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Enco, i am torn betwen a requirement for Muslims before becoming US citizens. Should they be required to spit, urinate or defecate on their Quran?

And to all of the White bread ivy league students majoring in middle eastern studies and crying dodger blue for the Palestinians. Mandatory visits into the bowels of death cult hell. Encourage them to…[Read more]

Big bang. 13 billion years hence. Cromulent. Big splash.

At the White House. This is America.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Bos_NLeR7q8?si=a52GbVrsnWt3tGGH

Everything Trump is doing sets a precedence and becomes normalized. Harvard is just one aspect on the attack on education. It may seem partially righteous now, but more is to come.

Oklahoma just passed a state resolution that “Christ is King”.

https://www.okhouse.gov/posts/news-20250418_1

“This resolution is a bold testament to Oklahoma’s f…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert, Here is the video I referenced linked on The Hill: https://x.com/MarkGoldfeder/status/1912283082364998131

Yeah, I know, but Harvard already settled the discrimination case with pro-semitic provisions and a five-year plan.

Marc Kasowitz of Kasowitz Benson Torres, LLP, counsel for Students Against Antisemitism said…

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@Enco, sure companies pay taxes, but no company was going to orchestrate a mission to the moon. The return on investment as far as business development enabled by the Apollo program was 700% or 7:1 to the taxpayers.

The point is that universities and businesses work together to elevate our nation and that no business can afford to undertake risky…[Read more]

Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg special. Still remember watching that and feeling sick to my stomach.

Far left. Far right. Without data to corroborate but i think it is a good bet far left is better educated than far right. Less conviction but perhaps higher in empathy as well. And yet i am not sure whether it is the lefties or the MAGA who are…[Read more]

Triggering empathy is a Spielberg specialty. Most of us are running the same basic software (if you are not a sociopath). The thing is, I am never a fan of having people take pity on others if there is nothing they can or will do to really help. In fact, it results in the most helpless of feelings having to look up at “empath”, shaking their head…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
If empathy is what it takes for us to do the right things, that’s great. However, the dichotomous situation of living standards always throws me for a loop.

In a recent Facebook post answering a person who likes to remind leftists like me that the Democrats were very keen on the KKK and it was a Republican who f…

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13,100 children under the age of 5 die every day. 9 kids a minute. Many starve or just don’t get medicine they need.

We love our pets. More than half a million cats are snuffed out in shelters each year.

Mother nature is absolutely ruthless. How many creatures are eaten alive every day?

Should one have empathy for someone who stubs a toe? It…[Read more]

No expert and just my impression but empathy is chacterized by creating a relatable impression that is experienced/felt when one organism observes another. Does not have to be same species. Mirror neurons and other neural junk whose name(s) escapes me and neural pathways are activated when something observed causes alarm or joy/ecstasy. If one is…[Read more]

Empathy is informed sympathy

Someone has told me they are an Empath. What is an Empath? Is there a Sympath as well?

Try explaining what water is to a fish.

In Wittgenstein’s famous discussion of pain and private language he points out that there is no way to know what someone else senses. If you and I coincidentally stub our toes at the same time and react simultaneously in a similar fashion, is this sufficient to declare that we both feel the same thing? No, and there’s no way to verify the not…[Read more]

This new London Tube map is excellent!  Article.

But if I see you stub your toe, and I am at all sympathetic with you, then I will feel your pain by empathy. We’ve evolved that as part of the human suite of cooperative abilities.

What is it like to be a Bat?

@Unseen you made the exact point that I also thought. Empathy is the feeling when you can relate to an injury or event because you have been through similar events and you  feel knowledgable sympathy. You do not feel anyone else’s experience.

You hear people all the time saying their empathy forces them to feel everything (usually bad things) fr…[Read more]

I read this article this morning. In my head, I can’t trace the route from cell consciousness as described, to the almost non-sequitur of changing reality.

Basically they’re proposing that our cells have a consciousness and actually make decisions – and then somehow that affects reality and we’re reshaping our future.

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Simon Paynton wrote:

TheEncogitationer wrote:
When Government defunds Harvard and the rest of Ivy League Academia, it is not so much exercising speech of it’s own. Rather the Government is forbidding forced speech, which results when taxpayers are forced to support these institutions promoting Antisemitism, as well promoting as the Critical R…

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Instead of the myopic view, how about if we examine the accomplishments of Harvard Medical School alone, and gauge that against the alleviation of guilty conscience by the entitled Harvard students and staff with their flawed but inconsequential support of Palestinians.

https://hms.harvard.edu/about-hms/history-hms/timeline-discovery

Imagine the…[Read more]