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Yes, partly so. Everyone from the Balkans tends to get hot under the collar over casual stuff :rofl:

Hmm, I'm not a member of that club. As for the people present, nobody did anything, you can't really tell another person how to run his business. What...

What happened, did you suddenly wake up after one year and a half to continue the convo? :snicker:

http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/02/plato-and-salvation-thaddeus-kozinski.html Excellent article!

Yes, but there usually are some limits in many Western countries. It absolutely does, if you're not educated in the sense that I'm talking about (whic...

Yes, "public opinion" seems to have become a way to arbitrate between what is right and wrong, and what is true and false in the West. If you watch st...

Well, I am also a conservative.

The more educated people put more emphasis on respect than in the West. I am from Eastern Europe btw. However, the masses of quite frankly stupid and ...

I don't see any of the comments there from me as disrespectful to women. And I also don't think women are disrespected in (Western) society at large. ...

Yes, I agree. I also agree here. Democracies also have another problem - those in charge of the community (the leaders) are more worried about holding...

Still very similar percentage points, 9% vs 13%. Nevertheless, I did think that data may be for Africa, but I'm actually not sure. NSW Minerals Counci...

No, very likely this wasn't the case, despite Ida Tarbell's account, which was more vilification than truth. Ron Chernow's biography is more accurate....

What is the relationship between self interest and social interest? It is my view that there can be a difference between self interest and social inte...

I don't think we tested, but we have a few active female members. Let's say TPF has 50 or so very active members. Out of those, probably 10 or so are ...

https://www.miningreview.com/infographic-women-in-the-mining-industry-what-the-stats-say/ Only 9% of workers in the mining industry are women.

No, obviously they couldn't be put merely down to societal rules. The interesting thing that many postmodernist thinkers don't take into account is to...

By the way, relating to what @"StreetlightX" was saying, neither men nor women are encouraged to be coal mine workers - our culture doesn't do that. S...

It's a problem for 90% of CEOs to be men, but it's not a problem for 90% of coal mine workers to be men :rofl:

Actually, that's true! :O Where are the 50-50% female coal miners? :rofl:

Another worrying aspect is the spread of one-party political authoritarianism in Eastern Europe once again. The political system, in-itself, isn't a p...

It's hard to have a ready-made plan when you're negotiating. All you need to know is things you can compromise on, and things you can't compromise on,...

I remember stories from 1960s or 1970s Italy that I've heard - it was common to get 6-8% year over year growth. Everyone was enthusiastic about the ec...

I think if he does that successfully, then he SHOULD get the Nobel Peace Prize. But I doubt he'll actually get it - the Academic elites hate Trump.

No, never read it, though I've heard about it. Yeah, though I'm starting to doubt whether Trump will actually be able to stop the decline of the West....

You know, recently I became aware that many people on this forum don't understand this privacy issue with regards to business. Some seem to be entirel...

Well, still good that you have the necessary connections to get close to those spaceships I guess...

It's good to know you are part of the billionaire class who can afford to change spaceship :meh:

And breathe what?

Why not? To where? :gasp:

Do you plan to start a neo-marxist postmodern political party in Wales? :razz:

lol - I approach philosophy differently than you. I'm interested in philosophy because I'm interested in life, and I noticed in my teens that philosop...

I forgot in new emojis > : O isn't the laughing emoji, but rather the angry one. That's a bit weird.

:lol: - there is one sense in which Plato would agree with what you said in the previous thread, since philosophy is the love of wisdom, not its attai...

Maybe, but then this sort of thinking you talk of is of no interest to the living. I am a living being, I understand and feel myself as a living being...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTY88u6qZmA

Philosophical adventure is just a game of mental gymnastics. Wisdom helps one become more capable of fully living life.

Well, Noble Dust, some people are smart bookworms, and others are wise. There is a difference there, since wisdom cannot be gained merely by the accum...

Why was Obama outstanding? He left the US in tatters. Even to this day, Americans are still asking - where is the American dream?

I don't live in a country with goon squads anymore :P Well, your friend from Spain was a young guy. You know how young guys usually are - overconfiden...

Yeeeeees, exactly. Does it? I would say capitalism only leads to increased standards of living up to a point - and after that, it doesn't anymore. Tod...

Depends what you mean by that, because you can certainly be an atheist who values religious heritage, even though he does not believe in the dogmas. A...

Some atheists are brutish, not in the way you say Putin is, but intellectually - like Lawrence Krauss. The part where he describes problems with the W...

:s I don't understand your point. I never said you or your atheist friends are brutish.

The common people generally never had to worry about the knock at midnight. That was more for the middle to higher level people who were involved in a...

Well, you've said nothing new, I already am aware of all this. Russia is ruthless, always has been. But so is the West, maybe not as openly though. Ha...

It's good you understand this actually - many people buy in the propaganda of their own countries, and refuse to have an honest look at the facts.

Of course, I agree with this. It's just politics.

For example, I think Putin is right in some of the things he says here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4I7Cnpirw8

Also, I don't necessarily find all these protests "admirable". That would mean that I blindly buy into the Western narrative, that all places ought to...

Minorities, which are under the influence of the West. Irrelevant. If the West wasn't a liberal democracy, and if the West didn't have global hegemony...