[betty boop]

I, for one, deny that the current age has some sudden influx of amoral thinkers. I can't think of any age in history that has not had rationalizing scum in high places, sometimes posing as religious leaders or leaders od liberation movements.

Well of course you are right about this, js1138. Human nature has always tended towards the corrupt, if history is any guide, especially if we look at the personal histories of certain great figures who have shaped human history on the grand scale.

On the other hand, there have been great historical figures who were not corrupt in the general sense; for they had found a moral compass that could hone into a "beyond," from the existential, natural world to its source; and then they let their finding be their guide. Thus is the moral sphere ever validated, down the ages. What they had discovered was incapable of falsification. (And thus not capable of verification.)

Plato was right: Indeed we do live in the metaxy, in the "in-between" of human existence -- in a tension of competing truths, to boil the problem down to its essence.

And that's why "the conversation of thoughtful minds must ever stay open." IMHO FWIW

[gobucks]

bad news betty; Phaedrus is still banned. I'm guessing he's simply still in your list somewhere, but I just checked. I do miss him fwiw.

He must have had a bad day that day ....

Do you have any famous Phaedrus threads you would recommend for some future date of review?

Betty, one other question: the 5th dimension stuff; would you please link to the 'good stuff' about that? I just read Ag's backdoor evolution article and was awestruck. Your component addition was essential. Thanks.

[WildTurkey]

#1032 was supposed to go to you but I goofed.