praxis

Funny that Rhode Island is quite blue.

Sounds like it might be an effective approach to a difficult problem. I was able to watch it, btw, when I used a computer. I was away from home and us...

If who came first was judged to be a valid basis for settling the dispute then it would open the door for other groups to come forward and make a clai...

An odd question: can you see, hear, or touch the odor of a plastic dog toy? or, how can we recognize the scent of perfume without sight, hearing, or t...

If only it were that simple.

If it were a matter of who inhabited the land first, it's still questionable if Israelis qualify as being first. There are fossil records of neanderth...

I'm confused again.

I'd rather focus on a different word to avoid the complexities of dogs and identity, if you don't mind. "Ball" is a word that he has an invariant repr...

I don't know anything about the Cynics besides a quick synopsis, but I would agree that regularly getting outside of our comfort zone may be an essent...

We also can’t ignore our irrationally.

I agree. Legal defamation of business competitors or political rivals would be rather anarchistic, on the other hand, and lead to instability.

Now I believe you’re not a liberal.

I think you could safely remove ‘liberal’ from the sentence. I doubt it’s typical for a libertarian to be so absolutist. I wonder, would you also not ...

So you wouldn’t pursue a legal case for ideological reasons, no matter how bad the damages? Must be easy to compete with libertarians.

I do indeed, including libertarian hero Milo https://bigleaguepolitics.com/exclusive-milo-yiannopoulos-talks-his-lawsuit-against-newspaper-that-blamed...

I suggest trying to support the claim any way that you can. Bear in mind that you need to show majority support.

Americans continue to make the claim that they are morally superior to everyone else. It is time that this claim be addressed, not as part of war betw...

Can you support this claim with evidence? If you’re referring to things like SJW and “identity politics,” those are expressions of liberal values surr...

Now I’m confused. With an understanding that materialistic values tend to be shallow when it comes to meaning, and meaning is an essential facet of ha...

The strength of the bond, I suppose, if I understand what you’re asking.

Being materialistic is not conducive to happiness, essentially.

Though many people want to be happy I don’t think that many set out to be happy. Most just struggle to get by, and those that don’t need to struggle t...

According to selectorate theory the primary goal of a leader is to remain in power. To remain in power, leaders must maintain their winning coalition....

So inaccurate claims about the border situation exacerbate its complexity. Yeah, I can agree with that. Sounds like it may be an effective approach. I...

A fine line between that and an American liberal?

I’m no expert on libertarianism but I believe the basic ideology is that a free market or economy is self regulating and is made worse or less efficie...

That sounds like an oxymoron. Could you maybe outline that a bit?

Truth is a pathless land makes sense to me because if you’re truely interested in the truth you’ll follow it wherever it leads, and it tends to be dis...

Small government and sustainability are two very different objectives. Both of them are beneficial but pursuing one may get you further away from the ...

You said it: But seriously, you don’t need to respect different people to try understanding and cooperating with them. That seems disingenuous and per...

Okay, say that we all started subscribing to the WH rhetoric, built a giant impenetrable concrete and steel border wall from sea to shining sea, and s...

Oddly, it's at once what all religious folk should claim and the very height of hypocrisy. If something is known to be true then it's not a belief, it...

I don't think anyone actually believed that Trump could get away with closing the border, though I think we know he's capable of actually doing someth...

Communist economies can get things done. Remember Sputnik and Luna? The Soviets beat all capitalist countries to space and the moon. Capitalism, with ...

If the hooker is truely down and out a dollar should be enough.

The masses or “working class” in Lenin and Stalin communism were illiterate peasants, it might be noted, so the road was well paved for totalitarianis...

Iceland, in 2018 anyway. Icelandic culture must be pretty chill. :razz:

Looking forward to your evidence showing that "Tibet was the most peaceful culture ever," because of Buddhism. In the meantime, what, Buddhism doesn't...

The decimal representation of Pi never ends and never settles into a permanently repeating pattern. In any case, change is itself a mental perception....

Was it? If so, there could be many reasons for that. I just looked up statistics for peaceful countries and Buddhism for 2018. They rank as follows: C...

Hey, this is America, a democracy. Oh wait, I'm supposed to be the world leader. Well, if I was the world leader it would be a democracy.

I'd call them first to grab their bug-out bags and head for the family bunker. We knew this would happen eventually.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy, I’d simply make a global announcement of the situation and suggest, to anyone who wants to live past tomorrow, that they kil...

Eastern culture is believed to not value individualism as much as Westerners, but it’s not like that doesn’t have a downside as well. You sound guilty...

It's from Thomas Nagel. Yes, I did. I don't know, but Buddhists call this the realization of emptiness. The point was basically that values and goals ...

I was thinking of this question with the relationship between Red (my dog) and myself in mind. I have many values and goals that Red doesn't, and vice...

In a news conference today, Trump claimed that one benefit of closing the southern border is that it would stop "hundreds of millions of dollars of dr...

With the exception of 'disembodied voices' and 'relating on a personal level to distant planets', you basically appear to be talking about in intuitio...

Psychic phenomena basically, right? Like Ilya B Shambat mentions in his linked blog post. Imagining and/or feeling that we're the entire universe is s...

I was inquiring about any metaphysical claims or theories you might have that would clarify or help to substantiate "interconnectedness beyond our phy...