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But it is what conservatives accuse him of, and what they favour themselves, but presumably call by another name. Ooh, sir! I know, sir! We wish to co...
September 05, 2022 at 14:40
I think I'm going to let you see if you can work that out for yourself.
September 05, 2022 at 14:07
But imagination can change reality. Tolkien imagines a world, and books are published, films are made, songs are sung, merchandise is created, and the...
September 05, 2022 at 13:35
The unchanging truth is not their doctrine? Someone should let them know that indoctrination with the unchanging truth is what education is supposed t...
September 05, 2022 at 13:19
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff?fbclid=IwAR1nav4uJ3G-bVk3Ci4w5yl8d-ITIivU...
September 05, 2022 at 08:37
Of course education is indoctrination. But how else is conservatism to be conserved from one generation to another?
September 05, 2022 at 06:49
You need some more small change there, buddy. The US leads the world in incarceration rates. Land of the Free, except... https://www.google.com/search...
September 04, 2022 at 19:05
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I see. Never mind then. Obviously can't be god - that's Bartricks.
September 04, 2022 at 16:43
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Seems a tad hasty. Non-native speaker, and not well versed in the subject, but 4 posts in the last 2 years is not exactly flooding us with low quality...
September 04, 2022 at 15:46
Speaking as a member of the underclass and a layabout by trade, I can assure you that my revolutionary fervour is fed by starvation. This is not a new...
September 04, 2022 at 14:31
For. I can even make an economic argument for it , though with the caveat that when one changes society in one way it can have all sorts unforeseen co...
September 04, 2022 at 10:29
This is obviously true. I like money because the the nice people at Walmart give me stuff in exchange for it, and they like it because other people gi...
September 04, 2022 at 08:19
Found this for you: https://read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/article-abstract/23/2%20(2)/89/139189/The-Chicken-CoupA-Distinctly-Masculine-Adventure?redir...
September 03, 2022 at 17:06
To anyone who cares to listen, but more I'm withdrawing somewhat from talking to you, with that dangerous enticing "we". Time for me to be quiet and w...
September 01, 2022 at 13:49
The traveller needs to read the map, to get where they are going if they are lost, and when they get there, they have no more use for the map. What I ...
September 01, 2022 at 10:27
You can manage without god, if you are willing to take all the responsibility yourself.
September 01, 2022 at 07:54
More old-fashioned. I'm thinking something like an initiation ceremony, or what used to be called a 'happening' in my mis-spent youth. Take the aphori...
September 01, 2022 at 07:39
A good dog is a safely approachable dog. Un chien méchant is one that attacks strangers; a mad dog attacks everything. A bad dog is useful as a guard....
August 31, 2022 at 10:48
That seems right. Our view of ancient Greece was already infected with the Christianity that overtook the Romans. Freud went back to the Greeks, and c...
August 31, 2022 at 09:08
I really do not know. It seems like a fundamental kind of question though. Zarathustra is a somewhat mythical ancient founder of a religion, into whos...
August 30, 2022 at 08:35
And you think that is Nietzsche's message to the world?
August 29, 2022 at 18:57
What do you think he found up there?
August 29, 2022 at 13:56
This means, for example, that they will struggle to build their wooden huts on stilts above the flood water in Pakistan, until the flood that washes i...
August 29, 2022 at 09:54
Moses descended from the mountain with tablets of stone written by God. Zarathustra descended from the mountain with nothing, because God is dead. Do ...
August 29, 2022 at 08:11
Yes, I actually agree with you if you are saying that you would prefer a tighter rein on flaming and ad homs, and the more controversial the topic, th...
August 27, 2022 at 12:17
Moderation is not a justice system, it's an editorial system Moderation is bound to be unfair, because no one reads every post on every thread, and th...
August 27, 2022 at 11:07
Why do yo ask? Does misery seek company? Yes. If you try, you can fail. But look at your question; it takes a whole life, yours or mine, and abstracts...
August 27, 2022 at 07:49
Not really. Greenhouses basically work by keeping the same air in place and greatly reducing convection cooling. I think that's why the term' greenhou...
August 26, 2022 at 10:49
I am interested if you can shed any light on your own motivation for rooting out such 'scientific facts' that you clearly have no understanding of, in...
August 26, 2022 at 07:47
This is evidence only of your ignorance of very basic science. Specific heat is the amount of heat energy required to raise the temperature of a subst...
August 26, 2022 at 07:21
Think music; think dance. More fleeting than trends on Twitter, yet the meaning persists because it remains in the moment of creation and does not pro...
August 25, 2022 at 12:56
(quoting Giddens) Hey Jack, those are terrible goals to set, and impossible to achieve. "If you wish to be independent, first create your own universe...
August 24, 2022 at 08:08
https://www.salon.com/2022/08/20/understanding-longtermism-why-this-suddenly-influential-philosophy-is-so/?fbclid=IwAR123LDFXboh9OPv3gClJvw1olYAEqvJNz...
August 21, 2022 at 20:56
Is that the question? I wonder: would artificial intelligence be anti-natalist? (or should that be 'anti-manufacturist'?)
August 21, 2022 at 18:08
Most species that have existed on Earth are extinct. 99% +. If there is an overall direction, it is clearly towards death and extinction.
August 21, 2022 at 17:21
Your point is well made and unarguable. The thesis of the op is arbitrary and without merit. Might as well claim that the purpose of the sun is to shi...
August 21, 2022 at 15:25
Still blaming illusions, religion, witchcraft, irrationality, for the problems of science and technology? No, it is not the insane who are destroying ...
August 21, 2022 at 08:43
'Might be explained' might be reduced to a one dimensional string. Each atom computed one at a time. And then knitting rebuilds the world as interlock...
August 21, 2022 at 08:23
That's about right!
August 19, 2022 at 14:24
That's why usually when it is the mods I complain about, I do it privately, and when it is other members, I use the report system to complain to the m...
August 19, 2022 at 13:01
I thought, Scientologists doing 'clearing'. Ask a question, obtain an answer.
August 19, 2022 at 11:12
Yes, that's a really good idea isn't it. Yes, protest is great. Have your say. That's what the feedback section is for. Use it also maybe occasionally...
August 19, 2022 at 10:54
Mods are not saints, but ordinary people who do a thankless task for no money by way of supporting a site they love. Nobody likes being criticised, an...
August 19, 2022 at 10:18
I don't think so. Propaganda works. Terrorism works. This is the appliance of science to the mechanisation of humans. If you want to control the tempe...
August 18, 2022 at 09:02
Oh ye of little faith! Actually, you illustrate the truth of what I am saying, and we can see it happening in society, that there is no trust, no hone...
August 17, 2022 at 17:31
Science can tell you what will happen if you burn fossil fuels, but it cannot tell you how to stop. Science can help you to build better and destroy b...
August 17, 2022 at 14:59
It's a meaningful joke. It is a matter of observation that people who keep emphasising the truth of what they are saying are habitual liars. "Wolf - t...
August 17, 2022 at 14:30
Sure it is. Whether it does any good aside from passing the time is another matter.
August 17, 2022 at 09:35
Ah yes, I was forgetting the nationalists. "This is a local tea for local people."
August 17, 2022 at 09:31
For unenlightened, "p is true" means "p is false, but I want you to believe p."
August 17, 2022 at 09:24