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You suggested government control of the healthcare industry?

How long can Russia continue going as it is? Forever?

What did you say?

Likewise it is wrong to injure yourself.

Letting yourself starve is a crime against yourself. You wouldn't let a dog starve, how could it be right to let yourself starve?

Yes. You might like this video: https://youtu.be/lZWpxHpqJcI?si=zUo-r5ZcXt3mXWup

In Ohio you can just go to the drugstore and buy the paperwork for a divorce. It's cheap. You fill it out with your spouse, appear before a judge, and...

Yea, I like poetry and any kind of art that barely makes sense because of that. Life dwells in that open space between facts, if you know what I mean.

thank you

I don't care whether you understand why religious tolerance is a requirement. Just stop talking about Muslims as if they're all villains.

Ok. You're demonstrating religious intolerance. That's just as unacceptable. No, they don't subjugate women everywhere they go. They conform to the la...

You're getting kind of racist here, and you're also wrong. Islam has no conflict with democracy and it is in no way a threat to either Europe or the r...

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I wonder if they're calculating that by the popular vote or by predicting how the swing states will go. Probably by swing states.

House collapses on the outer banks: https://youtube.com/shorts/_mQrjE74AZE?si=EkUj9uv-NYcRLmzm

Harris and Walz seem bullet proof while Trump and Vance can't catch a break. I wasn't expecting this.

The unemployment rate was still at historic lows during that time, which wasn't really a good thing from a neoliberal pov.

Yes, those churches are mentioned in that book. At first they couldn't tell if they were Christian or Buddhist. :up:

The idea of surrealism comes from the belief that we deal with reality indirectly by pulling it apart into pieces. Maybe we can experience it more dir...

Religions of the Silk Road, by Richard Foltz

I don't what follows from the fact that pain and color are different. I might be hopelessly lost.

Since most of the human race is dependent on them, I guess that makes us artificial. We made ourselves, with a lot of luck.

Philosophy has corrupted the minds of the young. Again.

Current is an object like a waterfall is an object. The water flows over the rocks. I guess you could think of the waterfall as a property of the rock...

I don't think you're familiar with the concept.

Current is an object in its own right. It's a flow of electrons (or holes, depending on your point of view).

I bet it does. :lol:

Not a member of the 110 club, then? That's people who've been shocked by 110 volts AC. I've been a member since I was a kid.

Current is measured in amps. Why do you think it can't be measured?

I think it faded from philosophy because Kant showed that knowledge of the categories of primary qualities is apriori. The old way is still the prevai...

Well said :up:

Could be. Or I was thinking it might be a problem with aggression during peacetime. We turn on each other.

The case is basically what you've said, just with some Nietzsche added in. The outcome is the so called dark enlightenment philosophy. It says that de...

I guess I take that question more seriously than you do.

Why not just go straight to monarchy? That's where ancient Greek democracies always ended up.

John Locke did a pretty good job. Kant showed how he was wrong, but Kant isn't exactly our worldview, is he?

Humans were originally nomadic because they followed migrating herds. They probably didn't have much corruption. There wasn't much to corrupt.

Abraham and the Exodus are folklore. The Israelites occupied a specific area. Muhammad had a number of occupations. The Arabs weren't nomadic.

Just happen to be reading a book about the early Iron Age, and the Israelites weren't nomadic. Arabs weren't either. I can see how you'd get that impr...

This is true. The conundrum is coming from a worldview that says people are isolated consciousness bubbles. You can't see inside my bubble. The most e...

In a capitalist society, wealth becomes concentrated, then redistributed by economic crisis. It's happened over and over, no matter who was in charge....

https://youtu.be/99yUdF-f55s?si=SnV8qp0W4PZgrcYp

Not when the dream is happening, though.

Yes. They still try to avoid screwing with the economy when an election is close. He'd have to install mechanisms for overriding the chairman. I guess...

That's not very common. It's only happened to me once.

I was just kidding.

I'm an ontological anti-realist. Both direct and indirect realism are facets of our present psychology. I can't take either seriously because I don't ...

The Fed isn't supposed to make rate changes during an election cycle, but they're probably going to have to in September. They're expected to lower th...

I see what you're saying. But consider the spoon dipping into the two dimensional world. Everyone sees the same thing. There is therefore agreement ab...

Anyway, the answer is that you trust your senses because you don't have any choice. You're an obligate direct realist, at least in the way you behave....