So just to be clear, you agree that the victims of theft have a right to recover their property, yes? And before I answer, are you a hermit who does n...
Go take a history course. Talk to all those who have had their land stolen, or their labor stolen. You benefit from it. Are you prepared to give it ba...
Should that which was stolen be returned? Define "theft." Does that definition have something to do with law? If it's legal, is it theft. If those who...
:100: Yeah, whenever someone says the universe is 14b years old, I immediately want to know what happened 1t years ago. Then they say there was no tim...
So, you don't know what you were talking about? Not too clever. Either that, or time is nothing. So you were talking about nothing? Why didn't you say...
You just answered your own question. You said "I am anti tax." That's why. Might makes right. Right? I mean, money is might. If I buy the politicians ...
What is the subject of this thread? Time? DOH! That is the "something" we are talking about. I did not say "anything". I said "something" in the conte...
Yes you did and yes you did. Whereas I did NOT say "anything." You imputed that to me. You and I were both talking about time. So forget "anything" an...
Yes you did. And you did it again when you said: I'm merely saying God is not subject to time unless God wants to be. If God was subject to it, that w...
Stupid people are not really a problem. The problem is the smart people who use stupid people against other smart people. Wise people will not use peo...
emphasis added] Just because God created something that exists does not mean God is subject to it. Anyway, I refer to God as All, or A, but I'm fine w...
Oh, I get it. You're a fucking troll. Same difference. Trump is a troll too. That's what half his minions like about him. Oh well, you outed yourself ...
We don't think that. We know full well Trump and his acolytes are masters at propaganda. Of course, they have help from Putin, et al, but still. If th...
I guess you don't know your history. Liberals gave you all that is good. It was conservative forces (and their bitch, religion) which maintained all t...
I can't speak for all liberals, because I'm not as magnanimous as they are. But I think you are correct. Hitler makes a good reference point and if he...
Yes, voting cancer would be a terrible idea! That would be like voting for Covid! Learn how to read, silly. That's why I said "vote liberal." Liberal ...
Actually, they did count. They elected Trump. So you stand corrected. Are you a Trumpette? Or worse, are you one of those people who pretends to moder...
They like to say it because it is true. It means something to Americans. It is true. Biden, et al, were only the condition that enabled Trump to the e...
I don't follow him. How is he doing out there? Everyone is less than useless. But some are still better than others. Biden is better than Trump. To th...
Of course it is early, and we have (hopefully, finally) learned our lesson that you can never underestimate the stupidity of Americans (? is a traitor...
That itself is subjective. We have a habit of flipping back and forth to which ever suits us at the moment. I'm doing it now. I often like to distingu...
I like that. Like you, I won't pretend to know how effective it was, but I like it. It brings up another issue: It seems to me that virtually every si...
The only objective view is the one that sees everything we do as natural. The subjective view sees what we do as better or worse, or capable of being ...
I get that too. Especially if someone dangles it in front of them. That is why, at least in my limited experience, it's pretty stupid to dangle. There...
For me, it's another one of those things that cannot be satisfactorily articulated. It's just known. By an inverse analogy, in a certain profession th...
Absolutely none. There is a whole community of artists who define art as the process and not result. Some of it appears to me to be absolute shit. But...
Who are the gatekeepers? Should they license people, like the bar does, or the medical community, or architecture? If you practice "philosophy" withou...
:100: :up: The only part of this subject that I find worth talking about is the OP. Specifically, "Assuming that the Gnostics were (and still are) "on...
So wait . . . I got my degree in Political Science. Doesn't that mean I get to be a politician? You mean I have to get votes? WTF is that all about? I...
I'm not missing that at all. In fact, I think science is somewhat like that. There are more misses than hits. In fact, some even try to intentionally ...
That sounds so predictable. And it highlights what seems to me to be an oxymoronic (emphasis on moronic) problem with the idea of being "in the compan...
:100: When I wore what I perceived as a white hat, I was subsidized by my partners. When I wore what I perceived as a black hat, the money came rollin...
That right there is closer to what I was talking about, especially if they replicated in the experiment. That, of course, might be defeated if part of...
My theme appears to have missed it's mark. :smile: Anyway, I tried to create a parable about scientists who pretended to intellectual curiosity, and n...
I might be wrong, because I never put a lot of thought into religion, but I always thought it was spiritual group-think, and subsidiary to philosophy....
:100: :up: I agree. Let's do that. Once upon a time there was X. He came down from the hill stop and said “I have created cold fusion!” Everyone raise...
That's an illogical either/or assumption. The same as 'Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.' There is always the possibility that...
I think I might love you two. I mean, if you are going to do it, that is how it is done. It's almost Churchillian, and so much better than my knuckle-...
The cultural and political aspect is the conservative/capitalist mindset that wants to paint socialists with a Stalinist, Maoist, Pol Potist brush. It...
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