That doesn't get us any further, since I find it too convoluted to follow. How does one organize previous interactions? Surely, it's only an image, me...
Unreligious. Anti-religious only when provoked. I think Jesus was a composite figure put together to make a coherent story of the events chronicled in...
You can't pre-suppose the world. Maybe a creator god can, but humans are in and of the world. They can't suppose anything that they don't already know...
Not to mention the case of the baby incubators, the vial of white powder, aerial photography involving toys trucks, etc., etc., - every government, ev...
As does deliberately misinforming the public, or at the very least presenting a situation to the public in a biased way. Propaganda is standard practi...
Run for president of the US. Once you've served a term, no matter how badly, you can absolve yourself from all crimes and all debts... or so i hear......
Considerably! The past is sealed. The future is still open to a million possible versions. The differences between them may be infinitesimal, but fine...
Why should we? It would all have to be made of the same components. Carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen can only combine in a finite variety of conf...
And? When the counterrevolution finally succeeds, they'll be lined up against a wall and shot? Sure, some of 'em. Or some who are suspected collaborat...
I don't. It's a more reasonable speculation, according to what we know of life as it is, than to think existing species would meekly stand aside and w...
How do you know it only started once on this planet? Even if it was just the once on this one planet, having begun, it thrived, proliferated, evolved ...
No; nothing physical travels in time, because time has no physical locations. When you arrive, you are a disembodied consciousness; thus there is no r...
On some of those zillions of planets orbiting all those bejillions of suns, of course there must be other life. And whatever form it takes, wherever i...
All responsibility for such large collective actions as a war must be shared, but proportionately. First: How did the leader get to be a leader? Some ...
Of course not. You can have a happy life only by accumulating many, many small pleasures. They don't need to be luxuries - unless you count anything b...
So long as it doesn't go around accusing people of stupidity (even if it's literally true from its perspective) or self-deception (which is always mor...
The same can be said of depression, ambition, greed, desire to excel, etc. Mastery of one's state of mind is certainly a great boon, as is the ability...
It was guessed by some fairly well-established anthropologists, and is borne out by what Europeans learned about the 'primitive' cultures they conquer...
Uh-hu Actually, it's quite simple, and people were able to do it for thousands of years. But when they opted for large, diverse populations (very usef...
Sure, so did lots of reformers in lots of countries since then. But it takes years to make the improvements, and when the other kind of administration...
Nice words, heard in nations the world over, over and over in history. Heard.... but never seen. The people "taxing us to death" are doing so to provi...
I doubt most members think of me at all. The writers know I read and review everything; the deep philosophers probably see me as a simplistic naive re...
Tsk, tsk, you just did. Another time Before the beginning of Former time!?? Now you have three iterations of the impropriety of pre-time affairs. I th...
No. The timelessness that existed before the beginning of time would put that "before" state in a time-frame. The beginning of time would have been a ...
Right. It is impossible for time to have begun, since a beginning is an event and time is necessary for anything to change and any event is a change. ...
It's also called mindfulness: paying attention to and being aware of where you are, with whom, why and what doing. I don't care so much about that. So...
Not yet. I wonder how many weapons have been invented through human history that were used as a deterrent only and never deployed. The protesting idio...
Yeh. 'S why workers did it in the 1920's, broken heads 'an' all. In Europe, they still have trade unions with some clout. In the US, Reagan started un...
And still in no position to reverse the trends or stop the wars or turn off the gas. Meanwhile other 75...76....77...78....79% are coming for your clo...
You see any two nations or any two political parties in one nation working together? I don't. It's not about gold reserves - and hasn't been for some ...
We've crossed it The permafrost is no longer permanent and the polar ice sheets are calving like demented rabbits. Meanwhile, PM Trudeau is rabidly at...
That's probably because you don't want to die. there is a whole world of feeling, thinking, imagining between not liking one's life the way it is and ...
We - whoever "we" are - should not platform anybody. People are imperfect; it's always a mistake to set some up as idols and heroes when you don't kno...
Maybe so, but it still has a lot of holes. The fetus isn't famous or valued by anyone in the world - except perhaps as a poster child or slogan. Most ...
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