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I dont agree, sir, the less intellectual generally observe a shared sinking feeling in the quarter second before the bread hits the floor, and it is d...

thats very interesting. I must be an odd person. When I drop a piece of buttered bread, I always have that feeling of dread. In fact I heard it as an ...

In ancient greek there is two kinds of time: chronos (ordered time) and eon (episodic time). With the infatuation in the world of things empirical sin...

We already had exactly the same discussion last month in a different thread. I observed it is a false dichotomy because the opposite of pleasure is pa...

I cant really speak for Afghanistan because at the time of Alexander the Great, it was entirely nomadic. The closest city to Afghanistan at the time i...

FYI, any neutral research on this subject (unlike the frequently quoted, NRA-sponsored propaganda) does not find that more guns means less crime. And ...

No, I've tried arguing what you say before, but it doesnt work. If you give any one group of a popular vote disproportionate power, clever politicians...

Your problem here is that Athens itself did not idealize democracy, so your entire debate is founded on a far deeper falsity than you state. Socrates,...

From Aristotle's inspiration, Alexander the Great's conquests built the largest empire ever known. Alexander died early and unexpectedly. His empire i...

Does Aristotle specifically say whether women should vote? No. He says slaves should not vote, but nowhere does he state whether women should or shoul...

I dont have an opinion. People talk about these things as if one must have an opinion. I dont, one way or the other.

Well thats different than I put it, because it includes a bias. According to theists, I am an atheist, true. But Im not. I don't comprehend the necess...

I dont think that. The notion of possibility or impossibility only exists in the model, which itself is defined by language, not what is real nor not....

Thats like trying to say whether light is a particle or a wave. As Wittgenstein, and the Vedas say in fact, is all which really exists is language. Th...

That depends on how you define rebirth. If it is memories, then yes. but if it is 'attitude' then it is reasonable to think that someone else is born,...

Thats correct, actually. Really it should say 'all people are created equal in the eyes of God.' By whatever scale one uses, people are not created eq...

Im impressed! Few could make such a succinct decision.

This is not the prevailing view in psychology. Rather, the tabula rasa model, first advocated by Locke, and experimentally explored by Piaget, is the ...

It's the spheres of knowledge drawn around Amitabha. https://i2.wp.com/thubtenchodron.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Amitabha-Buddha-meditation.jpg I'...

You have a wonderful way of expressing concepts, I always enjoy reading them ) Tibetan buddhism defines concentric spheres of knowledge: 1. that which...

Yes, it is now a law to give up your seat in a bus to someone of the fairer sex. Have a nice day then.

thats a custom, not a law. There is no defined requirement, no defined punishment, and no defined arbitration or judge in case of dispute. its totally...

if there is no system of authority, then there is no law at all, because no one can enforce it. I speak only of what is. Obviously, if you want to spe...

What historians and legal scholars generally note, sir, is that the earliest system of authority is tribal. Perhaps with justifications such as contac...

Oh. thats easy. Its called history.

What I am trhying to draw for you, in something that otherwise require 200,000 words, is a differentiation between the origin of law, and the origin o...

law is about right and wrong, and morality is about what is good and bad. They do not coincide exactly. Most people believe that we are naturally free...

It is always UNETHICAL to break the law. Personal beliefs may render the ethics immoral to the individual.

I applaud the OP for some very good thought. Maybe you find it interesting to consider Locke's view on hunger, thirst, and other bodily desires. He ob...

Good idea. If the wall's there for 20 years, that's 5 billion divided by 20. You do the math yourself again.

Advertizing is ALSO PAID FOR PERIODS OF TIME You think far too much of your own intellect.

The DoD solicits funds in multiyear packages, just as advertising is paid for.

The DoD solicits funds in multiyear packages, just as advertizing is paid for.

Do you know the DoD advertising budget is $4 billion a year. the DoD could almost pay for the entire wall this year just by putting ads on it.

Here's an interesting thing. Any properly written software program resolves down to one giant if statement. That's worth thinking about.

There's no point arguing with such an insane statement.

If you are American, and uphold right to life as in the constitution, then the resolution is based on natural law. If there are no intervening contrar...

In principal that may be true, but I can say that the public universities in california are no longer run by faculty. They have been taken over by the...

I agree overall. What you refer to as the prevailing view is the medical view. the medical view is that depression interferes with a person acting in ...

It's a good sentiment. But it still doesnt work. I used to live in a black neighborhood, and anything that I said would be interpreted as hateful. Any...

What I added was that compliments constitute reverse criticism, which is the actual source of the problem 's perpetuation. It is actually impossible t...

To clarify, a compliment is a reverse criticism. That really is the problem that keeps this debate going.

While comments about morality, ethics, and politics are fairly common, other topics are more rare. It is possible to do quite a bit about philosophy o...

Just to point out, this is ending up discriminating against people for speaking at all about differences in ethnicity, gender, or culture. There is no...

Actually concepts about time have regressed over the last two thousand years. The ancient greeks had two different words for time: chronos and eon. Ch...

Welcome aboard. If you look it up, you will find that in current scientific thought, a theory's predictions do actually become true given sufficient s...

well maybe this is solvable by using different words for the two levels. Maybe someone could suggest a n empiricist who already did so.

it really has reached that stage. Do you know marijuana consumption in california fell after it was legalized here? There is something very crazy abou...

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lol. Well I differ from most people. I dont think Trump is stupid. He just acts stupid because the resulting chaos is to his advantage. However Bannon...