You seem perplexed, Banno. My point was that you are wrong on both counts. There is a correct usage but it has nothing to do with common courtesy. Sci...
Then any white person in America that knows Dutch should be able to translate it. If you think that you would have even been considered to translate t...
I never denied that people believe certain things. I'm questioning the validity of their belief, just as you question the validity that I'm a Dark Sit...
Then I could translate Gormans speech using Google Translate. We're not talking about an event that happened in the Netherlands. We taking about an ev...
It's not a non sequitur. It's a question asking you how you reconcile your own contradictory statement. I also asked you to address me as "My Master"....
Try again. I'm asking why CNN and Gorman is making it about color. Would you be able to successfully translate Gormans speech then? If not, then who a...
I haven't insisted on anything except evidence for your assertions and for you to address my questions. You being Dutch isn't enough, especially if yo...
You keep avoiding the question. Yet the article mentions none of that and only focuses on their skin color as the only reason they were not a good cho...
Great question. It seem obvious to me that there are people that can identify as something that they are not. What makes sex/gender so special that pe...
Does this mean that "doe" and "buck", and "queen" and "drone" are social distinctions? Biology points to morphological, physiological and behavioral d...
I don't know what materialism has to do with it. An idealist can judge by appearances as well. We all judge by appearances. Some people judge and iden...
Who are you talking about? The Dutch writer is white and non-binary. They won the International Booker Prize in 2020. For more than 50 years, the Book...
LOL. So you, as a white person, Benkei, can speak to what it is like to have owned slaves and what its like to have to let them go because your side l...
Absolutely. Maybe you haven't heard: Humans share over 99% of their DNA. Focusing on the small differences, which are just surface level, just shows h...
That wasn't what I asked. I was asking a hypothetical question. If you aren't going to pay attention to what I actually said and respond to what I act...
Yet White History month and Man's day aren't officially recognized days while the others are. You sound like someone that is simply angry at the world...
What does any of this actually mean, or how is it useful? What does it mean for the parts or the whole to be primary? What would the differences imply...
Great. So the problem of the "privacy" of one's experience is shattered when you understand that causation carries information about your "private" ex...
What should be done is only known after you do something. Is what you did what you should have done or shouldn't have done? What if that baby grows up...
What should be done is irrelevant and imaginary. All that matters is what is done, and what is done by humans is ultimately dictated by natural select...
I don't understand what you mean by "it goes both ways". The mind, like everything else is both a cause and effect. So the state of some mind is both ...
This is like saying humans can't fly. Sure, they can't without any mechanical help, but they can with mechanical help. Our consciousness can access th...
Which is better than you. We could do this all day where you make an assertion, I question it and you evade it. I would have expected such an amazing ...
Just look at this thread. You post. I reply. Your posts determine how I reply. Observe how you reason. You use reasons to reach conclusions. The reaso...
In what way? What specifically did he say to egg on armed wackos? How is that any different than the Dems egging on the looters during the Floyd prote...
Amanda Gorman's Dutch translator stands down after uproar that Black writer wasn't chosen. https://www.cnn.com/style/article/amanda-gorman-dutch-trans...
No one is threatened by marchers, per say, but there are others that misconstrue what the marchers are marching for in order to make people that aren'...
Riiiiight. America is the only country with imperialistic tendencies. Give me a break. I'm of the mind that Americans shouldn't be spilling their own ...
Ok, explain what what an indeterministic event would look like. What does it actually mean for some event to be indeterministic? All you will be able ...
Some examples would include a black person marching against police brutality, in which some cops view that as a threat to their holding a job. Marchin...
All you have done here is show that each instance in time is unique, yet similar to other instances in time. Each state-of-affairs is determined by pr...
The extremists on both sides, and the politicians that use the rehetoric that created and then reinforce the extremists. The rest of us are able to se...
I have no idea what your point is in showing these examples. I thought the Allies were priviliged racists, and you forgot to include your communist co...
I agree that there is, it's just that I'm not biased to think that only one side engages in poetic and comedic expression, while the other engages in ...
Maybe it's more like a "Cold" Race War, rather than a "Hot" Race War. I love how the media blames the politicians when they are just as culpable for p...
Questioning that there was a riot at the Capitol? No. I'm not questing that. I'm questioning the premise that everyone at the Capitol was there to rio...
I used your definition. Are you paying attention? I do. And you contradicted yourself again: If any of it is indeterministic then it all is, right? Th...
It's the same thing. Or not, depending on one's definition of racism, which is a term that has been misused, or over-used, in the past several years. ...
I exhibited no such thing. You exhibited a misunderstanding of what I was saying. So I had to show you that my explanation fit your definition of dete...
Sure. Not wanting to learn anything new is the problem. Adapt and evolve is the solution. This type of thing has been happening since humans have had ...
No. Insanity has befallen on you as you have exhibited a tendency to be intellectually dishonest and inconsistent in your venture to prove determinism...
Every problem does have a solution. Its just that some people prefer to live with the problem rather than the solution, which is a solution (decision)...
How exactly does the programmer decide what information is relevant but a computer can't? Humans are programmed by natural selection. So natural selec...
Reasons are causes. Conclusions are events. Conclusions are determined by your reasons. Seems like it fits perfectly with how you understand determini...
Computers are logical. They won't use irrelevant information like skin color when determining who gets jobs, political appointments, etc., In effect, ...
Comments