Sunday School

Curing cancer or nuclear war? If one has to stop to reflect on the answer……

Which side of the cancer divide are you on?

That is all i need to know to assess who you are.

Reg:

G. E. Moore and morality without God.

From the article:

In Principia Ethica (1903), Moore asked that question about morality itself. His answer was that ‘good’ can’t be defined or proved. We simply recognise it, the way we recognise a colour. So no church or holy book could tell you what was good: you had to look and judge for yours…

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The points Douglas Murray makes between 21:10 and 24:15 is worth another view.

I wonder how a constitutional challenge to Palestinianism in the curriculum of so many American schools and universities might fare.

Its arguably a violation of both the establishment and free exercise clause. It is ahistorical in an environment that is designed for free inquiry and facts. Ok ideally it is for free inquiry notwithstanding its…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!!

Have a great week everyone!

It is easy to sit back and bitch at the state of civilization. Doctor Jacob is actively fighting the good fight against the Unseen evil fuckerz who are in various degrees ignorant/stupid/vicious. Yeah lefties. Changing the zeitgeist little by little and endangering our future. So that if enough are converted to the cult of the far left there will…[Read more]

Jake:

Also, after the housecleaning, fumigation, and bug extermination, there would be bidding for apartment suites, plus slots for medical facilities;

specialty shops–including Samizdat and Blasphemous Bookstores and The Singapore Chewing Gum and Confectionry;
Restaurants–featuring The Bug-Free and Happy Grill and Everything GMO;

Bars for…[Read more]

Jake:

The only additional staff needed in the United Nations building are movers, custodial staff, and construction refurbishers, for the day that U.S. wises up and evicts and deports the U.N. out and we trash our membership credentials.

I ‘m sure the Israelis have able contractors more than willing to join in this task.😁

Imagine the lefty’s at the UN how aghast they are gonna be to have Zio’s in their midst?

No double standards.

No higher standards.

Blind scales of justice. They just hate Zionists!

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-913996

Simon:

The idea of a cross-societal study of norms is a great idea worth studying. The PDF had the rightmost side of the pages chopped off, but once that is corrected, it might be a good read. (My own struggles with PDFs thoroughly leaves a bad taste in my mouth for the format.)

Maybe the Toyota Foundation isn’t the same as the car company, I don’t know.

Enco

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378138739_Moral_universals_A_machine-reading_analysis_of_256_societies

Simon:

I know of someone who got a grant from Toyota to do evolutionary ethics.

Hmmm…Interesting. Did it involve study of a large sampling of people with an experimental group and a control group? A survey with unloaded questions? Did it let the evidence guide the conclusion rather than vice-versa?

TheEncogitationer wrote:
True, but do they get scientific grants from labs, either corporate or governmental, for their speculations, however interesting they may be?

I knew of someone who got a grant from Toyota to do evolutionary ethics.

Simon:

There are people who are paid to do this kind of thing – professional philosophers. I think most of them are professors at universities and therefore are required to teach as well.

True, but do they get scientific grants from labs, either corporate or governmental, for their speculations, however interesting they may be?

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Even the most generous bankroller of Science has to have priorities.

If the Thomas Nagels of the world want to be a Furrie, a Smoothie, a Scaleie, an Exoskelie, or a Membraneie and then navel-gaze over it, that’s their own business, but that may have to be on their own time and Dime.

There are people who are paid to do t…[Read more]

Simon,

Actually, thinking about this again, humans who could be another species and who could communicate to other humans about the experience could do many useful things.

It could give greater insights on diseases that cross species, similarities between biological functions of our species and other species, give further substantiation for…[Read more]

Simon:

I disagree, you never know when something might turn out to be valuable. There’s a whole picture of reality to be painted, and it needs all the pieces in place.

All this is true, but when there are problems like:

*Chronic, degenerative diseases and conditions on top of resurgent infection diseases keeping humans from living longer, h…[Read more]