Brett

This story might help you appreciate the complexity of issues like the Greenland ice cap, I know it may not satisfy your concerns but it’s worth menti...

It’s not so weird. It seems weird that so many people, men and women, fell in behind Hitler but they did. “All these folk”. On this forum or worldwide...

Yes, I agree with you about how it works. But if the buyer/consumer really had that much effect on the market then we probably wouldn’t be in the situ...

That’s very interesting. It’s like he’s accessing some sort of ‘pure thought’ that we probably have but are unconscious of. My queries are driven by a...

Very simple, maybe a bit too simple. Who will own future energy? What will they charge, what will their bottom line business practice be?

You must get over the idea that America is the world. That’s a problem, isn’t it? Things are so bad they have to eat in restaurants.

Capitalist swine.

What exactly are these forces of good and evil?

I’m new to this myself. Would you use ‘thought’ instead of ‘intelligence’? I’m still trying to determine whether it’s true that ‘thoughts are "sentenc...

I think the efforts of the allied forces of WW11 could be called a ‘just war’. But there were certainly acts carried out that could be called evil. De...

If, in an effort to combat climate change, coal mines and coal fired power stations were closed down for one generation, then circumstances required t...

Did thought exist without language, before language?

I don’t think evil will ever “ die off”, because it’s inherent in all of us.

Is that because it’s an act of evil? If not what could it be?

I’m not asking you to believe me.

I have no reason to think NASA is lying about anything. Do I believe climate change is real? Not in the way it’s being reported.

Which would be true. Instead I would look at the bombing of Dresden by British and American forces. In this case they actually committed the act, wher...

I agree, @"Wayfarer" that it was a very difficult judgement he made, and in terms of the war, necessary. And probably the right decision, too. But it ...

It is a lie of sorts. Not with any organisation behind it, but a strange phenomena, in my opinion, inherent in humans. Maybe the Salem witch hunts wou...

The same way we always have.

Mary Midgley wrote a very interesting book called ‘Wickedness’. In it she said; “We need to grasp clearly how appallingly human beings sometimes behav...

I live across the road from the beach.

Very few of us are qualified to comment on any of the issues that crop up on these OPs. Most of us regard our opinion as some sort of factual proof us...

Both.

For what?

Yes.

How do you mean?

“Belief has to be true for it to count as information.” I don’t think I’d want to be responsible for a sentence like that.

Used how?

I mean that language is innate.

I think i'm referring to issues of recursion here.

And language can't have evolved by being passed on vocally from one to another. Or can't have begun from zero.

So this suggests language existed before the spoken word.

Thanks. I feel like I've caught up now, right back to the beginning.

Thought uses language to formulate idea, theories, etc.

What would be an example of another aspect of language?

I think you’re being arbitrary. Run your eye up that line I was talking about, through the petite bourgeoisie until you find the corrupt. You jump fro...

I’m just leaving my trail of breadcrumbs.

Is this where posting gets tricky? I’m suggesting there are two modes of thought expressed through two modes of language. One, phatic, having a social...

Okay, I just wanted to confirm that. Yes, but the thought expressed as phatic expression is essentially functional, in the sense of being socio-pragma...

So not inadequate but mostly phatic in function and to a lesser degree information. What does the information consist of? Edit: language then is a soc...

That’s true, but it doesn’t mean language isn’t also doing that. But I’ll go along with the use of language being thought and that what does get exter...

It seems to have different uses: enquiring, confirming, emoting.

Yes, but I didn’t feel I’d made any ground.

I think you’re getting cranky @"Bitter Crank" Does the owner of an apple orchard need to be condemned because he produces and trades his goods? I thin...

Maybe we should be done with it and call them Oligarchs.

I may have missed it (I’ve realised my reading of posts is a bit dodgy at times) but if it’s not communication then what is it?

Maybe we need a new word here. I was wondering at what point on a descending line we would find a capitalist business that is not really one of exploi...

Hi, Bill. Be patient, the moderators should be waking soon. Hopefully they’ll help.

Is it a healthy symptom? In what way might you regard it as healthy and therefore constructive, not for you alone, to maintaining a functioning societ...