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If such a Nazi as your goodself could do that thing, I should be well content to leave.

I'll say the truth wherever I am, and if it hurts your Nazi feelings, hard luck!

The Zionists didn't have the power then, and hadn't yet come to the calamitous decision that racist colonialism was the only way to survive.

There wouldn't have been any Jewish flight from Muslim counties but for the various Zionist atrocities, surely? I see no reason that colonists should ...

Exactly. People like to help, but not at too much cost.

Jews were the Nazis' victims, Zionists their imitators.

Qwex - Don't you think you are perhaps getting caught up in a very American reaction to nonsensical 'religion'?

Things like alleged racism are always difficult to discuss, because different social groups are so very different - it hadn't occurred to me that 'Meg...

It seems to me that the problem is that there is a vast majority of writing that is simply commercial, containing a certain amount of mild porn in a p...

What I mean is that lots of people think the ideas Jesus came up with were good stuff, but unachievable - very much the way people talk about socialis...

The execution was clearly important, but for all Christians, I think, it's the Resurrection that matters, as it did back then. The Occupation had done...

Couldn't it be both?

With money with a graven image on it, occupation money the Pharisees shouldn't have been carrying. He's making a joke, I think. What did Jesus think d...

Reading the Sermon on the Mounts, Acts and so on, I tend to see Jesus and the early Church as early socialists, and this dreadful capitalist society a...

Anecdote: my Father was a great believer in these 'after-death experience' stories with their shining tunnels and meeting people again. He 'died' for ...

I suppose the American elections will dominate human history for a fair time. One-state world control is not inspiring, is it?

It used to be. Nowadays it's because of 'Israel' and the various unpleasant Zionist activities and actions. The zionists desperately try to associate ...

'Master's', of course. I suppose he did have a Mother, despite my prejudices!

I think the nearest he'll get to a middle position (to judge by his comments on the murder of General Suleimani) as if he limits himself in public to ...

Reading a book about how to face death. In the world of Trump and Johnson it seems the only subject worth exploring.

If Climate Change Is A Lie, Is It Still Worth The Risk? It's the same with Gravity. If it's a lie, is safe to flap our ears and take off?

True. Many years ago my Labour Party Branch was passing resolutions about setting up a free press if we ever want socialism here.

Capitalism is a system of pretend-competition, in which the rich and educated 'compete' with those who are neither. Until relatively lately a number o...

The difficulty seems to be that governments are dominated by capitalists, and capitalism demands short-term profits NOW, at what ever cost. Since the ...

I think the main problem, as so often, is the lack in the US of any sense that other countries contain people with their own opinion and their own her...

A pretty high proportion of people are half-wits, let's face it.

I've been saying that. I was trying to see the sense of what some other write.

Who cares?

Agreed - but if people suppose it means asking for goodies from a non-existent sky-daddy, goodies you won't get, I suppose it makes sense not to, sinc...

In my limited experience (I get bored easily) a great deal of 'philosophy' seems to be devoted to arguing about the meaning of words. I call these dic...

I was using the word correctly.

I just used 'prayer' in the way it is used by people who go in for the activity. I'd though you'd been quoting one of the sillier dictionaries.

Not in the tradition I was brought up in, not at all.

I'm not into these dictionary games. Grown ups who go in for prayer don't mean begging but getting into some sort of communication with what they call...

'Pray' means what religious people do. Usually they go in for thanks and perhaps the needs of others. You are trying to impose a meaning that belongs ...

You seem to be desperately hung up on gods and dictionaries. I'm not. Very few of those who have gone in for prayer have been asking for anything for ...

It seems to me that prayer is habit you acquire far too early for it to have anything to do with rationality. I've known a number of semi-public figur...

We can't solve global warming because our masters are totally sold on the profit motive, surely?

Robots might survive. Capitalism will burn all the humans. Why should there be a point?

That is not me, I'm afraid.

I'd assume its because the human species is collaborative by its nature, and species that work together soon overcome species that work individually. ...

I very much doubt that philosophical discussion ever decided anyone's view on suicide. It never came up much when I was a Samaritan, whatever. I certa...

Robots will be what we decide to make them, I suppose, and might survive the capitalist world-burning. After the latest British and American elections...

Well, the last few generations of Elders, having left us up Shit Creek without a paddle, seem to me to deserve about as much respect as some Chinese g...

Well, I assume we write into the basic programme the ability to change in response to changing conditions. It is, after all, how our own evolution wor...

Freud's nephew moved to America and began the total manipulation of the mugs, which grew and grew to near-perfection long since.. Now the internet see...

The problem is not resources but capitalism, which is burning up the world. It's my own notion that it is probably an inevitable evolutionary developm...

Athena - I was talking about the way death is made into a big deal. I suppose my notions are loosely based on the Buddhism I learned when I was fourte...

Well. flesh-and-blood humans aren't, I think, likely to survive the capitalist climate Gotterdammerung, so if we want something to survive, robots see...

All true to experience ... BUT it all depends on certain assumptions based on language I think. What is this individuality based on except the noise '...