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Too liberal? He’s looked at the numbers and the church is and always has been a business – and he’s following the incentives: the church is only going to survive in room temperature IQ communities. Foolish because it’s not that we don’t want the church. We just want our own.

The causal relation between disasters and frequency is population density to lower the cost of infrastructure so that taxes can be directed to the bureaucracy’s payroll and pensions (really, thats the reason).

—“We suffer under Universal-Suffrage Authoritarianism.”— Steve Pender

( I quote the church all the time, but I translate the work of the scholastics into secular prose)

The philosophy of Marx, Lenin, and Mao (version two) cost >100M lives and the World wars, as well as that of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (version one) cost > 500M lives (islam), the destruction of the four great civilizations of the ancient world(islam), and a 1500 year dark age (christianity and islam). And that’s…

BTW, I do science(testimony) and law(Decidability). As far as I know, philosophy is limited to the determination of personal choice, and interpersonal good. And that is probably all that is left for philosophers to judge. Truth is now in the domain of science – as it should have been all along.

Voting as an alternative to revolution (tossing out the government of the commons) is an excellent idea, as long as (a) this does not affect the monarchy and the military, and (b) as long as it is not asymmetric among the classes. In other words, those who have greater responsibilities and those who have lesser…

The problem is you can’t take a woman seriously if she (a) does not reason seriously (b) does not respect the boundary of violence. In the past, we could use violence agianst women who broke that boundary – just as we could use it against men. Our big mistake was ending slander,…

I have made this argument over and over again, my difference is that I do not believe the incentive exists for women to force the change unless we counter-react against crazy-women (which is a very large percentage of women) by threat of binding ALL women. Hence my emphasis on truthful reciprocal speech.

Marxism = parasitism upon private property. Libertarianism = Parasitism upon commons. NeoConservatism = Parasitism upon Genes, Traditions, and Institutions. Authoritarianism masks the underlying theft, which is why I talk not about the authority (which each sector justified) but about the thefts (which are very hard to). Same with economics. We talk about…

—“PLEASE DEFINE DEFLATIONARY GRAMAR”— (also: See the various categories of Truth (including deflationary). Deflationary <-> Inflationary <-> Conflationary <-> Fictionalism DEFLATIONARY: identity(constant relations), Mathematics(positional relations), Logics(sets of relations), Algorithms (States and Transformation of states), Procedures/Recpies(states, transformation of states, by operations), Contracts(exchanges), Survival (from competition) INFLATIONARY: the descriptive narrative. the fiction. …

No, it’s a question about the difference between theology and philosophy on one hand and science, cognitive science, natural law (reciprocity), economics on the other. In other words, between that which is free of fictionalism and that which is not. The question remains, we can learn from history, biography, science, economics, or we can…

(I know, because I do the same thing) Kim wants legitimacy before his people. Trump wants an excuse to take severe action. The military can use that action to counter china. There are hundreds of issues at play here. I have been in the business of negotiating business deals for most of my…

—“Really, when you think about it, movie theaters are basically concession stands that rely on movies to bring people in the door.”—

I love watching the movie business fail into producing nothing but spectacle for children and teens.

The united states is not ONE democracy, but a COLLECTION OF STATES all of whom agree to operate democratically and resolve conflicts in commerce and war via the federal government, similarly to how the Church formed a weak government over the various states of Europe. The states, regions, and ‘nine’ super-regions, are genetically(yes), demographically,…

Kim wants legitimacy before his people. Trump wants an excuse to take severe action. The military can use that action to strategically counter china. There are hundreds of issues at play here, and the strategic future changes dramatically both ways. I have been in the business of negotiating business deals for most of my life…

The united states is not ONE democracy, but a COLLECTION OF STATES all of whom agree to operate democratically and resolve conflicts in commerce and war via the federal government, similarly to how the Church formed a weak government over the various states of Europe. The states, regions, and ‘nine’ super-regions, are genetically(yes), demographically, culturally,…

Whenever a general rule passes beyond the empirical, to the ideal, and then to the secular-theological, we pass the limits of its original utility. https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-so-much-rejection-of-Human-Rights-today-Is-it-because-of-their-hypocrisy-in-defending-criminals-and-condemning-the-victims