Ilya B Shambat

Because I am not perpetrating any kind of tyranny. I would respect a real law, but I will not respect people perpetrating de facto tyranny without che...

No, I said that rules have to be made official before they can be valid. Anything else is an attempt at de facto tyranny.

I say that rules, in order to be valid, have to be made official. If they are not valid, they are an attempt at de facto tyranny. So rules need to be ...

Social rules should be enforced if they are official. If they are not official, then what we see is unofficial tyranny that is unelected, unbalanced a...

Excellent observation. It is in fact cowardly. One of the points I made in the OP is that political correctness degrades people's character. They cann...

I am saying that rules, to be valid, must be official. Otherwise we have an attempt at de facto tyranny.

I actually had a fairly large audience. I seek to produce poetry that appeals to people and that reaches people. In this I go to Russian styles in the...

Of course whenever we hear something like that, it is only a matter of time before someone starts asserting that it is the Jews doing it. I do not kno...

The closest two times to golden ages that I can think of are Italian Renaissance and 1920s America. In both situations there was vast commercial prosp...

I am not comfortable with a whole bunch of people having been fooled.

Sorry if I ignored you. My philosophy is not objectivism, I call it integrationism. I look for ways to combine non-valued (reality-based) dualities in...

So basically you are saying that there has been social coercion toward having wealth as a status symbol. I completely agree.

I meant to say two fifths of the world.

Well Praxis, I myself am not into hoarding at all. I say that wealth is attractive, which you can observe from all sorts of people, including people i...

I never said that. Money is a medium of exchange, and it is good to make money. It is not however good to force people to spend their lives pursuing m...

No hacking, no identity theft. Just worked with Oracle technology.

I worked in the computer industry.

Looks good Josh, I especially liked "When A Poet Fades."

I can give you a link to my poetry site:

Interesting. I suppose the etiquette that I would advocate is being honest. If someone expresses an offensive view, then the correct response is to re...

It comes from education in literature and the arts.

You were the sugar in my Lipton tea, You were my exaltation and delight Like April blossoms on a cherry tree You made new life from water and sun's li...

Fun is one thing, conning people is another. One doesn't have to be stupid to fall for someone's line, it happens all the time.

My source for that belief is simply that, if you have use of two modalities rather than one, you get to the point faster and fuller than if you have u...

No, I loved several women, including some with whom I did not have sex.

I don't care if people have one-night stands, I am more concerned with long-term relationships, as these have much greater impact upon people's lives....

A man breaks into a house intending to rob it. He hears, "Jesus is watching you." He turns on the light and finds a parrot. He asks the parrot his nam...