shirgall

Wasn't the idea put forward when considering advice from a fat nutritionist? In fact, I think the statement in particular was about Karl Marx, his treatment of his maid, and his advocacy for workers' rights.

Indeed, I have a hard enough time getting people to recognize that piling on adjectives is name-calling and not argument. Then I get can finally get started on teaching that claims asserted without evidence also don't require evidence to dismiss.

Philosophy is the algorithm that's always right, and human action is often the heuristic that's right enough quickly enough for the narrower situation in which it is applied. Remember that logic, reason, and evidence is not overturned by beliefs but rather by errors. Doing the wrong thing when you know better doesn't imply that the right thing is wrong. It just means you chose not to the do the right thing for some "reason", pun intended.

His argument was "If it makes you miserable, perhaps it's not worth it, even if it's right."

Twitter is a write-only service when you get to a certain size of followers. I use it as a necessity for work, not for changing the world.

I try to keep this simpler. Truth is preferable to falsehood. This is a premise necessary to objectively judge behavior. When man invented God he may have been seeking virtue (just one big lie--an all-powerful God judges your behavior--that makes it easier to indoctrinate virtue) but ultimately it fails when people are routinely able to determine virtue without it. The road to Hell was paved with good intentions...

Oh, but they did. They leveraged the Tyrells, the crown of the Seven Kingdoms, and the Iron Bank of Bravos to hold them high.

Shall we add wages to the mix? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-10/inconvenient-jobs-revisions-obama

A June 10 intentional kerfuffle: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/06/10/clinton-supporters-hit-trump-unpaid-bills-report/85709460/ They tried to claim it made him an unsuccessful businessman, and blew up in their faces because final payment was held due to non-performance of the agreed work. It blew over quickly.

A good place to start at looking beneath the numbers: http://www.shadowstats.com/

Shouldn't always be the case. Unless you lose with all of your feasible alternatives to the agreement you settled on. If you lose on all of your alternatives, you probably aren't dealing with a free market.

Fair enough, it was the straw that broke the camel's back. I wasn't comprehending that you can covered the other topics as deeply as you had described. It sounds like waves crashing on a rock now the way you describe it, and I recognize that feeling.

As a Dad, I don't think I've ever seen an era without shaming, I have to find reruns of 70's or earlier shows to get a strong father figure in a show or an ad.

There are plenty of topics of interest in the sea, and perhaps he didn't want to burn out the audience. Do you listen to the call-in shows?

Really not the issue I would have built up stakes on. "There was a time when everyone recognized taxes and a standing army as wrong, but they accepted that no one would pay for some critical things in enough time unless they were imposed. At times superpowers like England and France and others later on were watching for the moment of weakness to swoop in and take all the resources and undefended labor in the new world. However, it seems that time has passed and people have forgotten that taxes and armies were tolerated wrongs." That would spark an interesting discussion about having to do things were wrong in the moment, and losing sight of what's right when generations of convenience and complacency and reinforcement work against you. When you are on a date you are on your best behavior. You want to be interesting, You want to be your own person. You want the other person to hunger for your thoughts and dreams. And you want ot fin dout how they think too. The heroin gambit is brinkmanship. It's like going on all in on the second hand. Perhaps the word "feminist" on her profile triggered her and you were looking for a reason to stomp out in a huff, to be offended before she could be. And this is from a guy like me that dated women in downtown Portland and lived to marry.

"Douche" is the current vogue. Why do you come to us seeking expertise in name-calling? Name-calling is not an argument, it's a tantrum. It neither persuades people to a point of view nor exemplifies philosophical achievement.

The quantity of Islamic attacks has really pushed back the schedule a bit, but the "Truth About" series really does draw new eyes to his other material.

I've got some old notes with a face value of one amount but a numismatic value that is different, depending on whether I can find a buyer. I know you are trying to limit things to a particular kind of money, but the domain of value, even economic value, is broader than that.

For the wars and man-made disasters, there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_anthropogenic_disasters_by_death_toll As for the Garden of Eden story, I'm done. You asked for my take, knowing full well that I didn't care much about it, and seem dissatisfied that I'm not willing to spend a lot of time on it.

(1) rational minds should be refactoring when encountered evidence contrary to established conclusions, which is directly in opposition to religious doctrine, the fruit of the tree of knowledge was revealed wisom, not discovered... it still feels like a story on the level of "do not meddle with the affairs of wizards for you can be made crunchy and smothered in ketchup." (2) At one point 70,000ish years ago there were 2000 homo sapiens, according to one theory. According to another there were only 2 about 6,000 years ago, but that seems far-fetched. Go back to twelve thousand years ago and start with two million people and make sure you look at what percentage of people die for what reasons as the eras march on. You will readily see people living longer and not dying of the simpler causes as time goes on. Yes, World War II was particularly bad, but on average doubling population every fifty years is an impressive feat for any critter, no matter how nasty it gets to the other critters in the cage. It's interesting that the growth rate slows as standard of living increases. http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/history/world-population-growth.htm

Their drive to eat and procreate did not make them strong enough to repel the giant meteor therefore we should stop using anything more technological than fire and spears? I know it's a straw man, but I have difficulty following the reasoning.

(1) Try to explain your concepts without metaphors or buzzwords. Clarity is more important than elegance. The allegory of the garden is all about "do what you are told" and "don't pry" and "shut up slave." But that's too obvious, let's write a story about friendly lions who turn predator because of humans! (2) Prior eras could have wiped out mankind with other means. The human race, and significant portions of it, have been on the brink in the past. The difference with nuclear weapons is that it can target the leaders of a country just as easily as an army, which is why it's horror and condemnation is constantly talked up and reinforced... by the leaders.

I'm thinking the market will continue to generate innovations, as it always has, and that standard of living will continue to rise along with with productivity, as it always has, as long as the market is not interfered with by unavoidable externalities (namely luddites and the state actors that manipulate them for personal gain). What are your thoughts? Shoot me if I manufacture a robot or refuse to pay a retraining tax? I do not condescend to think that people with gainful employment now who might face technological unemployment are incapable of finding something else to gainfully pursue. There have been periods of technological and social unemployment in the past and most people figure it out.

Menial jobs have been supplanted regularly for thousands of years and most everyone's lot in life has improved.

Indeed, that's how everyone in a free transaction benefits.