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  1. amorphous_constellation

    Debate About a Plan to Eliminate Private Vehicles

    I heard Barcelona was like that. I'm not so sure about that type of incentive structure, because it looks to me like it turns into a funding structure via tickets. Why do that, isn't there a better way - to wait for the mass implementation of the technology you want, as opposed to punishing...
  2. amorphous_constellation

    Debate About a Plan to Eliminate Private Vehicles

    but that isn't great either, because density itself isn't fun most of the time. Unless you can you make it better to start with, before market forces come in. Because I can't see how market forces would blindly reach the conclusion of walkable cities / or heavy but effective public transport as...
  3. amorphous_constellation

    Debate About a Plan to Eliminate Private Vehicles

    Depending on where you live, it seems probable, and I bet it would be safer. Good idea. But I think the rural areas are the place for private vehicles, because that would be where it makes the most sense. Wise transportation seems like it could be profitable, in that the government could...
  4. amorphous_constellation

    Debate About a Plan to Eliminate Private Vehicles

    What about banning them in cities, and making all of the transportation there autonomous, and then allowing them on rural highways, and remote areas? Doesn't that seem like it would be cost saving , and allow the country to stockpile oil reserves?
  5. amorphous_constellation

    Debate About a Plan to Eliminate Private Vehicles

    I have some complicated views on how modern transportation works. I think car driving seems like one of the most dangerous things we do, yet it is also one of the most essential, not only to get to work but do get to a lot of things in life that are enjoyable when you aren't at work, unless you...
  6. amorphous_constellation

    Do you own the USA? (Closed/open border debate)

    I agree that the study of history is far easier to analyze than the analysis of events in the present Although one can imagine scenarios in the world, where good people do not speak up out of intimidation from bad ones, and that it might even be possible that government doesn't protect citizens...
  7. amorphous_constellation

    Do you own the USA? (Closed/open border debate)

    I think the notion of me having to detect the nuances of 'presentation' is interesting. Do you think that whenever one watches the news, they must be incredibly keen on presentation? Is 'presentation' the real language underlying all others? If I just hear words, or watch images, and don't pay...
  8. amorphous_constellation

    Do you own the USA? (Closed/open border debate)

    Well I guess this should put everyone's mind at ease. Although I didn't hear anything that really addresses the images in the previous video, they say it's alright now.. Should I remain confused, or should I allow myself be convinced that I am now hearing the truth?
  9. amorphous_constellation

    Anti-immigrant rhetoric

    I don't think they do. I don't generalize immigrants as being bad, plenty are good workers who don't want to cause trouble. But if they come from a place with unfortunate political tension, then it might create anti-social groups within the population. And also, I kind of think that maybe some...
  10. amorphous_constellation

    Anti-immigrant rhetoric

    I think maybe there is a comparison to made between the parallel ways that the Irish and Italians were treated in Europe, vs. how they were treated when they got here. Sure, unfortunately the Irish immigrants may have been indentured servants, and some Italian immigrants may have been the target...
  11. amorphous_constellation

    Do you own the USA? (Closed/open border debate)

    There are also many different people saying many different things. Considering my time constraints, that I means I have to trust someone. Who do I trust, and why?
  12. amorphous_constellation

    Do you own the USA? (Closed/open border debate)

    It could be as you say, I don't know. I try to read / listen to what I can on modern political issues, and if I didn't go to work in an hour and had some energy, I'd start reading more about this story right now. But yeah, it does seem confusing and opaque, and to me that's irritating. You sum...
  13. amorphous_constellation

    Do you own the USA? (Closed/open border debate)

    This story isn't hurting me personally, as the story is from several states away from me, but I could imagine that if someone was trying to work full-time and live in the place in question, it would make them scared and concerned. I listen to several left wing youtube channels, and I don't see...
  14. amorphous_constellation

    Let's Talk About Paganism

    Well this morning before I went to bed, I was reading the wikipedia article on the 'cunning folk,' and I was trying to figure out more about the unusual word 'cunning.' It occurred to me that I like the word , I like the sound of it, but I don't think I like the modern definition of it, which...
  15. amorphous_constellation

    Division between those who want religion / any belief to simplify the world vs. complicate it

    Primates, as the ostensible seat of intelligence, might represent an odd choice. A curious creature, seeming oft not sated; anxious. Thinking for us, is a rocky process, as well as belief. Perhaps this is the point
  16. amorphous_constellation

    Division between those who want religion / any belief to simplify the world vs. complicate it

    Oh there could be something down there that knows a lot. We associate peace with straight thinking, with deep thinking. An ecology of time-traveling neuronal masses could live down there
  17. amorphous_constellation

    Division between those who want religion / any belief to simplify the world vs. complicate it

    There is probably a psychological term for what we are talking about , a sort of 'overton window of experience.' Maybe a good metaphor relates this to the deep sea fish - the weird, transparent kind that glows etc. A great example of something that seems so obviously shaped by a (very limited)...
  18. amorphous_constellation

    Division between those who want religion / any belief to simplify the world vs. complicate it

    Though it seems like action and purpose do sometimes relate to one another You've lost me a little bit. Every state you have, you believe in something. A mixture of doubt and faith, sometimes with more doubt, sometimes with more faith - maybe that explains this
  19. amorphous_constellation

    Division between those who want religion / any belief to simplify the world vs. complicate it

    Yes.. and whoever went through life never wanting an explanation for anything. And yet in a way, I sometimes feel like people also head in that direction.
  20. amorphous_constellation

    Division between those who want religion / any belief to simplify the world vs. complicate it

    It occurred to me a moment ago, that one either rests on a belief to relax some of the uncertainty, or one wants 'greater' answers from it. And this would apply to both a religion, and areas more toward atheism. It either allows you to complicate what you thought was simple, or make simpler what...
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