Possibilities

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Possibilities

Tom Brosz — 8/18/2006 6:23:16 PM (archived)

We live in an age of possibilities, but for most, they never seem to materialize.

If you look at the statistics, people around the world as a whole get better off every year, although obviously the improvements are not evenly spread.

A typical story on this here.

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Will - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 5:35:36 PM
- The second derivative effect. - ER - 8/18/2006 3:29:41 AM
  - re: The second derivative effect. - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 3:50:46 AM
    - location, velocity, acceleration, jerk - ER - 8/18/2006 11:25:28 AM
      - Possibilities - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 6:23:16 PM
- Which side will win a war - SDF - 8/18/2006 1:56:42 AM
  - Thanks - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 3:44:24 AM
- Stop thinking philosophically for a moment... - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/18/2006 12:23:37 AM
- re: Peace or not? - Raoul - 8/17/2006 8:13:08 PM
- re: Will - gbaikie - 8/17/2006 8:10:25 PM
  - re: ethics - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 10:30:48 PM
    - re: ethics - gbaikie - 8/18/2006 12:08:24 AM
      - Now that I look at it... - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 3:59:45 AM
      - Liberalism and ethics - Mary Anne - 8/18/2006 3:57:01 AM
    - Not to start that other thread... - dtb - 8/17/2006 11:01:41 PM
- It's really very simple. - Bowser - 8/17/2006 6:23:24 PM
- Like a lot of others who commented on that blog... - McFly - 8/17/2006 6:22:44 PM
- I think society adjusts itself to the level of barbarians present. - alcaray - 8/17/2006 6:22:21 PM
  - Comments so far aren't making me feel better. - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 8:03:31 PM
    - Expressed myself poorly - McFly - 8/17/2006 11:49:20 PM
      - re: Expressed myself poorly - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 3:27:35 AM
        
        "...our military is being called on the carpet..." - McFly - 8/18/2006 3:06:09 PM
    - First, read YOUR New Testament. And don't misstate me. - Bowser - 8/17/2006 10:52:06 PM
      - Non-answers - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 11:20:57 PM
        
        It's a limitation of black-and-white thinking. - Bowser - 8/17/2006 11:47:59 PM
        
        re: It's a limitation of thinking. - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 3:40:00 AM
        
        Think "Flatlander" and sphere. B&W thinking has that limitation. - Bowser - 8/18/2006 4:16:54 AM
    - That post is full of BS, Tom - Lindy - 8/17/2006 9:38:43 PM
      - Raoul and Lindy: more examples - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 10:54:39 PM
        
        What good will it do to become our enemies in order to defeat them? - Mary Anne - 8/18/2006 3:32:49 AM
        
        re: What good will it do - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 4:13:02 AM
        
        I agree with MA - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/18/2006 5:29:32 AM
        
        Almost every use of force - Mary Anne - 8/18/2006 4:42:55 AM
        
        re: Almost every use of force - gbaikie - 8/18/2006 10:01:22 AM
        
        re: Almost every use of force - gbaikie - 8/18/2006 10:51:38 AM
        
        re: Almost every use of force - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 5:54:29 AM
        
        Moderation doesn't equal "none". - Mary Anne - 8/18/2006 1:49:44 PM
    - And Brosz (to pop an equally absurd non sequiter straw man out of my hat) believes that the future can not be better than the past. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/17/2006 8:15:26 PM

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