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One of the tragedies of these days. There are people in Brazil protesting because they want to return to a totalitarian regime. How stupid is that?

That's why I think writing and acting are beautiful careers. Writers and actors get to live several lives in one.

Good point. Fire isn't human technology. It's a force of nature that we (sort of) learned how to handle. I agree with the other examples though. Maybe present IT hasn't reached the level some people expected 10 years ago, but it exceeded expectations some other people had back then. It may...

Robots may create more robots to build more infrastructure to increase processing capabilities to keep learning. Machine learning is about robots being able to learn and make decisions they were not programmed to. It can get out of hand. What will they do with what they learn? If we give them...

There are monkeys currently in the stone age. However, they may not get the chance to make Earth the planet of the apes and build a civilization from the technology humans leave behind when we disappear, possibly not due to a virus from space, a lab virus, nuclear warfare, climate change, a...

This question is probably misguided and probably should be asked elsewhere in the forum, but anyway: does this movie qualify as a demonstration of what de-evolution would look like, if there was a reason for it to happen?

I wrote all of that by memory at least 20 years after the lectures. I may have forgotten and misinterpreted pieces of information. I may have subconsciously contaminated the information with my own thoughts. I was a teenager back then. My worries were school and soccer. It's possible that I...

That's probably a testament to his legacy. I guess people just can't ignore him. He did great things. He taught great things. People like that usually are remembered by history. Had he been a physicist with a seminal theory, he would be in every physics book published since after his theory...

Hi! Thanks! It's been very interesting. Welcome to the thread. There are boundaries to what we are allowed to learn. There are things that we'll never know, only guess. I agree that there is no limit to how many souls can exist. Why would God put a limit to God's own power of creation? I...

Shipwright had the gift of foresight. He used it for piracy, but maybe he could have found a better use for it. Maybe that's part of why he got such a heavy penalty. If you read Shipwright's story bearing his teachings in mind, there are lessons to be learned there. We can learn from other...

Telling Shipwright's story was my personal decision, maybe influenced by my liking of knowing the story behind the story in general. Maybe he told us his story because that's what humans do when we get to know each other.

Human souls incarnate human bodies, squirrel souls incarnate squirrel bodies, and so on. There are "old" souls and "new" souls. I don't know if we'll ever be allowed to know why God creates new souls, or why God created the first souls for that matter.

Definitely. Mediums are tools. Tools can be used for good or for evil. Good people and bad people may have gifts, and how they use such gifts comes down to free will.

I can speak for my family's experience and why we chose to believe it. The medium dropped school when he was around 8 years old because of the hardship imposed by rural life in the arid interior of Bahia, in the Northeast (an arguably poor State in the arguably poorest region of Brazil)...

It seems to be a different philosophy with different premises.

Some mistakes may be free will, some others may be needs of the flesh, and yet others may be outside influence, while others may not be mistakes at all. Nobody is free from making mistakes. I guess our job here is basically damage containment while learning what we can.

That's the human condition in the corporeal plane, I suppose. We try to do our best and hope for the best. The judges will know how to evaluate circumstances, causes and effects. I totally agree with this. Sometimes only later down the road we realize that something that seemed bad was...

Mao probably had a mission to improve the living conditions of the Chinese people and probably got lost somewhere along the way. He probably abused his free will in a position where it does a lot of harm to a lot of people, probably with evil intent. There are spirits who enjoy doing evil, and...

While it's possible that the victims are paying karma, I think most of the times (if not every time in known history) it's not the case. Even if the victims are paying karma (which I don't think is likely in this scenario), this kind of situation easily leads to abuse that will have to be...

I actually had written something along those lines in my last post but deleted before posting. Most people mean well most of the time. There are those who tend to think otherwise, but people who do wrong on purpose are a minority. Maybe you agreed to provide financial support for such person...