Hundreds of millions of years ago people were doing business and they were trading in rocks and stones and other things https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Think about this community here. I think most people here are above average in terms of how informed and knowledgeable they are. But there's not that ...
That's if we assume a normal distribution. I think the distribution is skewed. http://www.numericalexpert.com/tutorials/statistics/images/rskew.gif Li...
Aren't elections already decided by the stupid, ignorant and irrational? That's the nature of a democracy to begin with. The majority rules, and the m...
Money -> something to exchange valuable goods with is different than wealth. Un was talking about wealth being a social construct, not money. Probably...
Depends. Mass production may be more efficient at producing a LOT of X. But maybe I don't want a lot of X of poor quality. Maybe I want a few X of hig...
Who said you have to work for another as a wage slave? That's not what I've been implying. I hate that kind of work, and yes, you're never going to ma...
Right, you're doing what I've done some years ago in understanding that there's a price to be paid for everything, and realising when you're getting a...
I can sort of see that, but why would you say the fox needs the rabbit more than the other way around? Just because it requires the rabbit for surviva...
Yeah right, as if wealth alone could change your inner state. Wealth is valuable - it can help you do a lot of things in the world for others - but it...
You are right. Agreed. The other issue is that reason isn't like the emotions - it doesn't instantly move people. It often takes a lot of time for rea...
Well I do want to engage the other person but at the same time I know that it's not in my power to change them. It ultimately depends on them. Yes, I ...
Well, first of all, a better me = a better world. If you better yourself, the whole world becomes better. In addition, my character can inspire other ...
I agree with Augustine that we are born with an evil tendency, and we only overcome it by effort. I don't feel guilty for things I've done long ago, b...
I am too, but I want to escape this service industry. Okay, yes, I despise weakness of character, not weakness of any sort. If someone is overcome by ...
But I don't disagree that many people develop all sorts of neuroses with regards to sexuality. Largely out of trying to conform to society and its sta...
My personal reading is more cosmic than merely human. "The fall" characterises the whole world, starting from the very basics - the second law of ther...
Well I'm totally not ashamed of my body (if that's what you're suggesting), but I've just seen the harm immorality causes and want none of it. I was t...
Nope. My parents are like you pretty much, especially with regards to, for example, sexual morality. My father is an atheist who likes to dabble in th...
One favorite tactic of the left is to make people morally horrified about issues. This is a means of controlling you, and trying to force you to be su...
So what if you're horrified? Children stop getting raped because you're horrified, or what's the deal? :s Being horrified is useless. Doing something ...
Nope, if I spent every single day being horrified about all the shit and evil going on in the world I'd be a depressed and hopeless man. Enough of thi...
But that's false. I've arrived at my morality independent of religion. In fact, one of the reasons I came back to religion was precisely because what ...
So all your value judgements are knowledge? So then why are you surprised when people are intolerant of your Godless bullshit? In your opinion, and ac...
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