New enlightenment

[haldir]

Hi all

Here's a real challenge to us all.

"The Enligntenment" was, and is, seen as the dawn of reason. I am convinced that we need to re-emrace this ideal today. Too much of what we hear/read/see is psuedo-intelligent crap.

It is time for all of us who actually think to come together and generate a NEW enlightenment for our own times.

For too long, artificial divides have been driven between "those who think and those that do". Let us, once again embrace reason - our one defining capability as a species - irrespective of our own specialisations.

Our societies are crying out for thought rather than non-thought, for reason rather than superstition.

Starter - what I dont know, I dont know. Thhis does not mean that it is the product of the super-natural.

Love u all

 

[Guest]

Dear Haldir,

I am sorry to let you down, but frankly I think 'the enlightenment' was one of the worst events in human history. Too many people forgot how to live and be human.

Perdita

 

[haldir]

Exactly - which is why we have to re-invent it for our own times. Including and celebrating the fact that we live and are "human"