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You are right, Simon. And even those among us who are keenly aware that free will is at best conditioned are sort of forced to live like it is a thing.

no Simon…if there is defined and inalterable path humans follow then free will is ilusory…this game is stupid!

Unseen, that would be a case of deliberate indifference. It also would negate omniscience. If the entity willfully compartmentalizes then a realm of knowledge is missing and in so doing omniscience is negated.

Simon, if god creates humans then he creates their attributes. If he has given them free will and even he does not know exactly how things will unfold then he is not omniscient.

Oh hell i cant play these games. It is on a par with kids debating superman.

If it is running on fumes and is indefensible why hasn’t the free market place of ideas delivered a knockout punch?

How about a bit of background, Ahmad?

How have you come to be confused?

Yeah i am coming around to Eco’s thinking on trickery. UBI is just another trick law. I am a one trick pony. As aforementioned there is a natural order. A tiny tiny minority contributes a wee little yet takes the lion’s share. Lions with those big manes will let a jackal starve until he has had his fill. There is the natural order in economics.…[Read more]

Yeah so we undress the believers. Or at least their beliefs.. Debates about ontology and mythology, contemptible apologists..

When we are idle it may occur to you as it has to me that it is all about nothing. Shakespeare had it spot on. Sound and fury signifying jack fucking shit. In a sense we are all full of shit.

So unless the vicissitudes…[Read more]

Trickery that is what it is!

The fuckin noive of dem bastards lookin out for perverts, yuden and darkies. Manifest destiny. What is right is right. The natural order of things. Sure 1 percent got 99 percent of the wealth. That is how god wanted it or it wouldn’t be da way it is. And now dese mutha fuckerz wanna censor my outrage at how the…[Read more]

Unseen,

I am 7 and 50.

Sure we can afford to piss em off further. The oppressors get a little sand in their ass latch or on their assy nipples it is not something that will cause me to lose sleep. Besides i am only adamant about the wrongness of the Supreme Court in licking the tit of hate speech. Giving it protection is a foolish consistency.

Unseen, you say, our attempts to “fix” the problems of our black and brown citizens gave us Trump. Not entirely, but that is an oft-cited reason why Americans fed up with Washington give for following that Pied Piper of racism.

Will you please elaborate. I am not sure what you are getting at. You also say our laws designed to put a damper on rac…[Read more]

Enco, i apologize in advance for what i am about to say. I notice many common spelling and syntactic errors. For instance there is tenant for tenet…realator for realtor…imply from when it is imply that…infer that when it is infer from and many others…but i have never seen proported for purported. None of the aforementioned substantive and…[Read more]

Unseen, I doubt many incidents will be sufficient to invoke those laws. However if schools announce that there will be zero tolerance for singling out students for subjection to beatings, dehumanization and harassment motivated by hate then they need to set examples. Laws are impactful when their spirit and letter is taken up in an even handed…[Read more]

Unseen,

Your experiences are atypical. I attended a public high school in an affluent town in liberal Massachusetts. What i witnessed was sickening. The few Blacks who attended under the METCO program were bussed in cuz no Blacks lived there. There were sickening acts of racism. I as a Jewish kid got a nice firsthand introduction to…[Read more]

Unseen, that is such crap.

You are so cavalier about it. It is no skin off of your nose, right?

I wish i could say the opposition to proscription of hate speech is mind boggling. But i am not surprised. Humans are on average incapable or unwilling to think deeply enough to challenge a cherished position on an issue. That is why i brought up marijuana. So obviously wrongly decided and so many Americans who supported it! A real no brainer-USA…[Read more]

How does it manifest?

Not long ago gays could not get married in USA. Not long ago the military policy was don’t ask, don’t tell. The general tenor of society is anti-gay. Few male professional athletes have had the courage to come out. I know a lawyer who married a woman just to fit in. Fucked up her life and fucked up his life but that is how…[Read more]

Glen, i think everyone i have spoken to about the topic of perception of time as we age is in agreement…getting older we feel time passes more quickly. I wonder if there are or have been experiments to see if you are correct that by being active and trying new things we can bring the pace of time passage down. Here is a depressing thought-if we…[Read more]