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by Greta
Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:47 am
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Regrets. I've had a few
Replies: 27
Views: 6195

Regrets. I've had at least one

It kills me that I didn't think of the username Mona Log before joining. There for the taking and I simply missed it, alas. Otherwise, no, I don't much regret. Whatever I screwed up was because I either didn't know better at the time or had a brain fade. Some screwups unexpectedly turned out okay. S...
by Greta
Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:32 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: DIVERSITY IS AMERICA'S GREATEST STRENGTH
Replies: 290
Views: 66585

Re: DIVERSITY IS AMERICA'S GREATEST STRENGTH

Greta In truth, more power sharing within marriage took the place of autocracy. As always, you fail to notice the obvious links between overpopulation and financial inequality and all that you complain about - breakdown of marriage, state controls, loss of prosperity, loss of community. Instead you...
by Greta
Tue Jan 29, 2019 1:42 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: DIVERSITY IS AMERICA'S GREATEST STRENGTH
Replies: 290
Views: 66585

Re: DIVERSITY IS AMERICA'S GREATEST STRENGTH

The state has become the alpha male. it has taken the place of the husband. It has feminized the husband into a money making slave afraid to be male. This is all by design. Once the state takes over the responsibility of the husband the wife will vote for whoever offers protection and guidance. Hel...
by Greta
Sun Jan 27, 2019 1:01 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: DIVERSITY IS AMERICA'S GREATEST STRENGTH
Replies: 290
Views: 66585

Re: DIVERSITY IS AMERICA'S GREATEST STRENGTH

However, you hide your fear and hatred of women behind a desire to them women and deny them any kind of rights or independent value in life based on a spurious ideology entirely lacking any kind of actually basis beyond "the Bible said so" (never mind the ambiguities). We know the ancient...
by Greta
Sat Jan 26, 2019 8:47 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: DIVERSITY IS AMERICA'S GREATEST STRENGTH
Replies: 290
Views: 66585

Re: DIVERSITY IS AMERICA'S GREATEST STRENGTH

There's nothing wrong with liking your Englishness, but do you have to be such a fucking fascist about it? Who doesn't find English culture interesting? The idiocy is when you make claims of being 'better' than everyone else. Look at your in-bred royals. There are some pretty damn degenerate poms a...
by Greta
Sat Jan 26, 2019 6:29 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Why is democracy so screwed in many countries?
Replies: 42
Views: 8573

Re: Why is democracy so screwed in many countries?

Flash, clearly one cannot say that organisations are exactly the same as biological life. We can find all manner of differences if we choose, but it's similarities that they share with us that most impact on us. Mainly, they consume and have a tendency towards a subtle, inching form of kleptoparasit...
by Greta
Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:39 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: Missionary Killed on Remote Island: Discuss?
Replies: 54
Views: 10568

Re: Missionary Killed on Remote Island: Discuss?

The sad aspect is that the diner people's views suggest that the Sentinelese will never be left in peace and eventually they and their culture will be annihilated by mindless missionaries spreading their pathogens. theologically the diner crowd leans towards predestinationism. i suggested that give...
by Greta
Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:45 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Why is democracy so screwed in many countries?
Replies: 42
Views: 8573

Re: Why is democracy so screwed in many countries?

The mechanistic reply suggests you are still not picking up on what I'm saying, Flash. I actually don't need advising of the bleeding obvious that organisations are not living things (yet). Consider what a desire is and compare with organisational responses. Desire, like any emotion it is a biologi...
by Greta
Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:11 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: DIVERSITY IS AMERICA'S GREATEST STRENGTH
Replies: 290
Views: 66585

Re: DIVERSITY IS AMERICA'S GREATEST STRENGTH

Some time ago I made music that was at times even edgier than the Skinny Puppy track but with the passing of years my tastes have become much more mellow - especially loving Pat Metheny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDI2p9VOKks, Jean Luc Ponty, Gil Scott-Heron, Focus, Gong etc. Beautiful for the ...
by Greta
Wed Jan 23, 2019 11:15 pm
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: DIVERSITY IS AMERICA'S GREATEST STRENGTH
Replies: 290
Views: 66585

Re: DIVERSITY IS AMERICA'S GREATEST STRENGTH

Consider art. Is this piece of music which almost everyone thinks brilliant: Beethoven's 9th Ode to Joy Objectively better than my favourite song today: Skinny Puppy, Harsh Stone White Any reasonable man would note that billions of people find the first very pleasing and artistically fulfilling. Fe...
by Greta
Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:48 pm
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Why is democracy so screwed in many countries?
Replies: 42
Views: 8573

Re: Why is democracy so screwed in many countries?

All I did is refute your claim that corporations can't "have wants, motives or desires". A number of them have effectively gained governance and/or policy powers (without being elected), and neither very accountable nor subject to transparency or FOI provisions. Hello Rupert! Hello Brexit...
by Greta
Wed Jan 23, 2019 11:11 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Why is democracy so screwed in many countries?
Replies: 42
Views: 8573

Re: Why is democracy so screwed in many countries?

Logik wrote: Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:52 am
Greta wrote: Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:46 am If they'd stuck to religion and not moved to philosophy they would have still fallen, only through stagnation and hubris. Nothing lasts forever.
I am not asking for 'forever', but Stonehenge is a great yardstick for robustness.
The pace of change has rather picked up since then, though.
by Greta
Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:50 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: DIVERSITY IS AMERICA'S GREATEST STRENGTH
Replies: 290
Views: 66585

Re: DIVERSITY IS AMERICA'S GREATEST STRENGTH

Of course they are a minority, but that's enough isn't it?? That's why they are usually picked up during the screening process, hence the vast majority of the US's violence is home grown rather than imported. True. I don't know what they are always whining about. The paranoid US has very strict imm...
by Greta
Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:46 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Why is democracy so screwed in many countries?
Replies: 42
Views: 8573

Re: Why is democracy so screwed in many countries?

I suspect that here, philosophy is a failed attempt to overcome the inevitable problems of theists and fatalist moralisers, too little too late. Further, all healthy societies move from theism to philosophy. You can see what's happened to cultures that have not grown up into philosophy - they make ...
by Greta
Wed Jan 23, 2019 9:20 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Why is democracy so screwed in many countries?
Replies: 42
Views: 8573

Re: Why is democracy so screwed in many countries?

A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean. At its cradle (to repeat a thoughtful adage) religion stands, and philosophy accompanies it to the grave. --Will Durant I suspect that here, philosophy is a failed attempt to overcome the inevitable problems of theists and fatalist moralisers, too little ...