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Me too.

I thought you were in South America.

That's a good donut. There's also a Boston cream pie version with custard inside and a dark chocolate glaze on top.

This part I agree with.

Is your point that debt causes hyperinflation?

I know. A few years ago I had as a patient the guy who designed their equipment. :grin:

The originals were good, especially the Bavarian cream. Krispy Kreme started during the Great Depression in a tiny town somewhere. I don't eat them an...

Tell the waiter you want a bucket of food filled all the way to the top.

All the food in Europe kicks ass.

Sounds disgusting.

I dont think much of what you wrote there is directly related to the present situation.

China isn't in the west. China doesn't follow western policies. I guess, but the stimulus was meant to keep the global economy from crashing, so what ...

Your bible synopsis reminded me of this song: https://youtube.com/watch?v=THOXG-5rSk8&feature=share8

I think you're forgetting that the US is part of a global system. The US can overspend without developing hyper-inflation as long as China doesn't hav...

That's why Weiner had them build the Holocaust museum in Washington, so that as long as the US government stands, no one will forget. Even if it's pai...

True. I wasn't preoccupied with the problem if evil tho. I was thinking about the cycle of violence. One of the things that keeps it going is an inabi...

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:up: Weisel lost his faith because of the Holocaust, but then wrote a prayer in which it seems like he's trying to reconcile with God (A Prayer for th...

What do Jews do to come to terms with the Holocaust? Is it hard to face it?

I was going to try to answer you, but I fell down a rabbit hole of comparing Newton's ideas of motion to Descartes'. Apparently Newton didn't like the...

I'm just spit-balling, but that passage you quoted has the same reasoning as one of Aristotle's proofs of God, so I'm guessing that this kind of think...

This is an interesting video. It touches on how the west can import deflation from China to offset policies that would normally cause inflation. Suppo...

True. But at the end of the day, he doesn't claim to be able to explain first person data. He wants science to do that. :smile:

It's one of Aristotle's proofs of God that in order for a thing to move, it has to be propelled moment by moment by God. I think we would translate "G...

He was a fascinating guy, cruising all over Europe doing whatever he felt like doing. Think of him when you use your GPS. He invented the math that en...

Cool, thanks! Looking forward to it.

His biography says he was actively trying to get in touch with esotericists in Europe, along the lines of Freemasons. We know he actually was acquaint...

No, I'm not: "Chalmers (1996) set out five arguments against the view that there is an a priori entailment from physical facts to mental facts — and s...

Panpsychism is not the conclusion of the p-zombie argument. The conclusion is that a functionalist will have to explain how an explanation of function...

But couldn't the same questions be asked about traditional medicine? If we successfully treat various types of cancer (which we do), could we be inter...

It's not ontological. It's about whether an explanation of functional consciousness also explains phenomenal consciousness. No ontological conclusions...

Drones strike Moscow. :grimace:

The cranberries. Each completed muffin gets stuffed into my pie hole.

Cranberries muffins are good. I slice each one in half.

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Oh, you're right. He does think it's an object. The Hard Problem is about how to locate that little Soul Bean in the human head. :up:

The point was that abstractions are all over the place. Science is full of them. Charge is an example of an abstraction that is often misunderstood. W...

An electrometer is just a high precision voltmeter.

See how strongly we hold onto these reifications? No, an analog voltmeter allows a little bit of current to go through a wire that's in a magnetic fie...

Not directly. The idea of charge is closely related that of force. They're both calculations based on things we can directly measure.

If you looked around for a charge, you'd also come up empty handed. A charge is potential energy. It's an analysis of what's possible. It's not an obj...

Yes. It's going to suck. If the number of people running in the Republican primaries is high, that helps Trump. His base is solid, so the others just ...

:grin: It just occurred to me that both of those statements sound like Kierkegaard. According to him, the greatest faith is to believe that God accept...

I was asking you to think outside the box for a second. Morality is a code of conduct. You can't codify the dictates of love, so the golden rule is ni...

Morality is typically defined as a collection of rules. Moral realism says these rules have their source in something that transcends the human psyche...

That actually is moral nihilism. It's saying that the higher law is love. So the answer would be that the only alternative to moral realism is nihilis...

I think you're just not greedy, so your vision isn't clouded by that.

You're ahead of your time. :grin:

The CPI, yes. A social overhaul would be necessary for that to be meaningful to anyone. In other words, you're stepping out of your time in history to...

It would cause inflation all other things being equal. It would increase demand. Supply shocks also cause inflation, obviously. What are you identifyi...