Agustino

I mean it's the same with military technologies. Countries gotta keep up with it, even if they are peaceful. Being peaceful doesn't mean that others w...

Impossible unenlightened... don't be naive. If you refuse to play empires, then those who do play empires can always sidetrack your efforts and your w...

Useful is something that others find valuable. Right, but without capital and empires you cannot spread your work to as many people as possible. You a...

Really, in capitalism it all revolves around money. You need more money to teach more people, so ideally you'd want to earn as much as possible if you...

Ok, but then they need to make sure they can influence and help a large number of people. There's teaching and there's teaching. Going to a state coll...

Okay finished it :P - not a bad read. Now time to go back to planting cabbage - the money garden ain't gonna tend for itself :D

In the monopoly game you don't have to do anything useful to make money. In this world, in order to get you to flip out that fat wallet of yours and h...

I opened it, but I got scared because I saw one of Jordan Peterson's lectures in there >:O (joking I'm currently digesting it before returning shortly...

No I'm not. In the real world, it's not money that matters, it's how useful you are to the rest of the world. If you are really really useful, then yo...

Actually, yes, I think it does :D

Hi everyone. I am Agustino, also known as the Great Agu (please don't forget Great, I am Great because I have more than double anyone's posts :D ). I ...

I'm not sure. Anyone can become wealthy and influential if that's what they want, provided that they have access to basic education and good health. I...

I think many people in this thread are smoking something quite potent... "there are no individuals, only society" :B That is basically an underhanded ...

That's not an interesting perspective for me, since I look and see that historical change is made by the individual, not by the collective (unless aga...

:s :-} That's why John D. Rockefeller or King Solomon were the wealthiest men who ever lived?

No, actually I don't. It's not any more sensible than when writing an instruction manual for welding I would examine the lens through which I actually...

I was just joking lol, sorry O:)

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Outline the mistake, show how it is a mistake, etc. - do some work. Not just pointing fingers.

Yeah, I get you claim that, I'd like to see some proof. I look around, and I look through history, and I see that the big changes in society occur as ...

Marxism has by and large become identified with social science. Marx always claimed he was doing social (and economic) science, not Marxism for that m...

You seem to confuse disagreement for misunderstanding, by the way.

Yes, I am well aware that that's what it wants to contest. I don't see it as successfully doing that at all. Just a fantasy. It wants to say that the ...

Hmm, that's interesting but isn't Eastern mysticism quite frequently against "making a dent in the Universe" - I mean it's not like Buddhism or Hindui...

I watched it, and I really think it's BS. Obviously, the people who created such videos and theories see themselves as "stuck inside" some system that...

The strange part about this is that you'd expect someone who is pragmatic in one area of his life to be able to take this same pragmatism and apply it...

Yeah, that's similar to my position.

Let's see, do you smoke pot? >:)

Did I say me personally? >:O

Shall we do a scientific experiment to determine it? >:O

I think it was fantasy, but there are obviously some people who claim that it did happen. That is a more difficult and different than the questions I ...

Is your sting venomous?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvm0V95yjeA

Yeah, his point is not mentioned because I agree with it. I don't bother to mention what I agree with. And my point above is not in disagreement with ...

Changing it requires getting a grip on the reigns of power, it's not as easy as being a philosopher :P

Depends on the zoom level you look at them at :P . Also, the idea would be that not only do the heavens reflect us, we also reflect the heavens, so th...

No, the Chinese on the contrary, thinks his values are the greatest in the world, and that China deserves to be global hegemon.

So materializing a palace in the middle of the Himalayas is just "coincidence"? :P Thanks for the book, haven't read it. However, I should note that I...

Why is an atheist interested in Christian mysticism and the experience of the divine? :P

That obviously depends on your metaphysics. If you adopt a Hermetic position for example and go by the principle "As Above, So Below", then it's not a...

In a bit, need to finish some work first :D - I was going to comment on Astrology.

Right, I understand, you didn't want to come off as too gay on me :D How 'it' works? What's it?

I am actually a very big kitten, with large sharp claws that likes to be King and rule over the other animals :-O

>:O >:O Wrong and wrong :P .

Guess which one I am >:)

Sure, still not racism. That would be xenophobia at most. :s lol Of course, you can. Take America. America is a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural nation...

The problem wasn't probably that you were sexist, that was merely a pretext to get back at you for daring to do something that could be flirty with HI...

I really think that many people in this thread have no clue what racist means. Racist has to do with race, not with nation or culture. So saying my na...

Of course I lag behind. Last time I watched a movie was like almost 1 year ago I think, and last time I watched TV... like 3-4 years ago? :P

Yeah, I've heard such comments in boardroom settings too (amongst business owners I've worked for in the past), of course. The idea that installing th...