I don’t want realism, I want magic. Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don’t tell the truth. I tell what ought to be the truth. And if that’s sinful of me, well let me be dammed for it…
It’s life or death for me. My sobriety depends upon the maintenance of a fit spiritual condition. Prayer and meditation are as important to me as food, water, and sunlight
Pretty sure Hitler and the Nazis were already responsible for widespread violence and hundreds of murders before they came to power.
Questioning the use of the term ‘fascist’ to describe Trump, is not to exonerate his obvious criminality.
Your failure to recognise the distinction is duly noted.
How likely is it that people who offend Trump will, in the event of another Trump
Presidency, end up at the bottom of the river? He can be vengeful, sure, but is there any evidence he’s ever tried to have any of his opponents killed?
How likely is it that people who offend Trump will, in the event of another Trump
Presidency, end up at the bottom of the river? He can be vengeful, sure, but is there any evidence he’s ever tried to have any of his opponents killed?
Actually, no, I don’t necessarily think that for something to exist it has to be observed. But I do believe that there is no way to define reality independently of how we choose to look at it. And this is more than just a matter of our subjective perceptions of objective reality, because it...
This is an unsubstantiated assumption on your part, since by definition you cannot point at any unobserved entity, concept or object, either real or imagined.
Does objective reality exist indepenently of observation? I think that question is unanswerable, but few scientists and only a handful of philosophers even ask it, and most that do would be inclined to declare objective reality as axiomatic, and then declare subjectivity to be a handicap that...
It certainly is hard for a lot of people, because parents are being asked to police the use of technology they often do not understand, and with which they are not familiar.
Another way of putting the same question is to ask, What is fundamental? What observable or conceptual phenomena cannot be reduced to other phenomena, in the way that molecules can be reduced to atoms, atoms to sub atomic particles, particles to excitations of fields, etc? Does form and order...