Well I guess I just see people as mere people - and by that, I don't use the word 'mere' as a way to denigrate them, but rather to try and elevate them all. In terms of individual sovereignty, I don't see a fundamental difference between russia imprisoning a civilian in ukraine, and iran...
I actually want some clarification from @Revoltingest about something. Revoltingest, what should our views be towards this regime, and should it differ from our views toward the current russian regime? It doesn't seem like there's a fundamental reason why one should see the ukraine vs. russia...
Humans have problems, yes. Everything you said is probably why humans, in my opinion, probably should seek some kind of discipline from the spiritual world. The kinds of things you describe here, therefore, make me less agnostic, and believe more in the power of meta-physical discipline...
Climate change might mean that most of america gets covered in water again, and the dinosaurs re-evolve, and the mammals go back to being tiny. Just imagine all of america as a giant swamp, with multi-ton reptilian carnivores walking around it
They got armed, and trained up an army, so they were able to hold out, unlike in 2014. I guess the truth is though, any army usually puts up a good fight when defending home territory, when moral builds over not getting conquered, and when they know the area. Usually what happens, is that the...
"Nothing is more fluctuating and inconstant on many occasions than the will of man; nor is there anything but strong motives which can give us an absolute certainty in pronouncing concerning any of his future actions. When we see a person free from these motives, we suppose a possibility either...
Something like that. Something that is thorny, is both objectively thorny, without you, and subjectively thorny, when you 'receive it as an impression.' But these two notions combine, to affect you, I guess
Who knows even what they have, or what we have for that matter. It depends on where a country throws the funds. They got hypersonic missiles, which I'm not even sure that we have, and mobile-nuke launchers, and I also thought they had the largest actual nuke. The boast about a submarine that can...
The non-shaved style was not reserved for wild prophets or weird hermits. I don't understand why anyone would see it that way. History, I thought, is where you find the 'established standard.'
What did people in the 50's think of shakespeare? Look, there's a painting of him with an earring, and...
Well, I imagine they would use a lot of decoys. And as well, aren't the hypersonics not able to be intercepted - or even detected?
The grimmest thought to me, might be what the ash situation would look like. I mean, if an entire city, god forbid, was turned into radioactive particulate ash...
They likely thought it would be as easy as getting crimea.
I don't know, it seems like russia has some stuff it hasn't used. It used a hypersonic missile once or twice, I thought. I don't think they went and used any chemical weapons, I don't know if that would incite nato.
I thought I read...
Ok, I read the two chapters. First of all, I have some trouble here in imagining that behavior, in terms of ethics/morals, are not things which are normatively more emergent in the human organism. I think that all human societies, and groups, that anyone is born into, will socialize the new...
I've asked this question, that I'm going to bring up to you, a number of times, and I've never gotten an answer to it. Ok, so I've seen footage on youtube, of former civil war soldiers. These were taken during the 30's, I presume. And in these videos, these people, who were of the age to be your...
I'm pretty sure that we in the states have had a long history of being divided about Saudi Arabia. We were hoping that China would have democratized. Presently we are confused, because the spread of capitalistic ideas did not change the world in the way we thought it would. In Taiwan, I think we...
Well the Tarot has four energies, which are cups, wands, swords, and pentacles. So those are four deep symbols, and may connect with with what you are asking about. If you want to know more about that, I'll discuss it, otherwise I won't presently waste time by typing more.
Iran is an important russian ally right? You've read the headlines about possible iranian drones in ukraine etc. Would they still do that if we weren't allied with israel? Geopolitics is complicated you know
There is the issue of the western block, america et. al, and the competition with the post-soviet block. A country like Israel might seem to stand on the border of that whole issue. As long as america is influential there, in israel, we seem to have an ally to stand against iran and russia, in...
Israel can appeal again to the leftists, perhaps. In america in the middle of the last century, didn't the creation of the state appeal to the leftists more than the rightists?