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we agree on that.
December 20, 2019 at 21:29
Obviously the title is too misleading so I changed it for people who don't bother reading anything else but the final paragraph. Please note the final...
December 20, 2019 at 21:22
Again as I said I defined my terms. Again, I amended the introduction to cover prior work rendering direct reply to TIME unnecessary. https://www.yofi...
December 20, 2019 at 20:56
Again, I amended the introduction to cover prior work rendering direct reply to TIME unnecessary. https://www.yofiel.com/writing/truth/war-on-truth If...
December 20, 2019 at 20:31
thank you for going away. I amended the introduction to cover prior work rendering direct replt to TIME unnecessary. https://www.yofiel.com/writing/tr...
December 20, 2019 at 20:09
as pointed out by others above, those who form an opinion based on incomplete knowledge should not be taken seriously. You formed your opinion and adm...
December 20, 2019 at 20:00
you'd have to suspend judgment and actually read it.
December 20, 2019 at 19:41
i already addressed your ridicule, and I object to people quoting out of context like they are impeachment lawyers. All my terms are properly defined.
December 20, 2019 at 19:18
ive explained the meaning of merit in the oxfordian sense. Im not interested in debating it.
December 20, 2019 at 19:04
i have created an area on my Yofiel site called 'Plato's Cave,' with 10 general topics about the war on truth, also adding sections on natural rights,...
December 20, 2019 at 18:44
i dont have experience in making games, but i will be making a website called 'war on truth,' and if you have something you'd like to post on it, plea...
December 19, 2019 at 19:57
I agree. What about making a game?
December 19, 2019 at 05:02
that a very beautiful sentiment, but people don't have the ability to judge what is true at all. Here's an example right now. It's impossible to prove...
December 19, 2019 at 04:31
maybe its a good book, I will look into it, but my problem is, I can state it in five lines, and all I hear is things like 'it's not philosophy's role...
December 19, 2019 at 04:22
If you just want to say its bullshit, its not. Empirical observation and semantic interpretation create an epistemological gap between the statement o...
December 19, 2019 at 04:10
So the answer is, let the world go to hell and we'll talk to each other about how much more clever we are?
December 19, 2019 at 04:00
So you think explaining Popper to Trump supporters is the answer. No wonder there's cynicism. That's absurd.
December 19, 2019 at 03:56
That's pretty much what the Athenian assembly told Socrates. Pretty much word for word. When I said truth is dieing of hemlock I wasnt kidding.
December 19, 2019 at 03:52
The reason there are degrees in philosophy is because it's meant to help society, not promulgate nihilism. Simultaneously, I see people asking what th...
December 19, 2019 at 03:45
You know I've been talking with people about this problem for 10 years now, and my general observation is, there has been widespread absconsion from s...
December 19, 2019 at 03:34
Well thanks for the long and thoughtful message. It doesn't actually address my point at all. I was saying that the Iranians objected to the US arms s...
June 25, 2019 at 08:22
Whatever the case on trump, I'd be surprised if there's further violence from iran. Triump can claim its because of him and everyone will seem happy I...
June 22, 2019 at 03:16
At the same time as Trump called the attack, the senate was debating on his sale of weapons to United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and other countries...
June 22, 2019 at 00:48
Hey Im not evangelical, lol. Believe what you want.
June 16, 2019 at 02:37
I'd say generally you are right, but the USA does not have a monolithic opinion, even in its government. There are war hawks who are looking for war, ...
June 16, 2019 at 01:54
Generally, no. America does not even teach the natural law which led to its foundation any more because it requires a belief in God in order to be rat...
June 16, 2019 at 01:29
While that might have had some truth in the past, the educated are now dismissed as 'elitist' unless they also have money.
June 15, 2019 at 19:09
They are so heavily vested in their own power to kill, they don't make distinctions like you or me. They are the result of a natural selection process...
June 15, 2019 at 18:58
They don't want to avoid war. They do everything they can to start one. They don't have ethical beliefs like you or me. They think themselves naturall...
June 15, 2019 at 18:44
They reach a point of conviction where they don't make distinctions like you think, and frequently are involved in profit making through third parties...
June 15, 2019 at 18:37
You do have a point there. Most people confuse Marx with Engels and Lenin. Marx was more of a theoretician. Engels and Lenin were more practical. I dr...
June 15, 2019 at 18:35
yes. They are arms dealers. They just sold 32 F35s to Poland.
June 15, 2019 at 18:23
It doesn't matter what Iran does any more. Whatever Iran does they will say its not enough. That's been Iran's complaint.
June 15, 2019 at 18:16
They are vested in the profit yielded from selling the means to kill people.
June 15, 2019 at 18:13
Because they want to kill people for their personal advantage. War has two steps: justification and invocation. The justification rarely has anything ...
June 15, 2019 at 18:03
While that's sometimes claimed, that's not quite what Marx thought, and most of the misunderstanding of Marx is due to the same problem, a misinterpre...
June 15, 2019 at 17:52
there is a difference between constitutional rights and natural rights. The declaration of independence states that the british violated natural right...
June 15, 2019 at 17:34
You'd have to tell me what appears unclear about the statement.
June 15, 2019 at 17:32
The problem with the sovereign nation argument is that the USA itself rebelled against a sovereign nation. The USA states that it was justified to do ...
June 11, 2019 at 16:23
Well, I agree it would be nice, but the problems of the two party system is that it redefines itself until it doesn't fairly represent the people, as ...
June 11, 2019 at 07:10
that's the problem. I've repeated the argument half a dozen times, but you want to spittle on irrelevant details. There is no INF. There's no point ar...
June 09, 2019 at 21:15
Aircraft carriers dont just carry aircraft they can fly. During the Gulf was they carried road pavers, which are much larger than B52s. We dont know w...
June 09, 2019 at 19:58
Not really. S. says, 'if one connects a voltmeter across a battery, the voltmeter displays a result.' He claims this is physiological observation, and...
June 08, 2019 at 01:50
The USS Aircraft Carrier Lincoln is carrying some B52s from Shanahan's nuclear exercise last month. It was meant to be in Croatia, but suddenly appear...
June 08, 2019 at 00:55
We will be told, but the argument that some nuclear devices are not WMDs hasnt been presented to the United Nations yet, because there weren't any via...
June 07, 2019 at 23:33
First I am not an expert on S. But I think the proper response is epistemological. One cannot know one way or the other. What S. says neither proves n...
June 07, 2019 at 22:57
Generally people say that Kant acknowledges the impetus to argue teleologically exists. Schopenhauer is adamant that all such cases are wrong, but Kan...
June 07, 2019 at 22:46
Well that is something neither of them really wanted to acknowledge. kant's argument from intelligent design similarly has a subjective element which ...
June 07, 2019 at 22:33
The way it was described to me when I was 14 was that volts is a measure of potential difference, caused by there being more electrons on one side tha...
June 07, 2019 at 22:16
Funny. Thats what Macarthur said. Whatever one thinks of the stupidity of war, Mattis was right to say there hasn't been anything like WW2 since Nagas...
June 07, 2019 at 21:52