unenlightened

I'm sooooooooooo not interested in the scoreline. But there is a story, sometimes called "The Greatest Story Ever Told", of a unique moment - but ever...

It is almost certainly impossible to explain @"apokrisis"'s point to his satisfaction, but I might manage to provoke him into saying something more, j...

But lovers of freedom might be at least interested in the idea of a personal, individual, liberation from history, through the lovely economic concept...

Of course the Church of Rome is Greek, and if the Nazis are Christian, then the Nazis are Greek. Do I have to point out that this is the doctrine of o...

I wouldn't say I'm a sceptical ironist, but I sure as hell ain't no champion of the enlightenment.

We have forgotten the root meaning of disease. In the good old days folk went to the doctor with a "complaint", for which they sought a "remedy". I'd ...

And then start a thread about them somewhere where I don't have to read about it. Recruit for your enemy's team somewhere else, please.

The first printed bible was in latin mid15th century; Tyndale's English translation was 1522-35. It is my contention that though the great and the goo...

I need to look at that more carefully, I'm not sure yet what you or Badiou is saying. I never liked Paul, I was always happier with the parables as te...

In the interminable litany of nastiness perpetrated by humans, most examples will be of religious people and religious groups simply because most peop...

Of course not, why suggest it? It is a very common reaction, in my experience, when someone attacks one's way of life, to become defensive and reactiv...

Yes indeed. If you love historical research, you might look into the origins of the Jesus story, why not? But the meaning of the story is that love is...

That's where we differ. I come from a family of architects, and the architect functions by imagining a building that is not and then seeking to realis...

I agree. It's all pattern recognition; a cat is a thing like another thing called a cat, and a big cat is another thing like a cat, only bigger. An en...

I'm not saying that Christianity has the answers, or that any religion has the answers. I'm not saying that things were better in the good old days. H...

We burned witches and apostates, as I recall, and enslaved the heathen. More tolerant and open minded than who, though? Are you seeing the triumph of ...

Well that's put me in my place, Cartoon god. Leaving Irony to reign supreme.

Thanks for your interest everyone; excuse me for not responding to all individually. I hope to have covered above the two main themes of the responses...

In this case, critical intelligence is literal minded ignorance, because its is directed at questions of what is and what is not, when the topic is ho...

The way I would prefer to start is that religion was abstraction, where abstracts were personified as gods, - wisdom, war, sex, death, etc, because pe...

Behold the unholy trinity of unenlightened! Verily I say unto you, there is an old fart in the mythical realm of Wales, who does a bit of gardening. A...

Why not just retire disgracefully? Why go on defending something you think doesn't matter? Why try and make out that I've got a problem, because I dar...

I predict a triumphant and decisive victory for Ukraine, that does not extend to severing the land bridge, retaking Mariupol, re-taking Crimea, or re-...

Wiki says not. Do you have any evidence that wiki is wrong? I'm asking as politely as I can whether you have any evidence of its being used as a derog...

https://www.google.com/search?q=Is+%22incel%22+a+derogatory+term+for+a+guy+who+can%27t+get+laid.&client=safari&rls=en&ei=N1pzZOexOZCR8gKkppHIDA&start=...

Can you provide anything to suggest that you have not just invented this? Wiki has only the second meaning :

As pro Ukrainian propaganda goes, that video was pretty depressing. Ukraine has some 2000 new armoured vehicles, hurrah. But Western enthusiasm and su...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/childhood-adverse-event-life-expectancy-abuse-mortality/#:~:text=A%20difficult%20childhood%20reduces%20life...

The following piece of gossip may contain nuts. If you are a nut and do not wish to be contained, you are advised to stop reading here. My daughter is...

I commend to you all the film, The Sessions. It is about a man paralysed from the neck down who wants to have sex. This is no more an incel than I am ...

Wrexham? That's less than 2 days march from my place, why not pop in for a jar?

Excellent! skips 5 pages of unread presumed vitriol and nonsense and the only post on the page is God does love me after all.

I don't think this is a joke at all. Feeling disempowered doesn't imply anything. It is a common and understandable reaction to an unsatisfying life.

Then you need to start being a bit more clear what it is you disagree with and on what basis.

No, that's implied by the other half of the word IN(voluntary)CEL(ibate). The complaint is that they are disempowered from heterosexual sex. Dude, It'...

Feeling disempowered implies feeling a desire or need for power. Do you feel wingless? Probably not unless you wish you were a butterfly or an angel o...

If you listen to the rhetoric, you get a totally distorted view where Kings and queens and politicians and functionaries are all selflessly "serving" ...

Sure, culture changes. I presume that matrilineal culture was dominant in prehistory, simply because we knew where babies come from - between the legs...

But appearances are deceptive. Compare with the case of the poor white racist:

But it is the right binary. 1. The culture is patriarchal. Therefore: 2. The counterculture is feminist. 3. The incel movement is aligned with and has...

what I think is important to understand is that the incel movement is not part of the counter-culture, it is part of the mainstream, just as rape is, ...

One might look at the defining features of such a group and the direction in which it seeks to influence society. The incel is male, and self-defining...

Patriarchy is the necessary accompaniment to patrilineal inheritance. It is important to understand this because the essence of patriarchy is the cont...

It's a protest against the liberation of women. A man without a woman is like a bully without a victim.

How childish of you! Reminds me of 'The Emperor's New Clothes.'

Sadly your diagnosis is entirely correct, and @"Varnaj42" will no doubt welcome the cleansing medicine that Nature will prescribe. But personally I'm ...

I'm not sure. I think I'm articulating a fairly commonplace conception of soul as having its home in another world, such that "now we see through a gl...

Yes, climate fluctuations, population crashes, and mass extinctions are normal features of Earth history. I'm not worried at all about the next one, b...

I would liken awareness to the way vision works; that one is sharply aware of whatever is the centre of attention, that might be part of oneself, a to...

I don't feel this is right. If I am reading a good book, or watching a film, or playing a game, my awareness is absorbed in the 'action', to the exten...