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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 - 05:13pm Mar 4, 2003 EST (# 9437 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.

The golden rule is discussed from a perspective concerned about both God and man in God is the Projection of Mans Unrealised Potential - Discuss here are passages that connect to issues of (technical and moral) right and wrong - and connect closely to war and peace.

#157 http://politicstalk.guardian.co/uk/WebX?13@@.ee7b2bd/197 I think a reasonable accounting of the Roman empire shows such evil, such horror, that if a Messiah were to choose to come, or would have been chosen to come, that place and time would have been a good place and time. But what a sad loss it was, when, after the decline of Rome, such chaos and horror took its place ...

#572 http://politicstalk.guardian.co/uk/WebX?13@@.ee7b2bd/631

#574 http://politicstalk.guardian.co/uk/WebX?13@@.ee7b2bd/633

#575-579 http://politicstalk.guardian.co/uk/WebX?13@@.ee7b2bd/634

#1202 http://politicstalk.guardian.co/uk/WebX?13@@.ee7b2bd/1299 - - with reference to a neuroscience meeting I attended - which I thought worked well - and might have worked far better if the NYT had not aborted my chances by yanking a forum "How the Brain Works" - that I'd been relying on - after discussion with the NYT made me think I could rely on that thread as a for reference I could use. (An example where the NYT, I felt, fell very short of the golden rule - and did not treat me like a human being.)

September12, 2001 #1368 http://politicstalk.guardian.co/uk/WebX?13@@.ee7b2bd/1511

The Golden Rule and empirical, testable truth about facts: #1466-68 http://politicstalk.guardian.co/uk/WebX?13@@.ee7b2bd/1631

#1481 http://politicstalk.guardian.co/uk/WebX?13@@.ee7b2bd/1646

Vision Statement #1496 http://politicstalk.guardian.co/uk/WebX?13@@.ee7b2bd/1662

Discussion of Details and the Golden Rule http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md01000s/DetailNGR.htm #1508 http://politicstalk.guardian.co/uk/WebX?13@@.ee7b2bd/1674

#1523 http://politicstalk.guardian.co/uk/WebX?13@@.ee7b2bd/1690 includes some summaries of my work with Lchic from a partly religoious point of view.

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