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@drlebronski
If you're going to masquerade under a new moniker, then there are certain tendencies you might want to conceal (e.g. the subjects you engage, and your proneness to reference ncbi, etc.) otherwise some might--especially I--conclude that this "hiatus" of yours was nothing more than a contrivance intended as an excuse.
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Rap and R&B
Lil Nas X and pretty much every rapper with the "Lil" prefix.
Cardi B, Nicki Minaji, Megan Thee Stallion and the majority of sex-positive female rappers.
Beyonce
Chris Brown (his songs and acting skills, not his dancing.)
With the exception of Joey Bada$$, J.Cole, and Luke Christopher, I despise modern mainstream rap songs.
Rock n Roll
Maroon5
Deathcab for Cutie
Fallout Boy
Bono
Bruce Springstein
Yellowcard
Nickleback
Green Day
Pop
One Direction
Ryan Beatty
Austin Mahomes
Jesse McCartney
Jojo
Taylor Swift
Justin Bie---just kidding.
Justin Timber--also kidding.
Miley Cyrus
Gwen Stefani
Country
Blake Shelton
Carrie Underwood
Dixie Chicks
Dolly Parton
Gospel
Kirk Franklin
Bebe Winans
Yolanda Adams
Elvis
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@Wylted
@zedvictor4
@Discipulus_Didicit
@FLRW
@TheUnderdog
Discipulus_Didicit:
A very controversial subject that has come up many times on this forum. What are everyone's thoughts?
No one should have a "right to vote."
FLRW:
Because the World is very complex now, I say one should have a minimum IQ of 130 to vote if the USA wants to be the World leader.
Would this not also extend to other "rights" as well?
Underdog:
And 130 is an arbitrary number. Why not 160, or 100?
Exactly. The selection is arbitrary because I.Q. itself is arbitrary.
Wylted:
Not to mention an IQ test would also ensure that it was mostly people of favorable ethnicities voting as well.
If I were a voting man--and I must stress that I am not--but if I were, I'd be on board and suggest we prohibit Belgians, West Indians, Welshes, Scots, Danes, Malays, South Africans and worst of all, French Polynesians from voting (trust me -- we are a rag-tag group of derelicts and creamed wine drunks) all on the basis of an ill-gotten quantity which attempts to measure that which, and those who are truly intelligent would understand, cannot be quantified.
zedvictor4:
Hm....Nutcases often have high IQ'sAnd a high IQ is no guarantee of common sense.And neither is a high IQ a guarantee of achievement or success.
Well stated.
And elections are usually decided by the people that care to think about it anyway.
Poorly stated. "Elections" are really "selections." People are merely ex-post-facto justification.
Hence Trump...And then not Trump.
Even Trump was "selected."
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@badger
I mean, the pope is working for the devil. Surely someone should do something about that.
I'm not a protagonist in a film. All that can be done at this point is to have the information ready. What others decide to do with it is ultimately up to them.
You are interesting, that's all.
Okay.
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@badger
All you had to say was that the devil was down here screwing with some shit lol.
Why would that have been all I had to say?
So what's your plan?
My plan?
Your life sounds like the movie They Live.
I have yet to see this movie. It was recommended to me.
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@badger
Yeah but why?
Because they're Luciferians.
Is the Pope actually in some covenant with the devil?
The Pope is Lucifer's vicar. I would presume that establishes a covenant.
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@badger
Is the devil himself actually behind it all, though?
I told you: the devil is an incarnation of Lucifer; it could just as easily be asked if "Pan" was behind all of this. There are certain aspects of Lucifer, who symbolizes a perverted trinity (i.e. The Father God, the Mother Goddess, and the Hermaphrodite Child,) that are venerated at different times. (E.g. The Mother Goddess in April.) I believe Luciferians are behind it all, including the head honcho himself--the Pope.
That's the fun part, being honest.
Whose honesty are you questioning? Be direct and my response will reciprocate.
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@badger
What was Eminem's role? Role in what?
Eminem's role like many of those in the entertainment industry is to acclimate the younger generations with Luciferian imagery and rituals. He, along, with Jay-Z and Nas, assumed the "best rapper" roles after the "murders" of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. Their roles are simple: promote the political ideologies of their sponsors, promote dysfunction, and destructive behavior.
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@badger
So do you think the devil is working through these Luciferians and Eminem and that Epstein was actually sacrificed to the devil?
The devil is an incarnation of Lucifer as are many of these pagan gods. Do I believe that Epstein was sacrificed to the devil? I don't know. It's as plausible as his suicide or his hiding in an underground bunker. Eminem has already served his role, and if he causes no trouble, the pill-bottle will stay away from his hands.
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@RationalMadman
Until the end of what you posted, I was following you.
Capitalists by definition are private actors. They do not seek to centralize the distribution of goods and services. To the contrary in fact. It is communists who seek the aforementioned. And if you're paying attention to what's going with the money (always follow the money) then you'll realize that they're trying to implement an online ledger system, similar to these "cryptocurrencies" that are currently the rage. You and I have broached this subject before sometime in the past.
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@RationalMadman
@Wylted
Michael Jackson was accused of pedophilia only because of a leaked call where he made antisemitic remarks and because of a song where he did the same
Wylted is wrong. MJ really was a pedophile, the conspiracy is how the fucking piece of shit was able to get away with it legally speaking.
Michael Jackson was indeed a pedophile--particularly a pederast--and assumed the alter of "Peter Pan" by instruction of his Luciferian sponsors (i.e. his father, Bob Hope, Quincy Jones, etc.) This was evidently noted in his association with the animated image of "Peter Pan" (e.g. his ranch being known as "Neverland."):
(All of this is to show Michael Jackson's undeniable self-identification with "Peter Pan.") Now, to understand the reason Michael Jackson was a pederast, you'd have to understand the origin of "Peter Pan." Peter Pan was and still is Disney's effort to ingratiate children with the Greek God Pan:
Notice the similarities (e.g. the pointy ears, the pan flute, etc.) But a few similarities isn't enough, right? In J.M. Barrie's original telling, Peter Pan rode a goat, which mimics Pan's Satyr/Faunus appearance. The Greek God, Pan, is derivative of the ancient Kemetic God, P'tah, a.k.a. the great creator, the demiurge, the illuminator, the Great Wizard so forth and so on. (P'tah/Pan = Peter Pan.) Pan is most notably known as the Greek God of pederasty. The imagery in the Peter Pan animated movie suggests that Peter Pan was a pederast (e.g. "Lost Boys" and "Neverland.")
So Michael Jackson was a pederast because the animated image of "Peter Pan" with which he identified was an allusion to the Greek Satyr God, Pan, who was known for his pederasty. (It should be noted that the Catholic elite also worship the Greek God, Pan.) It also didn't help Michael that he was subject to mental and physical abuse (e.g. he and his brothers being sodomized backstage before their appearance on the Ed Sullivan show.)
If it turns out suddenly based on later evidence that is revealed, that MJ was killed as opposed to it being an accident, I am not going to really bat an eyelid.
Interesting how these celebrities at the time without fail died of some overdose.
The fact Eminem was the only mainstream artist to have the guts to bash MJ and properly take a stance against him (music video of Just Lose It) is one of many reasons I respect Em despite him being a misogynistic narcissist.
Eminem has his Luciferian sponsors as well, and they are no better.
I think that the Illuminati/Elite are behind their primary opposition in the conspiracy theory realm, havinf controlled opposition such as Alex Jones, David Icke and the likes give intentionally irrational and exaggerated outlooks (especially that the FILTHY RICH, CAPITALIST elite are somehow COMMUNISTS???).
They are not filthy rich "Capitalists"; they are filthy rich "communists." And their intention is to control all money and its distribution.
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@coal
-The official narrative surrounding the JFK assassination is BS, although I don't know what actually happened
I think the "magic bullet" theory merits the connotation of a "conspiracy theory."
It was likely the CIA.
For what purpose?
It wasn't "likely" the C.I.A. murdered John F. Kennedy. They did murder John F. Kennedy. Particularly on the orders of the Bush Family (i.e. Prescott Bush and his then CIA operative son, and future 41st president, George Herbert Walker Bush.) Lee Harvey Oswald was a C.I.A. agent, and worked in concert with the members of Operation 40. Jack Ruby, who would then murder Lee Harvey Oswald, was a known associate, and was financed, by Prescott Bush.
Like coal said, there were many groups interested in getting rid of Kennedy (some going as far as the mafia) but given that Prescott Bush was a banker, it's plausible that his motives had to do with Kennedy's re-establishing the silver standard, which Lyndon Banes Johnson would get rid of immediately upon his assumption of office. It doesn't take much math to put two and two together.
If you guys are interested in some reading on the subject, then I'd recommend reading The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh.
COVID-19 was made in a lab
As coal stated, this is a verifiable fact, not a "conspiracy theory." I once posted references to 19 patents on the coronavirus spanning back as far as 1984.
UFO's are a government psyop
Yes. Most likely drones.
-The official narrative behind the Las Vegas shooting is BS, but I don't know what actually happened
Yes, this too was a psyop intended to create dialectic in which the American populace gets demobilized.
-Jeffery Epstein did not commit suicide, and may in fact still be alive
Perhaps. Or he was murdered/sacrificed.
Joe McCarthy was right about almost everything
He was right, especially in the advent of Project Paperclip, which would see Nazis en masse being ingratiated to the U.S. government.
-The concept of "conspiracy theories" is itself a conspiracy to cause a reflexive rejection among the populace against any explanation of that contradicts the official narrative
Bingo. With that said though, the "conspiracy theory" hustlers cannot be ignored.
-The official narrative around 9/11 is bunk
The official narrative around 9/11 is bunk.
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Well.Suggesting that pro-choice is therefore always pro-abortion is disingenuous, especially when you're attempting to theo-politicize a personal human social dilemma.
Athias:
Pro-choice, which mirrors my position, when expressed by the left-wing isn't really pro-choice.
I'm pro-choice and have no moral issues with early term abortion, though this does not necessarily make me pro-abortion.
And late term abortion?
Questioning "State" and "effective" is really just jumping on the media bandwagon, slagging off whosoever might currently be in power.
Whoever is in power is irrelevant when your objection is to the State.
We are all "State"
No, "we're" not.
On the other hand, we are not all singularly religious, so although a singular church maybe consistent in it's stance, it is not always representative of a State, and should not be allowed to dictate either Government policy,
Aren't you undermining your previous statements? First, you suggest that "we're all [the] State" and then you suggest that legislation is a rightfully "protracted" process. So what is your objection to a prominently religious State participating in a protracted process?
or the right of an individual to choose.
Yes, but the left wing does not sustain this consistently. Should "early term" or "late term" really qualify an individual's choice?
Religion should be no more than the Sunday morning club.....Though with all that bigotry , I know that's a lot to ask for.
The State is a breeding ground for the bigoted--not necessarily the religious. Take your pick among the clubs.
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@zedvictor4
Overpopulation is a fictitious problem.
Yes.
Simultaneously, this is true and also a fictitious statement.
I'm sure the contradiction is being used rhetorically, but this makes no sense.
Though one assumes that there is a limit to sustainability.
I suppose. However, I'm not suggesting that there's no limit. First we'd have to identify which resource's sustainability is being affected by population size. The ones particularly significant for survival (food, water, fertile land, etc.) are in no particular danger. When the Earth's population can fit comfortably in the West Coast of the United States, or Texas, space is certainly no concern. The water cycle, ground water, rivers, glaciers and even oceans with effective filtration and irrigation systems ensures the hydration of billions. And food can be bred or synthesized.
So yes, overpopulation is fictitious, and in my judgement just used as a pretext to pull off one's best Thanos impression.
Of course the best way to end single motherhood.Is an effective State contraception and abortion system.
"Effective" and "State" in the same sentence? You've lost me.
Oh.....But then you've got to appease all those meddling GOD botherers.
But they're at least consistent in their stance. Pro-choice, which mirrors my position, when expressed by the left-wing isn't really pro-choice. They're just pro-abortion until they arbitrarily decide when it's off-limits.
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Screen-Shot-2018-11-13-at-10.34.52-AM.png (1382×1092) (whyy.org) states that the single motherhood rates are basically at all time highs for all races. This site also states that blacks and Hispanics are more likely to end up in single motherhood homes than whites. This partially explains why blacks and Hispanics are more likely to end up in prison and why they are more likely to end up in poverty than whites.
"Likely" is a tricky and often abused term used to described results delineated from statistics. It is important to note: no statistic can tell the future.
This isn't due to a racist police force that has as many minorities as a proportion of its population as the US population. The lurking variable that many of our left leaning friends and family members fail to realize is the single motherhood epidemic that effects blacks and Hispanics more than it does whites. Why this is the case is anyone's guess, but deadbeat African American dads not honoring their parental responsibilities is certainly not due to the perceived racism of society.
There's a wealth of problems concerning the so-called "black" family, one which includes the government offering welfare to fatherless families.
So this brings us to the question, how to reduce single motherhood so less people go to jail and less kids grow up in poverty.
(Some) children of two-parent homes go to jail and/or grow up in poverty.
My idea is to punish deadbeat parents for abandoning their parental responsibilities.
Delineate these responsibilities.
This consists of deadbeat dads getting a mandatory vastectomy and deadbeat moms getting their tubes tied.
Would you like to try that again?
The funds for this are paid for by the government and intended to be a deterrence to people to not abandon their parental responsibilities in order to provide their kids with hopefully a better life than they had. If you abandon your parenting responsibilities once, you easily could do it again.
And why do you or any other get to decide that the consequence for shirking "parental responsibility" is getting snipped?
This idea and deterrence reduces the foster kid count in addition to reducing the poverty and incarceration rate in the long term as anyone unwilling to get a vastectomy or their tubes tied would suck up the parenting responsibilities that they owe to their kids.
Why do they "owe" their kids? Wouldn't it be the other way around?
If they have to set their kids up for adoption, this is fine if they get their tubes tied or a vastectomy before they set their kids up for adoption or decide to be a deadbeat parent. Otherwise, you might make the same mistake again. This also helps reduce overpopulation.
First, overpopulation is a fictitious problem. Second, once again, who are you to decide?
This idea also allows very horny people to get sterilized, and then have all the sex they want without the fear of becoming a parent.
Wouldn't this result in the sterilization of those whose demographic have higher incidences of unplanned pregnancies--i.e. so-called "Black" and "Hispanic" people?
I fail to see the problem with this idea. It reduces long term poverty rates, incarceration rates, foster kid rates, it reduces overpopulation, it reduces the welfare state, and it allows horny players to get all the consensual sex they can get without fearing being a parent.
There are many problems with this idea. First and foremost, forced sterilization.
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Let me address the entirety of your argument in one go, disjointed scattershot rebuttals that do not tie things back to a central premise or point drive arguments off the rails by introducing exponential numbers of points as the replies proceed.Of course physical quantity is objective:You have five fingers on one hand: the word/number is a description of a physical state
Quantities are not states of matter. The concept of describing the flesh which protrudes from your limbs as "five" fingers or "five toes" is an abstract.
one that can be objectively determined independently by all observers
If it is indeed "objectively determined independently by all observers" then how is it rationalized? How does one control for that which is independent if it's in fact independent?
So in this respect physical quantity refers to the objective differences between distinct objective physical states - and is thus objective.
Once again, quantities are not physical states. If you intend on levying a contention, then answer my previous question: what is the mass, volume, and chemical composition of the number, two? Or any number for that matter?
If numbers and physical quantities weren’t objective, then we could change the logic of maths change numbers arbitrarily on a whim if we do chose
The standard can be changed if a consistent logic is sustained. That does not make it arbitrary; that does not make it whimsical.
(this is exactly what you’re argument implies and, even were it not - would be a straw man not a non-sequitur FYI).
First, a non-sequitur is a faulty conclusion derived from a misinterpretation or misrepresentation of a premise. A strawman argument is a claim of refutation by misrepresenting one's opponent's argument. So for your information, it is in fact a non sequitur.
I can also convey the new meaning of 11 to someone else; because it is objectively reference to something outside my mind; and has that to validate any maths I use.
How are you able to control for your experience outside of your mind?
As these are objective, I could say 1 + 11 = 6;
You are only interchanging the names and symbols of the numbers. That does not inform your point on objectivity.
if you knew the physical quantities I was referring to;
The perception of which is informed by the bias of one's experience.
you could derive that relationship by placing stones - because it’s based on the real world.
The real world is informed by the bias of one's mind.
It’s that anchoring, and the derivation from external things that allows you to determine that if is objective: “not dependent on the mind for existence; actual”.
Once again, and this is the crux of our discussion: how does one control for one's mind as it concerns the presumption of the "external"? Can you shut your mind off and still perceive, experience, learn and observe? If you assume, yes, then explain how.
As I showed, by placing stones, you can demonstrate the relationship between 1, 5 and 6 using the real world; but cannot do so with your example of colour. That demonstrates the difference between an objective and subjective conclusion.
You have demonstrating nothing other than your abstracts and how perceive them being fixed. That is not objectivity.
I explained this by showing you need not use numbers, but can use physical objects in their place - I will note you did not challenge this; but instead implied that because I didn’t do so in the following sentence, I can’t.That’s a particularly poor argument; as if let’s you suggest I can’t represent 2 or 6 with physical items without actually explicitly stating it and looking silly if I did (number of feet, number of protons in a carbon atom.)
Yes, I've challenged this by asking you to provide the physical properties (i.e. mass, volume, and chemical compositions) of said numbers, particularly the number two. You have yet to do this. You can choose any number you want.
I find this is a common argumentative tactic: to bury a fallacy deep in layers of abstraction in order to obfuscate where it is.
Identify and explicitly state the fallacy deep in layers of abstraction which obfuscates.
So to prevent equivocation; I can be more explicit, by clarifying exactly what objective means in P1 based upon why an objective basis makes science valid: what about objective things is it that drives the validity of science.So let’s skip explicit definitions and approach the issue functionally.We all have to start with two basic assumptions - that we’re all experiencing the same reality and that reasoning about that reality is valid.This is to say that we’re both here talking to each other and basic stuff like true != false. Without making those two assumptions, there is no basis to have a conversation about anything; so they’re pretty fair.Making these assumptions : To determine what is true - to make true claims about realty, we need the ability to correctly analyze reality as it is, without error.If our inputs and quality of processing has errors - we cannot rely on the output to be true.So to get at the truth, we have to ensure that we have removed error from our inputs and processing.Because we can only calibrate ourselves using ourselves - we can’t really ever determine what is true, we can only tell what is true having nominally ruled out specific errors.The more errors you can rule out, the more confident that your output is true.This brings us back to science - and “objectivity” that we’re talking about.Science of all forms is at its simplest a way we have figured out for eliminating as many errors as we can from our thinking and our interpretation of reality to derive an accurate description of reality.The inputs have to come from reality, the output has to be consistent with the inputs and itself. If a measurement contradicts the output, or there is an inconsistency; we can presume an error has occurred and needs to be tracked down. The error may be solved, or may cause the output to be discarded.We apply Occam’s razor - limiting assumptions in order to minimize points of failure and number of places we could be wrong (more assumptions - more potential of being wrong)We experiment - we use the output to predict inputs we haven’t seen, and to confirm inputs match what is expected. This is probably the most important - an explanation may require additional things to be true or false; if we find this is truly the case it’s more likely to be because the explanation is accurate rather than coincidentally correct.If we cannot find and way to check whether the output is true or false; we discard it - as we can’t tell whether it is in error or not.We can even validate whether the process works; the process allows us to exploit the world; split the atom, cure illness, etc; that our descriptions of the world lead to practical application raise confidence in the accuracy of those descriptions. Why should a pressurized water reactor work so consistently if the description of the physics is incorrect?But, a big element of where we remove error; is by using objective information; or to be more specific - information that can be independently derived and validated from external things, without depending on our mind.People lie, people are mistaken, people are deluded, mislead, etc - the source of input data cannot come from someone’s mind and be assumed to be without error. If we cannot tie inputs to reality, it cannot be expected that the output reflects reality.
How does any of this reside outside of the bias of one's mind, including one's notion of reality?
Is the observation real, a fluke, or a delusion: the best way to have confidence in that is to have multiple people observing it; or agree on what is being observed.We have to agree on meaning - what is a meter, what is a second, a gram, what is 5: (which is the error in your last argument, I can no more tell you how much 5 weighs than I can tell you how many meters a second is; they’re all descriptions of different things).
Consensus = consensus. Consensus =/= objectivity.
So in this respect, even though you’re clearly wrong in your interpretation of what is objective and not; even were we to accept your implicit interpretation, it doesn’t even matter; as all the things we’re talking about clearly meet the functional requirements to minimize error and improve confidence in conclusions by removing our brain as an input - the reason these things are used to produce valid results.
No, I'm not. All you've conveyed is your evaluation of your perception (i.e. subjective.) Hence, you've informed my point.
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@Wylted
Men Going their own way is just men who wish to remain single, not necessarily sexless though some do refrain from sex.
If that were the case, the "movement" would be entirely redundant and unnecessary, like a meme.
I'm redpill. I love women, I love my nieces and my mom and sister. They are what they are. They are just different from men. Like ants are different from alligators.
But that you refer yourself as "redpill" means what? You think those outside your group don't know that men and women are different?
Women are even superior in some ways perhaps. G y the rational male website. Rollo Tomassi is one of the more intelligent members of the redpill community and actually argue against something he says, instead of strawmans.
Which strawman arguments?
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@Wylted
None of those groups really criticize women at all, so no legitimate gripe would be correct.
That is incorrect. At best, those "male" groups criticize "females" for being indirectly complicit by not providing a voice against the system which benefits them.
They typically argue that some aspects of feminism are harmful to society, as well as both females and males.
Yes, they do.
They do recognize that men are different than women both psychologically and physically. It's not a statement of superiority though. It's just a recognition of key differences.
Yes, they make teleological arguments using evolutionary psychology.
None of those differences are used to villianize women. Also most of the differences talked about are around sexual dating strategy.
I'm not suggesting that these groups are antagonizing women because males and females are sexually dimorphic. I'm suggesting that their gripes, which should be against the State, is misdirected toward females. And they're using that as a pretext to claim victimization. Take MGTOW for example, "Men Going Their Own Way." From whom? And why?
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@3RU7AL
I'm not sure how anyone can claim we're "participating" in a "capitalist" economy when a commodity can be so obviously price fixed by the oligarchs.
Is this an example of a price fix, or is it simply more lucrative to sell silver on the open market as opposed to the U.S. mint, which would later retract its exaggeration on the "silver shortage"?
"Merit" in a modeling job is "looks".
Which can still be subject to the preferences of their employer, correct?
I've never once suggested that every job should be available for every human.never.once.
I'm not suggesting you did. I'm suggesting that there are financial circumstances of which one takes advantage simply by being fortunate--i.e. being born into the "right family" or being born with the "right look."
What happens when the "privatized rules" inevitably become insular, raising anti-competitive barriers to entry?
Privatized rules affect those who are part of the arrangement. They don't have to let a competitor participate in said arrangement. And a competitor can create or seek another arrangement.
How do you propose we protect the individual from the collective?
Sustaining the moral theory.
Do those interests include all citizens?
With respect to their individual interests, yes.
If your company serves the public, then they are within the public sphere.
What is the scope of this public service?
I've been pretty clear on this from the word go.NO NEPOTISM.NO INHERITANCE.
Yes you have. So why have you strictly isolated nepotism and inheritance as unfair? Elaborate.
Please provide your personally preferred definition of "oligarch".
"An oligarch is one of the select few people who rule or influence leaders in an oligarchy—a government in which power is held by a select few individuals or a small class of powerful people."
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@Double_R
I have no intention of extending our discussion any further, so enjoy the rest of your day, sir.
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@Ramshutu
Physical quantities are objective.
No, they are not. Quantities assigned to physical objects are still abstract. Not only do the quantities bear no physical properties, but they are not independent of your perception. Hence, they are not objective.
I don’t have to use numbers, I can use things like, the number of fingers a typical human has, or eyes (assuming you’re not disfigured in some way); I can describe pythagorous theory by drawing two squares and 6 triangles.
And you've undermined your argument. You say you don't have to use numbers and then proceed to provide examples which use numbers.
the logical rules of maths - are derived from Objective observable physical relationships.
No they are not. The objective and the observable are logically contradictory. The objective necessitates that interaction with it excludes the bias of one's mind, perception, and experience. Consensus does not provide a remedy to this, but instead creates a composite of biases.
2+2=4 not because of an arbitrary subjective whim
Non sequitur. I never characterized nor would I ever characterize mathematical arithmetic as "arbitrary" and "whimsical."
but because that’s the relationship between physical quantities.
What is the mass, volume, and chemical composition of the number, two?
As this seems to be the basis for you claiming that maths is not objective - your argument boils down to saying that maths is not objective, because if you made it not objective, it’s not objective.
First, seem is not an argument. Second, since you just started to engage me on this topic, perhaps it would behoove you to read that which came before, where I explained the irrationality of objectivity. It's rather simple:
P1: Objectivity is irrational
P2: Mathematics is rational.
C: Mathematics is not objective.
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@Double_R
An argument, by definition, utilizes logic. So when one claims logic is a value, and then criticizes another’s argument as “values based”, you’re right, there’s nothing left that person can possibly argue. This is what is called the nuclear method.
Fluff.
Aka the nuclear method. The reason why this is a problem is because it is dishonest. No lie there. It’s been the point since the start.
Another lie. Here is what you stated, verbatim:
I don’t understand why I need to explain this but clearly I do; in order for us to function as a civilization we have to share a common sense of reality so that we can solve our problems and advance our interests. The “nuclear method” is problematic because it seeks to undermine the very foundation that all of us sit on in our efforts to achieve that common sense of reality. In other words, it’s selfishly destructive.
Exactly. So when someone says the earth is flat, to say they’re wrong is to merely assert values. According to this kind of warped thinking we could never make progress on a disagreement because all it boils down to is our opinion. We might as well debate whether chocolate is better than strawberry.It’s absurd, and we would never prosper as a society by adopting this kind of thinking.
It accomplishes removing the presumption of the indisputable.That’s not a good thing. The concept of the indisputable is what, for example, holds democracies together. Once upon a time the guy who received more votes was indisputably the president. But now because we have had a president who saw the opening that you are trying to pry open, we live in a society where nearly half the population lives in a delusion that he really won, so instead of solving our problems were now in a war over reality itself.
To claim knowledge about something is to claim that you are right about that something. i.e. “I am right that the earth is round”. But your own value driven standards do not allow for you to be right because if knowledge is all subjective the there is no such thing as right.
Dishonesty had nothing to do with it. "Dishonesty" is a recent tact you've employed to attack my motives. You are attacking my motives because you have nothing left to argue.
It’s literally the prime example of an objective statement.
No, it is not. You've described only, at best, a consensus. That is not the same as objectivity. Consensus = shared gnosis. Objectivity = independent of gnosis.
This is the point where one normally realizes the depths the logical hole they’ve dug themselves into so I’m just going to leave it there.
Yes, you have dug yourself quite the hole. If you wish to disengage, then enjoy your night, sir.
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@Ramshutu
If you have this number of penguins x x and they meet this number of penguins x x them there will be this many penguins x x x x.That x x is demoted as 2, and x x x x is demoted as 4 is not abstract, but semantics. The physical quantity they are expressing is still a physical quantity; with no amount of abstract silliness will ever allow you to successfully makex x x x x out of adding x x and x x.While mathematical operations often get abstract, like a Laplace transform, mathematics is inherently falls down to a descriptive system of the physical world that may differ in representation (such as symbols used, or numeric base), but isn’t able to manifestly change what is being described.The word of digits of pi, or prime numbers are a mathematical description of an aspect of the physical world; and any two individuals from any two cultures, including aliens could independently deduce then value of Pi, or the first 100 prime numbers and convey that information to the other.
You need not explain to me Mathematics. I know what it is. And what you've described does not inform objectivity; what you've described informs logic. That is, "abstract silliness" does not "allow" one to derive xxxxx out of adding xx and xx because xx +xx = xxxx is logically necessary (not objective = independent of qualia.) One could attempt to derive the number five from adding two and two, but that would be inconsistent with the abstract's logic. It would be inconsistent with the accepted standard. And as I informed DoubleR, objectivity =/= consensus. If this standard is overhauled, then it's very possible that 2+2=5. Because numbers are just forms.
In that respect, mathematics is absolutely objective.
No, it absolutely is not. You are referring to consensus (inter-subjectivity.) That is not objectivity (controlled independent of qualia and gnosis.)
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@TheUnderdog
People shouldn't get to vote. Is that a sufficient answer?
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@Double_R
You’re the guy who responds to someone saying the earth is round by saying “no, it’s an oblate spheroid” then when people react with annoyance, spend the next hour justifying your response by explaining how it *is* an oblate spheroid
Irrelevant.
Yes, thinking occurs inside our heads. Congratulations. I was trying to give you credit for having a greater point that you thought meaningful in your conversation with atheists but apparently that really is all there was to it.
I haven't solicited, demanded, or asked for your "credit." And thinking occurs in one's head is redundant. Go back to my first argument and read it comprehensively.
I conceded that conclusions are value based, because that is what follows when we accept the very concept of logic as a value.
And atheists aren't exempt from this, making this statement entirely redundant.
Engagement in any type of rational conversation presupposes that both parties value logic, so calling someone’s conclusions value-based is meaningless
And yet, once again, here you are still engaging me.
and I also find it to be intellectually dishonest because it purports to to do something (raising the level of the conversation) that it’s not
That is your impression; that is your projection; that has nothing to do with me especially in light of your incapacity to read my mind.
But that last part of course assumes that there is a point to making this statement, which apparently is not always the case.
Of course there's a point. I made my point. You rejected and criticized my point by suggesting that it was a "nuclear method." When asked to substantiate this criticism, you had nothing more to offer than fluff--i.e. democracy, and functioning civilization, etc. After correctly gauging that your premise was based on the notion of objectivity, I proceeded to explain the irrationality of objectivity. With no other recourse to substantiate your criticism, you have now resorted to criticizing my motives.
You have nothing left to argue. Your criticism from the very beginning presumed that these value-based positions and the standards on which they are based extended beyond subjectivity. "Beyond subjectivity" is irrational, and you don't know how to defend it. Hence, you offer more fluff. Exhibit A:
You’re the guy who responds to someone saying the earth is round by saying “no, it’s an oblate spheroid” then when people react with annoyance, spend the next hour justifying your response by explaining how it *is* an oblate spheroid
This isn’t my premise
Yes it is. And you will demonstrate this below.
I haven’t responded to it because it’s an absurd ask.
Of course it's an absurd task.
You don’t rationalize a category, you rationalize whether something belongs in that category.
Fluff. "Categories" apply metrics by which they either index or modify that which belongs.
2+2=4 is objective. That means that I have assessed it’s truth value as not subject to opinion. I used logic to arrive at that assessment because that is the only way this can be done. When we talk about objectivity, this is what we’re talking about. The fact that this process takes place inside my head does not negate the fact that there is a big difference between this, and the problem of someone believing things without evidence.
You see? I told you your premise was objectivity. (Notice how you brought it right back to your argument.) And, you used an inept example. "2+2=4" is NOT objective. Not even in the slightest. Mathematics, and by extension arithmetic, is abstract. Numbers are abstract. They are neither found in nature, nor independent of qualia. It's akin to stating: red + blue = purple. Numbers are assigned forms.
And note: objectivity =/= consensus.
Your criticism of atheists being inconsistent is just plain wrong
But you have yet to demonstrate this by any sufficient measure.
because you are ignoring that difference in order to point to the similarity
No, I'm not ignoring. I'm pointing out that criticizing a position in a context that is identical to that on which the standards of one's own position is based is inconsistent. And while I do acknowledge the distinction in values, they are irrelevant to my criticism.
That’s dishonest, which is and has been my point from the start.
That is a lie. Your point from the start was to insinuate that the suggestion of knowledge as subjective was identical to "blowing it all up" and that it wasn't beneficial to society to sustain this "warped thinking."
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@FLRW
This is the Bible's explanation of rainbows. Of course we now know that rainbows are a prismatic effect of raindrops.
We "now know"? Or are you simply offering a rationalization which applies a different metric?
The fact is, God had nothing to do with the creation of the universe
Please demonstrate.
in the same way that God has nothing to do with the sun rising or rainbows appearing
Again, demonstrate.
Science does not have a complete explanation for the universe's creation, yet.
"Yet"? How do you know this?
While it is true that science does not yet know everything there is to know about the universe, scientists will eventually figure it out.
What does Science currently lack that hampers it from figuring everything out about the universe?
When they do, what they will find is that nature created the universe, not an imaginary being.
Nature is imaginary. Your perception of nature is imaginary. Your experience of nature is imaginary. This is more a conflict between imaginary "design" and imaginary "randomness."
Note: when I state "imaginary," I do not mean, "not real." I mean, imagined, to conceive in the mind, to create a thought in the mind, etc.
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@Double_R
Since you've conveyed no intention of representing my argument accurately, but instead presented your projected impressions of it, I'll just quote myself in response since I've already addressed your points.
You:
No, it’s rendered through the conclusion that the point you keep making serves no purpose other than to equate belief without evidence to withholding belief in the absence of evidence, and you claim that’s not what you’re doing but your argument is that the latter cannot criticize the former because both are “inside their heads”
I:
And once again, the equivalence I drew did not, and does not extend beyond the fact that both are inside one's head.
I:
Knowledge is subjective--repetitive, I know . Why would one then suggest that "it all be blown up" because its subjective? One could still criticize the opinions of another on the grounds of his or her own values.
You:
Pointing to the commonality between the two as a means of portraying them on equal footing is literally what it means to equate.
I:
And once again, the equivalence I drew did not, and does not extend beyond the fact that both are inside one's head.
You:
So to respond by essentially arguing “well reason is just your value” is absurd. No shit it’s my value and not yours, that’s the entire point of me telling you it’s inside your head.
I:
A typical atheist argument is rather simplistic. It's easy to reduce and deconstruct. I have to neither guess at nor change its meaning. For example, why would one require evidence in accordance to the standards you've endorsed? To inform a notion's consistency with assumptions of that which lies outside one's head? That's all still inside one's head.
You:
But stop trying to obfuscate by talking about whether objectivity is ultimately rational or whether it’s possible to arrive at a conclusion without value driven bias. All of that is well beyond the point.
I:
Knowledge is subjective--repetitive, I know . Why would one then suggest that "it all be blown up" because its subjective?
You:
Calling it subjective is blowing it up. The point of the nuclear method is to get rid of the concept of right vs wrong when assessing statements about reality, thereby allowing the individual to believe anything they want. Arguing that anything we consider to be knowledge is subject to nothing more than value driven standards accomplishes exactly that.
You:
No shit it’s my value and not yours, that’s the entire point of me telling you it’s inside your head. If you take issue with that then change it, if you don’t then own it.
I:
No, they're stating that your standards of evaluation are different and/or undermine my standards of evaluation according to my standards of evaluation. The standards you accept are based on your values.
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Would you like to own your concession to the very point that I was making?
But stop trying to obfuscate by talking about whether objectivity is ultimately rational or whether it’s possible to arrive at a conclusion without value driven bias. All of that is well beyond the point.
The entire basis of your characterizing my argument as "the nuclear method" is that it pooh-pooh's on objectivity. And here's my proof:
Calling it subjective is blowing it up. The point of the nuclear method is to get rid of the concept of right vs wrong when assessing statements about reality, thereby allowing the individual to believe anything they want. Arguing that anything we consider to be knowledge is subject to nothing more than value driven standards accomplishes exactly that.
So no, it is not "well beyond the point." Its validation is the primary premise of your contention. So validate your premise: rationalize objectivity. Otherwise, what is the point behind your contention? You've already conceded that the conclusions atheists render are value-based. What is there left to argue? If you've acknowledged that objectivity is irrational, then what is the basis of your "nuclear method" argument? Democracy?
If you haven't conceded to the irrationality of objectivity, then provide a counterargument to that which I've already explained.
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@3RU7AL
HERE'S YOUR PRECIOUS EFFICIENT "FREE-MARKET" IN ACTION,
Explain your contention against that which was described in the video you referenced.
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@Double_R
So what? Why should anyone care that it comes down to a distinction of values?
The subject of "care" is a futile criticism especially if one continues to engage.
What is your point?
Since I've already stated my point, I'll merely quote it:
My point is, levying the criticism that one's stance, belief, position, affirmation, and the like are based on that which is "insides one head" is not a consistent counterpoint, especially considering that the premises on which atheists base their stance, belief, position, affirmation, and the like are also based on that which is "inside their heads." The distinction between these positions is inextricably and inescapably one of value. This however has not sufficed for you since your contention operates on the assumption of objectivity, which I've already explained is irrational.
The reason it does not suffice to me is because you continue to argue that you are not equating these things as you are equating them.
Here are my statements:
I never claimed the capacity to "solve" solipsism. I pointed out the hypocrisy in rejecting God because he is allegedly based on a conception borne from "inside one's head" when the very standards which inform one's rejection is based on conceptions borne "inside one's head." Now you can argue that there's no "equivalence" between the former and the latter, but that does not changed that these are still value-based.
And once again, the equivalence I drew did not, and does not extend beyond the fact that both are inside one's head.
Values are arbitrary
Not necessarily.
and subjective
Yes.
so arguing that believing in something without evidence, and rejecting a claim because there is no evidence are both merely products of our values
Yes.
serves no purpose other than to equate the two as just one person’s values against another.
Non sequitur. Values can differ.
In other words... the nuclear method.
Non sequitur. This conclusion is rendered through the presumption that these debates and discussion have extended or can extend beyond/outside of conflicts of value statements. THEY CANNOT. This is tautological.
You have the floor. Rationalize objectivity. If you cannot, then why are you pushing back? You've already conceded that your conclusions cannot escape your bias, so what is your point?
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@3RU7AL
please explain how you managed to leap to this ridiculous conclusion
Because modeling jobs require no particularly stringent merits, correct? How different is it that one is born beautiful from one's being born into money?
let's see if we can square this circledo you believe there should be some rules to govern commerce ?
Yes, privatized rules. That is, the involved parties can determine their participation by the rules they've conceived, and to which they've agreed.
if you do believe there should be some rules to govern commerce, what moral theory
Individualist moral theory.
, and or what primary goal should those rules be aimed at ?
Maintaining the interests of the involved.
public sphere requires regulationprivate sphere is private
And management and executive positions are (necessarily) within the public sphere?
parental focus may give someone an emotional advantage or disadvantagetraining and or popular style may give a person a social advantage or disadvantagepersonal and or parental and or social priority may give someone an intellectual advantage or disadvantage
On what measure do you base a distinction between a "fair" advantage and an "unfair" advantage? How do the advantages you've list meet that criterion/criteria?
are you suggesting that just as many oligarchs would exist in a world without NEPOTISM + INHERITANCE ?
I wouldn't characterize them as "oligarchs," but yes, there'd still be a concentration of wealth in the absence of nepotism and inheritance.
and for the record, any "self-made" oligarchs that might arise from a provably-fair game, that could not gift their assets to their friends and or relatives would be 100% "acceptable".
And what circumstances would lead to their incapacity to gift their assets?
what do you believe is the primary function of government ?
To be absent.
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@3RU7AL
i never once suggested "no advantages", whatever gave you that idea ?EQUALITY = PROVABLY FAIREQUALITY = NO "HEAD-STARTS"NO GIFTSNO INHERITANCENO NEPOTISMNO CHEATING
Out of curiosity, what are some advantages for which you'd be on board?
OLIGARCHY IS THE ANTITHESIS OF ANARCHYOLIGARCHY IS THE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE OF NEPOTISM + INHERITANCE
Assuming of course that we're focused on the concentration of wealth. And there will always be concentration where the most commerce is generated, nepotism + inheritance notwithstanding. (Yes even trust-fund babies learn how to maintain their wealth given that wealth too is finite.)
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@3RU7AL
now imagine someone told you that if you don't play the game, you will be deprived of food and shelter
Let's analyze what goes into the acquisition of food and shelter. In hunter-gatherer societies, one is/was responsible for acquiring one's food and building one's shelter. As nations developed, their societies economies were primarily defined by subsistence farming, and exchange was typically defined by bartering. As development continued, the medium by which one exchanges became standardized--i.e. money. One then figured out rather than performing labor oneself, one could outsource it in exchange for money--even the acquisition of food, and the building of shelters. That is, one traded money for another person's labor.
Now, why am I stating all of this? I take it that your metaphor is intended to exemplify Capitalism, and not participating in that system results in starvation and homelessness. Furthermore, the implication is that Capitalism facilitates "unfair" advantages (i.e. nepotism, inheritance) which disallows other individuals from competing fairly against those for whom the system is allegedly rigged. My contention against this metaphor is that not only is an individual's utility in such a system not defined by it's competition with that of others', but also there is no set standard for "winning" at Capitalism as there is in a board game, or any type of game. Case in point: an NBA superstar talent makes more money than a doctor. Because commerce is dictated by abstract value. And that's what Capitalism is: a constellation and composite of abstract values derived from private decisions. So you will get billionaires who sport orange helmets thriving financially, and others who can barely make ends meat.
So in a scenario, where one is faced with the prospect of homelessness and starvation, first let's attribute responsibility for lack of shelter and starvation. I would assume, and correct me if I'm wrong, that your stance is predicated on the necessity of money. Money in Capitalism you allege is distributed unfairly (e.g. nepotism, inheritance, absence of merit, etc.) and therefore said system is responsible for the sufficient amount of money one would otherwise earn to purchase food and shelter. My counterpoint to this would be that a job is nothing more than a trade--i.e. compensation for labor. An employer is entitled to that which he intends to use as compensation just as an employee is entitled to his labor. Neither is entitled to that of the other until a mutually agreed arrangement is formed and maintained. The circumstances which lead one party into the arrangement is not the responsibility of the other. (Because independent of the employer's particular participation, the employee's circumstances are still his circumstances.) So what is to blame? Is a person's prospective homelessness and starvation a fault of the system? Or is it because no one is either conscripted or willing to participate in an arrangement where he gets what he wants or needs?
your home is your castledo what you wish in your own homedo what you think is best with your own family in your own homenepotism only applies to businesses, and more specifically to management positions and executives
How is the logic any different?
i'm pretty certain nobody's going to care if you hire your brother-in-law to mop the floors, unless he's getting paid more than your other floor moppers or gets away with being late or missing work more than your other floor moppersyou seem to be recoiling at the prospect of MERITOCRACY
I'm not against merit-based compensation and employment. That however ought to be a private decision.
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@Double_R
You seem to have forgotten what this is about and how we got here.
Seem is not an argument, and no I haven't forgotten.
This is about your criticism of atheists and why it is meaningless.
And here you are engaging me on the subject. Is there no meaning to that?
But your “challenge” is nothing more than an appeal to infinite regress.
No, it is not an appeal to an infinite regress. I've neither demanded nor required justification for infinitely regressive premises.
Ultimately, we all have to rely on our own senses and reasoning to form conclusions. So what?
So what? Your conclusions are inside your head.
That does not equate a theist believing in something without evidence to an atheist rejecting a claim because there is no evidence.
And this is a distinction in value.
You’ll probably respond by claiming you weren’t equating the two
It's not that I'll "probably respond by claiming [I wasn't] equating the two." I have already responded as much, numerous times.
and if so I ask, then what is your point?
My point is, levying the criticism that's one stance, belief, position, affirmation, and the like are based on that which is "insides one head" is not a consistent counterpoint, especially considering that the premises on which atheists base their stance, belief, position, affirmation, and the like are also based on that which is "inside their heads." The distinction between these positions is inextricably and inescapably one of value. This however has not sufficed for you since your contention operates on the assumption of objectivity, which I've already explained is irrational.
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@3RU7AL
think of it like a game of "monopoly"would you participate in a game where your competitors already owned hotels on half the board and had vastly outsized cash reserves before you even rolled your first move?forget the metaphor for a minutewould you play this board game ?
This presumes that any utility I derive from my skills and labor and the fruits thereof is necessarily a competition with that of others. One needs not be "the best" in order to do one's best.
As for whether I'd play the game, in a competitive context, no I would not.
pLEASE eXPLAIN
Your previous statements in some manner inform my contention. That is, the idea that everyone should have the same shot at the same outcome (equal opportunity) as opposed to the notion that everyone should go as far as their abilities can take them. In order to set things equal, even just to start, one would have to eliminate private decisions especially those which inform advantages.
So let's use nepotism as an example:
Say I'm in the market for a babysitter. I meet a candidate who has a Ph.D in both child psychology and child education. She has years of experience and she had numerous reviews which raved about her. She is sure to be a lock. Just before I finalize my decision, my 16 year-old daughter expresses interest in being a babysitter. Ultimately, I decide to hire my daughter because she's my daughter. So if we were to maintain ANARCHY = EQUALITY = NO NEPOTISM, then that would undermine individual interests particularly the ones which concern said individual.
Now let's change this up a bit: let's say my friend is in the market for a babysitter. He delegates the task of finding a babysitter to me. I meet the same Ph.D candidate and my daughter expresses the same interest. In the end, I recommend my daughter because she's my daughter. My friend agrees to hire my daughter as a favor to me. Once again, to undermine this would be to undermine individual interests.
What about a pretty woman? Do we tag her up a bit, so that the uggos have a "fair shot" at a modeling job?
ANARCHY =/= EQUALITY; ANARCHY =/= NO NEPOTISM; ANARCHY =/= NO ADVANTAGES. Anarchy is poitical/social individualism, which would delineate that in spite/favor of nepotism, inheritance, and social/economic advantages, as an individual, your life is a function of service to your own best interests; that your talents, skills, abilities, labor, time, etc. are yours to do with in whichever manner you see fit, so long as it does not infract on another individual's capacity to exhibit the aforementioned. Nepotism and inheritance are not infractions.
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@Double_R
Congratulations, you’ve discovered the problem of infinite regress.
It is only a problem to those who seek to perpetuate irrationality.
The term semantics has an actual meaning, and that meaning is not “to argue”. How many times are you going to perfectly demonstrate the nuclear method while claiming you are not using it?
I neither suggested nor stated that semantics=argue. I said all arguments are semantic (adj) which delineates a reference to meaning, language, and logic.
Point proven yet again.
You have proven nothing. I've explicitly explained the reason objectivity is irrational. If you intend on providing a counterpoint, then please do. What is your definition of "objectivity" and how does its description inform the rationality you allege?
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@FLRW
Despite being written out of large parts of history, atheists thrived in the polytheistic societies of the ancient world – raising considerable doubts about whether humans really are “wired” for religion – a new study suggests.The claim is the central proposition of a new book by Tim Whitmarsh, Professor of Greek Culture and a Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge. In it, he suggests that atheism – which is typically seen as a modern phenomenon – was not just common in ancient Greece and pre-Christian Rome, but probably flourished more in those societies than in most civilisations since.As a result, the study challenges two assumptions that prop up current debates between atheists and believers: Firstly, the idea that atheism is a modern point of view, and second, the idea of “religious universalism” – that humans are naturally predisposed, or “wired”, to believe in gods.The book, entitled Battling The Gods, launched in Cambridge on February 16, 2016.“We tend to see atheism as an idea that has only recently emerged in secular Western societies,” Whitmarsh said. “The rhetoric used to describe it is hyper-modern. In fact, early societies were far more capable than many since of containing atheism within the spectrum of what they considered normal.”“Rather than making judgements based on scientific reason, these early atheists were making what seem to be universal objections about the paradoxical nature of religion – the fact that it asks you to accept things that aren’t intuitively there in your world. The fact that this was happening thousands of years ago suggests that forms of disbelief can exist in all cultures, and probably always have.”
My criticism of how (some) atheists debate religion has nothing to do with whether atheism is a modern point of view or a counterpoint to religious universalism. My criticism is centered on the hypocrisy/inconsistency of said atheists when arguing that which is inside one's head, and that which they allege is not.
This goes along with my theory that people who saw and heard gods speaking to them had numerous brain lesions.
At best, this speculation would only render that these brains, which I assume you're alleging informs the perception of these gods, were aberrant. Not that their experiences were faulty or nonexistent (irrational.)
What explains the 2500 gods Man has had?
Belief.
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@Greyparrot
The very essence of equality is loaded dice. Nothing is left to chance.
I agree.
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@3RU7AL
How would a system which facilitates individual sovereignty disallow inheritance and nepotism? Aren't those expressions of private decisions?think of "society" as a gamethink of being born as the pre-game character rollthink of legal adulthood as the start of gameplaywith no inheritancewith no giftswith no nepotismyour "resume" cannot include any of your private medical information (including what you look like naked and your genetic history and your chronology)your "resume" can only be a demonstration of your skill specific to the job you're applying fornobody wants to play a game that has loaded dice
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@3RU7AL
ok, so, more specifically "social equality"ANARCHY covers the first five sevenths or so of your preferred definition quite neatly
Maybe three, perhaps four (I'm not entirely sure how the term, "status," is being applied.) I would also include "equality of opportunity" among my rejections, since that often comes up. But again, things like liberties, property rights etc are extensions of rationalizing the focus on the individual within a moral framework. One could argue that everyone is "equally" individual by definition, but that doesn't necessarily translate into anarchy's facilitating "equality" by facilitating the sovereignty of the individual.
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@3RU7AL
please explain to me how a fire can violate the law of cause-and-effect
I'm not suggesting that it could. I'm asking, is the fire starter absent of reason? Applying it to the previous context, I'm essentially asking are or can the chemical/neurological/physiological processes which manifest in the emergence of the mind sustain characteristics/properties of the mind?
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@3RU7AL
The Wikipedia definition should suffice:
Social equality is a state of affairs in which all people within a specific society have equal rights, liberties, and status, possibly including civil rights, freedom of speech, property rights, and equal access to certain social goods and social services.
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@3RU7AL
the time and place of the "fire starter" determines the scope and longevity of the consequent fire
Even if that fire is self-aware and can reason on its own?
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@3RU7AL
ANARCHY = NO KINGSANARCHY = NO GODSANARCHY = PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
But does anarchy really facilitate "equality" or are the principles extended by reason of how the individual is defined?
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@fauxlaw
You misunderstand. I acknowledge that the Sabbath is a recognition of Creation. At issue seems to be when and how long Creation occurred. I'm saying that it makes no difference when and how long Creation occupied to acknowledge that it occurred. Does God sit on a thrown with a stopwatch to count how long we spend in worship? No. He need not do that.
How do you know?
He will know the value of our devotion to him by the improvement we accomplish in our lives, primarily by how and why we are in service to one another as acts of appreciation for our creation.
But are you determining this by his metrics or yours? If the word of God delineates that Creation occurred in six days, then as an adherent to Christianity, is it not your obligation to sustain this as true? To do otherwise, as in rejecting or being indifferent, would be to undermine the word of God, and by extension God himself, right?
(Truth be told, I don't take issue with your sentiment. I'm only challenging the consistency of your description of your Christianity. You said, "I'm not a 6-day creation, 6,000 year-old earther Christian." If you reject the very premise of one of God's commandments, then how do you sustain the description of Christian? Was God wrong on that one?)
God will not strike us dead if one of us believes he created in six days, and another believes he did it in 6 billion years. The duration just doesn't matter. The fact that it happened does.
Again, by whose standards?
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@Theweakeredge
Um... what's makes the fire starter different from the fire? The properties which it exhibits, in this case, consiousness, reasoning, experiential emotion, etc - fairly basic things.
So then, I harken back to my previous question: "how is this distinction [i.e. consciousness, reasoning, experiential emotion, etc.] identifiable in contrast to the physiological/neurological framework of the brain? I suppose I'm asking: do these chemical/physiological processes in the Brain happen absent of reason?
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@3RU7AL
any ideology that focuses on asking "the state" to "rescue them" from something is CASH MUNY $$$
Exactly. Well stated.
ANARCHY = EQUALITYPERSONAL SOVEREIGNTY = EQUALITY
How?
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@Theweakeredge
The specific distinction? It is the result of physiological and chemical reactions that cause properties one would assign to the "mind", furthermore, it is not even the result itself, but properties that come as a result of the result. Like fire, a result of chemical reactions, causes human perception to warp thanks to specific gaseous results.
You state that the mind =/= brain. I'm attempting to grasp your meaning. If the mind is the fire, and the brain is the fire starter, what is it about the mind that makes it distinct from the physiological and chemical reactions which inform its cause?
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@Greyparrot
Feminism liberated men from women. Men no longer have an obligation or any social responsibility to provide for any woman. Ever.Families are completely optional at this point as well as an intact nuclear family thanks to feminism and the shattering of biologically constructed social roles.Enjoy your cats feminazis.
I once had a prolonged discussion with an ardent feminist, who was unaware of how versed I was in feminist history (thank you gender studies courses.) She quoted from Simone De Beauvoir to Emmeline Pankhurst. When all was reduced, she conceded that her idea of oppression was infantilization. I then asked her, "if infantilization = opression, then why do feminist not oppose, but in many instances facilitate the oppression of children?" These gendered movements are primarily based on erratic emotions with no informed context.
It's true that Feminism especially in its adoption by the State as well as it perpetuation in the media has done a number on the family unit. I would argue the same of ideologies like MGTOW who do not seek to solve this, but to "liberate themselves" from the yolk of "female oppression." The male and female are essential. And there is in my opinion a concerted effort to sow discord among them.
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@Theweakeredge
because it is not a fault of reasoning - because mentality - our mind - is an emergent property of your brain - it is not quite the same thing as your brain. There is a distinction
What is that distinction? Please elaborate. And how is this distinction identifiable in contrast to the physiological/neurological framework of the brain?
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I have a younger cousin, with whom I have a variety of discussions ranging from politics to "good eats." Over the last several years, he has affiliated himself with the "MGTOW" ideology. I've attempted to dissuade him from sustaining this ideology because I believe that their complaints do not align with the "individuality" they allegedly seek. I also believe that, like many of these gendered movements, they have no solutions. And I speculate the reason they have no solutions is that their "victim-hood" is essentially a contrivance intended on drawing attention to themselves.
I've never endorsed the concept of equality, and I will never endorse the concept of equality because it necessarily undermines individuality--especially if this equality is to be enforced. Neither MRM/MRA/AVfM/MGTOW nor Feminism has a legitimate gripe against the sex whom they've claimed has victimized them. And these movements have done more to sow conflict rather than promote cohesion.
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