Unseen

jakelafort wrote:
One of the related issues i have been thinking about is tackled by Sam Harris in the vid that follows. So i am thinking either you are a run of the mill Jew hater and or you have been persuaded by the far left that Israel is Satan and is actually an apartheid, colonialist, genocidal nightmare to such an outstanding degree that…

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The image is confusing. This is a two-parter and the first half is germane to this topic if the video’s “thumbnail” isn’t.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Someone didn’t give these punks the memo that the criticism is not meant against (((the Jews))):

I’m not claiming there’s no antisemitism in the world. Duh!

Criticizing the Israeli government’s genocidal tendencies in Gaza is humanism, not antisemitism.

@ Enco

How long has this order to kill been public? The only mentions of it I’ve been able to find are considerably less than a week old, like 2,3, or 4 days. Also, 34,000 at least already killed in Gaza. Has even one person been killed in this instance? How many dead so far?

It seems kind of soon and quite a bit less urgent to be decrying the…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
It does not count unless Jews are seen as the transgressors.

I believe the Gaza genocide is the most intense one going on right now. And most of the criticism I see is directed at Israel’s government, not “the Jews.”

@ Robert

I am not an enemy of Israel. Nor am I a buddy to Hamas. But Hamas is one of the effects the creation of Israel has had on the world. Ditto for 9/11. And the chain of events that has us going through an elaborate process to get on a plane traces back to the creation of Israel and of course before that to the Holocaust and Hitler, and…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
More BS from Unseen.

Does not stop. Keep drinking the lefty koolaid.

I am done responding.

How schoolboyish! That’s the response of someone who has no coherent response.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Nope. Just a statement of fact about all the Israel-haters and the Hamas they love.

When it comes to Israel, “I hate the sin, not the sinner.” I don’t blame Israel for existing but rather for their behavior toward the Palestinians. I don’t love Hamas, but I do understand the causality behind its existence. I’m a…[Read more]

@ PopeBeanie

Yes, I saw that one the other day and almost posted it myself.

jakelafort wrote:
If Gaza had the power instead of Israel it would be an actual genocide. An actual genocide.

It’s actually being called out by reputable sources as a genocide. An actual genocide.

People trapped in Gaza largely lack shelter, sufficient supplies of food, and potable water. As a consequence, malnutrition and communicable diseases…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Sanders is pandering to his lefty supporters. Whether the Jew hating left ideology has completely wasted his mind i can’t say. There are Jews for Jesus too. Obviously in a vacuum criticism of any government is not racist.

The dismissive epithet antisemite (racist) is used by Israeli apologists as a go to classic conversation s…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen, Both with his anti-Israel and his pro-Socialist worldviews, Bernie thinks that the alligator will never get to him. Same likewise with the Orthodoxers, Jewish Voice for Peace, “The Squad,” and Queers For Palestine.

They can be masochistic and suicidal if they want, but don’t drag anybody else along for the ride.…

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Okay, here’s an argument against the possibility of p-zombies. I’m not saying whether or not I accept it. I do wonder about it.

Let’s take two men in parallel worlds. Let’s call him Joe Smith. Joe in World A is a regular human. Joe in World B is a p-zombie.

In World A, Joe is a widower whose beloved wife recently died suddenly from bacterial…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Th degree of randomness encountered appears to be function of knowledge. Sometimes we do know enough about a process to at least assign a probability/curve. If that curve is based only on past observations, the curve is more questionable than when there is an understanding of the mechanics of the process.

It’s very difficult to…[Read more]

Bernie Sander is a Jew. He’s not a weekly synagogue attendee and is not a practicing Jew in any sense, but he is Jewish en0ugh for most rabid antisimites for being the child of a Polish Jew. So, he is a Jew in the way we refer to both practicing and ethnic Jewish people.

He’s a Jew, and here is his view of whether attacking the practices of…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Well, the question remains: are these entanglements and quantum processes set in stone by the past or is there true randomness that excludes any possible omniscience? The believers in God’s gift of “free will” also believe in omnipotence and omniscience so in reality they are the hard determinists. There is only one possi…

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_Robert_ wrote:
The believers in God’s gift of “free will” also believe in omnipotence and omniscience so in reality they are the hard determinists. There is only one possible future: God’s plan.

Those believers will have to believe in a weird logic that embraces nonsense because omnipotence and omniscience are incompatible in the sense that a…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Does the prospect of many possible futures fit in with your view of hard determinism?

I believe that effects have causes, which normally are effects themselves of sufficient causes which sometimes (very rarely for sure) are random or the result of chaos. If hard determinism is that everything on the level where…[Read more]