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No, this is the Pauline doctrine. You're saved through faith by the grace of God. You Catholics need to read the Bible. :razz:

It is traditionally held that Paul believed that faith is a gift from God. This scripture is interpreted as saying that: "For by grace you have been s...

Turkeys just roam around at the University?

What he expressed was Pauline doctrine.

I see what you're saying, but the US put trillions into NATO because it was defending itself by containing communism. The US isn't defending itself th...

It's true that defining has to stop somewhere. It ends with assumptions, axioms, faith, etc. This is pervasively true. It's not just true of morality ...

Chickens are dinosaurs.

Exactly.

I thought NATO had to do with opposing communism. Communism is gone.

I don't think it matters how we treat them. They're still Filipino. That's not something we're creating with our hiring practices.

The idea is that some people opposed DEI because they think it forces stupid people to the top, where they contaminate the elite with their stupid gen...

What two things aren't related?

I don't blame you. You can't be bothered.

I wish I could come back in 10,000 years and see what happened. :grin: Maybe from climate change?

You don't really want to summarize. I get it.

What's the point?

And if we add in the part about eugenics, it's about genetic fragmentation of Homo Sapiens into different subspecies, and maybe eventually different s...

You're knowledge of this is pretty in depth. I didn't realize they were thinking along eugenics lines when they condemned DEI. I thought it was just r...

That might work for some things, but not for things like Descartes' wax. What exactly are we observing that tells us it's the same wax as it melts and...

Force and energy are both physical constructs. Time is part of the construction.

:up:

I think you'd really like the climate change subreddit. Their posting structure makes it practically impossible to troll. Trolls just disappear down t...

We need a diagram.

Because he stood on my neck in the middle of the street until I was dead? It's a complicated issue.

This is the 'leftist corpse' Land complains about. All posturing, no anchor to reality.

@"Wayfarer" How Musk's actions fit into plans for an autocratic takeover of the US government.

So it's more surprising that Land was influenced by Marx and Deleuze in his academic youth. Now he's a libertarian going on about how democracy doesn'...

"Trample" is the key word there, each side viewing the other as a stampeding herd. No nuance allowed, no variation. The Left does contain braindead zo...

I think Holocaust denial is an oblique attack on Jews. It's meant to show disrespect. Climate change skepticism isn't an attack on anyone, though the ...

If it's a danger to the public, it should be squashed.

If we relieve a person of full responsibility, why not do the same for the ideology they followed? The poor ideology was shaped by this it that circum...

Yes. I want to show you my bumper sticker collection.

I don't think your characterization is accurate tho.

Did you watch this video? https://youtu.be/AqVby2tW4U4?si=6GHQFAKF7KtS76sx

:up: Thank you.

Nick Land came from an academic setting, so I think that must be the group of leftists he thinks made race "holy." I guess some of the things you've s...

I can understand that. I'm American and I'm tired of it.

I hope you stepped down because of something good, and not something bad.

I think it was because possible worlds are figments of imagination. Too much dubious ontology.

How could you do quantum theory without modality? Isn't possibility central to it? If this is off topic, please ignore.

I don't think he'll want a third term. He'll just want lots of pardons. But yes, let's reassess in four years.

Well, let's revisit it in 10 years and see which of us understood the situation better. :razz:

If you mean they need to further integrate, I think they will, with China as an ally. It's their only choice. Europe couldn't withstand an attack from...

Europe just needs to work on developing its relationship with China.

I think they just need to hang out at a philosophy forum and learn what "rule out" means. :grin:

How would it rule that out?

Would a science forum assure me that I'm not peeping into another universe when I'm asleep?

Innate world building capability? Imagine that the nucleus of the dream is some emotion, which surrounds itself with an event to explain the emotion. ...

The sound of silence.

So would this "classical" focus in education teach students to think for themselves? Or would it warn against that?