Parallels Between Ancient Greece and Modern America
I recall asking a docent at the Getty Villa Museum that houses antiquities how it was possible that the people of ancient Greece both developed mathematics, philosophy, democracy , etc. and believed that the god Mercury pulled the sun across the sky is his chariot.
He explained, “The situation then was not all that dissimilar to that of today’s United States. Most of our scientists and urbanites are atheists, as were the people who lived in or near Athens. But go out into the rural areas where most people were farmers, where highly educated people are rare, and folks tend to be deeply religious.”
Here’s another way of defining “woke,” i.e., feeling the pain of others.
I don’t know anyone dumb enough to believe he has one.
FWIW, I’m still predicting that Trump is going to face legal consequences for trying to overthrow the U.S. government via a violent insurrection.
To answer the reader’s question at left: People have been talking about this since the dawn of the spoken word. The usual argument is that God gave us free will, which means that it’s up to us to choose one action over another, and some of these actions are evil.
A reader notes about the meme here: Merry Christmas brings an awkward silence when I say it. Oh well, too bad. The holiday IS Christmas.
Most adherents to the world’s religions believe that human beings are, in essence, souls that go on to some form of afterlife when they die. Yet, as far as I’m aware, there are no such provisions made for our fellow primates, e.g., chimpanzees, nor for other intelligent species like dolphins and whales, nor for our beloved pets, like the fine dog pictured at left.
Living in peace is a skill that most of the modern world has not developed to any significant degree.
Question: Take a peek at the meme at left, and examine it for poor logic.
If I were to name the ten most intelligent and morally wholesome people who ever lived, Vonnegut would be on the list.
