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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The prehistoric war that wiped out 95% of men. |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:00 pm
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| Regarding the isolated tribal cultures, many confuse them as being matriarchal while they are in fact just matrilineal; but their warriors are still mostly male (ie the Moari). Although not fully "matriarchal," at least some of these societies have been more than "just matrilineal.&q... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: All's Fair In Love And War |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: Yesterday, 12:22 pm
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| ToughDiamond said it very well. The way I might phrase it - we're a Darwinian species, anything that matters at a deep level to physical bodies - like death and sex - is existential in it's level of importance, also zero-sum, and because of that the rules of civility tend to go out the window rathe... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: All's Fair In Love And War |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: Yesterday, 11:35 am
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| Well, I was using the term loosely, which is probably the only way it can be used. I mean the kind of chap who out of principle would be loathe to nobble the competition, seek undeserved brownie points by hiding his shortcomings and exaggerating his strengths, or use other dirty tricks to improve h... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Fed up about my love life |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2025, 8:53 am
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| perhaps a positive point to try and tie up this thought: we in ND land are, less affected by the described atomization, because we have different social value and interaction systems. As such as a purely anecdotal example, the local ASD-support centers where i go to meetings have seen an increase i... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Video review of a novel about masking |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2025, 7:53 am
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| Below is a video review of the novel No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai: The Most Disturbing Book Ever Written | No Longer Human , on an anonymous YouTube channel called Unsolicited advice . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pgGgOU_UGY From the description on YouTube: This is perhaps my most requested vi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: All's Fair In Love And War |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 13 Jul 2025, 3:28 pm
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| Allow me to introduce you to the Rough Wooing . Henry declared war to force the Scottish Parliament to agree to the planned marriage between Edward, who was six years old at the start of the war, and the infant queen, thereby creating a new alliance between Scotland and England. This was a forced a... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Great Job Donald Trump. |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 13 Jul 2025, 2:48 pm
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... and ruined the U.S. relationship with lots of other countries too, and for no good reason.
IMO this serves the interests of Russia and China, not the U.S.A. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Tom Barrack hinting on Lebanon's total dissolvement |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 13 Jul 2025, 1:43 pm
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Yikes! I'm very sorry to hear this.
Is there any chance these Syrians could compromise and take only Hezbollah-land, leaving northern Lebanon alone? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Trump stopped enforcing Johnson Amendment for churches |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 13 Jul 2025, 1:23 pm
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| Just wait for some mosque to donate money to an anti-Zionist politician. Then Trump will likely tell the IRS to suddenly start enforcing it again -- but only against non-Christian religious groups, in an explicit endorsement of Christian nationalism. And the Supreme Court will roll over once again. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The prehistoric war that wiped out 95% of men. |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 12 Jul 2025, 11:28 pm
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Replies: 8
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| Human societies have been organized in a variety of different ways, depending on circumstances and history. We aren't predestined to live in any one particular way, for all time. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Democratic Socialist anti zionist wins NYC mayor Dem primary |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 12 Jul 2025, 6:58 pm
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Replies: 48
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| My take on this is a bit different. I don't think Anti-Zionism is antisemitic per se. However given all the injustice around the world and evil things being done to people militarily But most of those other evil things don't receive anywhere near as much military and financial support from the U.S.... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, Work Requirements and so on |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 12 Jul 2025, 6:02 pm
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Replies: 5
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| 'm basically trying to find a light in all this darkness and not completely panic over the idea of losing my apartment and so on. For you, the light in all this darkness is that you live in Pennsylvania, a key swing state. This means that local political activism by you, personally, can make a nati... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Democratic Socialist anti zionist wins NYC mayor Dem primary |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 12:03 pm
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| OTOH I do expect some people to interpret his election as a signal for violence against zionists in general and Jews in particular. I hope this won't happen, but indeed it's possible. I think there's at least as much danger -- and probably much more danger -- of violence from JDL-like pro-Zionist f... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: An Interstellar Object Like Oumuamua Enters Our Solar System |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 6:24 am
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| To me it just looks like a big rock. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Democratic Socialist anti zionist wins NYC mayor Dem primary |
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Posted: 01 Jul 2025, 4:42 pm
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| A couple of other things in this news story that don't make sense to me: New York luxury landlords draft Israeli equity swap amid socialist upset [...] The businessmen who spoke with the Post saud they are lining up Zoom briefings with Jewish federations in Brooklyn, Queens and Nassau County to gaug... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Democratic Socialist anti zionist wins NYC mayor Dem primary |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 01 Jul 2025, 2:17 pm
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Replies: 48
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| Why Five Towns? That's not in NYC, that's in Nassau County. Why would property values be going down in Five Towns? I would have thought that property values on Long Island would go up like they did during COVID. That's what I would have expected, too. My guess is irrationality caused by panic. Extr... |
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