What would it be about living on board a space ship that would change the passengers so that they would not be subject to discontent, tribalism, revol...
I don't think they should pay the price. But if they are born on board a starbound spaceship, they have no choice but to pay the price. As would each ...
The first few results from a "Noa Pothoven" query on Google were headlined with the transitive verb "euthanised". The Independent (UK), and others, de...
Sorry; I didn't contextualise my comment enough. There have been quite a few anti-natalist threads over time, some straight forward, some more devious...
No. I assume you are trotting out this curdled milk of human kindness cheese dip as a devil's advocate exercise. The idea is that there is only so muc...
This is a sneaky anti-natalism thread, because the second generation of space travellers would face the same problem that everybody has faced on earth...
If you want to be safe from MAD (which term was coined before Ronald came along) you have to get rid of the means to achieve MAD -- nuclear weapons, w...
Another good idea. The 2nd Amendment outlived its utility, if it ever had any, a long time ago. Second Amendment Fetishism is a relatively recent dise...
They have servants to do that for them. Re: George III: He probably had porphyria, which is a genetic disorder impairing the production of "heme" -- a...
Take the discussion of "nigger" elsewhere on the forum. It is a term of derision rooted in the history of enslaving Africans (at least in the West; wh...
The reason "fuck" has a much more casual decorum rating than "elbow" is its history. Words have histories, and their histories cling to them from gene...
Well, there is the matter of decorum. It isn't that "fuck" or "shit" are "adult words" and coitus and faeces are not. The former words are appropriate...
Your proposal is a good idea. I'm in favour. However... There are something like ... 200 million guns in the US. 100 million people own guns. Despite ...
True enough, but I think this animal is equally representative of our blighted species: https://66.media.tumblr.com/12f9921f4bac343291e8f223d9d64a69/t...
"Political Correctness", "the left", "the Right", are all a bit difficult to discuss because the terms are too fluid. We put the fluid terms in our sq...
In this time and place, feudal regimes are not at all suitable. Indeed, the world became too complicated for such systems a long time ago. My "realist...
Sorry. Quite often text comes across as harsher than verbal communication in person does. One would soften the effect of the same words with expressio...
If you want to make Christianity out to be a polytheistic religion, it seems like you'd have more luck with the concepts of God the Father and God the...
So, since God was the very first quantum mechanic, I am sure he has no problem being in the precise location of all those whizzy particles at once. Th...
Yes, that's my understanding - God is present AT every location. Thanks for the tip on Akron, without which I almost passed up the all-expense-paid 2 ...
Because I said so? Will that work? Wouldn't God have a problem being the same as Paris and Akron, Ohio at the same time? I mean, there are limits on w...
They already have received a tax break. Low inheritance taxes (or quasi legal dodges) is one of the reasons they have a pile to sit on in the first pl...
I take omnipresence to mean present in all places at all times. So, under this notion of omnipresence God is present at all times everywhere. Time, in...
I am present in front of my computer; I am present in my house; I am present in The Philosophy Forum, yet I am not coextensive with my computer, the h...
Correct: HAD NOT rather than HAD. Your focus on the sad case of Jack and Mary is trivial. A very large number of workers could work twice as many hour...
By your reasoning, then, everything is God; God is everything. Fine by me, but it seems to me in the scriptures God is not everything and everything i...
Right, I wasn't saying your thinking was flawed. What is flawed is the idea that a simple redistribution of wealth (a check arrives in 3 billion mailb...
The idea of "original sin" was, as I understand it, created to balance the act of final salvation by Jesus Christ. This wasn't Jesus' idea. It was ela...
Wealthy people should pay more because they are actually receiving more services and better than poor people. How can that be? Government is, as Karl ...
It seems like some people are often in zero-profit / minimal loss relationships. No body is having a very good, time, and nobody is being beaten up or...
There is a flaw in the redistribution scheme. Before I continue... I believe that the severe disproportionality of wealth should and could be correcte...
God as the only being, in whom everything that was, is, or will be exists, seems consistent with solipsism. Of course, God as conceived in the Western...
I might agree with you, partly in jest--but not a very big part. Nonetheless, you raise an interesting point about local level peacefulness and large ...
"Is it fair for people to compare themselves or their deeds to those of Jesus"? It seems pretty obvious that people should definitely not compare them...
Given the purpose of the New Testament (to tell the story of Jesus--someone who was believed to be the Son of God) that makes sense. Why would the aut...
You have a habit of raising interesting questions. Point 1, in the "for what it's worth" category: The bigger the planet, the stronger the gravity. Th...
As the old saying goes, "Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see." You doubt that the theory rests on more than blue sky conject...
About as hard to prove as claiming that the cells, molecules, etc. DID have intent. And by what means do those "some say" claim that these cells would...
I don't see any point in making ourselves dumber, weaker, and uglier, so sure. However, breeding smarter, stronger and more attractive humans is not a...
Can we blame Columbus for mass emigration? He accidentally brought the existence of the Western Hemisphere to the attention of Europeans, but it doesn...
Yeah, well, for the most part we all pretty much behave like the naked, smart, ruthlessly exploiting, short sighted, killer apes we are. Though, you h...
Revolution: The Beatles, John Lennon / Paul Mccartney You say you want a revolution Well, you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it...
"Nuclear" here refers to the "nucleus" of the cell. The nucleus is a sub-cellular structure that contains the organism's genetic information. The gene...
I don't know. The question you are asking goes back to the beginning of life on earth. Once a cell formed, however randomly, accidentally, or purposiv...
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