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Harbal wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:54 pm

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:33 pm
So you think the UN is going to remain, and will somehow become effective and moral, but that Biden has to go?

Hmm, I just can't imagine where all this is going.

I can't figure it.

What is your strategy for achieving peace? Assuming that you care about it. I'm interested in Gary's. He's the one who started this ball rolling. Maybe his will be better than anything I could come up with. Let's find out. I posted what I think will bring peace. You replied to it but left out that ...

Philosophy Now wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:03 pm If Ludwig Wittgenstein had come from Yorkshire, what might his Tractatus have been like? Dr G.E.B. Smith imagines.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/51/A_Y ... ttgenstein

"The Yorkshire Wittgenstein"?

I thought that was Harbal.

I have one but I doubt people would like it: The complete destruction of all life on earth. You'd make a great Islamist, then... :wink: They think that peace could be achieved by killing all opponents. But that's more "pacification" than peace...it's a quietness born of death and destruct...

I'll put my cards on the table right now; I don't have a strategy for peace. I have one but I doubt people would like it: The complete destruction of all life on earth. You'd make a great Islamist, then... :wink: They think that peace could be achieved by killing all opponents. But that's more &quo...

"Peace" is a noble goal...but if it's really noble, does it not deserve some possible strategy for achievement? Or are we going to be content with wishing upon a star, and never bother to consider how the thing might actually be reached? If that's where we stop, just how much do we actual...

This is the one part of my previous post that you ignored: But I didn't make you. That is not the issue. I predict that you will bury your head in the sand and pretend it is, but for the third time: I'm not suggesting there is any coercion from your God... I have little doubt that you will continue...

That is my suggestion. If peace is something that is wanted, then that's probably what it will take. Would you suggest the opposite? I wouldn't think anybody's "suggestion" was likely to change anything at all, actually. I would think that was a case of having a wish, but no plan to make ...

Harbal wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:51 pm I sense that God is waiting in the wings, ready to make his inevitable entrance.

I don't think you sense that at all. But if you did, I suspect you'd make very different statements than you do.

At this point in world affairs, I'm not sure how to de-escalate things from where they currently are. However, if/when we get past the present situation, I suggest nations not start wars. So...you're just going to make the suggestion, and nations are all going to listen, and are going to stop makin...

Do the winners write history or does history favor those who deserve to win? I suggest peace is a viable and necessary route to save humanity from ourselves. Let's say you're right. How does one go about obtaining peace? At this point in world affairs, I'm not sure how to de-escalate things from wh...

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:26 pm Do the winners write history or does history favor those who deserve to win? I suggest peace is a viable and necessary route to save humanity from ourselves.

Let's say you're right. How does one go about obtaining peace?

It would be even better to be able to examine the material you are complaining about, but as you won't tell us what it is, how can we? You're starting to sound pathetic. You mean you've miraculously lost your ability to Google? Google, what are the books that IC has deemed to be perverted? Sad. :cr...

The programs which teach sex stuff to very little children are all aimed at making sure the children know to speak up if an adult is doing something wrong with them. Better look up some of those videos. You couldn't be more wrong. It would be even better to be able to examine the material you are c...

Harbal wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:34 pm

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:16 pm

Harbal wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:14 pm
But you blocked my attempts to find out.

I told you where to look.

But why couldn't you just tell me the names of the books that you had judged "perverted"?

Answer below.

If you think I'm going to debate the particulars of salacious content with you,...