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- Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:01 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Can we modify our genes?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15848
First: neurotransmitters have very short half lives because your body doesn't want them hanging around in synapses or the signalling would work because there wouldn't be bursts of signal. Second: Blood-brain barrier-- the NT aren't getting through that to get to the rest of the body-- even if they ...
- Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:50 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Can we modify our genes?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15848
Ok, but I was thinking that it might happen this way: It has been proven than when we often feel a certain way, more neurotransmitters responsible for triggering that feeling are produced, and thus the cells develop more receptors for those kind of neurotrasmitters (and receptors for other neurotras...
- Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:51 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Can we modify our genes?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15848
Can we modify our genes?
Ok...I hope this doesn't sound too crazy... I was thinking, if our personality is affected (partly) by our genes, can our genes be affected by our personality? For example, if I inherit the neurosis gene and I say to myself "Ok, I'm not going to be neurotic" I will be able to control this ...
- Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:42 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Future of gaming?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8170
- Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:18 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Philosophical Quotes
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3205
- Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:03 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Realistic and Plausible FTL Methods.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8608
- Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:54 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: The truth is out there...
- Replies: 65
- Views: 38782
- Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:26 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Universal Language Debate
- Replies: 51
- Views: 29235
Rei, I think, Julius, the difference lies in our priorities. I do not believe that a univseral language is worth the loss of so many cultures. I fully agree that it has strong, unifying benefits. However, I do not believe them to be worth the amount that we would lose. In short, the greater good, in...
- Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:26 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Universal Language Debate
- Replies: 51
- Views: 29235
Sorry for not posting, I've been studying for some maths exams... Anthony said, The homogenization of earth, indeed, the confluence of many globalizing effects, will lead us to either continual unification, or the total destruction of civilization. I agree. EL, If you have said this, you have not sp...
- Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:18 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Universal Language Debate
- Replies: 51
- Views: 29235
Besides, many international porblems are due to lack of communication and lousy translation between parties. Each word can hold several meanings depending on the context, and any type of misinterpretation can lead to trouble or to a worse trouble than before. Hmm... I must admit this doesn't really...
- Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:28 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Favorite Enderverse quotes
- Replies: 95
- Views: 64196
“It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.†- Ender’s Game “Order and disorder,†said the Speaker, “they each have their beauty.†- Speaker for the Death “Ignorance and deception can’t save anybody. Knowing saves them.â€...
- Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:45 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Universal Language Debate
- Replies: 51
- Views: 29235
Rei said: Even as a second language this would happen, because it would not likely remain a second language if it were necessary to know it for any international business or transaction. And if it could be assumed that everyone knows it, it would be used for anything that may be printed or available...
- Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:54 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Universal Language Debate
- Replies: 51
- Views: 29235
But this international language would be a second-language, it is not about sending to oblivion all the other languages. Nonetheless, as sad as it can be, I believe that some cultures have to be sacrified. What I mean is that many indians live in infrahuman conditions lacking of the very basic servi...
- Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:53 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Universal Language Debate
- Replies: 51
- Views: 29235
- Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:06 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Death penalty for serious criminal offenders
- Replies: 64
- Views: 30142
- Mon Dec 25, 2006 10:38 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Merry Christmas!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2198
- Mon Dec 25, 2006 10:15 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Death penalty for serious criminal offenders
- Replies: 64
- Views: 30142
- Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:53 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Death penalty for serious criminal offenders
- Replies: 64
- Views: 30142
Rei, (And let me warn you now, anything suggesting that some humans have lesser value than others, especially when it comes to a general societal perspective, implies that the mentally disabled are worth less than others and you do NOT want to suggest that anywhere where it might get back to EL. Tru...
- Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:19 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Death penalty for serious criminal offenders
- Replies: 64
- Views: 30142
EL, We do not have the right to kill people, no matter what they have done to deserve it. But in the case of those villains you may treat it as self-defence, because you are trying to protect society from their crimes, as well as doing justice for what they did. Not to mention that some of them can ...
- Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:32 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Death penalty for serious criminal offenders
- Replies: 64
- Views: 30142
The chance of a prison break is very small, especially with modern prisons. That is in the US. Here we have had several drug dealers who have been able to escape. Besides, I am not talking about the death penalty as a deterrent, but as a way to get rid once and for all of some very undesireable peo...
- Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:22 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Death penalty for serious criminal offenders
- Replies: 64
- Views: 30142
Death penalty for serious criminal offenders
This punishment being applied to dangerous criminals who have not shown any respect whatsoever to society and could be accused of high treason to humanity. For instance, war criminals, pederasts, heads of drug traffic cartels, kidnappers, rapists, serial killers, grave cases of corruption (e.g. poli...