Brendan Golledge

It is easy to diagnose that our civilization is extremely sick. Births are below replacement level. Real GDP per capita peaked in roughly the year 200...

I googled for "Spengler Forum" today and found some posts which said ignorant things about Spengler, so I became angry and wanted to make a post. They...

Sorry that I didn't reply for so long. I haven't checked the forum in a while. If you consider the life of a child to be intrinsically valuable, then ...

I do not know whether these thoughts will help you, but they helped me. I think despair is when a person realizes that he can't have something that he...

I thought the chat would speak for itself. If bitcoin is a bubble, then it has lasted 4x as long as the tulip mania, and it has been up-to-date litera...

Thanks for taking my idea seriously and writing such a long reply. You said more that I'm replying to, but I'll just quote that for now. If the ruling...

I took a break for a day and now there are so many replies that I can't possibly reply to them all. That is interesting. I'd never heard of that befor...

I should have gone to bed already. Yes, it does seem to me to be accurate to describe what happened on Jan 6th as a riot. All the sources I read say t...

I was reviewing my own argument. According to Jonathan Haidt, Liberals care about harm and fairness (individualizing values), whereas conservatives ca...

This is an example of right wingers behaving in a disorderly way. I do not think I could justify that the right has done everything correctly. One thi...

People said a lot of stuff, but it is hard for me to find tangible points that can even be argued with. Apparently, somebody called "Rest" tried to te...

I have thoroughly explored this subject before. I came to the conclusion that a human cannot do much of anything without taking his sensory experience...

I made a post on cosmological arguments a while ago with somewhat different reasoning. The only thing I concluded for sure was that SOMETHING exists o...

I have personal thoughts on this, but I don't take them altogether seriously, since I cannot test supernatural claims. It makes sense to me that if Go...

The point of the jury isn't to be an expert in any given matter, but to testify that they were shown some evidence or some testimony. So, it would be ...

I actually didn't add the word, "public", the AI did that. I told it that the proceeding could be made public after-the fact. I guess maybe I should d...

Another thought I just had is that if a population naturally has several different gene expressions (such as eye color), this would point towards thos...

That's fine to disagree, but if you don't give a specific argument, I don't know why I should believe you.

Sorry that I didn't reply before. My email notification only told me that Banno replied, and I decided that I was not going to read his post. You say ...

I thought about the possibility that the government could choose to pay tax in order to give itself voting power to raise the tax rate. The math is co...

How are you going to force 100% of the population to be uninterested in power? If even 1% decided to be jerks and abuse everybody else, then there wou...

If you say that reality exists only when we observe it, isn't that like saying that we're living in a video game where the map is loaded only whenever...

Basically, the ordinary way to have political power is to organize groups of armed young men to fight for you. So, it seems entirely logical that the ...

This LGBTQ stuff is a part of the liberal social consensus, and so I see it basically as being the same type of thing as religious dogma. It is effect...

I believe that reality exists independently of our observation, or else nothing makes sense. It is common in mathematics to prove P because NOT P cont...

A cursory search for what the Big Bang is shows that it actually is the beginning of the universe. It is a separate idea from the size of the observab...

I believe that objective reality exists independently of our cognition. So, if there really is a tree outside shedding its leaves, then I believe that...

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What you said sounds reasonable. I don't know whether my philosophy would have widespread appeal. I'd be inclined to think not, because it is too hard...

My child is only 10 months old, so she's a long way from being ready for this stuff. I've heard that having loving parents helps a child develop emoti...

Here is more information about how to practice my religion: Warning: If I were to go back in time and present this to my past self, even I would not h...

Other References: I like to study religious texts (particularly Christian) for moral instruction, even though I doubt the factual truth of all their s...

I think the cosmological argument provides a very good proof that SOMETHING exists outside the realm of human understanding. If it's a First Mover, th...

I admitted when I originally wrote the post that I was working off speculation. According to cosmological arguments, a first cause is one of the optio...

The most obvious answer is that for some reason or another, biology makes women less interested in the subject. This answer is unpopular, because most...

I'm used to thinking of God as being holy. So, if the universe is God, then it would follow that the universe is holy. I guess if he died to create th...

I have thought about this before. Assuming that we are talking about an omnipotent creator God, then if he DID have the power to kill himself, he must...

"Before the beginning" is not actually an arbitrary phrase. The matter we are familiar with only acts after it's first acted upon. So, it follows that...

I didn't imagine that people become immortal in the Christian sense. The particulars of our minds and bodies do not become immortal (so far as I know)...

My idea of the creator God comes from cosmological arguments. That means by definition, whatever exists without being caused is God. So, if the laws o...

I only skimmed the first page of replies, and this seems to be the only answer that succinctly answers the question. I studied physics at university, ...

In this case, it is effectively random because we don't know the information. But if we knew all the information and if quantum mechanics didn't make ...

I am not going to address any of your lies

I googled for "Four Degrees of Love Bernard of Clairvaux", and I agree that it is remarkably similar to what Kohlberg said. It is interesting to me th...

I read your post on my lunch break. Your reply was interesting and referenced a lot of sources that I am unfamiliar with. I think I might order that b...

I believe that you wrote a sincere reply, but it's very long and I'm at work right now, so I won't read it right now. I might read it later. You can a...

The issue addressed at the top of the OP is that if we are composed of entirely naturalistic particles, then we are a product of the laws that govern ...

"Patriarchy" literally means rule by the father. I think patriarchy is a good thing, because there's usually no one who will love his family more than...

According to my own understanding, Paul's justification for marriage is that it's the only healthy outlet for lust. "...for it is better to marry than...

Speaking as someone who has studied physics, when I first saw the argument, I thought it was obvious that nature was "determined" by the laws of physi...