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I learned that from a guy who was stationed in the Pacific during WW2. Glad to honor Wild Bill. :smile:

Though there may be blood and guts and grand purposes all around you, you can just sit and stare at the sky if you want to.

I guess what I'm curious about is what motivates you to look for a moral foundation. Once you have the foundation, then what? What will be different?

The average woke individual wouldn't know how to get a sniper rifle, much less use it. It was either a veteran or a rival rightist.

My coworkers wanted to vote on what food to order, and I was like, I'm not a slave, damn you! They totally got my point.

Not your finest moment there, dude.

Is it?

There are widespread fears that we're heading into dictatorship, so it's normal to think about violent conflict. I think if Malcolm X's threat had bec...

I could talk about what it means all day. Probably be off topic though, wouldn't it?

We should arm conservatives so they can defend themselves.

Ok. I say you forgive by the grace of God because I don't know any other way to explain it. You can't do it by your own power. I don't believe in God.

Or take a blow gun and shoot less than three darts in the general direction of what you think?

Obviously. Judgment is the foundation of action. To understand, judgment must be suspended, but the need to act is always there. Judgment and understa...

I don't think so. "Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone." Compassion comes from suspending judgment long enough to truly see the ...

How so?

It sounds like you're coming close to saying good is pleasure and evil is pain. You could build a moral system from that. The quest to discover what e...

Will clovers work?

I can't finish fixing my ceiling because I pulled a muscle in my Popeye forearm. Thoughts?

I'm sure that's true, but the control he presently has isn't so much his doing. People flocked to him with lists of supporters to plant in government ...

Sure, but is it good or evil? Or neither? It's the intellect's job to answer that. You can't go wrong spending a little time with analytic philosophy,...

I agree. I'm just trying to see the point. Trump says crime is out of control in DC when the statistics say the opposite. He then sends in the Nationa...

Sounds like you have boundary issues. :smile:

What unique properties do you have such that it makes sense to distinguish you from the rest of the universe? In other words, what makes it your strea...

Being human is an essential property of you. There aren't any possible worlds in which you're something else, so you had a 100% chance of being human.

So Hyundai isn't in control. Hadn't thought of that. I'm used to communities bending over backwards to court employers.

ok I know, it's just that this was the biggest one yet and most of the detainees were Koreans. Considering the value of Hyundai's plant to Georgia, I ...

Nobody is answering my question.

I think dearness as a concept only exists relative to its opposite: worthlessness. I've already talked about some of the ethical structures we've inhe...

Why not structuralism? It's a candidate for answering what ethics is. The ancient Persian answer is that goodness is the direction we're reaching out ...

Do you think the raid of the Hyundai plant was an attack on Georgia for it's refusal to subvert the 2020 election? Or probably not?

And he keeps trying to use the military for domestic crime issues. I wonder if that will feel normal in 2028.

We basically won't have a CDC in 2028. Aaaaaaaah!

People absolutely have to provoke one another to see if nuclear warheads will show up. They can't just sit there and act like they have some sense.

Have you ever known a time when things weren't on the verge of spiralling out of control?

I think the US will contract into a Western Hemisphere alliance (including Greenland) and leave the rest of the world to themselves except for the occ...

It will eventually, but probably not in our lifetime.

I think the conventional wisdom among political scientists is that the US is in decline, so therefore China will continue to grow out of regional powe...

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Wow! I thought it was bigger than that.

Is it the one where Godzilla stomps all over NYC? I love that scene.

I was thinking more of the Grudge, but I guess Godzilla is horror. Godzilla Minus One left a mark on me because it never occurred to me that Godzilla ...

Japan's horror is iconic, though.

Have you seen Best Wishes to All? Japanese horror.

If you ever virtual sight-see on google earth, the backroads in Peru are pretty cool.

yep.

How would you have heard of the ones that withered life? The morality that endures is life-giving. Lashing out is lashing in.

They're similar in that they're both given to apocalypticism. They're both looking for signs of the end of the world. Over-simplified, the Cold War wa...

It sounds like you're asking what normativity most fundamentally is? And you sound like a structuralist. You're looking for a answer that explains all...

I think you should have considered the possibility that NDE is a result of hypoxia. The brain goes without O2 and a weird memory is created.

What are the chances that near-death experiences are the result of hypoxia?