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- Sun Aug 16, 2015 7:51 am
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: Nonprofit Organizations Are the Bane of Civilization
- Replies: 152
- Views: 25961
Re: Nonprofit Organizations Are the Bane of Civilization
Not a very helpful reply, but whatever.
- Sun Aug 16, 2015 2:40 am
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: Nonprofit Organizations Are the Bane of Civilization
- Replies: 152
- Views: 25961
Re: Nonprofit Organizations Are the Bane of Civilization
Are you being sarcastic or otherwise ironic (I hope)?Obvious Leo wrote:Good on ya, Bob. Democracy is for pussies.
- Sun Aug 16, 2015 1:24 am
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: Nonprofit Organizations Are the Bane of Civilization
- Replies: 152
- Views: 25961
Re: Nonprofit Organizations Are the Bane of Civilization
Maybe you'd care to elaborate on what you think is nutty about it. I wasn't able to watch the Chomsky video, but maybe you'd like to tell me who Chomsky is and what he has to say. Noam Chomsky is probably best known in academia as a pioneer in (or even the "father" of) the field of lingui...
- Sun Aug 16, 2015 12:42 am
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: Nonprofit Organizations Are the Bane of Civilization
- Replies: 152
- Views: 25961
Re: Nonprofit Organizations Are the Bane of Civilization
Sounds like a pretty nutty society. I take it you didn't watch any of the Chomsky video I posted? Maybe you'd care to elaborate on what you think is nutty about it. I wasn't able to watch the Chomsky video, but maybe you'd like to tell me who Chomsky is and what he has to say. Noam Chomsky is proba...
- Sat Aug 15, 2015 9:45 pm
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: Nonprofit Organizations Are the Bane of Civilization
- Replies: 152
- Views: 25961
Re: Nonprofit Organizations Are the Bane of Civilization
I'm more puzzled how government can act in any capacity with the chains that Bob would have them wear. The government has to provide social integration (whatever that is), without owning anything, without supporting anything, and without promoting anything: not even employees. It would not have the...
- Sat Aug 15, 2015 1:56 am
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: Nonprofit Organizations Are the Bane of Civilization
- Replies: 152
- Views: 25961
- Fri Aug 14, 2015 10:47 pm
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: Nonprofit Organizations Are the Bane of Civilization
- Replies: 152
- Views: 25961
Re: Nonprofit Organizations Are the Bane of Civilization
The biggest non-profit organisation in my country is the government, Bob. Should I stop paying my taxes? The government is the exception that proves the rule. However, under AEP theory, the only proper function of government is social integration. Government should not own, operate, support or prom...
- Fri Aug 14, 2015 11:51 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: How Do You Spot a Wise Man in a Crowd?
- Replies: 144
- Views: 26575
Re: How Do You Spot a Wise Man in a Crowd?
I wasn't trying to present myself as a know-all pedagogue , Gary, just trying to set the record straight on a matter of historical fact. This particular history is one I spent a lot of time researching many years ago for a series of articles which I was working on at the time. You may also be inter...
- Fri Aug 14, 2015 11:36 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: How Do You Spot a Wise Man in a Crowd?
- Replies: 144
- Views: 26575
Re: How Do You Spot a Wise Man in a Crowd?
Jesus of course had disciples and went around proclaiming himself divine. Don't believe everything you read, Gary. Don't forget Jesus had a shrewd PR agent in Saul of Tarsus and Jesus himself was a very pious Jew. It is utterly inconceivable that he would have made such a claim on his own behalf be...
- Fri Aug 14, 2015 10:48 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: How Do You Spot a Wise Man in a Crowd?
- Replies: 144
- Views: 26575
Re: How Do You Spot a Wise Man in a Crowd?
Is he perhaps a modern day Diogenes? Or dare I say it, Jesus? I'm a non-believer myself but I was brought up in the Christian tradition and this part of the Christian message is a part worth hanging on to. If only god would keep his interfering nose out of things humanity would get along just fine....
- Thu Aug 13, 2015 3:38 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: How Do You Spot a Wise Man in a Crowd?
- Replies: 144
- Views: 26575
How Do You Spot a Wise Man in a Crowd?
(NEWSER) – A community in British Columbia is feeling warm and fuzzy after a homeless man's generosity inspired residents not once but twice over the past two weeks. First, the unidentified man with little to his name found a suitcase with $2,000 in it on a street in Victoria, but turned over the c...
- Thu Aug 13, 2015 12:26 am
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: Reasoning to a practical, moral conclusion
- Replies: 47
- Views: 9754
Re: Reasoning to a practical, moral conclusion
If - as indeed is the case according to surveys made by The Institute for Global Ethics - people on Earth when asked what it means to be an ethical person - a morally-good person - respond that it would be someone who is honest, fair (instead of cheating), and responsible [and these are all a matte...
- Tue Aug 11, 2015 2:48 pm
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: BLACK LIVES MATTER! - BLACK LIVES MATTER!
- Replies: 38
- Views: 7617
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"BLACK LIVES MATTER!" If so, then why do so many BLACK LIVES (and white lives and yellow lives and brown lives and ...) turn themselves over, lock, stock, and barrel, to be used as resource by the powers that be (public and private)? If you willingly walk to the abattoir then you're nuthi...
- Tue Aug 11, 2015 1:48 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: How To Tell Right From Wrong
- Replies: 622
- Views: 114024
Re: How To Tell Right From Wrong
All that has importance here are the ideas, not the emotions. Hi Mr. Bjornstrand, Honest question: Do you believe it is the case that many of us (certainly including myself) may be acting on emotions which are unguided by coherent ideas? For example we see something that we don't like, or know is n...
- Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:16 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: Vulgar Intrusions
- Replies: 1
- Views: 923
Re: Vulgar Intrusions
I'm not a "subscriber", so I'm not allowed to read this article (but thank you for the opportunity to post in this thread :) ). From the short blurb at the link which I'm able to see, it sounds like a common affliction many of us probably have, to treat philosophy like a symbol of relative...