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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Mideast War - thought experiment, which is worse? |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2024, 5:15 pm
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Replies: 41
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| If you, personally, found yourself locked inside Joel Osteen's megachurch, who would you rather be locked in there with? 5000 armed IDF fighters, or One (1) armed 11 year old Palestinian boy? There is only one correct answer to that question. Mod. note: This thread was split as off topic material f... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Who Is In Charge Of The Church? |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 17 Dec 2023, 5:17 pm
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Replies: 62
Views: 1,823
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Well at least we've found common ground between reactionary Christianity and the left - both really like purity testing!  |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Was Brexit a mistake? |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2023, 7:17 am
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Replies: 49
Views: 1,999
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| Now the shortfall is being made up by migrants from places further afield and more culturally removed like India and Pakistan Pakistan and India were part of the old British Empire, and part of the Commonwealth https://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries Maybe people from Commonwealth countrie... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Zwarte Piet |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2023, 7:10 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,218
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| It isn't for me to decide whether he's offensive. I'm generally more sympathetic towards the arguments that it is offensive, because it seems distasteful for white people to dress up as black stereotypes, tradition or not. |
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Forum: WrongPlanet.net discussion Topic: Trigger Warnings |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2023, 8:36 pm
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Replies: 42
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| It's not easy. I feel like there are some things that almost everyone would agree should not be just foist upon people. An obvious one is pornography, for example, which is prohibited on WrongPlanet. There are things that are worse than pornography and again the things I'm thinking of are also prohi... |
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Forum: WrongPlanet.net discussion Topic: Why do private messages go to outbox before sent box? |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 28 Nov 2023, 3:14 pm
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Replies: 7
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| This goes back to the days before email when people would have memos delivered to them. Executives would have two boxes on their desk, one saying "in" and one saying "out". Unread messages are placed in the inbox, and things they want delivered elsewhere are placed in the outbox,... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What is truth? |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 28 Nov 2023, 8:24 am
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Replies: 2
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| We can best attempt to determine the truth by formulating testable hypotheses and testing them repeatedly, examining our biases in the process and constantly trying to prove ourselves wrong. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: This is an opinion that was sent to me about patriarchy. |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 28 Nov 2023, 7:45 am
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Replies: 62
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| I still don't understand how this relates to the topic of patriarchy It relates to the topic of patriarchy since it challenges the notion that men are the most dominant people in society. If men are so dominant, and supposedly make up all of the unfair rules in favour of men in society that the con... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: UK net immigration hits 745,000 |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 23 Nov 2023, 3:18 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 641
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| Rookie numbers. Gotta pump them up higher to get the economy growing. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Argentina just elected a nutcase? |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 22 Nov 2023, 11:21 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 820
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| Is it even possible for him to make things worse than they already are? I hope so and I hope he does it really quickly. If he f***s up hard enough it Might be enough of an example to Americans to remind them what's going to happen if they re-elect the American trump. How many Trump voters do you th... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Argentina just elected a nutcase? |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 21 Nov 2023, 2:16 pm
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Replies: 14
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| There are things to like about him, but he's nuts. Somehow managed to blunder a question on whether it should be legal to sell children for example, doesn't believe in climate change, thinks rape victims shouldn't have access to abortion, wants to abolish the Argentinian central bank, and wants to c... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The U.S. conservative movement's authoritarian plans |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 19 Nov 2023, 11:45 pm
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Replies: 101
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| So to be clear, even explicitly biased sources like SEGM concede that the service is being replaced by regional services, rather than the care no longer being offered. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why do US leaders want to attack Mexico? |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 19 Nov 2023, 11:37 pm
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Replies: 44
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| Ok I'm not American but quite clearly the former US war on drugs focused on US distributors and Columbian cartels. So how come Mexican cartels were given a free pass back in the 1990s and 2000s? Because the wealthy elite in the USA are a bunch of drug users themselves. They can't just go cut off th... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The U.S. conservative movement's authoritarian plans |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 18 Nov 2023, 6:24 pm
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Replies: 101
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| Just on this point because it's a fairly simple matter of fact: the Gender Identity Development Service based at the Tavistock Centre in North London is being closed because it was overwhelmed with demand from across the country, and it is being replaced by regional centres across the country. It h... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Right / left political shift and Israel |
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Posted: 18 Nov 2023, 12:18 pm
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Replies: 22
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| A recent example of far-left antisemitism is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_for_Humanity - a mural which got Jeremy Corbyn into hot water. No shortage of antisemitism from lefties over the years - Karl Marx associated Jews with "hucksterism", Pierre-Joseph Proudhon considered them &... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The U.S. conservative movement's authoritarian plans |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 18 Nov 2023, 11:54 am
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Replies: 101
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| I guess the UK closing down the Tavistock Center, Just on this point because it's a fairly simple matter of fact: the Gender Identity Development Service based at the Tavistock Centre in North London is being closed because it was overwhelmed with demand from across the country, and it is being rep... |
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