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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Australia Must change |
| Metal Rat |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2020, 10:36 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,579
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| I wonder what will happen to Australia, and the rest of the British Dominions, once Great Britain falls? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Pornography |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2020, 10:28 am
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,338
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| Porn is not inherently evil. Sure there can be exploitation, but you can say that about many jobs within capitalism. I don't think there is anything wrong as long as there is regulation against the truly exploitive stuff, done only by those who can give consent, and I think that it be made clear ho... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Marxists! |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2020, 10:23 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,000
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| I have to wonder: Why beat this dead horse even further into the ground? Marxism has been demonstrated over and over again to be a failed system that is based on a philosophy that does not take into account human vices like greed and pride, except to say that human vices can be forcibly evolved out... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Marxists! |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2020, 10:08 am
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Replies: 15
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| Well, I would go even further. The very idea of Class War, and exterminating off entire Classes, is-- in principle-- just like Race War, and exterminating off entire Races. Can barely understand why anyone would feel that Marxism is any better, at all, than Nazism. Mind you, I hate Nazism as much as... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Marxists! |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2020, 10:01 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,000
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| The Marxists do not know the true irony of what they say. Marxists claim that Nazi Germany was not Truly Socialist, because it turned out to be such an evil dictatorship. But guess what, people? There is one small problem with that. By the same line of reasoning, one could say that neither the Sovie... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Slums of the future |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2020, 9:45 am
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Replies: 29
Views: 1,213
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| They have university overpopulation in France where pressures on egalitarianism disallows practices common in the former Eastern Block. Nope, they don't end up with slums. Just irrationally expensive apartament lease prices and overcrowded university halls. Students can commute. I did. An universit... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Slums of the future |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2020, 5:16 am
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Replies: 29
Views: 1,213
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| Of course "free" universities mean state-fund universities. How would you imagine it otherwise? And, when it comes to "then everyone wants to study", universities can do something they have been doing here for decades: killer entry exams for popular majors and killer first year ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Pornography |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2020, 12:49 am
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,338
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Whale_Tuune wrote: Yeah. I'm anti-pornography but I also realize that it's probably like alcohol in that banning it won't get rid of it. Instead we need to educate kids on why it's harmful to them and their partners.
That is an interesting idea, in theory. But would it work? I wonder! |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Slums of the future |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2020, 7:33 am
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Replies: 29
Views: 1,213
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| Free college cannot happen, because every single product would be turned into a "college". The college of Gun shooting The college of Parachuting The college of Race car driving The college of Wine tasting The college of Cruise Ship exploration <-- I would be going for PHD in that. Intere... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Slums of the future |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2020, 7:10 am
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Replies: 29
Views: 1,213
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| It will be interesting to see what happens, if Bernie Sanders is elected President of the United States. After all, he did promise Free Tuition for Colleges and Universities. Now, if everyone who wants to go to Higher Education could, and would, then the Campuses will become overcrowded, and hence s... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Inside Soviet Prisons |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2020, 4:31 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,007
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| I'm not sure if he was anti-Semitic. I'll have to look into that.Either way, he wrote realistically about the Gulags. "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." He won the Nobel Prize for that. Hmmm. Perhaps, I should read that book, one day! He wrote a thick trilogy of books about his tim... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Neurotypicals |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2020, 3:53 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,410
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| The whole point of being Neurotypical is to not say what one really thinks or feels about anything. That is their entire game. Everything is sugar coated and left unsaid, or not said directly at any rate. Most do not say what they really think, for fear of being ridiculed. Would seem that they have ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Pornography |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2020, 3:46 am
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,338
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| Pornography is to today's America what Vodka was to the Soviet Union. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Negative Stereotypes |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2020, 3:01 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 948
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| As a German American, I'm delighted so many people no longer associate Germans with Nazis. But real negative stereotypes aren't for the most part associated with Germans or Italians. Most negative stereotypes are: Blacks are lazy and criminally inclined. Jews are greedy and covetous. Latinos are il... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Study Finds Brain Damage & Religious Fundamentalism Linked. |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2019, 12:02 pm
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Replies: 34
Views: 1,739
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| That is really interesting. Perhaps, that is why they cannot understand Evolution. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Negative Stereotypes |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2019, 11:56 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 948
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| As a German American, I'm delighted so many people no longer associate Germans with Nazis. But real negative stereotypes aren't for the most part associated with Germans or Italians. Most negative stereotypes are: Blacks are lazy and criminally inclined. Jews are greedy and covetous. Latinos are il... |
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