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I get that and it's a great point, but it seems a bit in-your-face. Perhaps it's just that moral corruption is so deeply ingrained at this point that ...

I am not assuming anything. I was just curious how this might play-out and what the reaction might be of all parties concerned...the player, the refer...

If you believe that all time is taking place at the same time, then perhaps you should go to the closest window and there I am...simply floating by.

It's not. It's wisdom passed down over the millennia.

What I am saying might make more sense to you in ten or fifteen years. Maybe not. I know I come from a very different place, but isn't that good? Many...

It is if it is for you. Everybody has their own reality, no? And how would God play into this?

What I enjoy about these conversations is other interesting people sharing their points of view. It is not my intention to convince you of anything. I...

Think of it this way...things are as good as they can be each and every moment. Since Reality is something you experience outside of the intellect, th...

The idea is that as some things improve, others dis-improve, by definition (and proportionally). Simply the fact that we cannot access the present (ti...

Absolutely.

I had a good friend who used to say that, "Things have never been any better or worse then they have ever been," and over time I believe I have come t...

Temporally, absolutely, but, practically speaking, I think not. There are many different directions we can take that so let me go in this one. Science...

Although I am sure you could probably find some academic sources to support just about any claim, my point was to keep this casual. I am interested in...

Well, Issac, I would imagine if you spoke with every participant in this forum, you would get many different reasons why they are here. You are very s...

Isn't ceasing only relative to your exact Universal (coordinate) position? And doesn't that suggest that no thing can actually cease? Who is? And wher...

You are missing my point. There are two types of conversations you can have. One a friendly chat over a couple of beers type of chat and another where...

What is being? What is ceasing?

It can be meditation. It can also be death.

Experience takes place then words attempt to capture the experience. The difficulty lies in the idea that the intellect is simply incapable of accessi...

As a very serious Zen student for the past 30+ years, allow me quote the famous Tang dynasty master, Huang Po: "Open your mouth and you have already l...

Thinking is time. Therefore imagining is time. If you wish to do without time, do without thinking.

I think nearly everybody has a tendency to have an extremely short-term outlook these days (for lots of obvious reasons), but the so-called "invisible...

Point well taken. There are very few serious "anythings" out there. People should take the time to read his work. Truly a brilliant economist. No doub...

There's a book written by a black gentleman titled, "Stop Helping Us," or something to that effect. He can explain it better than I, but the gist is t...

We've been through all this in this country. People who went to school (when you actually learned something, say, people over 50) know the history. We...

Of course, that's why it soooo important to have a family and community (education) supporting you. The number one predictor of success is successful ...

Despite conceding the election, she spent the next four years saying that he was not the legitimate president. Bottom-line...it's politics, they all (...

Despite your animation, redistribution is a temporary solution (at best, and a poor one at that).

This would be like having an organisation fight against heart disease by pointing out the few times that cardiac surgeons made mistakes doing complex ...

BLM seems to be a Marxist political group with their own agenda and they have every right to that. Hey, Marx was a brilliant economist (but he unleash...

You increase fairness by expanding access and opportunity. Redistribution does not work. People have to do it (succeed) themselves in order for it to ...

Can you document and verify that?

Maybe we should make all tall people shorter, good looking people plainer, smart people dumber, so on and so forth? Yes, certain people have advantage...

What's extreme is they don't seem to care about the massive black-on-black carnage that's going on in several U.S. cities. Not nice? Do you have any i...

As far as I can tell, they wanted to get Trump out of office. Otherwise, they seem to be concerned about the 10-15 unarmed black men killed each year ...

I am trying to polite and nice so please don't play games with me. I know you know who they are, after all, who doesn't? My original question was abou...

Obviously you're not familiar with the group, but thank you anyway. Enjoyed the conversation!

According to their website (which was changed after getting some bad press), they were anti-nuclear family, a position that might be called a bit extr...

For example, the Democrat party in the U.S. essentially supporting BLM's agenda.

I live in the People's Republic of California. It seems as if the "left" has taken the extremist path (which never works out very well) and I am wonde...

If I can change the subject...being new to this forum and interested in what's taking place in the country, I am would be interested in what the curre...

I'll let counterpunch fight his own battles. I am professionally trained in science and agree vis a vis its utility, but it has SERIOUS limitations wh...

I never suggested he was factually wrong. I've seen those same statistics many times. What I was getting at is that science (similar to religion) can ...

The truth always comes out...eventually...but generally well after the profits have been taken and legal liabilities have lapsed. Science is not what ...

I completely agree with this guy. Is there any free stuff at the Philosophy Forum?

By force, what is meant is that there are innumerable factors that affect markets. If some would like to include, God, why the hell not!? Amen...and A...

Science can be as political as every other institution, e.g., the story of BIG tobacco.

This is not a scientific journal, only a discussion between interested parties. You can choose to agree or disagree. Obviously you have access to the ...

The market is more than just price discovery as anybody who has been cancelled can attest. It's an all encompassing force that players on all sides at...

There are many good reasons to rent. And the problem isn't necessarily renting, its the political tax incentives that create the disparities. Again, m...