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Schopenhauer was a hard determinist.

I was attacked by a swan as a child. It was in Rome.

The pandemic is still going. Groan.

I didn't read it all either, but the first part is line with Schopenhauer and neoplatonism. Where you say "death" read "satisfaction.". Same thing.

You say "pretending" and "masquerading" I think that's your take on what's happening. Everybody else says "trans", to indicate how they self identify ...

Money is power.

The golden ratio is irrational. This was a heavily guarded secret for Pythagoreans. They would burn me alive or something like that for revealing it.

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Yea, it's just important for young black females to see someone like themselves up there among the elder statesmen. The rest of the concerns are minor...

Mind your own business Canadian. :grin:

I'm not seeing your point.

Who else would you appease?

History teaches us that appeasement frequently invites further aggression and war.

What you were describing is appeasement.

Yea. They still had staff and "in service" equipment, but they weren't prepared to actually use it. Not sure why this is important to pursue, though.

Not after the collapse of the USSR.

Russia's nuclear capability went into decline after the cold war. Whatever capability they have now is recently aquired.

Appeasement is also dangerous, as I think we'll see as this unfolds.

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." --Abraham Lincoln

Ain't that the truth

What ten white people? :chin:

I think recognizing that is the best way to see the world clearly.

I think it's more a matter of how much a person wants to reduce to the world to a cartoon. Germany instigated war in the 1940s so Germans are evil. Ru...

I agree. The mechanics of world events is fascinating to me. I just thought you were anti-American because you said you agreed with one of the more st...

What do you mean? What do you think will happen? So you think he's just going to leave 130,000 troops on the border from now on? To keep Ukraine from ...

What is NATO doing that's extremely dangerous? I honestly don't know. The US military has had the ability to level Moscow for the last 50 years. They ...

If you really want to exercise your anti-America, you should say, "This is just the sort of aggression we've come to expect from America. And just as ...

It's encouraging to young black women.

Will Biden seek a second term? Who would win if he ran against Trump again?

May as well. Sooner or later everyone is going to get the Omicron vaccine.

You didn't explain why this justifies an invasion.

Did you see news that sanctions could somehow limit the ability of Russia to pay off debt? The country with the biggest liability is France.

This is not an anti-Russian bias. :roll:

Gotta let them play out their story.

Have you painted yourself into a misanthropic corner? Because non-Christians are no better

The alternative is central planning. That would also be full of woe and dastardly deeds. It's just how we are. Pick your poison.

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Back when it all began we talked about why people of color seemed to be at a higher risk. Now we know at least one factor is the prevalence of vitamin...

Yea, it's some freaky shit. https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5pcrlQ1tx1rt47g5o1_1280.jpg

I think all holidays are created by Hallmark. We're just too scared to question their authority.

Yes it is.

You mean about splitting the US off from NATO? Or what?

True.

Gummy bears are also popular.

So it was all a negotiation tactic?

You clearly need to eat more special brownies.

The quasi-conspiracy theory I'm going to lay on you is that gangs are part of a situation that was intentionally fostered: they built projects for bla...

So in line with the idea that stability is not a static state of perfection, but rather the equilibrium of opposing forces (like with Henry's Law), we...

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