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If they conquer you with overwhelming force, and line you up against a wall to be shot unless you show respect for their flag and country, wouldn't you be a fool to reject it, saying heck no, I'm going my own way? Many countries do this, like Iran.... if you don't stick to the Iranian ideals of beha...

Looks kinda dead, and who would be disgusting enough to name themselves after poop?

You should still celebrate the founding of your nation, and under no circumstance water it down with SJW stuff, but at the same time honestly make a effort to make sure the aboriginals feel like they can join in as well. They too can have a aboriginal appreciation day the day before or better after,...

Well, given that you are quickly losing control over your cities, a intellectually destabilizing wave of irreligion throughout the country, as well as a general collapse of unity of people and nation, you are well ripe for mass political conversions, and when these happen, it happens suddenly. Histo...

Well, for starters, America is interesting, and vibrant and growing. The English are in a generational stance of continued decay, religion has died, real difference of opinion has died.... took everything just to get the Brexit moving.... British Empire died, the Union is always on the verge of disi...

Rawl's Veil of Ignorance is one of the big mistakes of philosophy, it was a completely bullshit and inept theory, for whenever it is brought up in live philosophy groups and explained, it has to be stated that the theory is concluded, as everyone is still waiting for the conclusion to get the point....

Astravakra Gita is a non-dualist philosophy text, you can find it translated online for free, but I recommend the English translation "Heart of Awareness". It was written by a zombie (not kidding, supposedly what we would today call a undead individual) who went though a presentation of a ...

Dark Matter. I never quite get atheists who mock not being able to see God, nor test for him, despite the Ex Nihilo basis of Christian physics, insisting on observation and testing materials, with peer verification.... and then suddenly demand we buy into a invisible material that doesn't effect any...

Have you studied Dignaga's Hetucakra? It is the Buddhist early work on first order logic, follows a similar pattern to Aristotle's Square of Opposites. You'll find trying to fit a Ontology into concepts of Emptiness is a largely meaningless endeavor. The error is less in the schools, and more in the...

The stages of hynogogia would go against Dennett's presumptions. Anyone who has dreams would know this. The uniting principle isn't a awareness of self or lucidity, as you can dream without either. What unites a dream, in all it's multiplicity, is the causality in motion. This is a fixed movement in...

If Mind = Universe, and you "value" withholding assent to premature judgment, where then does paradox and contradiction sit in your theory of non-duality? It is, after all, exactly what you are proposing, a Advaitian theory of Non-Dualism, Mind is Everything, like Mark Twain's "Myster...