Before assuming the fatality rate is as low as the flu as that article and Trump may be trying to suggest realize that extrapolating data in such a fa...
That's because the corona virus IS the common cold or at least to the best of my knowledge it is. If you want to know how you can prevent the common c...
Well, it is likely a factor of two things one which is that one of the first areas to get hit was an elderly community where many people are over 60 a...
(A)Numbers are just words and abstract concepts used to label and understand the world around us. Words are created whenever someone decides to label ...
That is a straw man argument since as far as I known news source (left wing or otherwise) has made such claims. What they have claimed is that Russia ...
And none of this was proven just as Obama it was never proven that some kind of manchurian candidate or pretty much all other ridiculous right wing co...
Just because someone is a democrat or doesn't support Trump and/or the Republican party, it doesn't automatically make that person a criminal or corru...
I believe a few years ago there was a claim that philosophy was dead and so I guess now truth is supposed to be dead because the publishers at Time th...
How do you figure that? If using (or trying to use) government money to undermine a political rival isn't an impeachable offence then one can excuse n...
Is it safe to say in a completely deterministic universe that there is even 'self' in which one can choose to harm? If the the thinking thing or "I" a...
How Bioshock discovered the meaning of Ayn Rand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U517H3f85_o Bioshock - Rand Gone Wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
The first issue is that Ayn Rand/Objectivism isn't a form of philosophy as it is a form of religion/ideology. The dead giveaway of this is that it put...
Is it really necessary for any of us to have a purpose? I remember when I was younger I use to think I (as well as other people) really needed to have...
Is the problem due to the feeling that you don't have control, or is it because you think that you have even less control of your life then what you t...
As someone who is slanted toward Machiavellianism I'm not bothered if someone doesn't want to paint things into a "good"/"evil" perspective. However i...
Saying that "Laissez faire" is "good" and socialism (or any ideology that doesn't agree with Laissez faire beliefs) is "evil" is a bit of a Binary/Fal...
One of the first things you got to realize about the powers that be in the United States is that they have a "do as I say,not as I do" policy. For exa...
"Cogito ergo sum" is really little more than a proof by assertion since neither the subject "I", the action of "thinking", or the state of "existing" ...
"But, what if you were to combine hedonism with spirituality? It would be my worldview which I would call Spiritual Hedonism or New Age Hedonism. Acco...
"Isn't the goal to listen to silence? Why is there no shushing?" -matt (While your post may be meant for Banno, I thought I might as well put my two c...
"Ok here is the solution I "found", without any sequent introductions... There seem to be many assumptions and I hope I have discharged them all. 1) (...
"Hence the Quaker podcast. That's how to talk about God." -Banno I don't disagree that it may be the proper path for some and/or that it might be usef...
"Perhaps we can speculate about God based on our intuition and perceptions of life and reality. Some of us have had closer encounters with life (and d...
It's already too much. -Banno I more or less agree, or at least I do anyways. :smile: Your post reminds me of the following quote that I heard a very ...
Pretty much anyone can make up what they think what 'God' might be like but that doesn't mean they know what they are talking about. And the word 'tra...
It is kind of ironic that many theist use the argument that "God" is beyond words/human comprehension in defense of their position when it does more t...
No. You are misreading what I said.. In the social context theft can only occur when someone else's property is stolen but in theory if something isn'...
Ok, I'll have to read up on that in order to understand it better but for the sake of speed assume it isn't that different for thing like Machiavellia...
"We have examples in Russia of how aversion to the concept of private property undermines industry. Since the workers think they own the factory, we c...
"Then the commons stole it, if we accept the premise that "property is theft." ? " -Arkady The point of unenlightened's I think you missed is that com...
"Well that is a good point. It's basic supply and demand. As population increases and resources decrease we will have scarcity, and with the rich havi...
"The difference between humans and animals is that for humans it is not the survival of the fittest but "the survival of the fattest"." -René Descarte...
"Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor." -CuddlyHedgehog You got that right, although it might be more accurate to put it as planned econ...
"If I step and save you every time you're in trouble, I'm robbing you of the education you will need to survive long term. In this way, I freeze you i...
"Can we derive a morality from capitalist ideology or is it an amoral ideology? If we can, what are the ethical rules? And are those rules independent...
"It's a philosophy forum and we try to maintain high standards. Discussions about conspiracy theories as a social or psychological phenomenon would be...
"I believe it is both. Again, the wiki entry is filled to the brim with America being the prominent example of anti-intellectual sentiment, based on-m...
I may be wrong but some of the people who are labeled as supporting "anti-intellectualism" may be simply more against the beliefs and ways of the curr...
Are you just trying to point out that anti-intellectualism exists in the US or are you saying it is more of a problem here in the US and/or our day an...
I think humor is a partly a form of entertainment and/or escapism. We laugh at certain jokes because they are kind of cute or clever, much as we are a...
"The highway to hell is built on good intentions" - Proverb "We do what we do because that is the way that we do it" , doing that which may be "pragma...
People turn to other sources to try to find something constructive. The pop-psychology industry is the most obvious example. "My observation is that, ...
I'm unsure how a virus or parasite that produces more resilient offspring make it any better than those that do not. Maybe you are thinking of somethi...
It sounds like you are saying it is more like a parasite than a virus, but to me that is not that much a difference to split hairs about which the hum...
"In my opinion, juxtaposed with the mainstream characterized above, Ken Wilber is an example of an intellectual whose thinking is inspiring, refreshin...
I use to think about it often when I was younger but luckily too busy to be bothered by it as much now that I'm older, but to be on the safe side I tr...
If you can watch an episode of "Dark Matters: Twisted But True" which is called " Killed by kindness" which deals with this exact question. Your quest...
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