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Was going to reply to your other post, but since you deleted it... Are you referring to the contents of this email from 2008? https://wikileaks.org/po...
October 19, 2016 at 11:38
So what is the issue? An how did Trump exploit it?
October 19, 2016 at 10:52
Do you know what Sapientia is referring to?
October 19, 2016 at 10:23
What is the discredited conspiracy theory that Trump initiated?
October 18, 2016 at 23:42
What dubious grounds are these?
October 18, 2016 at 23:19
Anyway, I'm finding the presidential election fascinating. On the one side, you have the apparatus of, if not the state, then certainly the establishm...
October 18, 2016 at 14:59
Nothing, they are both equally irrational. Better to have arguments and ideas, and to subject them to criticism or testing.
October 18, 2016 at 13:58
Rights of women, are you freakin kidding me? Both Clinton and Trump are against Obama Care as it currently stands. Both want to reform it. Trump was t...
October 18, 2016 at 13:50
It's all corroborated by the WikiLeaks release of the Podesta emails. And it seems that Scott Foval was fired within hour of the video release.
October 18, 2016 at 12:03
Trump took a lot of flack for wanting to build a wall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK6ixvKxw7E
October 18, 2016 at 11:47
And the Clintons have amassed a $300million fortune by selling a product called "US government policy".
October 18, 2016 at 11:45
Here's the expose which the Media is ignoring. If it were Trump, he'd be arrested by now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY
October 18, 2016 at 11:43
This is a big problem for democracy. It has already been revealed that the DNC is corrupt; Bernie didn't stand a chance. But with Wall St. the Media, ...
October 18, 2016 at 11:42
Have you heard of WikiLeaks? It's there in black-and-white. The Podesta leaks show media collusion with the Clinton campaign to an extraordinary level...
October 18, 2016 at 11:38
The latest revelations about Hillary training homeless, mentally ill, and assorted thugs, to start riots at Trump rallies (they claim Chicago as a maj...
October 18, 2016 at 11:28
Are you asking for a science lesson?
October 16, 2016 at 00:01
OK, so you have a record of past risings and settings of the sun. I have a record of milkman and postal deliveries to my house. I guess that makes us ...
October 16, 2016 at 00:00
We haven't done that for 100 years. Just don't go to Australia Eh?
October 15, 2016 at 22:21
Unless we need to do accurate calculations for GPS, orbits of planets close to the sun, black holes, gravitational waves, the big bang, and indeed som...
October 15, 2016 at 11:14
Because the square root of NOT exists in Reality, it is a logical operator available to any physical entity capable of using it to reason, whether it ...
October 14, 2016 at 22:12
Under physicalism, the square root of NOT is allowed, which is a good thing, since that particular logical operator exists in REALITY.
October 14, 2016 at 21:58
How do you know? How do you know that logic is independent of the rules that govern reality. For example, imagine a logical operator that might exist ...
October 14, 2016 at 21:08
Which has nothing to do with Idealism? Anyway, I asked what rules Idealist reality follows, and you seemed to reply, Which, as far as I'm aware are th...
October 14, 2016 at 20:20
So, Idealist reality obeys the laws of physics. Thus Idealism and physicalism are identical except Idealism applies the label to everything in Reality...
October 14, 2016 at 20:00
I'm just interested in what rules Idealist reality might follow and how we can discover them.
October 14, 2016 at 19:29
So, if Idealist reality does not operate by logic, then what rules does it follow?
October 14, 2016 at 19:04
How do you know that the Idealist reality operates by "straight forward logic"?
October 14, 2016 at 16:18
I think you might be missing something here. #2 is the conjectured *explanation* of #1. The reason that certain regularities exist is that the sun orb...
October 14, 2016 at 13:12
I think you might completely misunderstand the mindset of those who behead, immolate, rape, disembowel, and castrate in the name of their religion. Th...
October 13, 2016 at 17:32
Yes, I find it odd that even those who super-anthropomorphise animals to the extent that they regard them as a sort of nobler human (thinking of many ...
October 12, 2016 at 10:49
Do you remember the name of the person who murdered 77 young Norwegians? Of course you do. Can you name any of these perpetrators? Murderer of 86 and ...
October 12, 2016 at 10:46
That is precisely the problem in Saudi Arabia.
October 11, 2016 at 22:26
So in addition to the 1,400 white, underage victims of Muslim gang-rape in Rotherham, there were some Muslim victims of sexual abuse. It is a tragedy ...
October 11, 2016 at 21:51
Well, that can be ruled out as it conflicts with our knowledge of reality. Plus, your "coincidental" popping in and out of reality is non-explanatory,...
October 11, 2016 at 20:09
If the popping in and out of existence is independent of observation, then why don't we see it?
October 11, 2016 at 19:44
And I'm in favour of Quran burning apparently. Now, you are either innumerate of callous not to appreciate the industrial scale gang-rape of white, mo...
October 11, 2016 at 19:42
I guess some ideas are just too ridiculous to entertain, but yes, if you claim that objects objectively pop in and out of existence "independently of ...
October 11, 2016 at 19:14
I'll pass on your condolences to the 1,400 victims of Muslim gang rape and their families. Lives wrecked at the altar of Political Correctness.
October 11, 2016 at 18:02
It is nevertheless interesting that in UK, it is illegal to burn a Quran if you are non-Muslim, but *legal* to burn a Quran if you *are* Muslim. Then ...
October 11, 2016 at 13:09
Perhaps you can explain why a British man, born and raised in UK, walked free from Court because the judge accepted his plea that he was unaware that ...
October 11, 2016 at 10:29
But Zizek appears to have no clue. PC *is* a traditional authority. Cross it and you could loose everything. Hence German men allowed 1,200 German wom...
October 10, 2016 at 20:50
You seem unaware of the Macpherson Report, subsequent to which it has been deemed by the Metropolitan Police, and perhaps all police forces in UK, tha...
October 10, 2016 at 20:30
In UK you stand a good chance of being accused of a hate-crime if you draw a certain character, or point out that a certain religion teaches homophobi...
October 10, 2016 at 11:43
You need to make up your mind. Do you want "live and let live" or social control?
October 10, 2016 at 11:00
And prior to the millennium you could guarantee that all years would always begin with the number "19" with the same "logic". So we can"confirm" that ...
October 10, 2016 at 10:57
Just like a religion then.
October 10, 2016 at 10:44
Why would you need a public institution for that?
October 10, 2016 at 10:41
But you aren't allowed to call certain people these things, and if you do, in several countries in the West, you risk being accused of hate-crime. Of ...
October 10, 2016 at 10:37