The Jews? The people I most admire.Their culture and identity has proved to be unequalled in it's durability, against all odds. I will not create nor ...
I'm not fully with you here. I do not think that R went into this with the hope of murdering or even killing anyone, but it seems fairly clear that he...
Holy shit! A voice of reason! (And just when I thought that species was extinct!) Now I, being a misanthrope, take only a cursory interest in this mat...
Ah, c'mon K! That's not worthy...I know you're smarter and better than that! If you were not, I wouldn't expect you to be participating on this site. ...
Is that the referent's name? I'm not so well versed on the details here. Peril?? Not sure what you mean. If you will provide a link to 'em, I'll go ah...
We agree. In order for justice to have been served, the outcome...the verdict wanted for a public reprobation of the values, beliefs, and judgements w...
Not necessarily: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski Intellect is only one mental faculty of many, which all combine to yield an individual ...
Absolutely, people fuckin' lose their minds over these politically oriented topics, and then start accusing fellow members whose social values and pol...
Look, I feel ya. I do not for a minute deny the status mundi of which I, as has nearly every other teenaged white American dude probably including you...
Indeed it isn't, but there is an obvious correlation nonetheless. If you wanted to do the research, I am confident that you would find that the mean h...
we agree that the cops shouldn't have let the kid run around there with the gun. Again, these are just cops, and municipal cops at that, not FBI agent...
I never said "cops are stupid", I suggested that civil servants (not only cops) are on average "not as smart as your average professional man", by whi...
Many seem to take for granted that if R had been Atrican-American, that the cops present would simply have shot him dead, because what...all cops are ...
"Race" (another word I hate) may or may not have played a role in the police actions; this is largely dependent upon the individual cops involved. We ...
You raise an important issue. So-called "guardianship", the essence of which is authority, is a paper tiger within the context of modern American soci...
...which is undoubtedly the most fucked-up aspect of this case. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree, eh? My point with this, however, is that no sens...
No, but a child always has a guardian in this society. Unless the child lives outside of regular society, as a runaway in homeless camps, for instance...
The arbitrariness of the age of majority is regularly subverted by trial of minors as adults when that is called for. Myself, I feel the age of majori...
The distinction between R and an actual child, is that the child is under the authority of another, it's guardian, while R is under no authority but h...
Haha...methinks you suppose too much, although the IBPO would have us believe that line of shit, I am sure. I do not share your seemingly unqualified ...
Yes, I remember that...in Louisiana, I think. But, surely you recognize that the fellow was too quick to the trigger because of a mental problem...pro...
You have a right to "involve" yourself in any cause you want, wherever it be, but not to use force in so doing. However, one does have the right to us...
Yes, and though with differing cultures, sharing a common "alpine heritage". Perhaps the answer to the issue at hand lies in the fact that it involves...
How can a mixture of Germans, Frenchmen, Italians and Romansch be considered homogeneous? These cultures are like potatoes, croissants, cannolis and R...
Well said. And again, you succinctly state the two issues of malfeasance in this case. The goddamned kid should have been at home attending to the bus...
I have mixed feelings about this point. R shouldn't have involved himself in this situation, as it was not in his own community, but rather in a forei...
:up: Let us not forget that for most of history, "democracy" did not mean "universal suffrage". To the "founding fathers" here in the States, in fact,...
As I noted in my O.P., I don't think this accurate or synonymous. As evidence of this, I would note that the sense of "will" as being equal to the mea...
I wish that I didn't have to hold it, either. I wish I could revert to believing otherwise, but since around 2009 I've seen too much to contribute to ...
Well, that's a bit of a hyperbolic contrast, but no, obviously not. Very obviously different types of pleasure, but the motives are equally self servi...
I mean, the horror of the realization that nobody will ever love or value me nearly as much as they do themselves. That in the end, myself, my life, a...
No, there is a difference, but that difference is peripheral, not essential. The difference is that he who gains the benefit of a reinforced self-conc...
I might be wrong, but I don't view the matter thusly, thinking that the motive behind all cooperative behavior is selfish. As I noted above, however, ...
A caveat: the following reply comes from a misanthrope... I must partially disagree. People do all that they do purely for their own benefit, whether ...
I know this feeling well. The few times that I have tried to meditate, I found the practice to be, for all practical purposes, beyond my ability. Then...
Hmmm...I feel that religion is something we must have, certainly. Religion is not a necessity, but it is all but a necessity, as it adds a great deal ...
Please, understand that, given the shortcomings of my vocabulary, I only use the term "masturbatorial" as a shorthand for "pertaining to the pursuit o...
If that is to be accepted as a premise, that Buddhism must be, or is best approached experientially, phenomenologically, rather than (I struggle for t...
I have a couple: (A) that in it's true, full iteration it is based in a Hindu cosmology, which appears as nonsensical as that of Judaism, Christianity...
Well, in my opinion, yes. More significantly, though, I think that Gautama rather ignored the power of those human qualities which underpin "life as i...
This is very good...a very elegant model for "will"! And of course, since both a vector and a bearing are directional in nature, this model proscribes...
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