shirgall
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When they waste their time on trivialities he seems to be getting core work done. The time before the reversal of the green card aspect was an interesting time to negotiate with other middle-eastern powers about refugees, wasn't it?
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Is it even possible to have an offline computer anymore?
shirgall replied to DaVinci's topic in Science & Technology
Admittedly the "typewriter" stuff was certainly earlier. There's a show called "The Americans" which covers the era of my early memory. -
Is it even possible to have an offline computer anymore?
shirgall replied to DaVinci's topic in Science & Technology
Many great stories of the Cold War are all about just that. -
Heck, he is only the god of Mt. Sinai. All the other mountains have gods, too, so there's no particular need to elevate him above the others. "Adonai" and "Elohim" could just as easily be translated "and all the rest" just like our fated farmgirl and scientist on Gilligan's Island before the reformation (now in color!).
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Is it even possible to have an offline computer anymore?
shirgall replied to DaVinci's topic in Science & Technology
Typewriters also have a "fist", a fingerprint of sorts, that could be used to connect typewriters and documents typed with them, much to the chagrin of spies with typed coded messages. -
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567610.How_to_Read_a_Book
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Why doesn't someone "restart" the economy?
shirgall replied to DaVinci's topic in Libertarianism, Anarchism and Economics
Taxes have to be paid with dollars, so sooner or later one has to exchange value to get them. That's the anchor to the old system. -
And I'm being told the clock tower at the Smithsonian has been broken on that side for decades. Oh well.
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The solution is akin to "a rising tide lifts all boats." Address directly issues that lead to lowering IQ of a population like beating children, lowest common denominator daycare, unfettered immigration from low-IQ or violent cultures, and backwards education. Encourage directly issues that appeal to the skepticism of the high IQ population. This is a long-term play. There is no guarantee of success. There is apparently an emergent property of collectivism in cultures with IQs in a certain range, and it loots the culture to the point of tribalism. We have to bridge that gap to the level beyond it and somehow sustain that level. We look to the cultures that survived the transition to learn from. The state and free money idea is so attractive it may need a catastrophic collapse to be shaken off.
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Zoom in on the clock tower and remember the inauguration and speech was at noon... (pic from Huffington Post)
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Agreed, and reading the book "On Truth" talks a great deal about discerning and spreading truth as goodness. Perhaps I boiled it down too much.
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"Follow the money."
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UPB is a test of a moral rule, not a good in and of itself. If you want a Molyneux treatise on "goodness", it's On Truth, The Tyranny of Illusion: http://cdn.media.freedomainradio.com/feed/books/OnTruth/On_Truth_The_Tyranny_of_Illusion_by_Stefan_Molyneux_PDF.pdf It's a book, but I'll give a hint: "truth is good".
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I'm caught up to January 7th call-in show at this point and I still haven't heard my comment being addressed. Can you give a hint?
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University of Washington - Milo Event
shirgall replied to Dylan Lawrence Moore's topic in Current Events
Someone did get shot at this event, though. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/police-release-man-arrested-in-uw-shooting/ -
University of Washington - Milo Event
shirgall replied to Dylan Lawrence Moore's topic in Current Events
So many of us near Seattle, but there's no way I could have gone into that city on Inauguration Day. -
University of Washington - Milo Event
shirgall replied to Dylan Lawrence Moore's topic in Current Events
Even a half hour's drive away youths were egging houses and cars in my suburb. The local nosy ladies Facebook group (every neighborhood has one) was quite annoyed. -
Yup. I'm now completely convinced that women on the left aren't murderous thugs with a tenuous grasp of reality, and that I shouldn't defund Planned Parenthood or the government that funds them.
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I think the difference is that UPB is a methodology for testing moral rules, not a moral rule itself. The categorical imperative specifies a "should". UPB helps us winnow out "shoulds" that don't pass scrutiny. Ah, well rape was a bad example then because the force is not by reason or logic but instead by threat of physical damage on one hand, and if consent is freely given it's not rape by definition on the other. The ice cream example doesn't work, either, because no one is forcing anyone to prefer ice cream. UPB asks us to evaluate, "Is a world where everyone should prefer ice cream logically consistent?" Well, there's no force, and there's a problem with the lactose intolerant, but it doesn't really cause any problems.
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Everyone preferring ice cream does not force one actor's preferences on another. You got what I was saying backwards. Rape forces one actor's preferences to have sex on another that doesn't prefer it in that instance. If they did prefer it they would call it "sex" not "rape". The difference between the two terms is the preference of the victim.
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I did read your original post. I pointed out that HOW that preference is forced upon another is important. How is everyone being forced to prefer ice cream in your formulation? Where is the behavior involving more than one actor? There is a substantial difference here.
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UPB's methodology came to a quickly easy conclusion that rape cannot be universally preferable. Was that insufficient?
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Just what preference is being asserted on you without consent? What is the consequence for resistance? Rape is not just the trauma of the act, it is also the very likely, immediate threat of injury or death for not complying with the act, with accompanying long-term mental injuries (forced helplessness, verbal abuse, invalidation of consent and personal integrity), physical injury, probably long-term fertility consequences, a likely induced aversion to certain activities because of association with trauma, and much, much more. Rape is not about the simple activity of sex, it is total subjugation to another without consent and in the face of being extinguished. There is no sense in claiming asserting unwanted series of unwanted consequences for a moment's sake of gratification is morally neutral.
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Atheists ("true" or otherwise) are just the people that don't claim there is a god of any stripe. There is a variety called "strong" that claim there is no god, but proving a negative is a waste of time. There is a variety of person (called "rational") that point out that certain collections of claims about certain gods are logically inconsistent, but that has nothing to do with whether they themselves make a claim there is a god or not. There is no assertion about understanding another person's beliefs in not making a claim. If they don't understand why someone else believes something it is not because of their atheism but because of their lack of understanding, curiosity, or empathy. You can get those problems from a variety of causes regardless of religious or areligious upbringing. There is a class of error known as "fundamental attribution error" that is rampant in discussions of atheism and atheists. There are so many sacrilegious puns possible with this turn of phrase that I am having a hard time keeping it under control.
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In my experience (since we're being anecdotal) people are born atheists but are influenced if not indoctrinated at a young age into the beliefs of their close relatives. No one ever pushed religion on me so I didn't pick one up.
