And what does that tell you about human nature?I do not believe that we could ever convince everyone of anything. In fact, in trying to do so, we normally end up starting new wars.
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And what does that tell you about human nature?I do not believe that we could ever convince everyone of anything. In fact, in trying to do so, we normally end up starting new wars.
And do you have any thoughts as to how that will come about? Have you ever listened to the Youtube video by Carl Sagan called "Pale Blue Dot?"Yes I see we will get there, as "the earth is but one country and mankind its citizens".
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Yet tribalism is something that seems akin to an instinct -- but are we not also intelligent in a way that we can overcome our instincts? Wouldn't understanding how the instinct to be tribal causes us to self destruct lead us to find ways to avoid doing so?
I'm sure that's fraught with meaning where you live. Means nada to me.And the red spotted moose flys backwards under the purple moon, I feel ya bro!
It is possible I agree with your first point, but I would really like you to provide more detail on why you think it is not desirable. Do you think that fighting with each other is valuable for our species in some way?I don't believe global homogeny is possible or desirable.
And what does that tell you about human nature?
I hate you for saying that, and you are absolutely correct. At least in my experience.Intelligence is defeated by 2 things....
- Emotions
- The size of the group
I don't think so. You are human, you are able to reflect on youself, what drives you, what pisses you off, what you hope for and deplore. Use that to try to answer.I think I lack the appropriate qualifications to speculate on that.
Yes, and even sometimes kill each other.We are now and always have been one family. Family members sometimes fight each other.
Well, Baron Pierre de Coubertin seems to have agreed with you.In an ideal situation maybe, but too many of us are more willing to continue business as usual, than to do the necessary inner work to overcome that.
As I see it it will continue. Our best way to combat this is to change the way conflict is handled. Maybe instead of warfare, war games, for example, or athletic events.
I don't think so. You are human, you are able to reflect on youself, what drives you, what pisses you off, what you hope for and deplore. Use that to try to answer.
Jesus never said He was coming to earth to reign. Jesus said that His work was finished here and He was no more in the world.Only when Christ reigns will we have complete peace on earth.
In an ideal situation maybe, but too many of us are more willing to continue business as usual, than to do the necessary inner work to overcome that.
As I see it it will continue. Our best way to combat this is to change the way conflict is handled. Maybe instead of warfare, war games, for example, or athletic events.
I believe that is what the future holds because I am a Baha'i.And that question is this: "Can we humans ever finally discover that, isolated as we are on a tiny world in a vast cosmos, are one family, and that our continued survival is becoming more and more dependent on whether we can learn to live together, rather than continually try to win some special place over the rest of humanity?"
It's why human law a new branch was introduced.I am not sure that I could speak for the human race as a whole, but I do feel that there are many people alive today that I will never find common ground with.
I used to try to find common ground with everyone, but after a few abusive relationships I realized that some people are just never going to value cooperation. They want domination, and I cannot persuade them out of it any more than they could persuade me to want to bully others.