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• A comment on Conversation: How do smart people "find their level" in conversation?

  Aug 14 2011: i find that deeper topics of discussion just seem to reaffirm the importance of "lower level" topics.
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  A comment on Conversation: What each of us could/should do to the world get better in terms of environment...

  Aug 14 2011: strangely enough, eating meat is extremely bad for the environment. in the united states cows a fed a diet of mostly corn because it is cheap. when cows digest corn the produce a huge amount of methane compared to cows who are grass fed. livestock create more green house gases than automobiles worldwide.

• A comment on Conversation: If the world shared a common language, would religion be obsolete?

  Aug 9 2011: its funny how that is the world of democracy today is playing peoples emotion for support, than making lots of back room deals. if i had to guess not much emotion is involved in the deals, just way too much logic.
  its a nice example because it shows the two sides to emotion (which is extremely undefined in this discussion).
  I love you all.

• A reply on Conversation: gardens in the air, across buildings

  Aug 8 2011: complete system remodels are not usually undertaken unless they have to be. So assuming cities are grossly overcrowded, what do we do to save space without all retreating inside.

• A reply on Conversation: If the world shared a common language, would religion be obsolete?

  Aug 8 2011: the only reason i chose Mandarin was the fact that it is the most popular language. i do not really have a bias toward any language in particular. Esperanto would be fine but it would take much more energy to implicate.
  i share your opinion that promulgation would be sinful but if we can simply let a language culturally take over then nobodies feeling would to be hurt.
  right?
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  A reply on Conversation: If you could teach the world 1 valuable thing you learned, what would it be and why?

  Aug 8 2011: your own morals + all sensory information cataloged.
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  A reply on Conversation: Is our destiny to be one world with one language?

  Aug 7 2011: isn't Newspeak is the elimination of vocabulary within a single language in order to prevent ideas to be created cognitively? elimination of other languages would not eliminate certain ideas from being able to be relayed. it may be more difficult to talk about certain things like "the oneness of nature and man" in English but if there are really concepts to vast to be defined in a word then please post an essay on said concept. At the end of the essay choose a string of syllables and make that word mean something.
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  A comment on Conversation: If the world shared a common language, would religion be obsolete?

  Aug 7 2011: having one language would eliminate more miscommunications, improving the world in a myriad of ways. so lets all learn chinese.

• A comment on Conversation: Brainstorming Uses of Augmented Reality

  Aug 7 2011: incredible light shows for dancers on stage.
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  A comment on Conversation: If you could teach the world 1 valuable thing you learned, what would it be and why?

  Aug 7 2011: do what you should