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by gaffo
Tue Aug 14, 2018 1:24 am
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: Do good people suicide or are they just cruel to the people that love them?
Replies: 16
Views: 3504

Re: Do good people suicide or are they just cruel to the people that love them?

Suicides do it to end an unbearable suffering. Those who think it's a selfish act should first experience the same level of abject misery before they would pass that judgement. I support suicide on all levels. Oh, and whether a person is "good" or "evil" has no bearing whatsoeve...
by gaffo
Tue Aug 14, 2018 1:22 am
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: Do good people suicide or are they just cruel to the people that love them?
Replies: 16
Views: 3504

Re: Do good people suicide or are they just cruel to the people that love them?

Do good people suicide or are they just cruel to the people that love them? yes to the former. bullshit to the latter. Anthony Bourdain. one of my favourite Americans. Why FFS! I survived because I love my Mum too much. he was a fookin celebrity!! - unless you are is brother, mom or best friend - h...
by gaffo
Sat Aug 04, 2018 4:59 am
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: How does time work?
Replies: 74
Views: 20669

Re: How does time work?

When they do separate, they will presumably break apart into smaller clusters that move apart from each other. The prediction is that galalctic clusters will break up but the galaxies will remain intact for some time. They will be so distant from each other, in an otherwise black sky, that any new ...
by gaffo
Sat Aug 04, 2018 4:55 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Orwell vs. Huxley
Replies: 120
Views: 19768

Re: Orwell vs. Huxley

It's a double-edged sword. Huxley's side may be sharper and more insidious; Orwell's blunter but more forceful and direct. Both collude toward the decline. As mentioned on the first page of this OP, "it's not an either/or situation". The only way that could happen is if a government attac...
by gaffo
Sat Aug 04, 2018 4:52 am
Forum: Aesthetics
Topic: Music
Replies: 4192
Views: 1009800

Re: Music

hey Walker i noted your link to Mckinnet! she is great! have most of her CD, love "Marco Polo" myself. celtic-arabic, great combo. BTW if you like that type of fusion - check out the more arabic-ish soundtrack to the greatest PC game series (first three at least) of all time. Homeworld/cat...
by gaffo
Sat Aug 04, 2018 4:43 am
Forum: Aesthetics
Topic: Music
Replies: 4192
Views: 1009800

Re: Music

I really love Sandy Denny - being American never heard of her - but found via usenet bineries 18 yrs ago (and bought many DVD of since). and played her (and Fariport Convention (she was lead singer of that group)) many times on my "micro-radio" station for my neighbors over the years. http...
by gaffo
Sat Aug 04, 2018 4:33 am
Forum: Aesthetics
Topic: Music
Replies: 4192
Views: 1009800

Re: Music

Best cover ever, anyone? A remake that's better than the original! (Hendrix's Dylan covers are too easy!) My own favorite: Cake - I Will Survive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9rCUQjmkxU lol!!!!!!!! to carry on the cheese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cin0QzuEss first song i rem as a 3yr old k...
by gaffo
Sat Aug 04, 2018 4:29 am
Forum: Aesthetics
Topic: Music
Replies: 4192
Views: 1009800

Re: Music

Hey gaffo, if not the present, then history will put you on the Trump train. He’s grinding it out every day, doing a good job. fair enough. we'll let history play out. i leave all things to it - the long view. Say, have you noticed pop music’s recurring theme of Man entreating God? You can hear it ...
by gaffo
Sat Aug 04, 2018 4:05 am
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: How does time work?
Replies: 74
Views: 20669

Re: How does time work?

When they do separate, they will presumably break apart into smaller clusters that move apart from each other. The prediction is that galalctic clusters will break up but the galaxies will remain intact for some time. They will be so distant from each other, in an otherwise black sky, that any new ...
by gaffo
Sat Aug 04, 2018 3:57 am
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: How does time work?
Replies: 74
Views: 20669

Re: How does time work?

Yes, the Milky Way is said to be travelling at over 2 million km/h, most of the roughly 3 mill https://astrosociety.org/edu/publications/tnl/71/howfast.html . I could not find the 3 million kms reference in there at all. we can find the velocity (I don;t what it is) of our Milkyway from the redshif...
by gaffo
Sat Aug 04, 2018 3:47 am
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: How does time work?
Replies: 74
Views: 20669

Re: How does time work?

Then again, we're moving through the universe at around 3 million kms per hour, or about 870 kms per second - entities zooming around in near-nothingness as they whirl themselves into existence over time. Out of curiosity, 870 kms relative to what? I've heard a figure something like that as our vel...
by gaffo
Sat Aug 04, 2018 3:41 am
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: How does time work?
Replies: 74
Views: 20669

Re: How does time work?

I don't think time slows down the faster you go of course it does for the outside obsverver. not the one in the speeding ship of course (to him time speeds up if he observes others, Speed is not a property of an object, indirectly it IS - since the mass of an object increases with speed! mass is a ...
by gaffo
Sat Aug 04, 2018 3:33 am
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: How does time work?
Replies: 74
Views: 20669

Re: How does time work?

Time as a coordinate system. no, that is space. time is the 4th dimension. Unlike the gravitation field in which a thing finds itself, speed is not a property of a thing, nope - velocity and gravitiation field have the SAME effect upom matter. they are the same! matter increases in mass in both a g...
by gaffo
Sat Aug 04, 2018 3:22 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: What should a community/nation/state (government) provide for citizens?
Replies: 56
Views: 10029

Re: What should a community/nation/state (government) provide for citizens?

nada police courts military roads fire protection education limited housing limited healthcare retirement insurance unemployment insurance universal healthcare food housing clothing energy Copy only the items you think should be provided and paste them into your response field. Explain your choices...
by gaffo
Sat Aug 04, 2018 3:15 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Is the UN worth it?
Replies: 30
Views: 6356

Re: Is the UN worth it?

trokanmariel wrote: Wed Aug 01, 2018 11:26 pm If the UN can annihilate nations, then yes, the UN is worth it
no way!

UN should never be a world policeman.

its role is one of a debating society - toothless, but worthy is a debating society that affirms universal/international Rule of Law/norms of conduct.