karl stone

So, you're saying that a man with a first class degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University genuinely believed he could reduce...

Yes, plenty. Cameron was a long term eurosceptic who wrote a manifesto for Micheal Howard in 2005 - that related eu membership and immigration, callin...

David Cameron alone decided we would have a referendum, against the expressed will of Parliament in 2011 - who voted against holding a referendum by 4...

Thanks Dave! You alone decided we would have a referendum, that you made a manifesto commitment that couldn't be blocked by Parliament or amended by t...

Sounds reasonable. In relation to my suggestion that ideas* should be licensed and not confer exclusive rights to manufacture, marketing and distribut...

Is there not an editorial standard worth paying for? Interesting side note - someone created a post modernist essay generator program, and produced en...

My thought was about things like video games, movies and music - which are now so easily reproducible, and available online that the industries are be...

The OP is a defense of metaphysics before epistemology. Heidegger was obsessed with 'being' - and considered it a fundamental concept. I don't. I thin...

I thought atoms were mostly empty space, and that 96% of the universe was missing.

Sure. I wasn't suggesting a change to the established doctrine on what can be patented: "An invention can be patented if it has a useful purpose, has ...

In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the W3C at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It comprised various companies that were willing to create standard...

Okay, I think I know what I think, and I'd like for you to criticize these ideas. If you can. Or just tell me how right I am. It occurred to me that t...

A very interesting post, thank you. I should probably work up a list of questions, but at this stage I'm still struggling with the idea. Your practica...

What an interesting discussion you've been having since I've been gone. Quick, now babble until we're on page 18: The 2016 referendum was corrupt and ...

You've had my expert advice - for free! Take it or leave it. I'll leave you to it.

I'm really not wrong though. That's the sad thing. You're only saying that, not actually challenging the facts as I've set them out. Because you can't...

It wasn't democratic, for the reasons stated, at length, repeatedly above - and let's face it, probably below! The fact the referendum was well attend...

Another from the "brexit no matter what" club? The facts don't matter to you. Nothing else does. You have nothing to say, so STFU. Or engage with the ...

A hypothetical scenario? Do you expect me to respond to that? Something dredged from your fevered brexiteer imagination - when you won't respond to th...

Great comment mate. Compared my comments: That's a very compelling argument. Thanks for that!

Again, you seem to be sidestepping the issues raised in my posts. The 2016 referendum was undemocratic and corrupt, and a valid democratic result cann...

Why did you respond to me with a subject entirely unrelated to anything I wrote? If you don't recall, I said this: Do I bore you?

No. These: and:

My informed and well worth reading posts have disappeared up the page under this progression of mindless pro brexit nonsense.

Lord Hill resigned if I recall correctly. But in fact, national appointees to the EU Commission represent the EU. Nation state governments are represe...

Too much credit? Credit is given where it's due. Cameron has a first class degree in politics from Oxford, and cut his teeth in politics as advisor to...

The 2016 referendum was corrupt and anti democratic in about six...teen different ways. As already stated, Cameron was a long term eurosceptic who def...

I'd have to ask - when you say "democracy" what on earth are you referring to?

Brexit is a criminal conspiracy against the British people. Cameron was a eurosceptic who sabotaged his credibility, and lost on purpose for Remain. H...

My argument is not that hunter gatherer tribes untied "because" of their discovery of God - they united because of the practical benefits you allude t...

And I'm making a point about the role God served in civilization - as objective authority for moral law, not saying anything about whether God exists ...

What evidence, and who is ignoring it? I set out ideas I spent a lot of time and effort on - and this is my thanks, is it? Let me make myself quite cl...

I'm tired and I'm going to bed. I got about three lines in when the irresistible droop of dog-tiredness hit me. Maybe it's a consequence of you throwi...

If philosophy doesn't begin with epistemology, then it's basically intellectual masturbation. Take Heidegger and his obsession with being, from which ...

"To my mind, science has nothing to say on the existence of God." Metaphysics is tosh.

Imagine if, instead of arrest and trial for heresy - the Church of Rome had welcomed Galileo as discovering the means to decode the word of God as mad...

The goalposts keep moving look. Before it was pragmatic necessity, now it's selfish agents can act altruistically. Neitzsche's arguments are very diff...

Given that I've argued above that the fundamental law of nature is truth, and that we need to accept a scientific understanding of reality in common a...

Decent conjecture, but if so, why didn't civilization happen earlier, given that evidence of a truly human intellect - as evidenced in cave art, buria...

I'd push that back a lot further - to explain how hunter gatherer tribes joined together. It's not merely an intuition, but an informed guess at an ev...

I must bow to your superior knowledge of Ancient myths. I assume only they served useful social purposes in the evolutionary development of humankind....

I'm delighted to hear that. My philosophy is also consistent with a sustainable future. I discussed it at some length with Jake in my thread 'How to S...

Then don't read it, or suffer weariness. My philosophy. Your choice. But my philosophy knocks Nietzsche's into a cocked hat.

Spoken like a true Judeo Christian farmer, but Gods of hunting and war were not demonic. Their "morality" fed and defended primitive societies. What's...

It depends on what you think the fundamental law of nature is. If you think it's "big fish eat little fish" - then you run into your problem, but it i...

Please explain. What is the pragmatic necessity for an individual described as ubermensch in Nietzsche's philosophy, to spend the vast personal and ec...

Is it? I go outside, and I don't see that. I see millions of people getting through almost everyday without killing anyone, or even having a fight. If...

Yes, I have read extensively. No, I don't think wolves have found God. Thank you for your post.

The Nazis wouldn't have been possible if hunter gatherers had not invented religion to overcome the aplha male problem, and join together to form soci...

Those are indisputable historical facts, but like I said earlier, we are developing from animal ignorance into human knowledge over time. Social moral...