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Bloody hell! I would say all that text represents baggage you must jettison without further ado. There are no unbelievable and great women. Women are limited in all their faculties when compared to men. If you believe in God then understand that all people are face-down in the filth in God's eyes. Grasp this status for yourself and others and you will become stronger and freer, and you will draw people towards you in a miraculous way. Do not worship any false idol, especially human idols. Here is a great talk by Tim Keller. You don't have to be religious to benefit from the profundity and wisdom in the message:

I thought the more we discover the more we realise we don't know. As for evolution, how many gaps devoid of transitional forms are there now, roughly?

It takes some faith to believe in gaps.

That's what I like, FAITH!

I have evidence that life can come from non-life, but I'm keeping it to myself. I'll never share the secret. For the rest of the world, it will have to remain an article of faith.

It would be nice to hear some discussion on evolution. Most people don't know that the theory has been receiving some serious beatings over recent years, and that the scientific establishment - which is run like a global church, using intimidation, blatant lies, and the power of the corporate-controlled media - has been desperately trying to keep the theory alive. A good start would be an interview with the shy and retiring Ben Stein about his documentary Expelled. No Intelligence Allowed: An interview with Michael J. Denton would be enlightening for many. He is a real scientist who does real genetics (i.e. he didn't give up science decades ago to write books and go around the world attacking religion). In this interview he admits that Darwinian evolution by random mutation will be dropped as a theory when establishment science comes up with something better: Above is Stephen Meyer, a very articulate scientist and well worth watching. I'd love to hear an interview with him on Freedomain Radio. The next video is very important for anyone who thinks sedimentary rock layers build up over millions of years. They do not, as Mount St. Helens demonstrated back in 1980: Other suggested interviewees: David Berlinski, Jonathan Sarfati, Dr. John Sanford, and Astrophysics Hugh Ross Addendum 05/06/2018 A meeting was held at the Royal Society at the end of 2016 to discuss the future of Darwin's theory: NEW TRENDS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: BIOLOGICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES Developments in evolutionary biology and adjacent fields have produced calls for revision of the standard theory of evolution, although the issues involved remain hotly contested. This meeting presented these developments and arguments and encouraged cross-disciplinary discussion, which involved the humanities and social sciences in order to provide further analytical perspectives and explore the social and philosophical implications. https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2016/11/evolutionary-biology/

Yes. According to the data, IQ and time preferences/future vision are correlated. Low IQ = poor ability to put oneself in a future situation, bring that image into the here and now, feel the emotion and act now to avert disaster in the future, be it with your harvest, your exams, pension etc. North east Asians have a high IQ and can plan long-term. However, it seems that they need predictability based on experience rather than imagination or foresight. This might explain why they are so cautious. Given the above, of the three broad racial groups, Negroid, mongoloid, and Caucasoid, Caucasoid people are the best at foreseeing future problems. This is neither good nor bad, I would add. Caucasoid people are more confident to take action based on foresight rather than experience. However, disaster sometimes ensues. Perhaps I should have said Caucasoid rather than European. All is moot without comprehensive studies and open discussion. Also, I think 'low IQ' is an abysmal term to use when comparing races. European children have high time preference, meaning they are focused on their own well-being in the present and the immediate future, but we don't say they have low IQ. Low IQ describes and explains nothing about something which is of vast complexity and possibly beyond the grasp of the most intelligent.

Thanks. I think it's more controversial and of even greater importance than the issue of IQ. I'm sure military intelligence have some stunning data. Another intriguing subject is the European ability to foresee seemingly unforeseeable problems. A Chinese psychologist was doing research into this in the USA, but was shut down for the usual reasons. The idea that the military didn't take up the research is impossible.

Nope. What I'm asking is this: Are Europeans afflicted with the heavy burdens of empathy and guilt while the other races are privileged to swan through life bearing the comparatively trifling loads of sympathy and shame? And if so, since culture seems to be in our DNA, is this difference likely to be genetic?

Sympathy and shame vs empathy and guilt (I decided to reduce a long text to bullet points) question: are sympathy and (public) shame universal, but empathy and (private) guilt European or Caucasoid? moral crisis in Oriental societies and much talk of a loss of empathy investigation led me to legacy media article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/22/china-nation-cold-hearts about China being a nation of '1.4 billion cold hearts'; and to research on Chinese/Japanese empathy and guilt, e.g. http://www.academia.edu/3620724/Chinese_Lack_of_Empathy_in_Development. psychologists proffer environmental reasons : for the Chinese, problem is one-child policy and selfish children; for the Japanese, rapid industrialisation question: could 'loss of empathy' in fact be the evaporation of shame in the absence of village stigma? question: does pro-social behaviour in other races depend on the all-seeing eye of close-knit communities and a tribal dictator? The golden triangle of freedom Socrates in the City lecture, Os Guinness talks about the golden triangle of freedom: faith, virtue and freedom. (Stefan would no doubt replace faith with truth). Freedom comes from removing the need for external control by governing our own behaviour. Governing our own behaviour (virtue) requires faith. This is the Golden Triangle of Freedom. question: do empathy and guilt govern Europeans internally and thus free us from the need for external community stigma and the iron rod of a dictator? question: are the other races bemused by our behaviour: going to the ends of the earth to rescue strangers of other races, charity donations, giving blood, and protesting on behalf of hedgehogs? Recently we've seen mocking stories about 'typical white tears', which betrays a little bit of the black perspective http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/leader-of-rhodes-must-fall-campaign-was-right-to-mock-white-tears-theyre-just-another-form-of-racism-a7013456.html. question: do some members of other races look at empathy and guilt in Europeans with contempt, as a horrible weakness or a mental illness, but also as something they can exploit and should keep quiet about? Can we hear it from the horses mouth?