UK Royal Astronomer, Sir Martin Rees and I seem to be on the same page (more or less): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/30/space-bil...
:clap: :100: Well then, at the very least, the correlation between 'laissez-faire' and 'plutocracy' is (almost) +1 and so "how the former leads to the...
The Sun is made of baryonic matter. Whatever dark matter is made of, it's not made of baryons. Thus, grammar & logic are indispensable. A question for...
I'm saying your question is incoherent. "Rules apply" to maps (e.g. theoretical models) and not to the territory (e.g. "dark matter and physical laws"...
I'm not following you. We make maps of the terrority. We don't make (determine) the territory itself; thus, there are no "set of rules" for making (de...
No, much earlier. The French Revolution (1789), "left-right" refers to respective seating areas of rival ideologues in the National Assembly. https://...
They weren't ever leftist regimes or states. Both were totalitarian nationalist regimes (i.e. militarist (rightist) command economies) :sweat: No, you...
My quick & dirty: • rightism advocates exclusive shareholder control of government, business, media and culture (e.g. oligopoly/plutocracy) mostly man...
I wouldn't characterize either the PRC or USSR as ever having been "representative of leftism". Libertarian socialist / Green movements & Human Rights...
Only the "undefined, vague" ... Define "gods" in such a way that distinguishes them by their predicates as existing from not existing, then apply such...
How a tool is used can be "racist" (or some other exploitative/discriminatory "x–ist") like for instance financial redlining, not the mere tool itself...
:clap: :up: :lol: I think "the paradox" really comes down to: Can an omnipotent entity limit its own omnipotence? If it can but does not, it remains o...
:up: I find a second-order approach – is theism (or its sine qua non claims) true or not true? – more reasonable. • theists believe 'theism is true' (...
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