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Early Christianity was people who were frustrated with the status quo, largely because the Romans dominated their world. The Messiah was supposed to c...

Yes, the US screwed up. Thanks for letting me know.

At my hospital they stopped doing elective surgeries during the blitz and devoted surgical ICUs to COVID. We just started doing that again. Space isn'...

I guess pandemics produce a healthcare immune response. Everyone learns where the weaknesses were and what we should have done. Your attitude toward t...

So you can mediate in child custody cases?

And Australia should be really proud of those who took the initiative to do that. They saved a lot of lives and a lot of heartache. Still, they were l...

Why don't you do something to help? I've been working on ways to get inhaled medications to poor kids with asthma. I've learned a lot, especially abou...

Not really https://www.youtube.com/watch/al-f_WWoHI4

I'm sure Australia doesn't do that with every new organism that passes through. They did it because they had the benefit of knowledge gained from coun...

Machiavelli was trying to explain how mercy can lead to chaos. You could call that master morality, but I don't think he thought of it that way. Chaos...

You're agreeing with Nietzsche. :up:

You said you're ok with it, so I guess you're ok with despotism. :confused:

Sounds like you've adapted nicely to contemporary liberalism then. :up:

It appears that kind, paternalistic people like myself have become rooted in the status quo. Is that frustrating for you?

Do you support laws against child labor?

Yep. So a free society takes measures to secure the basic well-being of it's citizens. We won't have free people unless we look after well-being. This...

A certain level of well-being is required in order to to enjoy autonomy. We are all slaves to our basic needs. Where there is no security, there is no...

It's now confirmed (look it up in Nature) that the B117 COV-2 variant is behind the giant covid-19 wave experienced by Europe. So, yea.

Per the Daily Beast, a new QAnon theory is that Trump has not left office because Biden and Trump have switched bodies.

Yep. :grin:

I don't think the new lifeform is human except in appearance.

. It's interesting that you took that idea from the Tarkovskyvs movie. The author of the story meant the contrary: "As Lem wrote, "The peculiarity of ...

Humans have a mutation that weakens their jaw muscles as compared to other primates. This weakness may also explain our larger brains. The size of a c...

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C'mon banjo. You spray painted that on your dad's basement wall, didn't you? What are you going to do when he finds out?

I corrected your mistake. I wasn't trying to cure cancer.

You don't know that. We may have to evolve to understand more of the world. We may have to ditch our previous languages altogether, as Russian communi...

I think you're traumatized by Trump's departure. This video will help with your PTSD: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xZVw-9ThmSM

Nos's demeanor has gone to shit.

The Proud Boys and two other extreme rightist militia groups are abandoning Trump because he left office and didn't pardon those involved in the Capit...

I'm leveraging conceivability to shift the burden. You need to prove that everything can be pointed to with a sentence of English because it's conceiv...

Are you getting a touch bitter?

Then what do they think use is doing, if not pointing?

All I need is the movie to demonstrate that it's conceivable that there are aspects of the world that can't be pointed to by a sentence of English. If...

The President has ties to Ireland through several great-great-grandparents who emigrated to America during the Famine. From refugee to president. Cool...

There's a great sci-fi movie called Arrival in which the protagonist gains the alien's worldview as she learns their language. She subsequently has th...

Sure. I was responding to Bongo Fury's comment that confusion of use and mention had reached pandemic status. I was asking for his view of it to set a...

Do you feel like your world is controlled by others like that guy in War and Peace? Just curious.

thank you

The root of all evil.

Heaps of alleged referents. If we accidentally say something true, the world is born in the shape of our sentences. This would make a good graphic nov...

His view is identical to the traditional white supremacist doctrine: white people are doomed because of the rise of non-whites. Non-whites are suppose...

I think the extension of a statement is its truth value.

Yea, you'd need the military to accomplish that.

How should we understand use and mention?

A real coup requires military support, right? I think most coups are done by generals. The Capitol rioters were prepared to execute Pence and congress...

Ok. :cool:

The RHS can be wrong. The world can't have the property of being wrong. The RHS is not the world.

A truthmaker, then. And if it's a state of affairs that does not obtain, what is it?

For Tarski, it was two identical sentences, one from an object language and one from a metalanguage. But let's do it your way. The quoted part is a se...