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  1. RestlessSoul

    Australia: Senator Lidia Thorpe escorted out of the Great Hall after disturbance at the end of King Charles's speech.

    They replaced a monarch with an emperor, and now they have a President whose nickname is Napoleon, so I dunno tbh.
  2. RestlessSoul

    Australia: Senator Lidia Thorpe escorted out of the Great Hall after disturbance at the end of King Charles's speech.

    In the UK, as in Australia, power lies with Parliament, not the monarch, whose position as Head of State is ceremonial. The monarch and their immediate family undertake various official, ceremonial, diplomatic and representational duties. Although formally the monarch has authority over the...
  3. RestlessSoul

    Australia: Senator Lidia Thorpe escorted out of the Great Hall after disturbance at the end of King Charles's speech.

    Didn’t Australia have a referendum about independence fairly recently? Perhaps it’s time for another. If Lydia Thorpe’s grievance is with the British Empire she’s not alone there, but she’s missed the boat because the Empire was laid to rest a long time ago.
  4. RestlessSoul

    Australia: Senator Lidia Thorpe escorted out of the Great Hall after disturbance at the end of King Charles's speech.

    Well there's no denying the evils of colonisation, nor the dreadful crimes perpetrated against indiginous Australians. But she didn't look very indiginous to me, and she might have found a more dignified means of expressing herself. Also, she must surely know that King Charles has no political...
  5. RestlessSoul

    Can any here offer a solution to the middle east conflicts between Israel and Hamas/Hezbollah?

    Well yes. Or we could consider neutralising the USA so it stops enabling it's proxies.
  6. RestlessSoul

    Australia: Senator Lidia Thorpe escorted out of the Great Hall after disturbance at the end of King Charles's speech.

    What is her cause, and what is her grievance, in your opinion?
  7. RestlessSoul

    Poll: Who will be president?

    I don't know the answer to that, but a similar phenomenon has been identified in the UK. 'Shy Tories' don't want to admit to voting for what has been labelled, by one of their own, as 'The Nasty Party', but do so in the privacy of the voting booth, prseumably because they think it's in their...
  8. RestlessSoul

    Poll: Who will be president?

    Why do people do shameful things in secret? Because they’re ashamed, I suppose.
  9. RestlessSoul

    On the nature of intellect

    I think you need to revisit Kuhn, with particular reference to the concept of non-commensurate paradigms.
  10. RestlessSoul

    Why do people believe what they believe?

    Have you got any evidence that adult children of religious parents don’t question their parents values, every bit as much as the children of secular parents do? To support an opinion with what one hasn’t come across, btw, would be to generalise on the basis unquestioned assumption.
  11. RestlessSoul

    On the nature of intellect

    My recommendation to you would be to read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn (1962, University of Chicago Press) and familiarise yourself with contemporary objections to the assumption that knowledge is built incrementally over time.
  12. RestlessSoul

    On the nature of intellect

    The Greeks did a lot of fighting too, mostly against each other. But when they weren’t fighting they were thinking, and what they thought about they recorded because they were also literate. When you’ve finished the Aeneid, you might want to try Virgil’s Georgics, an epic poem about...
  13. RestlessSoul

    Why is there anything at all?

    There you go again displaying your own tribal prejudices, and undisclosed religious agenda. You dismiss all of Christianity (and Judaism and Islam)’s rich and diverse cultural, philosophical and theological heritage, because it doesn’t suit your agenda to go beyond the most superficial...
  14. RestlessSoul

    Jimmy Swaggart still going

    God loves a sinner who repents. And Jimmy has repented a lot…
  15. RestlessSoul

    Why is there anything at all?

    Why do you only see problems, where others might see creative imagination, insight and wisdom?
  16. RestlessSoul

    Why is there anything at all?

    Gene Roddenberry, genius
  17. RestlessSoul

    Why is there anything at all?

    Don’t remember that one
  18. RestlessSoul

    Teleological Argument (Aquinas)

    To the materialist, the world is animated only by physical forces arising from laws of nature: so all purpose, function and direction comes solely from those laws. Which begs an awful lot of questions, such as why there are laws in the first place? and, if laws are observable order, what is...
  19. RestlessSoul

    Thy Kingdom Come, Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

    “On earth as it is in heaven” implies that there are two realms, the material and the spiritual. Jesus says to Pilate in John’s Gospel, “My kingdom is not of this world.” And in Matthew’s Gospel, he tells his disciples not to store up for themselves “riches in this world, where rust and moth...
  20. RestlessSoul

    Why do people believe what they believe?

    You don't think people in general are capable of independent thought, as they grow older?
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