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I'll just be over here in the corner.

This is how bees communicate distance and direction: https://youtu.be/1MX2WN-7Xzc

True. Today they take it to mean submission to God. I just meant that it doesn't come from their fiber, it comes from their heritage.

That word is an inheritance from the Arabian culture that produced Islam. It was originally an agreement between traveling merchants and raiders. A me...

They don't have religious authorities that compare to Christian ones. There's no Muslim pope. There are guys who serve the community, there are Muslim...

I think the archeology associated with early humans shows pretty clearly that what marks us as different from other hominins is that we have the abili...

According to John Kenneth Galbraith, progress, as an ideal, is rooted in Zoroastrianism (nod to Nietzsche). It's supposed to coincide with the uncoili...

Panpsychism. :up:

Oh. Ok. Thanks

Oh. Ok. I didn't see that post. I could probably do a long list of philosophical citations where "a being" means a person. I guess it comes down to co...

Or divine being. I don't know of any cases where "a being" isn't a person.

Maybe not utterly helpless, but the point is that victimization means one's will was thwarted. In whatever way you've been a victim, you were powerles...

Even in philosophy "a being" usually refers to a person of some kind. It's the capitalized Being that Wayf has mistakenly read to mean consciousness. ...

And the cost of one act of violence is much bigger than the immediate victims. One man is murdered and his younger brother goes off the deep end and e...

There's evil in there somewhere, isn't there? What do Ukrainians think when they see Russian soldiers coming their way?

And Hegel.

Trump was talking about John McCain, who was tortured for five years as a POW. It left him with a limp and unable to lift his arms above his head. McC...

:clap: What an amazing idea. We can shut up and listen.

No. Beware labeling her as a victim though. That label is helpful for defending her and prosecuting her abuser, but if she keeps that label long term,...

Kant would have to travel to the early 20th Century to understand Jung's interest in alchemy. Spiritualism was really popular throughout the US and Eu...

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I don't think so. He was just drawing out the psychology inherent in esotericism. Check out "The Stone Speaks.". It's all about the astrological symbo...

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? My point was that the opinion that the US government was responsible for freeing slaves was a rare one. A tiny minority believed that.

I still don't know what that means The EP was issued per the constitutional war power of the president. It was Lincoln's call. The rest of the governm...

I think when you said the EP imposed responsibility, you meant the government was taking responsibility for securing liberty. In a way, that's true. :...

I agree. I was asking how the EP imposed responsibility by force.

Is Richard Dawkins an example of New Atheism?

How so?

It's a Jewish pastry? I used to have a book of Jewish recipes from all over the world. It was fascinating. There was a whole chapter on chicken soup.

The bolded part would be an exit from philosophy into mysticism a la Wittgenstein. Right?

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Heidegger hammers this home in "What is Metaphysics.". The advantage of his account is that it doesn't position us in some unobtainable position beyon...

That's true, but when Hegel or Heidegger talk about "Being" they're just talking about existence, they aren't talking about consciousness. We just nee...

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It's not anti-liberal.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that...

Another way to explain it is that you can't hurt others without hurting yourself. It's an all purpose curse.

The old lady let the bastards win. She let them mold her into a bastard just like themselves. That's the trap. You have to figure out that you're not ...

Still not following. Adults are responsible. Children are dependent on responsible adults. The slave mentality lurks there. It's insidious and dangero...

I think they go hand in hand. I may have missed your point.

You could accuse Adams of covert racism. What he said wasn't racist on its face. Just saying.

Civil Rights means the government is divided against itself. One part tries to protect equal opportunity, equality under the law, etc. from the other ...

And that's anti-liberal?

Sort of. Democrats became fairly passive, so it was a call for vigilance. What ideals are you talking about?

It doesn't appear racist to me. The responses of right extremists did, though. What in particular seemed racist to you?

Did you think his comments (at face value) were racist?

From my point of view, you're a voice from the outside. It's both outside and with no context in this case. The story here is what extremists said in ...

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I take it you hadn't then.