counterpunch

I read your post, and informative as it is, I'm having hella job forming a coherent reply. So I'm not gonna. Thanks for your input, and no criticism o...

Could you please provide examples - because without them, this is just an ad homniem attack, to which I say - pish!

I searched hyperthymia - and those are apparently, associated behaviours. I have no personal knowledge of the condition. I also read your link on The ...

I have political opinions, sure. I'm a capitalist - for example. I'm not a communist. If you want to call that bias - then I'm biased. I studied socio...

Hyperthymics engage in denial to rationalise their overly-positive mood. They lose the ability to navigate rationally, and the consequences can be jus...

I'm sorry. I don't know where I got the impression you're from the North. It's been deleted, so I can't check. Anyhow, I enjoyed the discussion, but I...

Are you okay Baden? Did your nine year old get a hold of your keyboard again? Or is that really you?

Maybe Jews have been too economically successful - too involved in finance and business, to be trusted around the Labour Party's precious communist id...

Opinion, I suppose. I couldn't honestly tell you what it's based on, except a lifelong interest in politics.

Faint praise is still praise. For me, the Tories need to make good on brexit in the coming years. (I don't know how possible that will be given the pa...

I was raised in the red wall constituencies Labour lost in the North, and I will vote Tory. They may be horrible bastards, but it works economically -...

Andrew, Please be aware that criticism of Islam could lead to the UK Labour Party turning itself inside out for several years, and going AWOL at the h...

I have a sense that suffering helps us navigate, and altering the genetic hedonic pre-disposition would reciprocally alter the genetic basis of suffer...

"The establishment of Israel is the basic threat that the Arab nation in its entirety has agreed to forestall. And since the existence of Israel is a ...

It's the deliberate biasing of academic research; and it reminds me of Superman II - where Lex Luthor, played by Gene Hackman says one of the most pro...

I'd be more wary of this: Russell Group university accused of Soviet-style censorship Camilla Turner 7 hrs ago A Russell Group university has been acc...

I think it extraordinary that Dave Pearce propounds on the most outlandish and frankenstein-esque implications of science - without any apparent objec...

I explained the philosophical nature of the problem - and the solution. It's religious identity maintained in denial of the validity of a scientific u...

Zizek: “Maybe I’m too much a humanist utopian, but secretly I hope that the coronavirus crisis will scare the shit out of Israelis and Palestinians an...

Could you explain what you mean by this? You asked for solutions. I explained the real nature of the problem and gave you the solution. The solution i...

Did you miss my post? I'll save you scrolling up: Here is TPF, a self-styled philosophy site, and nearly everyone posting has reverted to hostility an...

That's because they seek to attribute blame, rather than understanding that both sides are afflicted by religious identity. The solution is simple - a...

At least that's an honest sentiment. That's not what you're doing at all. Maybe that's what you believe you're doing, but you're not. The idea of Cult...

Religion speaks of love and peace, but only for those who believe in the same concept of God. It's hateful toward those who believe in a different ide...

I agree. We need more energy - not less. But magma is the only sufficiently large, concentrated source of clean energy available. Consider, that it wo...

You're right that geothermal would require storing and transporting energy. The scale is not unprecedented when you consider all the tanker ships movi...

If drawing on the work of Adam Smith, surely you refer to rational self interest - and not to immoral/amoral selfishness? No. Economic decision making...

How did you get the idea I intend to move the Amazon rainforest? I said - that if we have the energy to produce water, we can farm land other than for...

Were we to accept a scientific understanding of reality and act accordingly, we would harness the heat energy of the earth to address the climate cris...

Wind will keep the lights on, maybe - but cannot produce enough energy to extract carbon, produce hydrogen fuel, desalinate water to irrigate land, an...

I don't believe wind and solar will ever be sufficient to meet our needs; and it's only a policy of diversification of energy sources since 1973, that...

The technologies I refer to are those necessary to sustainability; starting with massive heat energy from magma, limitless clean electricity, carbon c...

Malthus argument is instructive, even though it's not correct. It's proven false by 200 years of technological progress that now sees more people bett...

Okay, then - how about numerology? We could break the passage down word by word, assign numeric values to each letter, then add up all the numbers, di...

And Jews and Muslims, but not rational agnostics. That's called discrimination, and I take exception to it! I'm officially offended by your discrimina...

De jure - something that (legitimately) exists as a result of law. De facto - something that exists as a result of fact other than law. De dicto - wha...

Maybe that's a theological or doctrinal interpretation; but I'm doing social anthropology. What it means as the word of God is of less interest to me ...

Yes. This for example. What am I meant to make of this? Do you imagine I can see into your brain, to know what you mean by these words? I can't. The w...

Oh well then, you win! Probably, if I could understand your writing. Is English your first language?

Oh, I see. That's not what I thought you said. And it's not what I replied to. If you think there's an afterlife and your grandmother is watching over...

Please do not force me to argue against your beliefs. I'm agnostic, and an advocate of science. My comments here are about the nature of religion; not...

Not anymore than Communists were comradely, no! Famously, communists got rid of God and put the state in His place, but it's still essentially the sam...

I've endured months of attacks by subjectivist fundamentalists for suggesting there's truth value to scientific knowledge; and a good part of that I s...

I'm of the view that human beings evolved, and that religion occurs for political reasons in the course of evolutionary development. I imagine hunter ...

Mood genes? Sure - that's what it is! Are you saying I don't have good reason to be depressed? Are you saying that, in the same circumstances, that th...

Musk worked his way up, has raised awareness and done good. I'm not knocking the guy. I am comparing my theoretical constructions to his actual achiev...

Right, people have different answers, but everyone recognises that there is a moral dilemma. If there weren't a moral dilemma posed by taking the mone...

Sure. That's cool! But let me see if I can get back on topic from where I was. Woke-ism! That should not come as a surprise! There was a parallel, whe...

Musk's solar/battery approach is sub-optimal to say the least. Battery powered cars, fuelled by a 40-50% fossil fuel dependent electricity grid are no...

Windmills cost a lot of money to build, they last 25 years, and produce a trickle of power when the wind blows, whereas, magma is a massive source of ...