TheEncogitationer

Robert,

Exactly.   A person’s chosen pelt and actual behavior and demeanor  matters much more than their birth pelt and an assumed behavior and demeanor.

A well-fitted work uniform or a business suit and a thoughtful way of speaking commands more respect and makes fewer false impressions than sagging pants showing droopy drawers or “tramp st…[Read more]

Unseen,

I’m sure the WWII German military included soldiers who participated in WWI. I can think of one very famous one in particular.

That famous “You Know Who Else…” was a Chancellor then Dictator during World War II, not an active military fighter.  It’s not like he was on the scene of the front lines running over France or seiging St…[Read more]

Unseen,

The “third option” didn’t appeal to the Athenians because then the enemy could get a second bite at the apple of warring against Athens. That was their logic, like it or don’t.

Naturally, you release the P.O.W.s after you’ve defeated your enemy and you’ve kicked the tires and looked under the hood of the peace offering.

That’s another…[Read more]

Reg,

Excellent and true quotes from Thomas Paine on both Theology and Religion vis-a-vis slavery.

The only thing is, Deists such as himself were still believers in a Deity, albeit their belief was not as obnoxious as other systems of belief, so really, Deists also believed in nothing.  So it’s Larry David’s Seinfeld all the way down.

Deists…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

Yes, Jake, Theology advances by becoming a museum relic.

And, yes, Davis, if Philosophy is to be any better than Theology, it needs to come correct with something better than “Critical Theory” which is re-heated, re-packaged Marxism, a worldview whose stock in trade is corpses, and in particular “Critical Race Theory,” which…[Read more]

Unseen,

My conservative “friends” are keen to point out that most blacks who are murdered are murdered by other blacks. Why? To say it’s a black problem. Let the blacks deal with it. No real understanding or acceptance of how we got to the situation we are in today.

Many people point this out, including people who live in the ghettos in the middl…[Read more]

Unseen,

Yes, yes, yes, the American slavers wisely (lazily?) didn’t go catch their slaves. They paid Africans to catch slaves for them. They had paid employees, basically, get them their unpaid employees.

This is what is known as a distinction without a difference.

You said Europeans “kidnapped” not “kidnapped by proxy,” so I went with that c…[Read more]

Davis,

All right, so where am I wrong on CRT?

Unseen,

I pointed out the religion and point of origin of the slave capturers and the slave traders and owners, not the “race,” which I don’t even regard as a fixed scientific way of categorizing human beings.

And the only reason I point these facts out is because “Critical Race Theorists” like Mr. Kendi and Ms. DiAngelo like to pin the blame…[Read more]

Unseen,

It is common for white Americans to feel that the race issue would go away if people stopped bringing it up constantly, rubbing it into an open wound, not letting it heal. Not my view: theirs.

It isn’t just “White Americans”.  You forget this is also the words of God Himself, Morgan Freeman.  (At least he was God in the movie Bruce A…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

First, let’s define and understand our terms.

So-called “Critical Theory” and “Critical Race Theory” in particular, does not equal what’s known as Critical Thinking.

The latter Critical Thinking is using The Socratic Method and Aristotelian Logic to examine premises, avoid logical fallacies, find out the conclusions of the…[Read more]

Unseen,

There are plenty of very practical “lifeboat situations” when it comes to terrorism. In the case of cyberterrorist ransoms, they can shut down water systems, hospitals, maybe even take control of nuclear weapons.

I think that you did, basically, an end run rather really answering my question. In as many words, I asked you not to do tha…

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Unseen,

(No adding detail that wasn’t given. No reframing the thought problem. Just take it as it is and let’s see how committed you are to your principles.)

It’s always gotta be like that with ethics class “lifeboat scenarios” doesn’t it?

With a child involved, yes you do what it takes at the moment to keep the child safe, but there also nee…[Read more]

Unseen,

Maybe you’re ready for a cyber attack, an alien invasion, or the zombie apocalypse but the public will never follow your lead in any numbers and the government can’t just throw them under the bus in the name of a principle that works in a far more regimented society that’s nothing at all like America.

What inspired me to learn and pract…[Read more]

Robert,

Redundancy and reserve supplies are the easy answers. But these companies are cash cow cheap asses.

Sad to say, those companies in these days and times could end up as the Sears & Roebuck of petroleum.

If I were a petroleum C.E.O., I would feel I owe it to my customers, my employees, my shareholders, and above all myself to keep the oil…[Read more]