Schop, I cannot go much further, alas; I am not a Christian, or any kind of expert here, but charity as do-good-ery is the opposite of what I am talki...
That's a tediously modern, materialist answer to your question, and I agree it is inadequate and simply false. Plato's way out of the cave is through ...
Honestly, I would like to say something helpful, but if you are up shit creek and refuse to paddle, then you will remain up shit creek. There is only ...
Well I found something of a connection that makes your conspiracy theory a bit more likely... 2012. https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/jcb-boss-sir-an...
There ought to be a name for such arguments - 'hasty materialisation', or something. What has infinite growth potential is human desire. 'The economy'...
I will just mention that I might have given my children my own surname, but I didn't. They might have taken their mother's surname, but they didn't. T...
I think we're so much on the same page that I won't quibble. This, conspiracy or mere tragedy, is the heart of the matter. And here is the connection ...
No. Well I could probably muster some evidence that the EU is not responsible for the woes it is credited with, because - well it just isn't a monolit...
Not at all. I'm saying that a man with a first class degree in philosophy politics and economics has no beliefs, no principles and no morals. I'm sayi...
It would be a violation of my prime directive to defend Cameron, but there's very little here to distinguish Cameron the machiavellian conspirator fro...
Good question. Everyone needs a dedicated fact check site, like this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?utm_term...
I'm referring back to this. Obviously, this picture is distorted and impossible. But the distortion and impossibility accurately depicts what philosop...
And the EU is the largest free trade block... But it's not about money and all those fish... its about taking back control from those faceless bureauc...
Moderators are imperfect. Sometimes they miss things, and by the time they catch up, there is an interesting conversation. Sometimes, they have phases...
It's a petty small figure isn't it. Definitely cherry rather than pineapple. Perhaps it reflects the fact that a lot of The UK GDP is for local consum...
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/can-mps-actually-stop-a-no-deal-brexit-from-happening/ I just can't see Parliament getting its head far enough out...
As if defining a question can be done without knowledge, as if information and resources are not knowledge... If I was being hardline about it, I woul...
I might be a bit old fashioned, but in my day the first step in the scientific method was observation, and that was the the way to discover the truth ...
This is the best Brexit diagnosis I've seen. The right historical context, the usual suspects identified. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opinion/s...
Since no one has leaped forward to put their testicles where their mouths are, I'll make a few preliminary remarks myself. The text is sacred to an an...
Nah, she is stuck with the leadership of a party that unanimously despises her, but wants to keep her in place to take the blame, and she is stuck try...
To further the general level of understanding of this important topic, I suggest we form a study group and make a close reading of the major text, The...
I rather think we will end up with no deal brexit, because whatever happens will be very unpopular, and anyone who blinks will lose their own support ...
That's because it is even more undemocratic than the EU. But the British people were never consulted about joining the WTO, and we demand a referendum...
Gosh, 4 million is a lot, I don't think my spare bedroom is big enough. But back to the WTO, that unaccountable undemocratic overwhelmingly foreign or...
Let's forgo retribution and deterrence both. Most people obey the law and behave decently because they already find it more pleasant, and those who do...
Except Britain, of course, which has to put up with hordes of Finns coming here to take advantage of the wonderful happy life that we all lead here wi...
The British are desperate and angry. Unfortunately at entirely the wrong people. That something is popular does not prevent it from being a disaster. ...
Someone else talking about political trilemmas in a Euro-context. https://blog.supplysideliberal.com/post/143465789704/david-pagnucco-the-eurozone-and...
My view is that truth should have a very different status from that of falsehood. To censor truth is outrageous and to speak truth should never be a c...
The problem is the exact opposite of what the official figures suggest, because the officials take care to make the figures show them in a good light,...
Such calculations are curious. It looks like the main cost to government is the education of children. If one did a calculation for other groups on th...
It's such a simple question. But put a human face and a human voice on the oyster, on the grain of wheat, on the screaming carrot. If you make a radic...
Plato made a useful distinction between stuff and arrangement, having noticed that wooden house and a stone house were both more comfortable abodes th...
Probably, they don't, any more than the average meat eater justifies eating cow but not horse, pig but not dog, sheep but not caterpillar, and so on. ...
I think a large part of the trick is to replace 'state' which has a static connotation, with 'process'. Talking of brain states, I start to imagine th...
Here in Wales there has always been a great shortage of names, and almost everyone has to make do with 'Jones' or 'Williams'. Accordingly, there has a...
You have tilt your head back so that your nose is very much in the air; then when you look down it at people, you will still be able to overlook them ...
Those quotes are from the Addenda in the link on the first page of this thread: https://academiaanalitica.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/kripke-saul-a-na...
Well damn you for a methodological heretic! :naughty: I just told him the opposite; to put in the entirety of possiblilities first, and then eliminate...
There's no 'if' here. "Heavy water is a form of water that contains a larger than normal amount of the hydrogen isotope deuterium, rather than the com...
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