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This statement is absurd. You want to claim that the differences that are made in meaning are not important to regard on the basis of an ad hominem ob...

Very compelling resemblances. All that is needed to complete the picture is the Rasputin in the story.

The logic of conscription has always been put forward on the basis of an existential threat, as the expression goes. The reference to the American exp...

I hear what you are saying about actual numbers of deployment. It is pretty scary what the Russians are trying to accomplish. I was just pointing to w...

The whole thing is beginning to look like the war on Vietnam by the Americans. People who were happy not knowing jack about other people were forced t...

Taoism was developed as a conversation with Confucius who put the 'human' experience at the center of what could be known. That conversation involved ...

So, does Russon mean to say that recognizing perspective as a necessary element is not a rejection of a shared reality? Which writing did the quote co...

And he says it while doing fist bumps with the head of the Russian Orthodox church. If the intention was substantially different from what was stated,...

I wasn't thinking of it as either us or the monolith as originators. 180 Proof made a distinction between ways of seeing it as an agent. It is differe...

Very interesting take. It makes me realize I have been looking at it through a Hegel/teleological lens. If the disturbing factor is the same throughou...

Important in the context of the story because it is what gives the impetus to having an Odyssey.

You did not include the moon stuff in your description.

Interesting. Clarke's expectation.

The idea is undercut because it uses the means of verification that are being denied in order to promote the proposition.

Regarding violence, it is present in the prehistory, moon discovery, and the space voyage scenes. There was much establishment of a tense cold war pro...

I think the way the monolith is so clearly an artifact where there should not be one is part of the relationship it has in each encounter. It is a com...

That is why I brought up communitarians as wanting to preserve something they already had rather than making it all about breaking the system.

I have not been following all the interchanges here, but I am curious where the taking of Kiev 'free of cost' idea refers to. Who spoke the quote mark...

The experience of our system is not only a theoretical construct but a result of actual events. And with that resul in view, I read your statement: Ra...

The various models of capitalism involve ever expanding markets for the process to establish an expectation of future returns. That limit provides no ...

I am sorry, I don't understand that emoticon as an expression of thought.

Always the bald-headed stepchild of eternally expanding systems.

I agree with T Clark on the importance of recognizing the danger of the new means of production. I also stand with those who point to the dynamics of ...

One factor pointing toward the status of taking Kyiv being a central goal at the beginning of the invasion is how the failure to do so has greatly dim...

Much of your description of a 'continual process of change' reminds me of Gene W Marshall's Primer on Radical Christianity. One can safely say it is a...

It is true that Kierkegaard greatly annoyed his fellow Christians by saying that their satisfaction with holding good opinions is not the same as doin...

Thank you for the careful response. I will ponder upon it in coming days.

I remember the discussion well. What part of that history suggests to you that Christianity was a solution to an 'objective' problem? Or is that how y...

Job does not claim to be blameless but doesn't accept that he must be wrong by default either. Your question about what I mean by distinguishing faith...

I won't argue those bullet points as theses, but several observations occur to me. In 2014, Russia succeeded in getting a large number of the 'the sel...

Some of the fear of death may be connected to a fear of an after-life. There is the prospect of torments as spelled out in The Inferno. The scariest p...

Depending on your system and browser, this is a detection of self-executing elements that will start after being opened. To be avoided if link is not ...

The people who participate in those threads are interested in them to whatever degree they make efforts to present their point of view. Are you asking...

We are told that is the case. His 'friends' doubt it. How does Job know they are wrong? Is that a keeping of faith or a better understanding of what r...

I understand your view. My comments are a challenge to it. Perhaps a topic for a separate conversation.

I agree that there is a lot of emphasis on the righteous getting help when needed. The greater part of the book of Job is devoted to whether Job can k...

How does the struggle of Job fit in with this objective?

I am curious what you see as more 'objective' in the Gospel texts that countervails against the excessive 'subjectivity' you see expressed by Paul. Ki...

Yes, your effort in these matters is evident.

The recognition of the reference connecting modern theories of influence to ancient texts is illuminating.

This idea was put forward in The Protocols of Zion.

I hear that. When I read the Sermon on the Mount, the call for not reacting to violence with violence strikes me as particular answer to a specific si...

If it is true that the two domains are not given to us before thinking about them, all theological expression is also a 'social' ethics, a 'conjunctio...

Yes, that level of interconnection can be heard in both Spinoza's and Nietzsche's versions of 'determinism' and their rejection of an anthropomorphic ...

Wanting to know how to live makes wanting to know more than curiosity. I agree with I like sushi saying: Consider how the first part of Spinoza's Ethi...

I read Nietzsche as more of a Monist in that regard. We are stuck with our world and that attempts to make it otherwise kick the ball down the road. W...

In both letters to the Corinthians, he presents the Spirit he has introduced to the congregations as higher than the law required for participation in...

Running a team at Walmart?

It is not straight forward. But it can be said that events happen and attempts to understand how and to what extent a reality is shared while it is ha...

I appreciate your pragmatic spirit. It seems to me that what counts as a 'benefit' is one of the issues that is most fiercely debated. I don't want to...