Brett

What is it if not?

Really, I’m just going on a journey. What sort of things?

I missed this. Such an interesting comment. If people could get over their bias they might be able to observe a very interesting historic figure in th...

The idea that everything already exists, that everything that could ever exist is already out there awaiting our ability to see it. (See my OP).

Unless you live without a view on things at all, or oddly enough believe you are wrong, what else can you do and why?

Okay. Then let's just talk about the thing discovered. Forget the word knowledge.

But does everything already exist or not? Or can, in a dynamic universe, things come into being that had not previously existed? Or are the elements t...

Yes, I appreciate that. I had used it, probably unwisely, to introduce the idea of everything already existing.

I have a sneaking suspicion that you say discoveries are commendable because they are the work of God. And then it becomes a conversation circling the...

True knowledge, then, would be discovered.

Yes, that’s the argument against the exercise, which is hard to refute. So does that deny the possibility of everything already existing?

I think that’s more of a description than a meaning. But my interest is whether our inventions, compared to our discoveries, are problematic. Has Capi...

I don’t think he does mean it as a metaphor. The exercise he carried out wasn’t a metaphor.

Okay, I get it. Paganism equals depravity. So back to the beginning; is Capitalism an invention?

Why not?

Of which period in history are you referring to? Edit: this sounds more like a Christian point of view.

I can’t be sure how you’re using the word “paganism”. Do you mean it in its original sense, or in a perjirative form condemning modern times? Edit: by...

I think surveys indicate that to be true already. Faith in the media is very low. The problem is that we have our own take on things and seek informat...

This raises an interesting point for me. Is a Capitalist economy invented, or is it a natural evolution of existing ideas? But if it’s an invention, a...

I said, “ People claim he’s an embarrassment”, not yours personally, and where I did say ‘yours’ I meant the feelings of the country in their feelings...

You’re very good at missing the point. It doesn’t matter what the newspaper was, it’s the photos that were important, which you completely ignored, an...

I know the Shah wasn’t too popular, but people forget what Iran was once like. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-4148684/Stunning...

Why not. What’s worked so far?

Have you ever considered the events of the last few days between America and Iran showing a greater understanding and appreciation of each other than ...

But have you told Trump about this? Because obviously they need to know.

Phew! You’ve convinced me.

Don’t forget the political system that enabled this. People understand business, they know who they’re dealing with, they understand the corruption of...

I’m not unaware of the reasons you have, and many others, for your dislike of Trump: his background, his business dealings, his behaviour, his attitud...

Please explain.

He probably didn't answer because it's a stupid question. How could we possibly know?

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Is it possible to have real conversation about Trump these days? Maybe not. Taking one of my comments and throwing it in with slogans of unspecific me...

I don’t know if I’m right or wrong, time will tell, but I see Trump as breaking, or shaking up, what was a very comfortable system for so many. His pe...

But that’s not always how it actually works, is it? Social pressure has been brought to bear on smokers. One of the positions anti-smokers have taken ...

How long is this going to go on @"Baden"?

Well let’s just say he knows more about what he’s doing than you do.

Yes, I agree. Second thoughts: what in society would we be obliged to do? How do the two fit?

Yes, I agree with you, you’re not obliged. I’m just trying to shift the experiment over to the killing of animals. At what point does killing animals ...

So whatever he does, what ever works out, is just dumb luck? This also applies to everyone he consulted with and even includes the response from Iran,...

If there were many, many “Mats” and just as many people like yourself, then I imagine you would come under a lot of social pressure. Without doubt you...

You have your answer.

“USA has had enough of it -- it calls out Iran in a western-type shoot-out.” This from the survey, which got zero votes and turned out to be what happ...

Where’s the benefit for them in this?

Why is this a big prize to the Russians?

Oh, finally.

Well certainly what they want.

I don’t think it’s reasonable to come up with your own definition so as to argue successfully against it. From the Collins dictionary and pretty much ...

I don’t know if Trump really is a Republican. He may not be a Democrat’s but that doesn’t make him a Republican. What he might have done is hijack the...

That’s very true. It’s a sort of for me or against me position on both sides. Trump’s been accused of polarising people, but it seems to me there are ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/26/best-things-trump-has-done/