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Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)I'm confident the CIA, NSA, etc and foreign intel allies have already begun finding those correlations but such findings are highly classified so they may not be made public for decades, if ever. Criminal Defendant-1's treason (sans "J6 coup attempt") will, no doubt, get many men and women murdered around the world and perhaps, more gravely downstream, destabilize some key alliances.
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Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)
Only 'Trump supporters' are stupider than Trump himself. There are millions of MAGA morons who love to be lied to – lying to themselves – and many who are locked-n-loaded (some radicalized) too. Apparently, @NOS4A2 is a card-carrying member of that cult. Pathetic if he isn't a bot. :mask:What do you think is Trump’s egregious crime?
— NOS4A2
There's more than one. Care to discuss?
Counts 1 through 31. Willful retention of national defense information
Count 32. Conspiracy to obstruct justice
Count 33. Withholding a document or record
Count 34. Corruptly concealing a document or record
Count 35. Concealing a document in a federal investigation
Count 36. Scheme to conceal
Count 37. False statements and representations
Count 38. False statements and representations — creativesoul -
Which is worse Boredom or Sadness?For me, 'hope' is synonymous with wishful thinking and/or lacking courage.
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A Case for Analytic IdealismI'm no longer interested in Chalmers. You can't answer my question, so your statement remains meaningless to me.
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A Case for Analytic IdealismI didn't ask you to evaluate the claim only for the meaning of "illusions" in your statement. What you're reply says is nothing but 'I don't like the sound of it'. :roll:
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Science as MetaphysicsWell done as usual ...
Re: @GnomonI can't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies. — Ash, a severed head
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Žižek as Philosopher
:up:On the other hand, Varoufakis and Cornel West think well of him, and these are serious people. — Manuel -
A Case for Analytic Idealism
What is meant here by "illusions"?... mind and consciousness don't exist or are illusions. — RogueAI -
Defining Features of being HumanSo my first post makes no sense to you or misses the point of your OP?
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A Case for Analytic Idealism
I can't help thinking that (e.g.) asylums, ashrams, seminaries, cult communes, (sectarian) kindergartens, wall-to-wall video gaming (plus 24/7 social media), etc habitualize 'idealist (antirealist) living'.How does how we live change if idealism is true? — Tom Storm -
UFOsIf UFOs are "alien spacecraft", I suspect that they are AI-machine probes and that their parent species are either extinct or postbiological. In this vein, if there are "Greys", then they are likely disposable, synthetic drones (biomimicking us) which are 3-d printed(?) from time to time by (the) AI-machine probe(s) for recon, gathering samples and varieties of research among terrestrial species (i.e. Earth as nature preserve, etc). It seems to me, in accord with the Mediocrity Principle, that biological species are nothing but fossils (or AI "pets") in the grand galactic / cosmic scheme of things. "The Fermi Paradox" might only be an anthropocentric illusion reinforced by our profoundly limited search parameters as well as our insufficient detection technologies. At most, sufficiently advanced, extraterrestrial, UFOs might only be 'living fossils' collectors with no more interest in communicating directly with us than we have communicating directly with viruses or fungi. Perhaps, one day, terrestrial AGI will be deemed worthy enough of overt "contact" by UFOs. :nerd:
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The beginning and ending of self
:fire:The story i am telling here is that the preservation of the story - of the self - is of no importance; what matters is the completion of the story, in which once is for all. — unenlightened -
Gods and Angels:100:
The cards are dealt: play your hand as best you can, or not.
No. "God" is only a word (i.e. an empty name).Question: is god pure mind and physicality a manifestation or manipulation of energy? — simplyG
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Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)Fuck the traitor! Putin's Bitch gets arraigned on Tuesday, 13 June. "Be there, will be wild." :clap: :party:
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Atheist Dogma.:up:
If it makes my initial point any clearer for you, @Janus, I reiterate that your equating "anti-theism to theism" is as much a false equivalence as equating (e.g.) anti-dogmatism to dogmatism (or anti-supernaturalism to supernaturalism). -
The Modern ‘Luddite’:up:
What exactly would a modern ‘Luddite’ aim to destroy? — I like sushi
In 1965, Frank Herbert called it "The Butlerian Jihad".One could smash the machines -- assembly plants, refineries, computers, telecommunications, etc. That stuff is sitting out in plain sight. — BC -
Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)Link to unsealed Federal indictment ...
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Atheist Dogma.Which are dogma? :chin:
(A) Show me evidence that g/G is true, or more likely true than not true.
(B) True or not true, I believe in g/G.
(C) It is usually more adaptive to not believe 'not true g/G' than to believe 'not true g/G'.
(D) Whether true or not true, you ought to believe g/G because we believe g/G (because g/G commands us to believe g/G].
(E) Think for yourself. Learn by doing. Trust but verify, etc.
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Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)
:up:WTF is wrong with the Dems? Biden is six years my junior and I can tell you someone that age should not be president. And then there is VP Harris. — jgill -
Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here):cool: 2 down and 2 to go in 2023 ...
2. Miami, Federal indictment 8Jun23 :up:The timeline of MAGA Loser #1's legal reckoning for his 2016-2023 crime spree (excluding potentially ruinous civil lawsuits) is taking a definite shape:
1. NYC felony indictment 31Mar23 :up:
"34 counts of Business Documents Fraud Crealing and/or Covering-up Felonies", etc
https://apnews.com/article/trump-indictment-full-document-640043319549?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=RelatedStories&utm_campaign=position_02
[ ... ] — 180 Proof
re: 37 counts "Mishandling Documents, Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice, Violating Espionage Act, Making False Statements to Federal Authorities, Witness Tampering" etc
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/08/donald-trump-charged-retention-classified-documents
update:
9Jun23 Federal indictment unsealed ...
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US Election 2024 (All general discussion)
"America ... threatened by the scumbaggery of a man and his family...."
update:
Putin's Bitch was indicted by the US DoJ today ...
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Žižek as Philosopher
Both. :smirk:Is Žižek a serious philosopher or a stand up comedian? Or both? — Tom Storm
Maybe for 'idealists in analysis' ...Is his work on Hegel or Lacan useful?
Lacanian-Hegelian Marxist (and so on and so on...)Can he really be considered a Hegelo-Lacanian?
I don't think Žižek is p0m0 at all. For me, his most philosophically significant works are these:Where would he sit in the context of a post-modern tradition and what would be his most significant works?
• The Sublime Object of Ideology
• The Parallax View
• Incontinence of the Void
I've read (though not finished) over a dozen more, but these have stayed with me. Worth chewing over. I find Žižek insufferable and infectious, especially youtubes of his lectures & interviews. -
Atheist Dogma.
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/811827It was all laid out in the op and not a word has been said against it that I have seen. — unenlightened -
Defining Features of being Human
Discursive metacognition.What are the defining features of being a human? — Andrew4Handel
As a species, we produce knowledge by which we ratchet-up ourselves out from every ecological niche we've inhabited (so far).Do you believe that there are any unique human traits?
Outies and Innies (i.e. yin and yang).Are there sex differences that give us a different embodiment experience or sexed perspective on being human?
Natality-desire-mortality & reasoning.Or do men and women have some fundamental human traits making our experiences likely very similar?
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Atheist Dogma.
False equivalence (like anti-fascism "is as bad as" fascism ... anti-sexism "is as bad as" sexism...) :roll:To put it plainly, an anti-theocracy is as bad as a theocracy. — Janus -
Science as Metaphysics
I agree ...Enformationism is an attempt to disguise religious beliefs with a scientific cloak. — Gnomon
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/792659
@L'elephant
180 Proof
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