Yes, or perhaps I could say that everyone has a psychological theory, and the big P stands for Power; the power to impose my psychology on others. One...
Personal Construct theory was never very popular, in large part, I think, because the statistical analysis of repertory grids is fairly horrendous for...
I assume you are acquainted with direct questions? Or are you just dodging mine? I assume that folks have reasons and justifications, and I assume tha...
My favourite topic; it's all about me. A great start. It follows that we are not talking directly about character as nature, or the facts of being. A ...
What would poor people be like if they were rich? Like rich people. Similarly I would expect Hezbollah to be like Israel if they had the power, and IS...
In the court of judge unenlightened, oppression counts as provocation, a mitigating circumstance. It does not make a virtue of a vice, and is certainl...
Yes, but let's include the British, please. But only in the sense that technology empowers barbarism. Which does not mean I am anti technology, only a...
You can pick anyone you like; no one does what they do not have the power to do. The 'pawns in their game' are responsible for their own moves, and th...
Try some old wisdom. The oldest book. Am I going off topic with talk of yin and yang? http://www.downloads.imune.net/medicalbooks/I%20Ching%20-%20Intr...
I agree. I am an adult, because I have renounced the gun and the bomb, and and those who lash out on both sides are children. Therefore I am responsib...
Here's the topic I'm addressing. I'm making very general observations, which you have concretised in the most uncharitable ways possible. Actually, I ...
I say that each person is responsible for each other's actions. I hit you, I am responsible for you hitting me back, or you hitting another. I refuse ...
No, because you armed and supported a corrupt regime that did your bombing for you. Etc, addressing other straw men. That's the song of the happy nati...
It is rather like. As we are rather like. And we are alike in our refusal to understand the humanity and morality of the other. Greater love hath no m...
When our boys give their lives in our cause, they are heroes. When our bombs indiscriminately kill civilians, we call it collateral damage, a price wo...
The clue's in the name. It's a middle class social-worker's rag that tries to teach the working class not to keep coal in their bath, and generally do...
When I were a lad my pa had a Lagonda; it had reverse threads on the wheel nuts on one side so they wouldn't come loose. Ask a physicist which side. I...
I would think that happiness is more a relation than a condition or attribute. Thus I find I am not happy or unhappy in a vacuum, nor in an absolute, ...
No, we are in complete disagreement, I fear. Many people are not able to earn their keep, and everyone without exception relies on others all the live...
Well let's start by not liking it. Even the most tyrannical despot is a follower of an idea. This I think, is what Benn meant when he said that Corbyn...
I'm groping towards something here; the most important attribute of a leader, I would say, is that (s)he is going in the right direction. That surely ...
Agreed. And with the Chilcot report, one can see that the great labour leader was great in a way that we would have preferred him to be less great, an...
If I deny I am in denial, I am in denial. But if I affirm that I am in denial, I am in denial. The end is not open; I deny it. Anyway, every schoolboy...
It's hubristic folly. Give God the credit for creating things (and 'us') the way He wanted them. Otherwise He's a douchebag failure that doesn't deser...
Other way round. The end of heavy industrial work leads to loss of power for the working class, which leads to the take over of left political parties...
Oh no, I'm all for small steps and even crawling, and keep on greening for sure. My indifference to the EU is only relative. Think global act local, y...
Well actually, I don't think it will be a more meaningful response than pulling all someone's teeth out is a meaningful response to their complaint of...
I'm struck immediately by the similarity of Brexitry and Trumpery. It seems to me that the Left has died. This is the neo-Marxian analysis; that the p...
Well some people think it is all the machinations of Blair who wants to get him out of office before the Chilcot report is published. I couldn't possi...
It may look that way to you; to me it looks as if I have presented an argument supported by evidence that migration is a manufactured problem and you ...
It's no to your fatuous straw man. I have provided evidence by examples that the tendency to blame migrants is closely associated with declining regio...
True. What migrants have as an advantage is hope; hope of bettering themselves. This is what living in a declining area deprives one of. Thus the seco...
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-oldham-idUSKCN0ZB0LU It's all there, ironically expressed by the son of Pakistani immigrants. He is not t...
Er no, lol. My thesis is that migration is not critical to any degree, but migrants are used as a diversion from real structural crises in society. Th...
No, that is the lie being peddled. The crisis is the collapse of the manufacturing regions the mining regions, and the fishing industry. These are the...
Whereas Lord F, private school, Oxford PPE graduate, etc, is best mates with the disenfranchised poor. Its a downright bald-faced lie, you see. Corbyn...
This is what we have been fed: /uploads/resized/files/tc/72l7248wrrjif9xu.jpg And this is what we excrete: http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/im...
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