These articles point to biological differences between liberals and conservatives.
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The Surprising Brain Differences Between Democrats and Republicans | Mother Jones
Inside the conservative brain: What explains their wiring? -...
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George Thorogood - Move It on Over - YouTube etc. But there are some songs that I like that I can only admit that I love to virtual strangers. Do you have the guts to confess to liking what are known as dorky songs? In this thread add your tunes...
If a subject cannot exist without predicates, then how can we define it?
Without a subject ( substance) for predicates to cling to they are only theoretical abstractions. If without predicates a subject cannot exist, then a subject is only a bundle of abstractions. And reality is not an...
I have heard over and over again that believing in Christianity makes you have a happy life.* OK! But considering that conventional Christianity contradicts itself A List Of Biblical Contradictions
Anyway, can anyone believe something because its profitable?
* For example, I would be VERY...
The right has gone so far right that Reagan would not even win a Republican primary because he was too liberal!!! I want to go back to that "liberal era" of Reagan, Eisenhower ...
Ronald Reagan officially too liberal for modern GOP
"Reagan's Liberal Legacy" by Joshua Green
1. The right to a trial no longer exists. Without a right to a trial all the other rights vanish.9P9zRBGPR8o
Rachel Maddow - Obama talks about Indefinite Detention - Dprogram.net - YouTube You can be put in prison for decades without ever being charged with a crime.
2. International...
Corporations are not Democracies. Citizens( workers) of a corporation do not vote. Power is held by an elite minority. The Communist state ( the corporation) is a power unto itself and is independent of the will of its members.
In the film The Corporation Film: Welcome the point is made that a...
What is more important, the spiritual message or historical accuracy?
IMHO history is mundane, like debating what Christ's sandal size was. I believe that ancient peoples used stories to communicate metaphysical ( not the new age nonsense, they co-opted the term. I mean it in the philosophical...
Paradoxes are the key that opens the fun house Funhouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ( Infinity Mirror Room: Yayoi Kusama Unveils Dazzling Space Lit by Hundreds of LED Lights | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building )called reality.
Paradox of...
All academic logicians recognize reductio ad absurdum - definition of reductio ad absurdum by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. as legitimate.
Unfortunately, some at Religious forum disagree. A reducto ad absurdum argument shows that if a proposition leads to a conclusion...
EVERY scientific organization in the world of national and/or international reputation acknowledges the obvious, that global warming is real and humans have contributed to it. Is NASA, the American Meteorological Society, Scientific American, National geographic, The Royal Society .. all part...
Right winger's always talk about " American Exceptionalism". The examples they give are all about government policy! For example, how we defeated Hitler. Actually the American public did not want to get involved in a European conflict.
Instead of " American exceptionalism" the proper term is...
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“"Qualia" is an unfamiliar term for something that could not be more familiar to each of us: the ways things seem to us. As is so often the case with philosophical jargon, it...
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Indoor Skydiving - Brian - YouTube
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Regardless of your religion, or lack of religion isn't reality weird?
Consider the mind boggling size of the universe (over 100,000,000,000 stars per galaxy and over 100,000,000,000 galaxies). Creation is awesome ( I hate how "full of awe" became a stupid word. Similarly, "sublime" meant...
The Constantine heresy ( heresy because it is contrary to Christ's teaching and pretends to speak for Christ) eventually became the norm because of brute force. Eventually, because of the inquisition most of Christ's message of love and equality became totally suppressed and Constantine...
I have never understood faith and why it is a good thing. Suppose I am a child and live with my brother. Upstairs is a room that is locked and no sound comes from it. My brother tells me that I should have faith that our father is alive and lives in that room.Everyday criminals break in...