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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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lunarchick - 08:25am Dec 26, 2002 EST (# 7039 of 7046)

Conviction - Gisterme speaks of

Conviction
A fixed or strong belief.
http://www.bartleby.com/61/75/C0617500.html

self-conviction
The act of convicting one's self, or the state of being self-convicted.
http://www.selfknowledge.com/86283.htm

Conviction is experienced as an inner witness or a reminder or conscience http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3087/dict.htm#convic
Biblical/Sermons/Lectures - use of Conviction
http://www.godrules.net/library/topics/topic416.htm

Language evolves from the environment. Words are tools that aid and define communication.

Conviction relates to a belief system unique to varied cultures and environments.

Is the belief system local or universal?

Is he belief system current or redundant?

Is the belief system a working tool .. or a tool that works against progress?

In the legal sense the conviction is that which recognises a series of beliefs that are used by an individual in an anti-social sense, and may be deemed in need of correction.

Those trying to move a culture forward may with hindsight be convicted for futuristic beliefs by a retrograde society.

lunarchick - 08:34am Dec 26, 2002 EST (# 7040 of 7046)

On objective truth http://www.ku.edu/~medieval/melcher/matthias/t69/0049.html

lunarchick - 08:46am Dec 26, 2002 EST (# 7041 of 7046)

When to change convicitons?

Gisterme (from previous postings):

"...I love Nietzsche’s aphorism that it is not the courage of one’s convictions that matters but the courage to change one’s convictions...

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Convictions have to be in line with those factors local to both our inner-self and outer-environments.

When the environment changes, then convictions (a belief system) has to renew itself to give us a checklist/benchmark against which we can assess factors as they come into play and have to be dealt with.

If the wider environment changes then renewal of convictions may need to be undertaken on a societal, rather than mere individual basis.

The function of convictions has to be to enable sucessful survival leading to achievement and growth.

Growth occurs within the self, locally, entrepreneurally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

Convictions that 'work' may be adopted on a difused widespread basis.

lunarchick - 08:49am Dec 26, 2002 EST (# 7042 of 7046)

Bullying ['What's the problem' bbc world service] recommend this site http://www.bullying.co.uk/

lunarchick - 09:57am Dec 26, 2002 EST (# 7043 of 7046)

Lean Thinking spoke of the triangle of

People Process Technology

rshow55 - 10:23am Dec 26, 2002 EST (# 7044 of 7046)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

Lunarchick - you're beautiful ! I think some things are going well. Just finished a posting . . that fits with your recent postings.

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