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@"Augustusea" I do believe Iran,Saudi,Palestine,Pakistan Turkey,Bangladesh Yemen etc etc all had similiar problems. I've never heard Syrians say anyth...

@"Augustusea" 600 years! Before the first gulf invasion iraq had one of the highest GDPs in the middle east. Your attitude is invalid. You've swallowe...

@"Augustusea" Read your posts. 1000 years! Man your attitude is a problem! Places like Yugoslavia Rwanda northern ireland achieved peace in relatively...

@"Augustusea" So civil war works in the 21st century? It sounds like your attitude and personal politics are hopeless mate. Let's hope Iraq improves p...

@"Augustusea" What a load of marxist nonsense! It's like you want war. So war will purify the youth and you will build your utopia and free iraq from ...

@"Augustusea" Well you have a choice to wish for non violent solutions. Hasn't Iraq already been involved in civil war? You act like this is a game an...

@"Augustusea" Well you are part of the problem. Saying the choice is civil war or coup is irresponsible. Will the poor be better off with civil war? I...

@"Augustusea" How are you on the internet?

@"Augustusea" With respect I think you are being defeatist and identifying with the govt as some kind of saviour. Civil war is horrible. And a coup wi...

@"Augustusea". Oh,I wasnt saying to vote. I dont doubt a lot of corruption goes on. I'm saying dont wait for political solutions just live your life w...

@"Judaka" I agree. Power is always oppressive and wielded by wealthy elites. That is what govt is! Yep,it is astonishing when people judge a person pu...

@"Augustusea" Personally both the US and Iran have vested interests. It's up to you who you prefer. The Iraqi ruling elites have vested interests for ...

Middle east being war torn? Who funded and founded Israel? Who invaded Lebanon,Iraq and funded ISIS. Who funded hizbollah and Hamas? The US Saudi and ...

@"Judaka" :up:

When it comes to politics people who base their opinions on wikipedia and propagandist history will make ludicrous generalisations and as pointed out ...

The only thing embarrassing is this guy being a mod and other mods not calling him out. An interesting thread with some interesting replies. Always fu...

Conciousness is the Ability to Describe.

@"Benj96" That old cynic is dead. :cool:

@"Tzeentch" With respect,you havent really engaged in dialogue but just a few isolated quotes whilst ignoring the import of the republic and Plato in ...

@"tim wood" As I said previously you are pedantic and low level. Your arguments above highlight this. Trying to use a dictionary to refute and appeali...

@"tim wood" Great trouble! Your strawmanning and patronising lowbrow wit is indicative of your feeling un comfortable. I'm wise to your "debate" tacti...

@"A Seagull" I agree. Really the wider point I'm making is that all philosophers have personal agendas and that is obvious. These personal values unde...

@"Tzeentch" I'm interested in original personal understandings not just regurgitating sources. You keep quoting this analogy as if thats the premise o...

@"A Seagull" A lot of the presocratics were naturalistic thinkers yes,and I'm sure they built on the ideas of earlier greeks but added their own as we...

@"Tzeentch" Come on. The republic is a big book and you want to quote a few passages of dialect? Let me ask you in your own words. What did Plato writ...

@"Tzeentch" You are aware plato also has a dialogue after this called "Laws" and you are also aware that plato puts several ironic and dialectic argum...

@"tim wood" Jealousy will get you nowhere timmy! Corona derangement syndrome plus getting schooled by a newbie! Number of posts doesnt equal Intellect...

@"tim wood" Once again your lack of comprehension and straw manning shines through. Let's put it this way,you make it out that it's so hard to underst...

@"tim wood" I know what I have read. I understand platos mindset and what his project was and how its now used. Your method of interpretation is yours...

@"tim wood" Platos agenda was a totalitarian project and specifically designed for a political elite of "philosopher kings" Aka priests. The mischief ...

@"Judaka" Both excellent posts. It's really bizarre how an Individuals positive qualities are regarded as some kind of unfairness or based on an arbit...

@"ssu" Excellent post. Its really not that hard to see whose privileged and who is not. And it highlights that even in a country like yours with very ...

White privilege is in fact a racist term. That's the harm. I agree with Judaka on the need to not regard people as races or cohesive groups but as ind...

In these material/immaterial debates what gets lost is the difference between matter and animation. Also,immaterial does not mean non physical. The co...

@"tim wood" Come Tim. You understood my post that way! Life is the similiar quality that all living beings possess. I clearly talked about the law of ...

@"tim wood" Living things and Life are exactly the same thing. Does there exist a thing called life seperate from living beings? Platonism/reification...

@"Philosophim" Life and Intelligence are the same thing. How are you distinguishing them? Matter is not Intelligent. Life/intelligence arranges matter...

@"Avery" :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :cool:

@"Gregory" If people actually understood that ideas are in our minds then "philosophy" and science might actually progress. What mischief Plato and pl...

@"Philosophim" So the paint creates the Artist? The artist is a result of the complexity of the paint? All these words ,fear,impetus these are attribu...

@"tim wood" Living things are not created. You cannot create Life from non life. Living things grow continuously. The principle of Identity is an expr...

@"khaled" No,the body becomes inanimate. Hence my fingernail example. Life is animation not the fingernail.

@"Philosophim" That was the point on finger nails i was alluding to. You are indeed on the right track as to what I am saying about Identity and life....

@"tim wood" I will discuss with those who have a modicum of manners and who actually try to have some eloquence in their intellect. And what is this b...

@"tim wood" Ah lowbrow sarcasm,the refuge of the inflexible! Here's some nuance here brother. Your fingernails are they living or dead?

@"khaled" I said a living being is NOT created so cant die. A piece of wood cannot become a living being. A living being cannot become a piece of wood...

Artefacts are created by living beings and do not posess life. So artefacts decay and are recycled. A living being is not created and grows continuall...

@"Aleph Numbers" Of course I'm serious. I've seen the UK democracy at close quarters. A lot of folks dont have much faith in politics. They dont even ...

@"Aleph Numbers" A system of govt by the whole population through elected representatives. Sounds good in theory. But you typically have only two cand...

@"Aleph Numbers" I consider ALL governments plutocracies. Just some have different social practices and policies. How would you define democracy?