While I don't think that a response that includes an ad hominem (savages) is useful, as I think that tends toward being escalatory, I don't think the West's left-wing has the correct idea. For any of the left's ideas to work (a little better), they would indeed have to be far more exportable...
And also, I would posit that crowding, even if resource use is lower, might have other externalities to a broader social situation. I venture to say that space gives people more productive capacity, which can potentially be put to good use. Crowding might tend to lock down those who can do this...
You make a good point, though I think that in the future, there will be two sides of this that are presented as being the center of the main debate. One side will want to keep population higher and regulate resource usage, and the other will argue to keep population lower, to expand resource...
I think ideas are powerful.. A lot of them are wrong, and those can be powerful, but some are probably right, and can also be powerful. More-so than money
I think before it is decided what the character of any given state is, or what a state's opinion on that is, it should be prefaced with the foundation that any given plot of land, marked off with borders, anywhere in the world, doesn't actually care, in and of itself about the human activity on...
Well I think that when humans watch time , it might be construct, of some kind. Likely it is based on the limits of perception, as we also can't smell the whole world in one sniff, or magnify our eyes to see everything in the horizon. I made a recent thread asking about time as a construct, and...
Just to add one thing though - and I respect the hard-work ethic of immigrants, but keep in mind I deal with a language barrier every single day. Just last night, my translator/manager co-worker wasn't at work, so I had to use the phone translator / and other coworker to try and make sure things...
Ok so when I get off the factory floor from 3rd shift, and my pants and shirt are full of oil, and my coat is ripped, I am not going to be walking down the street of some perfectly manicured, multi-story mc-mansion area without feeling like a rat. That's what I mean by 'suburbs' here in the...
Here's the deal for me, as being a white mid-westerner: I don't find a lot of happy mediums in my race, and the political spectrum displays a lot of uncertainty about them. The far-right might have them become bitter, judgemental people, who probably often don't have that much intelligence, and...
Is that true of the multi-verse concept though, or not? If you respond, please don't lay too much complicated math on me.. I'm not that interested in it to be honest, nor could I understand it. But ideas around the importance of 'our observation' are of some interest
I mean, I am interested in...
So in america, we seem to count the primary blocks of time in centuries; in 100 year spans. Other places may do things different. But what influences us to do this? Is there an efficiency, or expediency in doing this? Does it also 'slow things down' in a sense, or break things apart into...
The opposite might happen as well I thought, where a brother or sister might get a boost if their sibling is a black sheep. I'm not saying that's a great thing, but it seems like that can happen in a family dynamic. As for genocide, I think maybe that goes beyond the concept of punishment
What...
well, the punishments don't seem to do the same thing, and maybe aren't punishing exactly the same thing. Iniquity might be a reaction in the 2nd verse , to what happens in the 1st.. and the first verse shows that the something is made harder in the context of familial generations: it seems like...
The total power to do what though? It wouldn't be total power if it couldn't override omniscience. And we may not seem like very complicated beings, but maybe we are at the novelty edge, to where free-will is allowed. Or, I suppose it wouldn't be 'allowed,' but it would actually be in-built...
I'm not aware of those theologies, but I think that with the case of the devil/the snake/leviathan/satan, there is a different kind of free-will than that allowed to job. But I will explicate that eventually from my standpoint as someone who studies the Tarot.
Where does anyone say that omniscience and omnipotence are equal? Perhaps the omnipotence can override the omnipotence / omniscience , causing a divine gamble. It seems to me that if God could not short-circuit / or create forces / beings / things he did not fully understand, then we are...
Then you don't see how it wouldn't be exhibiting more power to actually go beyond that.. by creating something that could have free-will. I understand: I've argued for determinism off and on, and there are some fortified arguments for it. But I've mostly rebounded to the free-will side, I think...
It depends on how you want to define those terms. If you want to say that there is a 'bigger square outside the square,' you can. Although I think that, from what I can tell, we humans are hardly in a position to tell where the border of everything is.
This idea of 'nothing he doesn't know , he...