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It feels great.

The NAP does not prescribe any mode of organisation. Anything goes, as long as it is voluntary. Eventually, the most efficient mode will prevail.

Here in Austria most of the Jewish organisations are pro immigration which should come as no surprise when you read Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald.

So God is bound by physical laws?

The verse in question is Gen 2:22 The Vulgate reads: et aedificavit Dominus Deus costam quam tulerat de Adam in mulierem et adduxit eam ad Adam (and God 'built' her from the rib he took to the wife and gave her to Adam) The Septuagint texts inlcudes the words oikodomaso (to build) and pleura (side) so the translation is similar. When you have a look at a 'critical' bible you will see that it shows if there are different translations for a given verse. Plato wanted to explain homosexuality in one of his myths. According to him, humans rolled around like cannonballs. Every human consisted of two two units who could be male or female. The gods saw that humans became too arrogant and they split the humans in half. Depending on the original configuration you became either heterosexual (original configuration woman - man or man - woman) or homosexual (man - man or woman - woman).

No. The Vulgate Bible was the main source for Western Christianity. It was translated around 400 AD and has remained in service since then. Bibles were copied in monasteries for hundreds of years and they were in circulation. What does have print to do with it? Until you provide concrete examples the question is meaningless. Actually, they are. You have two very old translations of the Old Testament. The Vulgate and the Septuagint have been researched and found to be very accurate. As is the Masoretic Text, the Hebrew version of the Old Testament. By looking at Qumran and comparing it to those old fragments you can verify that the Masoretic text is accurate. When you take Western grammar and philosophy into account, the translations are fairly accurate. Do you have examples for inaccuracy?

It would be hard to kill all people who do reseach on that enzyme. Have a look at the publications and you will notice that the study is not restricted to Florida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GcMAF

Hey Lukas, here is a bunch of articles and books: http://www.citylab.com/housing/2013/11/paradox-diverse-communities/7614/ (cohesion) http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/201/4/282.abstract?etoc(psychology and multiculturalism) http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/201/4/282.abstract?etoc(dysfunctional socieites caused by multiculturalism) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2007.00176.x/abstract;jsessionid=279C92A7EB0946BBA63D62937FC832A9.f04t03 http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/the_downside_of_diversity/?page=full http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2012.300787(health and multiculturalism) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01138.x/full(politics and multiculturalism) http://www-personal.umich.edu/~axe/research/AxHamm_Ethno.pdf(the evolution of ethnocentrism) http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10640-012-9619-6(concern for your enviroment and multiculturalism) https://www.msu.edu/~zpneal/publications/neal-diversitysoc.pdf(social cohesion and multiculturalism) http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-diverse-cities-are-often-the-most-segregated/ http://www.amazon.com/The-Ethnic-Phenomenon-Pierre-Berghe/dp/0275927091(a race as extended family) http://www.livescience.com/46791-friends-share-genes.html http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/7.html('racism' as evolutionary strategy) http://www.theindependentaustralian.com.au/node/57(Corruption and multiculturalism) http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/n&n(You prefer people who are genetically similar to you) Grüsse aus Linz

Here are some links: http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v16/n10/abs/mp201185a.html(Heritability of IQ) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289608000305(IQ tests are not culturally biased) http://www.jbhe.com/features/49_college_admissions-test.html(Poor whites score the same as wealthy blacks) http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1994egalitarianfiction.pdf(Scientists have different beliefs than what they say in public) http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1977-07996-001(The role of nurture when it comes to IQ) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886912003741(The average African IQ) http://www.jbhe.com/features/49_college_admissions-test.html(IQ scores drift apart) http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/PPPL1.pdf(Heritability of IQ)

This is one of the funniest docus I have seen in a long time. A Chinese company tries to build a road in the Kongo and we follow two buddies in the process.

How do you eat well? If the past is any indication, any new information that is seen as the truth is subject to change in the future.

What do you mean? There was never an attack on Pearl Harbour?

My favourite fantasy books include: - Wheel of Time. Three farmer boys fight evil. You follow their ways from teenagers to me with all the problems they have. WoT relies on Dune with the way magic works (women do most of it, men are persecuted). It shows a large world with heroes you can identify with. Great storytelling. - Malazan Book of the Fallen. Perhaps the best series I read so far. It avoids any tropes of the fantasy genre and plays with them joyfully. There is for instance a barbarian introduced who at first behaves the way they are supposed. As the story goes on you discover more and more nuances about him. The storytelling is unique. There is a backstory that we can only glimpse and the series itself is vast and open ended. You can have your own personal Odyssey while reading it. The way you see the world and literature changes with every book you read. - The Stormlight Archives. A modern day classic though most of the books are yet unwritten. Sanderson shows a complex society and how it works. More action driven than Malazan and also you can find more traditional elements. - Roadside picnic. The Strugazki brothers set a high standard for science fiction. Roadside picnic shows the aftermath of a visitation by Aliens. - The Futurological Congress. Lem shows us a picture of the future that is likely and depressing. At the same time you have to laugh pretty hard about the ineptitude of the tyrannical government shown there. Also serves as an intro to other works by Lem. - Anything by PK Dick, except the Ubik trilogy which is unreadable. - The Glass Bees. Jünger imagines a world where automisation has made enourmos progress. Unless the Zeitgeist crowd he warns of dangers. The Glass Bead Game. Hesse integrates psychology with Sci Fi. The structure of the book is unique. In the end you will have a pleasant surprise.

The story is a bit different. Of course, Apple wanted to comply with the government but in secret. When the FBI went public with the demand, Tim Cook saw a chance to improve Apple's public image by denying the public request. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/technology/how-tim-cook-became-a-bulwark-for-digital-privacy.html?_r=0

Le Guin is a fantastic writer. When it comes to complex fantasy, her Earthsea cycle is only rivalled by the Malazan series when it comes to content and philosophy.

Calculating the exact time is pretty hard. You have to use the Lorenz equation and adjust for a uniform source of heat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_system When you heat water, there are turbulences in the water: hot water gets up, cools down, and gets up again. That is why the temperature of water you heat is not uniform, but different depending on the location of the thermostate.

Capitalism developed rather late in the West. Based on an interpretation of Roman law, the first advocate was a French Dominican called William of Rennes. See https://mises.org/sites/default/files/Austrian%20Perspective%20on%20the%20History%20of%20Economic%20Thought.pdf Page 57, last paragraph for details. The idea that Freedom of Speech, Self Defense etc. are universal came up in the Enlightenment. Before, it only applied to a well defined group of people (in the Roman case or the Magna Carta) and could be disregarded at will if circumstances demanded it.

Here is another theory what might have caused the microencephaly in Brazil. http://www.examiner.com/article/argentine-physicians-claim-monsanto-larvicide-is-true-cause-of-microcephaly

To say that this is a monkey cage would insult monkeys.

She actually apologized. The Western world has become a madhouse.

A leftist gets raped and writes about it on facebook. You get one internet if you can guess what she wrote.

The Mormon religion makes a lot of claims about historical events that can be disproven. What is your take on those Bushrat?

Culturally homogenous Western societies tend to improve in absence of war and natural disasters. The standard of living increases, the power of government shrinks (if it was big to begin with) and productivity soars. Anybody with an IQ over idiocy can understand and follow the Western values. The problem is not of understanding but one of doing. There seem to be biological factors that hold back societies from implementing Western values. The idea of freedom and the implementation requires certain conditions that cannot be created by freedom itself. If these conditions are not met the society will be unfree forever.

I know exactly what you are talking about. When I was 9 years old, our school visited a planetarium. They showed us star formations and galaxies. That is when I realized for the first time how vast the universe is and that nothing matters on this large a scale. This existential angst has been in the background of my mind since then. My way out is that there is inherent meaning. It is created by what you hold dear and what you strive for. Humans can deal with hardships as long as their goal is worthy of the endeavour.