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Okay? I don't know why you're telling me all this. A material existence would involve the means for physical survival and maybe reproduction, lack of ...

I don't think it has to be church specifically, but most human beings are not happy living a purely material existence and require some form of spirit...

You're free to, sure, but I just don't see what relevance or argumentative force it has on the conversation. OK, well, I disagree. These things aren't...

No it wasn't – I'm sorry if you read it that way. In the context of the post, those were clearly suggestions for someone like-minded, of what I though...

Did I ever say I got to? Why are you so defensive? Whether or not you consider it a chore has no bearing on its value as an art. How bizarre to object...

I think a lot of people in our generation do. It's very sad, a kind of alienation that we don't prepare our own food.

Cooking isn't a chore, it's a cultural art with a rich history that blends culture, personal creativity, and sensuality.

That certain things are inevitable is just something you've been sold on, though (perhaps, in part, by the German idealists). This is the 'wrong side ...

Nice, yeah.

I'm not saying people are dumb or vote against their own interests (which IMO is an elitist, mostly leftist 'meme' used primarily to berate poor peopl...

It could be, but the fact that he started out with the Atlantis stuff makes me think otherwise. My first guess was, college student studying philosoph...

What exactly do you think democracy is or expect it to be? Honest question. It seems to me that what you described is the pinnacle of a functioning de...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOYoou3genk Is Trump a German Idealist?

I like that Trump is somewhat flippant – he strikes me as someone looking to win, and looking to have the biggest and best legacy he can. What that me...

Yeah, you can't really understand anything about political discourse in America if you think people have principles, IMO.

You don't, but there's an epistemological asymmetry in that whatever you take the 'subjective world' to be, denying it is more difficult than denying ...

Dispositions to perception or subjective uncertainty in perceptual outcome.

The puzzle of the relation of self-identity is backward, since it's not that there are two things that already exist, or one that already does and one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY05K4Il1hE

I see your point, but it doesn't strike me as an interesting distinction. It seems like a polite way of saying euthanasia is preferable to murder, but...

To demand that Islam be reformed to foreign influence until it is unrecognizable, in order to fit in with polite society, strikes me as no different f...

It also makes sense, I think, to speak of a pro-bacon Muslim, or an atheist Muslim. To want Muslims to be this that and the other, antithetical to the...

Nah. This is crazy sauce. Yikes.

I think a start would be not to insist that Islam cannot be criticized.

OK, but I just don't believe this. Being from somewhere else on the planet doesn't give you free reign to do whatever you want to gay people. And they...

Do you think the West in the las 50 or so years has had a unique and unprecedented relationship with homosexuality? This is something I don't know the...

I don't really have a priori respect for religious traditions, Willow – it seems to me that in the same way Christianity was a faith-healer and apocal...

It is interesting to me that I cannot say, draw a chalk picture of Muhammad on the ground in the middle of a Western university. What does a religion ...

Do you think it's racist to disapprove of Islam? Is it racist to disapprove of any religion? Is it ever fair to disapprove of a religion? What would a...

Modern academia in the West has a historically exceptional place with regard to Biblical scholarship, though, since as a historical fact numerous disc...

Also, I believe the Radical Abolition Party in mid 19th-centry America went around buying out individual slaves and releasing them, on the eve of the ...

I don't know the amount of people who went along with it in England, and of course America's economy was more deeply tied to slavery, but it certainly...

I'm also fascinated by the left's defense of Islam. This isn't a genius idea or anything, but I think it may stem from the coherency of the enemy: whi...

A buyout would have been cheaper than a war. I think people only pay lip service to traditions until there's incentive to abandon them. Just pay them.

I'm talking about a government buyout of slaves, like what happened in England. I know I'm giving England a lot of cred lately.

America lacks spirituality in its politics, yeah. I think the Amish and Mormons have something like this, though some would argue that they (mostly th...

The skills like hunting, etc. could be metaphorically recast as any sort of independence or knowhow for survival apart from the system you are raving ...

Relevant to the race question and delusions of the approach of the left. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB5ZbHtMeaI

Everything collapses, yes. But not everything collapses quite so badly as it does in Bolshevik Revolutions. I don't feel like one really needs an answ...

The abolition of slavery was also a human atrocity in the form of the Civil War. How would a conservative end slavery, if not with the death of hundre...

I'm not sure. I think that leftism isn't sustainable and collapses societies, often with a high toll in human suffering. So you have good reason to wa...

I think this is totally fair, and I haven't even read Marx and am not that familiar with dialectical materialism, which may have a more 'bottom up' im...

I see the hatred of representation of the divine to be an affirmation that reality is above representation, God being held to be reality par excellenc...

I don't see my view as different. I see it as an articulation of what most people believe, and that academia has to systematically beat out of people.

I think the answer is to have a deeply rooted tradition of principled change. There is a country in this world (not saying it is the only one) that ha...

I don't talk about it, because that would be an unwise career move. It's implicitly understood in academia that you get with the program.

I don't disagree that conservatism doesn't lack for comic books. I do think that leftism is unable to get out of comic books as a matter of principle,...

OK, I will try to be clearer. 'Liberalism' is maybe not the best term, since it connotes a priority of personal liberties, perhaps to the exclusion of...

That sounds cool. I agree that respect comes from avoiding hagiographic lies about hero and victim races – the comparisons that have been cropping up ...

You should also pay attention to when people use the word 'folks' as opposed to 'people,' if 'folks' is not part of their native dialect. 'Folks' are ...