The "culture war" isn't about beliefs; it's about satisfying the human need to blame (scapegoat) someone else for your problems, meanwhile not becoming the target of blame yourself (or at least, being blamed by anyone…
Isn't there some kind of DKMS package to automate this?
There's a joke about a guy who gets a phone call because his son used "the S-word" at school. "I'm so sorry, I don't know where he picked that up; I'll have a stern talk with him." "Good," the teacher says, "we can't…
> We live in houses with yards and fences and don't talk to each other. Yes, ironically, putting more people together creates more isolation. People live in extremely dense apartment housing in cities - and still don't…
How do you feel about Disneyland making a ride out of Pirates of the Caribbean?
People are so impressed now with predictive models based on any kind of correlation. Like: "we predict what kind of wine you will like based on your favorite candy bar" or "how long you'll live based on what you eat for…
The technical problems I work on are interesting to me personally because I enjoy getting good at the particular subfield I am in. I don't think they're necessarily "interesting" in the sense of "advance the state of…
I (perhaps mis-)read the subtext as being that violence is a historical, hence tolerable and perhaps even inextricable, part of reform movements. The literal point seemed obvious, so it didn't occur to me as a possible…
My point is if you want to defend blacklivesmatter, do so on the basis that they reject violence, not because some historical movement was also associated with violence.
Yes, less violence is the goal.
"if the suffragettes got justice without firing a shot, why can’t everyone else?" We should indeed seek to get justice without firing a shot. I take exception to the implication that we should condone violence because…
A lot of Americans admire Germany's progressivism, but don't fully appreciate it comes at the expense of sharply curtailed personal liberties.
It's not clear to me whether Rome accepts Christians who completely reject its authority. The central point of Lutheran Protestantism is that it's open source: anybody with a Bible can decide for themselves how to…
Some people prefer a single family house with a yard, and some prefer to pack as many bodies as you can per square inch of land area. Density is good early in your life arc, but there are diminishing returns after…
In fairness many Catholics don't accept Protestants as Christians either.
Historically the Hispanic and African populations were in the US a good deal before the Chinese.
Any system that creates winners also creates losers.
Based on my personal experiences with people of Turkish and Egyptian descent living in Europe, I believe that many are happy being integrated into their adopted nationality, and many are not. Again my point is not that…
But even when a Christian church is the official church of the State, they are still distinct entities, as opposed to the Islamic model.
Yes. Other religious orders tend to solve problems by inflicting organised violence on a victim. Christianity did this for a while until they realized their faith is based on a sacrificial victim. It's also rooted in a…
I think you're unfairly circumscribing the OP's viewpoint since many Catholics also view Christianity as overthrowing an old order (the headship of Adam, the violence of Rome, the rites of blood sacrifice). I don't…
The West was also not very interested in the rest of the world except to conquer, prior to the development of the modern worldview between Bacon and Newton. This was a singular event that marks the sudden rise of the…
Rome had slaves but it wasn't the cornerstone of their economy. The idea that the life in each generation should be more advanced and efficient than in the previous simply hadn't been invented then.
Islamic civilization was never very curious about the outside world other than militarily. There is a famous story about Galileo's telescopes being sent as a gift to a Muslim ruler to observe the planets. They didn't…
I'm well aware of potential cognitive biases based on the arc of personal experience and I think I've accounted for that above. Meanwhile you've addressed zero of my objective points. You're a troll.
The "culture war" isn't about beliefs; it's about satisfying the human need to blame (scapegoat) someone else for your problems, meanwhile not becoming the target of blame yourself (or at least, being blamed by anyone…
Isn't there some kind of DKMS package to automate this?
There's a joke about a guy who gets a phone call because his son used "the S-word" at school. "I'm so sorry, I don't know where he picked that up; I'll have a stern talk with him." "Good," the teacher says, "we can't…
> We live in houses with yards and fences and don't talk to each other. Yes, ironically, putting more people together creates more isolation. People live in extremely dense apartment housing in cities - and still don't…
How do you feel about Disneyland making a ride out of Pirates of the Caribbean?
People are so impressed now with predictive models based on any kind of correlation. Like: "we predict what kind of wine you will like based on your favorite candy bar" or "how long you'll live based on what you eat for…
The technical problems I work on are interesting to me personally because I enjoy getting good at the particular subfield I am in. I don't think they're necessarily "interesting" in the sense of "advance the state of…
I (perhaps mis-)read the subtext as being that violence is a historical, hence tolerable and perhaps even inextricable, part of reform movements. The literal point seemed obvious, so it didn't occur to me as a possible…
My point is if you want to defend blacklivesmatter, do so on the basis that they reject violence, not because some historical movement was also associated with violence.
Yes, less violence is the goal.
"if the suffragettes got justice without firing a shot, why can’t everyone else?" We should indeed seek to get justice without firing a shot. I take exception to the implication that we should condone violence because…
A lot of Americans admire Germany's progressivism, but don't fully appreciate it comes at the expense of sharply curtailed personal liberties.
It's not clear to me whether Rome accepts Christians who completely reject its authority. The central point of Lutheran Protestantism is that it's open source: anybody with a Bible can decide for themselves how to…
Some people prefer a single family house with a yard, and some prefer to pack as many bodies as you can per square inch of land area. Density is good early in your life arc, but there are diminishing returns after…
In fairness many Catholics don't accept Protestants as Christians either.
Historically the Hispanic and African populations were in the US a good deal before the Chinese.
Any system that creates winners also creates losers.
Based on my personal experiences with people of Turkish and Egyptian descent living in Europe, I believe that many are happy being integrated into their adopted nationality, and many are not. Again my point is not that…
But even when a Christian church is the official church of the State, they are still distinct entities, as opposed to the Islamic model.
Yes. Other religious orders tend to solve problems by inflicting organised violence on a victim. Christianity did this for a while until they realized their faith is based on a sacrificial victim. It's also rooted in a…
I think you're unfairly circumscribing the OP's viewpoint since many Catholics also view Christianity as overthrowing an old order (the headship of Adam, the violence of Rome, the rites of blood sacrifice). I don't…
The West was also not very interested in the rest of the world except to conquer, prior to the development of the modern worldview between Bacon and Newton. This was a singular event that marks the sudden rise of the…
Rome had slaves but it wasn't the cornerstone of their economy. The idea that the life in each generation should be more advanced and efficient than in the previous simply hadn't been invented then.
Islamic civilization was never very curious about the outside world other than militarily. There is a famous story about Galileo's telescopes being sent as a gift to a Muslim ruler to observe the planets. They didn't…
I'm well aware of potential cognitive biases based on the arc of personal experience and I think I've accounted for that above. Meanwhile you've addressed zero of my objective points. You're a troll.