I certainly consider extremes, but I don't choose to fully exist there. Do you feel that the powers that be, the media and perhaps many 'philosophers'...
Here is a link to a compass website:https://www.compassonline.org.uk/about/our-story/ I include it just so you can perhaps read the brief contents of ...
If by bilateral you mean two-sided politics, then combatting such, is certainly part of their agenda. Both groups are certainly left wing imo but they...
Oh please go on child, tell me your name for Scotlands best whisky and tell me why you think it's so. I will know if you merely offer me words you fou...
:rofl: Are you still watching a TV with a tube in it? Scotland moved to smart TV's ages ago. What do you eat and drink when watching a movie on your t...
Maduro was a leftover who turned gangster! Hugo Chavez was the main instigator but like Casto's revolution etc it was attacked from all sides by outsi...
Might actually prove useful, if Scotland becomes independent, another good reason why after independence we should become a republic. No, Father Ted! ...
Okay, I will try to explain myself a little better. Brinkmanship is being used a great deal nowadays, agree? Many doomsters try to convince the majori...
Who can express the feelings of the people against monarchy better than the best non-theist there ever was in all the history of theism: https://res.c...
The way things seem to you and what reality is, obviously differs greatly. I don't drive so I have no interest in the Ford Escort. It's a very old car...
You have named some interesting examples. How much do you know about the history of Cuba or Venezuela? Venezuela if you study its history was one that...
Sex is a human consensual activity, which can indeed be part of a financial agreement between the people involved but can just as easily have no parti...
I think your viewpoint on this issue is shared by many people. It's up to those, such as me, who label themselves using words like humanist and social...
Sex is not a profession, but prostitution is and sure, it is often called the oldest profession, but I think that's just a myth. I think hunter/gather...
I could start to describe past and present examples and attempts and then we could discuss the pros and cons involved but that would probably be quite...
Perhaps Cardi B was relaying a scene she witnessed between her mum and dad when they were engaged in 'making love.' Or perhaps she was describing some...
I think that examples like: From a website called The World Philosophical Forum is much more akin to a term like philosophical brinkmanship than it is...
It's an interesting point you raise here. I tried to become exactly what you are describing from around the age of 18. I was a member of the labour pa...
Well, I don't think you do, there is no socialist country in the world at the moment imo, but that's just a problem of labels and definitions and inte...
But there has to BE a moral high ground or else what do we aspire to? If we present a moral high ground then it has to be 'occupied,' otherwise it bec...
Watching News at 10pm on BBC1 and Ukraine is reported as having taken back, two villages near Kherson, in one of the annexed regions. How the Russians...
We used to be nomadic hunter-gatherers; we had no use for money then. We learned we could stay in an area if there were enough resources nearby, we le...
Exemplification is always a good place to start. The idea of an 'office,' as somewhere you travel to for your days' work, is diluting and changing. Te...
What do you think of points such as: The Mesopotamian shekel – the first known form of currency – emerged nearly 5,000 years ago. The earliest known m...
I try to judge others on a case-by-case basis. I will accept mitigating circumstances, sure but there are very definite levels of personal responsibil...
Seems like a good argument for demanding free universal healthcare for all from cradle to grave. The human invention called money seems an unsatisfyin...
Yep, I agree, too much to know and not enough personal brain space to store it nor time to assimilate it. Maybe that's part of the problem, we have so...
Yeah, but my focus is more about what makes people 'commit' themselves today to a particular point of view. Okay, so we have ontology as a method of c...
Surely it is wiser to see the car coming from a great distance away and then you have plenty of time to plan how to avoid getting killed by it. Even t...
You remain non-committal Mr Smith. You seem to agree that philosophical brinkmanship is a valid term but is it merely a blunt tool to 'inflame' the ma...
A very ancient question. Even the bible has 'easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of ...
A long-term plan to get rid of money, starting with a UBI(universal basic income). So, we move towards economic parity for all and then get rid of mon...
I corrected some of the language errors I initially made, did that help? If not, what do you mean 'pointless questions?' Do you mean you don't underst...
So, are these examples of philosophers who played the brinkmanship game and lost? or did they actually win due to a martyrdom card? You, for example h...
Yep, I agree. I might even say that some far-right wackos, perhaps even fascists, are wearing some interesting labels nowadays. What would a WPF badge...
Doubt it, all drinking Irishmen like porter most Irish women do to. As many Irish women as men were drinking pints (or in the Dublin accent, poyints) ...
I drink such 'ale' type beers in the winter or dark porter like Guinness. Warms the innards and gives you a lovely inner glow, which will eventually b...
Permission to 'let all my blasphemy out' from you and @"Baden" aw shucks guys! JESUS MCFUCK PUTIN YA BAMMY BASTARD DO YOU THINK YOUR FUCKING GOD OR SO...
Oh theists can succeed in winding me up, as much as I try to defend against feeling such. All theistic debates often become idiotic as they reach impa...
I like the 80 shilling one: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iN5KJchUUL0/UIIV-7w5g0I/AAAAAAAABrU/B1AhKybW1vk/s1600/Caledonian+Brewery+80+(Scotland)+beer+can...
Well, I can't count how many disgruntled theists that have used such against me in mid atheist debate in pubs, parties etc. I might say something like...
You temp me brother! AAAAARRRGGGGHHHHH! JESUS MCFUCKING FUCK BAMMY BASTARDS CRAZY FUCKWIT PUTIN! WHAT ARE THE RUSKIES FUCKING DOING IN THE NAME OF JES...
Ah, I see, the details are quite interesting, but the intentions of the Scots involved, do not represent the better angels of the Scots nature or Scot...
Would you like to be without it for a week or two? You might start to walk funny after a while. Perhaps you could pray for an immaculate evacuation of...
I'm confused! which disastrous colonial project were you referring to above, if not the Darien Scheme a.k.a, 'New Caledonia,' in Panama? :lol: Well, I...
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