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S: I'm not familiar with that film, but, your comment raises another point. Namely that one can have an economic opinion that is not entirely mainstream, provided it is based on some experts in the field. Why appeal to authority? Either become an expert or refrain from having an unsubstantiated opi...

Bill Wiltrack wrote: ↑Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:21 pmSOooooo this was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives - March 22, 2018...H.R. 5404 - To Define the Dollar as a Fixed Weight of Gold
So...there's that.

Luckily it won't pass.

Everything had to come from something, except consciousness which couldn't have come from anything; either it doesn't exist or it has always existed. Nothing and Something exist NOW in the same NON / DUAL reality...the two seeming opposites are ONE Unconsciousness and Consciousness exist NOW in the...

The will is considered free if there is no process determining the outcome that could be predicted by any method within the universe; in other words, the process is random and effectively causeless since the causes cannot be known, whether that be by imprecision or inability to gather information w...

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 02, 2018 3:58 am I'm not the one claiming to have scientific evidence. How long is a piece is string? There is no irony in anything I've said.

Unfortunately for you, the readers will be the judge of that.

The science on climate change is amazingly solid. How do you know that? Can you explain to me the mechanism by which co2 insulates the earth? (hint: there is no such thing as reflection of EM waves) I'm not saying you haven't, but if you haven't educated yourself on the precise mechanisms involved,...

The science behind climate change is actually fairly straightforward in its basics, and no science-denier has yet been able to refute a single aspect of it. The Climate Change Challenge: I hereby agree to give $10,000 (ten thousand dollars) of my children’s inheritance to the first person or team o...

If you look at the actual evidence, when we mathematically remove factors like the effects from an el nino, the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and rising temperatures is nearly linear. Isn't there a lag between temperature rise and co2 increase? Temperature precedes the co2 rise. As ...

There is nothing scientific here, just surmising. Yup, there is nothing scientific there; just surmising. That's a deliciously ironic characterization of your own comment ;) Unless you can come up with some substantive rationale to counter my argument and evidence, you're just painting yourself in ...

Point #1 is false. Life was not created by completely random processes. As with everything else in reality, life was created by the interplay of chaos and order. Chaos is not randomness, but apparent randomness. If chaos is not random, but determined, then what is the difference between chaos and o...

Dubious: So, please explain why an uninformed opinion on economics is superior to the opinions of the experts? And I'm referring to economic orthodoxy. Like the position that central banking is superior to a gold standard. Yup, a gold standard is bad news. From the transcript of Bill Still's "...

Relatively few studies on height preferences exist. To date, the samples used in the Western world come from seven nations (United States, Germany, Austria, England, Canada, France, and Poland). Some key patterns have been found across these Western cultures: (a) females prefer men who are taller t...

Ridiculous. Shorter men are often more attractive to women than taller ones. Height has little to do with attractiveness. We had a good discussion about this on ILP http://ilovephilosophy.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=193747&start=25#p2693758 The point to drive home is that the shorter the woman,...

Premise #1: Life was created from a completely random process. Premise #2: No finite being can create anything that is completely random. Therefore: Life was created by an infinite being. Point #1 is false. Life was not created by completely random processes. As with everything else in reality, lif...

The treasury should issue its own money without have a fed to skim off the top. It would be like Abraham Lincoln's Greenbacks or Ben Franklin's Colonial Scrip. A gold standard is the absolute worst way.