There are dozens. But I wasn't asking about books or philosophers. I was asking about what conservative people value; what, specifically, they want to...
But I'm told that's actually neoliberalism. Still can't quitewrap my head around how the word 'liberal' - which means 'broad-minded, tolerant, inclusi...
Oh. I didn't mean those as accusations, so much as descriptions. But I can bring them into better focus. which is what I meant by rabid right. Then, w...
Except in making and enforcing laws that curtail personal freedom. This is what I can't come to grips with: the logical contradictions. This is not bo...
The book banning? To clarify: The only other accusation I made was against the Texas legislature and there was nothing vague in the reference I suppli...
That's not my version; that's the version I see under the political label that identifiable parties, their public spokespeople and their supporters we...
That's a lot of vague accusations at unidentified perpetrators. It doesn't really clear things up. (Especially the part about how anti-gun policy hurt...
This has been my observation, as well. The political right does tend to pull toward conformity, hierarchy and the imposition of order by force from ab...
It would help to name one if I knew how to recognize one. In politics, it seems to me that people who call themselves conservative in some way, e.g. f...
Tell about that. Which specific conservative values have been marginalized, by whom, by what means? The only restrictions of expression I know about i...
What is toxic ego effect? You mean people become conceited through recognition of their accomplishments? Some people are conceited with no accomplishm...
We can, but it's always a matter of opinion. The word, however, is more interesting than that. Intelligence, in the context of biological classificati...
It was bound to happen! I rather enjoy letting myself be cranky - hell, I'm old; I've earned it! Too soon to tell. We're not talking about all the mov...
To a very large extent, I believe this to be accurate. Not only the US; rabid conservatism has been showing up all over the world, polluting democraci...
Then we'd just have the converse of what we do have: gods made in the image of humans, with greater abilities. Not to the god, but to the humans. That...
Bullseye! We were never told why A failed or refused to pay B, so we can't really say to what degree each of those persons is guilty and of what. I mi...
Objects? There aren't any in the thought experiment. We can imagine something like that, because we have some basis for imagining and material to imag...
Almost immediately; within an eon or two. But I don't know where i would get the idea of creating or fragmenting or anything else - I would have nobod...
based on a close observation and analysis of how society works, what elements are required to its working to the benefit of its members and what circu...
Yes, of course. Not the omniscience is the problem, but the omnipotence. Nothing moral could have that much power; nothing that powerful can be moral....
A god or God? It's okay for small, local gods to have limited powers and be imperfect; they can even be the embodiment or representation of recognizab...
Fox hunting has banned in England and Wales nearly 20 years ago. They still have the sport of riding to hounds, but without the fox. In much of Europe...
That's not collective intelligence; that's stored information or archived knowledge. We do not currently have the technology to compile or compress in...
However, the situation may not as grim as all that. Humans are not entirely without intellectual resources. They develop barter systems and co-operati...
You mean nobody had any autonomy before 650BCE? There were other media of trade, more or less portable goods in general use: salt, shells, chattels, c...
One twin typically gets a 10-20 minute head start. Two or three minutes, if they're delivered by cesarean section. Plus, every time the cells divide, ...
Name two. Or such a close approach to Doomsday. I take it you don't live in Ukraine, Yemen, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Benin, Togo, Algeria, Tunisia, ...
I do enjoy your pretzel-shaped constructions! (Beauty, like humour, as Emperor Cartagia said, is subjective.) There is that nugget of rock-salt in the...
You can agree, but not with me. I didn't say that. I said we can't discuss something that has no meaning for us. Linear algebra is probably valuable, ...
Why not? They have no significance to us, either as objects of worship, judges, helpers and redeemers or as philosophical and moral concepts. They are...
Beauty: That which is pleasing *aesthetically satisfying to the senses and/or emotions and/or intellect. (* as distinct from, but not antithetical to ...
They might be more reluctant to kill, knowing that their victim would soon be their neighbour. It's difficult to imagine a heaven with all those enemi...
I didn't know multiple fruits were an option; I thought it had to be an equivalent quantity of a better a better thing and a worse thing. But even the...
I saw it in a tv series, a few years ago. Have been racking my brain trying to remember which one. He sharpened his pencil to a very fine point, to wr...
No, I can't think of any. Let me go look at some favourites. And Anthropologist on Mars: "In seven paradoxical tales of neurological disorder and crea...
Neither is detergent, until you open the container. You go shopping for detergent when your clothes are dirty . You bought this detergent instead of t...
That's an example of advertising. The kid is buying a brand, just as Sikhs, Republicans and patriots etc. always have. No envelope, just a competent s...
This is probably often the case. A book jacket usually has a cover design graphic, back blurb and, summarizing the content, an author bio, touting his...
That makes it an entity, or even The Entity, but not a deity in any conventional sense. Redefining any word to mean "whatever I imagine it means" may ...
To add, not to change. That last bit you quoted was from my very first post. It didn't mention grounds or reason or logic or subject matter. Not argui...
That's not quite the same thing as dependence. Faith being dependent on reason would mean that the reason came first and led by deduction to faith. Wh...
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