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No, sorry even better. Have Sanders hold hand with the fearless girl in front of the bull with him holding a big axe in the other hand. Yeah, take tha...

I hope someone puts a statue of Sanders depicting him having a big ax looming over the bulls head.

Wet dream.

Boom and busts. If only the bull dominated all the time, wishes the CEO of some Wall Street firm.

You might as well as installed a giant penis in place of the bull. The girl adds some sanity to the whole place.

Wayfarer brought up the issue of the placebo effect being a case of downwards causation. I would think this is true. How can the brain organize itself...

There really isn't one. It's just that I'm wondering what's causing the placebo effect?

Not entirely true Sir, How do you explain purely mental states of mind caused by some neurotransmitter imbalance or even more profoundly alterations i...

QM

I honestly have no idea. Anyway forget what has been said. However, what has been said cannot be unsaid.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent?

Well, the placebo effect is just plain open evidence that certain beliefs can alter behavior. Whether there some immaterial force or entity inducing t...

Interesting, do you think homosexuals watch porn with heterosexuals for fun?

Do gays watch porn with females?

But, that's what's so elegant about it. I mean sure, if we had a Stasi database on the psychological profile and motives of every citizen, then techni...

The function, denoting y, depends on an underlying utility function, which is rarely known. I think that addresses the 'inner life that motivates' a c...

Welcome back. Hope you can post some threads on current issues as this place has become very political or rather dominated by politics due to jumbling...

But, why is it that crime is so low in other places in the world if every young person is feeling inclined at some age to be 'rebellious'. Seems like ...

I think the issue presented above is not one of the types of crimes you mentioned or things a repeat offender would do. The issue is to decrease the l...

Oh, but this is certainly due to only cultural differences, claims the supposedly 'absolutist' conservative.

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How come Swede's have it so great and at the same time put in the effort required to maintain such an awesome state of affairs? Any Republican will ta...

I had terrible ADHD in childhood that was never treated, which in my adulthood changed to ADD, which I treated for a while and allowed me to get into ...

:P

Ah, confirmation bias. Just human nature I guess.

We've come a far way from having it legally available to prescribing it to children (almost the same shit in my textbook, with Ritalin being practical...

Yes, I noticed now. Sorry. Thanks!

What happened to the thread JJJJS started on making sub-forums? Why would that get deleted?

But, utility has to be maximized!

I think it actually hurts me when I see utility not being maximized.

If only we valued food and clothing and health as much as money, then things might be a lot better for many and not a few.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jI6iAa-cC0

They're pretty tasty.

What do you mean to say by that? Surely, democracy would tell us something about that.

That's a traditional Polish p?czki.

Have you spoken to your father yet?

Oh, well then look at Japan for the matter. Nothing unique of Germans. I wonder why Japan became part of the axis circa WWII?

Low-blow!

I would say in the past issues were projected as having causes separate from their actual causes. Germans thought their sorry state of affairs was due...

It depends on the presumption you want to assert here. Is it that citizens are capable of making decisions that are in their own best interest or that...

Well, in times of peace fascism would never arise. Only when people are unified against some common threat does fascism rear its ugly head.

Not necessarily, though that would be a sine qua non if the guiding premise for the existence of such a dire state of affairs would be for the need fo...

How else would you talk about this? Quite interested in your input.

I understand socialism to be placing the interests safety and welfare of the citizens by a nation above all other concerns. That's about as concise as...

Strangely enough, I don't see that as a distinct from of socialism. Like I said it is socialism taken down to its most extreme and logical form. But, ...

@casl & Baden I always thought fascism was socialism taken to the extreme. The most efficient use of public funds has always been in my understanding ...

That's enough to persuade me. Just needed someone else to give me some idea what they think.

Forgot the exact wording but it was something like for one case it's a delusion, two, a conspiracy, three, a religion.

If Jesus were born today he would be sent to a mental hospital.

What a peeve. I came!