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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Anarcho Apies? |
| Awesomelyglorious |
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Posted: 01 Aug 2013, 8:01 pm
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Replies: 39
Views: 6,280
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| Look, I have to admit that the point that no working anarchist society exists is a valid one. Without a working example, we don't know whether this radical change will make people better or not. Also, to Aspendos: Have a death wish? You don't need to be an anarchist, it's enough to live in the US. T... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Philosophical Realist, Idealist, or Nominalist |
| Awesomelyglorious |
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Posted: 01 Aug 2013, 5:29 pm
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| Ok, sure: Scientific Nominalist. I had to do some interpretation of the meanings you wanted for idealist, but my understanding of idealism relates back to the 19th century philosophy that reality is composed of mental entities not externally existing physical entities. So, being that I am a physical... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: All the problems with Christianity |
| Awesomelyglorious |
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Posted: 01 Aug 2013, 5:04 pm
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Replies: 286
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| It is a fact that the area of study known as science only concerns itself with physical phenomenon. Theoretical science, or meta-science, falls under the study of philosophy rather than science. I've studied philosophy, but make no claim to be a scientist, and therefore am not the best suited to gi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Hawaii paying to volunteerly deport homeless. |
| Awesomelyglorious |
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Posted: 01 Aug 2013, 3:43 pm
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Replies: 7
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| It's not irrational or even necessarily bad so long as proper arrangements are made with all parties impacted. Hawaii is a tourist area, so a lack of homelessness is a potential benefit. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: All the problems with Christianity |
| Awesomelyglorious |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2013, 9:41 pm
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Replies: 286
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| I just wanted to point out how it isn't applicable to expect a physical scientific explanation for something non-physical. You really only gave an assertion though based upon the assumption that science is intrinsically methodologically naturalistic. I don't have to agree that science actually IS i... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: All the problems with Christianity |
| Awesomelyglorious |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2013, 5:50 pm
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Replies: 286
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| Are you asking for a scientific explanation? Because by definition science only applies to the physical universe... Oh, whether science only applies to the physical universe is a debatable proposition. Some do argue for intrinsic methodological naturalism, but people who hold to pragmatic methodolo... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Libertarians |
| Awesomelyglorious |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2013, 5:05 pm
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Replies: 36
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| So this way they could get rid of the competence of small and middle companies in the western world, reaching almost a monopolistic state. Increased market-size may benefit from some economies of scale that may even make certain companies larger. This doesn't mean that the economies of scale utterl... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Libertarians |
| Awesomelyglorious |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2013, 5:01 pm
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| Prior to the 16th amendment, the federal government was funded mostly by tariffs and excise taxes. What we have now is not a free market and we certainly don't have 'free trade' despite the not-so-aptly named free trade agreements we have with other countries that we've heard so much about the last... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Libertarians |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2013, 12:38 am
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Replies: 36
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| The point that protectionism is anti-libertarian is very much true though: 1) Protectionism stands directly AGAINST all libertarian economics. Considerations about inequality of regulation are actually IRRELEVANT to Ricardian comparative advantage, which is the centerpiece of a lot of economic think... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Anarcho Apies? |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2013, 12:21 am
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Replies: 39
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| I've played around with the idea, but there are reasons to be skeptical: 1) The state is probably somewhat important in terms of handling public goods(goods that are non-rivalrous and non-excludable) and goods with externalities because selfish people will probably not work together to provide these... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Most Important US Constitutional Amendment? |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2013, 8:39 pm
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Replies: 38
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| I'd go with the 1st Amendment. It has the most influence on the practical freedom of people. I mean.... I understand that the 14th gives it a lot of it's teeth, but the work is still done by the 1st amendment. The 2nd Amendment though? No, it's irrelevant. Suggesting it's importance so highly seems ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Libertarians |
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Posted: 27 Jul 2013, 10:59 pm
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| What kind of stuff are you looking for? I'm assuming that http://www.mises.org will work as providing some introduction, as it both includes daily articles, but also a large collection of literature related to Austrian economics and libertarian ideas with a # of writings that are intellectually soli... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: All the problems with Christianity |
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Posted: 23 Jul 2013, 10:23 pm
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Replies: 286
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| Pleeaaaaaaaaassssseeee Normal? WTF is that. Seriously it's almost completely dependent on culture. Try moving back into time space and living with American Indians and see how long logic allows you to exist. They would laugh you and me back into time. Normal as opposed to split brain? Yes, this dis... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: All the problems with Christianity |
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Posted: 23 Jul 2013, 7:25 pm
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Replies: 286
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| Just thinking about the possibility of this discussion as being potentially unprovable either way made me curious... what do you all think of Pascal's Wager ? Pascal's Wager is an argument in apologetic philosophy which was devised by the seventeenth-century French philosopher, mathematician, and p... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: All the problems with Christianity |
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Posted: 23 Jul 2013, 7:20 pm
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| You could say there's two centers of decision making, but the question is whether those "centers" are normal or not. No, it really isn't. You see, in a normal person there is only one center of decision-making and that is something our intuitions about free will mostly refer to. So, a person is sai... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: All the problems with Christianity |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2013, 5:19 pm
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Replies: 286
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| It still qualifies as brain damage. There's a reason we normally should have the two halves of the brain interacting with each other. It can result in some very odd behavior in general for the hemispheres to be split. It seems logical to say that any sort of impairment in normal functioning, which ... |
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