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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does anyone actually like Hilary? |
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Posted: 15 May 2015, 8:38 pm
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Replies: 124
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| Clinton II seems likely to govern in her own right, not sure why some assume she's a proxy for her husband. She'll probably be elected because she's long been publicly groomed for the role (has an undivided but possibly naive base with few if any real challengers within her party) and the recent GOP... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Some thoughts on 'social skills' and office politics. |
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Posted: 13 May 2015, 10:34 pm
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Replies: 46
Views: 6,460
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That comic exactly summed up my fear of getting promoted to a white shirt.  |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Security Guard-AS friendly |
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Posted: 13 May 2015, 7:38 pm
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Replies: 6
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| Sorry to resurrect the thread, but I've had this experience as well. No job since the Navy for about three years and an attempt at university, and then I just sort of felt drawn to medical security. It's ethically uncomplicated, most of why you're necessary is the protection of doctors, nurses, and ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Jesus, the prophets and Zoro |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2015, 1:08 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,184
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| Roman analogies are frustrating. If we're following a similar path, we're closer to losing our Republic and accepting autocracy than our fall to a future equivalent of the Goths, Franks, Suevi, Allemanni, Saxons, Angles, and Vandals who are themselves being pushed into our heartlands by the Hun . An... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Spartacus TV series |
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Posted: 20 Feb 2015, 11:01 pm
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Replies: 6
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| I've apparently got a low tolerance for the blood, so I'm slowly working through the early part of the series, but I kind of like it. I'm really looking forward to Crassus turning up. It's a shame filmmakers and scriptwriters focus on the time right around Caesar and the formal transition to empire ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Singularity. |
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Posted: 20 Feb 2015, 7:24 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,944
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| And we wouldn't necessarily notice the transition due to the relatively slow progress, but isn't it true that we have already gone through the early stages of the process in the form of interconnectivity? The early and even middle stages would be a world away from the ones arbitrarily close to the ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is it racism to be against immigration? |
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Posted: 20 Feb 2015, 12:42 am
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Replies: 130
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| @ OP No, but you're often in the political company of racists. It really comes down to a fear, legitimate or otherwise, that the "other" will not be successfully integrated into the "native" whole at the current or projected future rate of arrival. For racists, that fear has at i... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Singularity. |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2015, 11:53 pm
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Replies: 28
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| Our thinking is too granular on this matter. Think of it from an evo-devo perspective, the game-changing advances in eukaryotic life and probably life-in-general involve some form of symbiosis, and that relationship usually turns endosymbiotic over time. Some archaea was probably so habitually infes... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Who Will Get To Live on Mars? |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2015, 11:11 pm
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Replies: 26
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| I don't think the people who "get" to live on Mars or anywhere else in the space beyond Earth are going to be undeniably human past the next X decades, recognizably in X + 2. The concept of the cyborg has its genesis in space travel for a reason: baseline humans are ill-adapted to the vari... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is Eating Animals Wrong??? |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2015, 10:41 pm
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Replies: 87
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| Eating animals isn't wrong in and of itself, but should there come a time when meat that traditionally would have been part of an animal to start with can otherwise and easily be obtained, such as mass-produced in-vitro or vat-grown meat, that may become a more ethically dubious position. Most of th... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: If god exists, what would you say to her? |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2015, 10:14 pm
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Replies: 14
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| *shortly after shuffling off the mortal coil or otherwise achieving some sort of communication with the divinity if it exists* "...Heh!" |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Drone Improvements |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2015, 10:09 pm
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Replies: 95
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| We're still stuck in that 2GW/3GW mindset, what with the bigger planes, bigger missiles, bigger blah for taking out a target and awing those nearby. A small, remote sniper-type drone does seem like a better adaptation to a prevalence of 4GW. Keep the predators for their fantastic ability to find tar... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Describe your political orientation in 3 words only |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2015, 9:30 pm
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Replies: 63
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| Moody Libertarian Statist. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: President Obama refuses to legitimize groups like ISIL |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2015, 9:24 pm
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Replies: 8
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| Can we call them Wahhabists? I'm given to understand they prefer a different term for their ultra-conservative Islam, and that that one further enrages them. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: An autistic or Aspergian analogy |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2015, 9:18 pm
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| So I've been into Buddhism lately, and I find the stream of consciousness and self analogies pleasantly comfortable. In them, we are a volume of liquid poured into a bowl, and that liquid flows in and out (ultimately out) throughout one's life. That liquid is our thoughts, feelings, experiences, non... |
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