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I've also read the paper, so no one is using an AI comment in lieu of reading and considering. I didn't know about the "spinning in the void" criticis...

I have a friend who tells me it went to shit after Musk bought it.

Oh. I don't go on Twitter or whatever it's called.

I guess I'm out of touch. I don't know anything about that.

There is no Elon Musk cult. I don't think Americans particularly like him. He's just the richest guy in the world and now he's apparently in charge of...

But this doesn't rule out varying conceptual schemes between say, humans and aliens. It just says that if there are such differences, we wouldn't be a...

It appears that you manufactured the discussion in the previous post since you're addressing Tim Wood, and it doesn't look like he contributed to this...

Look up dark enlightenment. That's vice president Vance, soon to be President Vance.

It's actually not a stable situation to have only one superpower. There needs to be at least two. No, global trade needs one currency. It's the dollar...

I agree. When Americans talk about liberals or leftists, they mean people who favor solutions from the federal government and greater centralized auth...

I think what's finally dying out is the idea that the US is supposed to have global influence. That was cold war ideology. The new US only takes care ...

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They were already in slavery at the time. They weren't enslaved because they were numerous, right? Cline thinks the Exodus is a memory of the Bronze A...

They sold themselves into slavery because they were experiencing famine. But that's just a myth. There's no evidence that it happened.

Yea, but Nazis hated Communists, so obviously collectivism wasn't all there was to fascism. It was also about recreating some mythical lost greatness.

US freezes almost all foreign aid The US was the world's largest humanitarian donor. No more.

I would say look for the conflict in temperament, the hidden emotion on the scene. What's really being attacked? defended?

I can see that

I think the perception is that liberalism ended up screwing people over and leaving them without reliable income or healthcare. Or the perception is t...

I think the real political division in the West is moderates vs. extremists, with the moderates standing for old school liberalism and democracy. The ...

Like he's a holy fool?

Yep

Some people thought he was calling for John the Baptist. Can't remember which gospel says that. One of them.

Star Wars is terrorist propaganda.

Of course.

Why not?

DNA tests show that British Celts had matriarchal societies prior to the Roman invasion.. Wow!

That's sweet. Except your answer was probably unsane.

Did you know Harrison Ford was an android too?

He's pretty smart. He founded PayPal, started Tesla, acquired Twitter, and took a seat on the cabinet just by dancing around on a stage with Trump. He...

I just realized that the plot of Bladerunner doesn't make any sense. Why don't they have a way to remotely shut down the androids?

I just realized that the plot of Dune makes no sense. Why isn't Arrakis a neutral zone administrated by the Emperor? And if the prominent houses have ...

Conflict habituated

I think propositions are part of the human form of life. Language is so central to what we are that we interact with the world using a linguistic form...

Fascism isn't really about what one guy is doing. It comes from the whole political scene. It comes from a change in attitudes toward acceptance of st...

I doubt there will be a civil war. We're too lazy for that.

Fascinating stuff. :up:

I think it would take losing a war or a deep economic collapse. Everything else is in place, ready to go.

I think he screams before he asks this in Mark. In Mark, Jesus is the most fiery, flipping money-changing tables over, calling out the hypocrisy of th...

There's a thought that your body responds to speech without any intellectual filtering, so if you're coaching someone, it's better to tell them what t...

Maybe belief is a psychological construct. It's something unobservable, but we use it to explain and predict behavior. I think the more complex the be...

They probably watched the movie.

Yes. Mass and energy are real. They're both scientific constructs.

Figures.

There's a kind of absolutism that belongs to a theistic outlook. It's the kind of absolutism that would have a person deny something as simple as Gali...

You're absolutely right. Quine's insight was touched on earlier, but lately the thread has centered on global skepticism.

Hold up. Let's go over it a little more slowly. We just start with the realization that when we say the earth orbits the sun, we have chosen a frame o...

I gave you an example of a truth that's relative to the choices we make.

It's true that the earth orbits the sun if we say the sun is stationary relative to the earth. We could instead pick the earth as the stationary point...

Do you believe it's true that the earth orbits the sun? Did you know that this "truth" is relative to choices that we little people make? If there's n...