- 02:33pm Nov 1, 2002 EST (#
5442 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
NLP | Tune up the mind
http://www.nlp.org/glossary.html
lchic
- 02:42pm Nov 1, 2002 EST (#
5443 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
RU coldwar/Putin from 'Science in the News'
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=healthnews&StoryID=1664769
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=humannews&StoryID=1668025
lchic
- 03:03pm Nov 1, 2002 EST (#
5444 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Shared Space - Different Objectives
"" Tony Blair said he hoped to get Putin reading off the
same page - he's not doing that yet but he might now at
least be reading the same book
http://www.channel4.com/news/home/z/stories/20021011/iraq.html
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