User talk:Josephprymak

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My honours subject of study at the University of Winnipeg was in philosophy, logic, and political philosophy. I also studied physics, math, chemistry, botany, biology, geology, history, and geography. I study about every subject to be a good home school teacher for our child and her friends. Logical fallacies alone are a favourite area of study because of how prevalent they are today, as in the past.

I am concerned about the growing amount of new age theories and pseudoscience in an age of increasingly complex technologies where too few humans seem to understand how they work, their origins, and how they are put together. Many humans use technologies that they do not understand, and they do not give credit to the many scientific and philosophical founders.

I am concerned about the use of the word "races" with no careful thought about whether there are races or not. Is there just one human race, or are there many races, how many, and why? I have good reasons to think that there is only one human race and any other claim is inconsistent or fallable. See race.

I am a part of a philosophical community of friends that have a deep desire to learn logic, first principles, logic, math, philosophy, and natural science. We have carefully re-read many works by Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Locke, Rousseau, Newton, Nietzsche and many other great thinkers. Our goal is to educate, teach, and improve human beings. This can be done through free thought, free will, the love of wisdom literature, by cultivating virtues, and with the help of an intellectual community of true friends. The dialectic method, or oral dialogue and questioning while using logical and mathematical principles is required to seek true answers, or at least probable conclusions to some permanent questions. We think that all humans have the potential, the innate ability, to be more self aware and self-conscious of their natural gifts and to use their reason, emotions, and bodies in harmony. The main goal is to often do what is at least partially proven to be Good, or to at least seek permanent wisdom for as many questions or topics as possible. This requires true freedom of thought, to question our assumptions and popular opinions, and to be aware of contradictions in our thoughts. Knowledge of our own ignorance is an important Socratic starting point. Of course this is not easy. Human beings have the universal abilities of symbol and image making, the idea of symmetry, basic mathematics, geometry, logic, art making, cultivated skills, and have made many discoveries about the natural and possibly the immaterial or incorporeal world. We hope that you participate in the great philosophical conversation that has been going on for many centuries and through many great books. Great ideas are at the foundation of human civilization, and they must be rediscovered, taught, and even newly discovered to improve and continue the great journey of human kind. What are the best relations between nature, all species, humans, the intellect, emotions, and the will of a human being, and including the Creator (if there is a First Cause)? Socrates said that self-knowledge is very important.

It is important to clearly show how some words can accurately define actual things or places that exist. For example, any human can point to the sun, or one of the largest mountain tops, and name this specific being. The sun, moon, and large mountains exist, without a doubt. There is no illusion here, and they can be mapped and described in great detail, but not completely. The sun can change to a certain degree, and in specific ways, but the spherical being exists, for billions of Earth years. Humans can use math and language to co-operate, plan, map, and to build complex technologies, cities, and nations. Language, words, and math are the basic tools of human civilization, with common ground between all nations, all languages, and all times and places.

In addition, it is important to point out that all or most of the books of the New Testament were probably written in Aramaic originally and not ancient Greek. I love to try and show others why the Aramaic Peshitta text is the best to translate from. Yeshua, or Jesus, spoke in Aramaic, not ancient Greek. Perhaps there are many eastern Christians that can quote Yeshua with greater accuracy and better body language, tone, and other Aramaic language complexities.

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[edit] Useful

Hi Joseph. I see you've written some interesting articles/edits on the oldest rocks on the earth. You may be interested in referring to the article Acasta Gneiss for your future edits. Good luck. Rickert 07:49, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments. I will definitely refer to it when I get a chance. --joseph 16:31, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Petroform

See Talk:Petroform. CJLippert 23:21, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

There are clear distinctions between petroforms, petroglyphs, and pictographs. See all three for how they significantly differ.--joseph 00:21, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Boston Tea Party

Howdy, I noticed that you and I seem to post in one or two articles dealing with progressive issues in political science. There's currently a debate beginning in Boston Tea Party as to whether the article should include the category [1]. Would you be able to pop in to the Talk page and join in the discussion? Thanks much, samwaltz 05:12, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arrow heads

Why not merge this article with the Stone tool article? They discuss related concepts in a very similar manner. Your page could be a redirect to the existing version. (aeropagitica) 05:05, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit to Anthropogeology

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[edit] Anishinaabe-related Wikipedia article survey

Hi, I just wanted to let you know of the Anishinaabe-related Wikipedia article survey. The list of articles somehow associated with the Anishinaabe peoples may be found at User:Leo1410/Anishinaabe. Please take a look. If you know of articles that ought to be listed and isn't or topics that ought to be there and aren't or can suggest a better arrangements of the categories identified so far, please feel free to add, suggest, etc. CJLippert 03:57, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

p.s. Thanks for your kind words earlier. CJLippert 03:57, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edits to Justice

Hi. You made a couple of additions to the above. I've removed both, and - in the interests of reasonable conversation - I wanted to say why.

1. In the lead paragraph, you changed 'What exactly justice is, and what it demands of us, are among the oldest and most contested of questions' to 'What exactly justice is, and what it demands of us, are among the oldest and most contested of questions that have their written, philosophical origin in Plato's dialogues'. Why would we be interested in the oldest of the particular questions which have their origin in Plato's dialogues? But more importantly, what I think is that the question of justice originates in Plato - is contestable and rather Western-centric (what about Confucius, for instance?).

2. You added 'In Plato's dialogue on the just, he has the character of Socrates make it very clear that the city-state is an image, or a way to magnify the human soul, or mind and body to see what various types of individual souls exist. Some souls are ruled over by their desires, others are willful, and some use their reason in harmony with the love for wisdom and right actions.' to the end of the section 'Justice as harmony'. I don't think this is an improvement, for several reasons. First, the purpose of the analogy between soul and city is contested. Second, the point about people being ruled by their desires is already made earlier in the paragraph. Third, the addition is poorly integrated: it reads like a response to the earlier part, not continuous prose.

I'm happy to discuss this further at the article's talk page, if you'd like to. Cheers, Sam Clark 08:39, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please see talk at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Indigenous_peoples_of_North_America/Anishinaabe

Aaniin, Please visit Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Indigenous_peoples_of_North_America/Anishinaabe#Algonquin_Mythology_link.3F. There is a question that I think you may be very valuable in providing an answer and some guidance. Miigwech. CJLippert 03:30, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bill Gates

If you have sources for the amounts of Gates's and Buffet's philanthropy, I'd be glad to see them in the article. Gazpacho 19:09, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit to philosophy

Hello - if you don't mind, I removed the sentence from the introduction to the Philosophy article. I felt it was not enough of a general point to go in at the introduction. Can you discuss any changes to the introduction on the Talk page first, as this has been hugely contentious, as you probably know. Thanks. Dbuckner 09:13, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anishinaabemowin language Userbox

Aaniin, with great effort from User:Miskwito, we now have the oj series of Anishinaabemowin language userboxes. On the WP:IPNA/Nish page, we have a matrix of the possible categories for the oj series and the major dialect groupings. You can now add to your Userpage one of the oj userboxes that are available or you can help create a userbox for the dialect of your interest. Please see Wikipedia_talk:Babel#Ojibwe_language_userboxes for the full discussion. Miigwech. CJLippert 20:59, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please critique Image:Anishinaabewaki.jpg

Hi Joseph, Please ciritque this image. Tell me both about this image that you like and don't like. Thanks. CJLippert 22:10, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi CJLippert, The map is a bit inaccurate. Who made it? Based on what data or references? I cannot say much about the other geographic areas, but in Manitoba, it does not look right in some areas.
Well, I put the map together using the geospatial information available from both the US (na99_d00.shp) and Canada (CLAB_2007_01_02.shp) for the Reserve/Reservation location, while the municipalities were drawn from the Canadian gcsd00a06a_e.shp and the various US csXX_d00.shp files. Its projection is that to maximise UTM 15T (centre located southeast of Owatonna, Minnesota), opposed to UTM 14U (centre located just northwest of Gypsumville, Manitoba). The Reserves and Reservations that were selected came from either the US BIA or the Can INAC databases. Some municipalities were selected in addition to these Reservations and Reserves due to known concentration of Anishinaabeg in these Urban areas, either as significant number of student population or the nearest "big town" that provides economic security to individuals living off-Rez. Should more have been selected? Less selected? What doesn't look quite right exactly... knowing what looks wrong would help in trying to make it look right. Thanks. CJLippert 21:45, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Maybe it would be better to clearly indicate what is a reserve versus what are high urban populations. I do like what you have done though, good work. --joseph 16:35, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright status of Manitoba Eco-Network

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[edit] Speedy deletion of Jack Steinbring

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[edit] Thank Ü 4 making contact Joseph

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