Say some Chinese invaded your territory and introduced a pastoral animal that eventually became central to your culture. Then some Koreans came and tr...
Imagine that everything in the universe is green. Would we have the word "green?" Positivity doesn't exist unless it's in the company of negativity. S...
Magnetically speaking, they could switch, but magnetic positive is pretty crispy. And yet what does "south" ultimately mean? Aren't the other directio...
Or maybe he doesn't mean that... I think he was saying we shouldn't rely on our own understanding (or logic). Some would say logic puts us in contact ...
If the Lord moves in mysterious ways is presented for consideration as a solution to the problem of evil, I would assume that what's meant is that an ...
So you're giving up omnibenevolence because (as I think BC mentioned) evil is evil. I think I understand where you're coming from, it's just psycholog...
The problem of evil is that God is supposed to be simultaneously omnipotent and omnibenevolent. Saying God moves in mysterious ways solves the problem...
I agree with that. The fact that he named his inauguration day a national day of patriotism kind of makes me feel like I slipped into an alternate rea...
My understanding was that Obama-care was a first step in dealing with the fact that Medicare funding is inadequate, so it was forced by circumstances,...
Demagogues don't generally threaten anything. They gain support by making promises, discover that they don't actually have the power to change anythin...
The biography I read was Huey Long, by T. Harry Williams. You can get it used for cheap from Amazon. I think you'd really enjoy it. Hitler, Mao, and S...
He took over the Louisiana legislature. There's a lot to admire about him, but he became a dictator through ruthless attacks on anyone who opposed him...
There's deep seated fear of tyranny in the American culture, Wayfarer. They have a tendency to assassinate governors and presidents who appear tyranni...
It came home to me a while back. I was looking at a tree trunk (the way we artist-types would). I moved around the tree watching the light change. I r...
That's cool. I'm not interested in a conventional understanding of N anyway. There's a fair amount of overlap between my own view and his. It was just...
I'm not really following you at all here. The meaning of "legitimacy," as used in the OP, doesn't seem confusing or arbitrary to me. OK. But the OP is...
The obvious question would be: how do you know you're examining the history of ideas and not just projecting your own ideas onto history? Have you rea...
I think the crowd you mentioned would benefit from switching over to choosing presidents by the popular vote. You can put this star in my chart: https...
Yea, the derogatory black stereotype is lazy. I wouldn't say that living independent of parents and grasping challenge is a universally accepted ideal...
The former Caribbean slaves weren't starving. They weren't burdening anybody. They weren't threatening Western Civilization. Just the fact that they w...
It's a cultural thing. When the British ended their involvement with slavery in the Caribbean, it was with the assumption that free people will work h...
It doesn't guide us. For all practical purposes, you have acceptance of the world as it is unless you are actively seeking to change it or you have re...
Right. It's just that it's a strawman. That passage was simply saying that institutions that endure have a history of acceptance. Nothing world shatte...
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