My fiance was a baby during the killings in Indonesia, but she remembers being shown a pit in their back yard where they were supposed to hide in case...
The classic example: you believe smoking is bad for your health, but you like to smoke. That creates cognitive dissonance, a contradiction between bel...
Hopefully you aren't eating right now. To give you some context, one of the most popular breakfast cereals is Kellogg's Corn Flakes. It was invented i...
I think you missed the point. As a Muslim, both in America and living in Muslim countries, I get a chance to chat with others in my community. When su...
This might be a good example of my point. Maybe at some point, you may have gotten a vague impression of a contradiction with fighting for women's rig...
It seems to me that organizing into groups is part of the problem. Take any group and their list of causes and you find a lot of contradictions. By or...
I was talking about giving credit for the discovery of evolution. Wallace and Darwin are credited as co-discoverers, working independently. It seems s...
I didn't say it was a good plan, (and Chomsky would probably agree). I guess it is like voting for the candidate you think has the best chance of winn...
My father served in the military in Europe during the cold war. From the stories I would hear, there has always been a lot of back room collusion betw...
Except for Anaximander, Empedocles, Carl Linnaeus, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and even Erasmus Darwin? Also, Alfr...
FGM is difficult to discuss rationally in the west. I'm afraid it falls under that "white savior complex", or as Spivak described it, "white men savin...
She came to the US at the invitation of the AEI, a "conservative think tank", and she is still on their list of "scholars" in 2006. By that time, the ...
I agree it is an end result of a "divide and conquer", (d?vide et ?mpera), strategy. But that strategy is usually employed by an external power wishin...
This is just redirecting the naturalistic fallacy. Something being practical is is beneficial toward some purpose, which you have already defined as r...
If I were in Putin's place, I don't think I would see the US as being able to offer anything except to get out of the way. The US has already destroye...
Don't underestimate the strategic importance of Syria, (which goes back more than a century). Russia is the largest country in the world, but really o...
Sure, here is the Dutch documentary on her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z82C10myBmM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWD2I3GVC04 https://www.youtub...
Because a society which decides what is acceptable, (if it doesn't bother anyone else), is oppressive and nobody wants to live in an oppressive societ...
There are a few things I learned from years living among Muslims. One thing is that most Muslims have never really "read" the Quran, (in the way we me...
It is complicated. Remember that Ms. Ali rose to prominence in Dutch government based on claims she suffered abuses in a Muslim country, then, just wh...
My father was the "if you love your job, you never have to work" type. He started flying airplanes when he was just 15, and has never stopped. He is n...
Is anyone going to start a "dead pool" for the "right"? I remember there were quite a few websites tracking all the Silicon Valley startups as they we...
Among the ancient philosophers and religious figures, the negative of the Golden Rule seems more popular: "don't do to others what you wouldn't want d...
I seem to remember similar theories a long time ago on PF. Anyway, light is passing through two different medium, through transparent air, then transp...
What if you substituted body/brain with "camera" and perception/experience with "image"? Does it make sense to say that cameras don't take pictures be...
On election night, I lost my entire family. My fiance, who I've been working for 7 years to clear the way to finally get married is now probably barre...
When you came into this existence, you were a baby, (I presume), with no memory of any prior existence, your consciousness and identity were formed by...
I was including Europe, and pretty much every other area of the world, (except maybe eastern Africa). You are right, it is important to know who you a...
Financially, in general, immigrants bring an economy with them. They tend to look for jobs, earn some money, they spend it on food and rent and pay ta...
I helped Paul fix ModBot during the PHP 5.5 upgrade. It is basically a program that scans posts for key words and phrases and sends out canned respons...
Maybe Western culture is finally returning to those original Judeo-Christian values. Wasn't tolerance the foundation of many of the original teachings...
"Willingness to allow the existence of opinions or behaviors that one does not necessarily agree with" -- dictionary Go back far enough up any branch ...
Sometimes you feel like this in the US: http://s18.postimg.org/emdh2d3ix/552b071914d34e4e82b6a3ca56e7d7c1.jpg In US debates, nobody is talking about c...
It seems like a lot of people are saying that the "elections are rigged", but then refer to the campaign not the election itself. What Trump seems to ...
There is no implication about Obama denying anything. He, like previous presidents can call it a matter of "national security", and the condemn the wi...
I have a tiny bit of experience in high security stuff. Imagine it is World War II and you have just intercepted a telegraph from Churchill. Are you g...
They are "rigged" -- but I don't think as explicitly as they think. The system reached some basic evolutionary balance -- like predators and prey, in ...
I was researching that topic and came across an interesting approach by Brian Olson, which applies a relatively simple geographical algorithm to censu...
Well, technically, Roe vs. Wade essentially ruled that laws prohibiting abortion would violate the "right to privacy" implied by the 4th Amendment of ...
Really? I would agree that if they do not follow the teachings of the Bible, they are not Christians, so I recently concluded that anyone supporting s...
I don't know, there is still a glimmer of a chance. First, the public have mass attention-deficit disorder, people have mostly forgotten much bigger s...
Actually, that's not true. He has been involved in 3500 lawsuits to date. Even if he becomes president, he will still have to deal with accusations of...
Oh, and before I forget, in the post before last, I said that conservatives have already lost the election -- but I have to admit that liberals have l...
No, that drivel is off the top of my head from personal experience dealing with narcissists, (for some reason, I attract narcissists like a magnet). O...
The game that narcissists play is to make themselves look great on the surface. If you dig past the surface and uncover failures and harm, they are qu...
Unfortunately, I know from experience, that this is not the way narcissistic personalities work. The idea that he needs anyone probably never existed ...
It seems whenever someone criticizes Trump, they are automatically assumed to be voting for Hillary. No, I'm not "with her", and won't vote for her ei...
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