European nobility got largely wiped out during WWI, at the western and eastern fronts, and not so much during the French Revolution. The Russian Empir...
Empiricism (as embodied in the principle of testability) is just a temporary stopgap solution in science. What they really want, is the complete axiom...
Because the heartland of Europe has been staunchly socialist for over a century now. Before WWI, the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) was the ...
Positivists are like that: . In fact, it may actually be ok to reject metaphysics and/or theism but not for positivist reasons. These people really ex...
People who believe that pure reason is the only source of meaning will never accept this, no matter how often you hammer it into their heads. Even if ...
Ha! I like it when someone else sees it too. National socialism is actually the most fundamental doctrine of European so-called democracy. I've actual...
This looks a bit like myself: I also believe that Islam is not so far away from European Christianity as some Europeans may think. I certainly also re...
I am rather a traditionalist. There are good reasons why European nobility behave in the way they did, and still do. For example, they value honor hig...
I was actually raised in the same worldview as yours until I understood that there are better ways to deal with the matter. Other people around the gl...
I never do that. I am actually lucky over here because SE Asians don't like to do that either. Why waste my time on a bout of simping to the woman? It...
At that point, you don't even know the person. In that case, how can you be in love already? So, what you can see at first glance, is that she is youn...
If you ever meet European nobility, you will quickly understand that they think exactly the same. Only the peasants believe that it is about "love". S...
At that point, you don't see the tax collector anymore. Too late in the game already. I have never owed and failed to pay taxes. The hack is to make s...
No foreigner got caught up in the original Khmer Rouge conundrum. Foreigners were supposed to report at the French embassy for the next military evacu...
The bottom of other societies frantically try to insert themselves into the deepest gutter at the bottom of American society, because it often still r...
Yes, exactly. You will invariably end up having to fend off the tax collector and the divorce-rape judge. In my experience, a democracy is never the p...
With the marriage -and birth rate gradually falling to statistically zero in secular demographics, it does not look like they are "dead wrong". Marria...
Currently, I stay in both the Philippines and Cambodia. I am also regularly in Thailand and Vietnam, but that's just for long weekend trips. It costs ...
Most of SE Asia. Example: Philippines, Laos, Cambodia. Much of Subsaharan Africa. Apparently, the Gulf states: Oman, UAE, Bahrain. They are low-statis...
My personal experience is exactly the opposite. The more democracy, the more petty regulations, the higher the taxes, and especially, the more numerou...
The middle class is indeed a vaguely defined notion. In that sense, everybody who works for a living, except for the working poor, is middle class. Th...
The army officers were the nobility. That was the elite upper class in the middle ages. The clergy was also quite privileged and the higher ranks were...
The middle class became inexistent at the end of the Roman empire and it was mostly gone for almost a millennium. There was barely any international t...
What would be the conspiracy? The more income a woman has, the less she "needs" a man. She may still "want" him somehow, but that is not a particularl...
In my opinion, that is even an inevitable biological phenomenon. The middle class can exist only temporarily. At the foundations of sexual reproductio...
Hello Agreed. What children would really benefit from, is someone to teach them hope, preferably of the most irrational kind, i.e. the stronger, the b...
Across successive lives, life is fair. If you suffer today, you did something sinful earlier in this life or in an earlier life. If you do something s...
That is not the correct comparison. You need to compare these places when they are both violently at war and then measure how they manage to cope with...
In my opinion, absurdism is very, very sensible, rational, and eminently reasonable. I certainly believe that absurdism is truthful. It is very good a...
If there were a pure-reason explanation for the existence of the universe, why would anyone be interested in addressing the question by means of spiri...
In terms of pure reason, the very existence of the universe is irrational and meaningless. Hence, I underwrite the main idea in the absurdist philosop...
Yes, it is limited to logic sentences expressed in natural language. -- It is raining now. -> part of the universe of sentences under consideration fo...
At that point, it is very, very late in the game already. For the effort to succeed, it must be started much earlier, preferably, long before it is to...
The volunteer manning the suicide prevention hotline will try to give his user hope by means of some adhoc crash course in informal spirituality. Appa...
We could possibly relax the definition of the predicate isProvable(n) to isRational(n). Say that if the majority of the observers believe that a natur...
Wars are won by soldiers who are willing to risk their lives and die for their (1) nation or their (2) religion, neither of which is a product of rati...
This is what I personally believe about it. It is original. There was no universe. That state is what I mean by "nothing". Time did not exist at that ...
The incessant attacks on every living being are inevitable. In the beginning, when God created the universe, he decreed that everything in existence h...
Not all the ones who have hope, will be saved. However, the ones who do not believe that there is hope, will probably not be saved. A good way to unde...
That can be a problem in difficult times when what you need is hope while the situation looks utterly hopeless. There simply is no evidence that thing...
Suicide is deemed a perfectly rational response to deal with an environment that inspires absurdism: All you need, is a situation that is exceptionall...
I thought that you wanted me to help you find a new job? I am quite good at networking but not that good. So, give me some more time to pull off the i...
Come on. I've seen people getting kicked out of the meeting for less than that. I'm still trying to think of an environment in which a character like ...
If the university believed that their press release was expired, they would retract it or publish a rectification. It is obviously still valid. If you...
You do not understand enough mathematics to interpret the semantics of Godel's theorem. I have merely pointed out that you are clearly not even aware ...
Say that the following is provable from theory T: xx and yy and zz --> rr With xx, yy, zz the axioms of T. What does that mean about rr? In and of its...
Can you send a message to the "Office of Communication and Marketing" of the "Freie Universität Berlin" to confirm with you that they are publishing w...
My argument was not categorical. So, your proposition is not receivable. I know what the problem is with my academic education. I largely spent my tim...
The true value of Gödel's work is not that it manages to reduce the belief in God to a belief in 5 complex axiomatic expressions in higher-order modal...
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