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  1. Yazata

    Mitch McConnell freezes for the second time publicly:

    I oppose age limits for public office. As long as a person is still sharp, it doesn't matter if they aren't as spry as they used to be. If that wasn't so, why are blind people and people in wheel chairs allowed to hold public office? But that being said, I could strongly support all candidates...
  2. Yazata

    Mitch McConnell freezes for the second time publicly:

    I'm not a physician. But it looked to me like Mitch McConnell suffered what is now called an "absence seizure". These involve a person blacking out for maybe 5 to 10 seconds, without losing muscle tone or suffering convulsions.These appear to have a variety of causes. They are most often seen in...
  3. Yazata

    The shocking Republican plan to dismantle the American government

    As far as dismantling the federal government goes, my own view as a Republican (the only one in this thread so far) is that the United States should finally remember that the US Constitution has a 10th Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited...
  4. Yazata

    The shocking Republican plan to dismantle the American government

    Nikki Haley is kind of a residual Bush-style "neo-con". So is Pence and perhaps Chris Christie. All three of them seem to ignore the fact that most of the Republican voting electorate has moved well past that towards a more American nationalist position. As Donald Trump once put it, 'I was...
  5. Yazata

    What was your college Major?

    I did a BA in Philosophy with kind of an emphasis on the philosophy of religion. Then I was accepted into a reasonably well regarded philosophy graduate program here in California. Despite meeting several well known philosophers, I found myself experiencing financial difficulties and worries...
  6. Yazata

    Tucker Carlson, Colonel Douglas Macgregor, The Ukraine War

    In February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine, the goal was simply Ukraine's survival as an independent country. I think that goal has already been met. But today, largely due to Zelensky, and his American advisors perhaps, goals for the war have gone maximalist: Throw Russia out of Ukraine...
  7. Yazata

    Trump's mug shot

    Isn't that what the primary elections are about? Each party presents a lineup of potential candidates and members of that party (or all voters in open primaries) vote for whichever one they favor. The Republicans have something like a dozen candidates in the primaries in addition to Trump. The...
  8. Yazata

    Religions are Falsely accused.

    I think that historically, most so-called "wars of religion" were conducted by secular leaders, kings, emperors and the like, typically for their own secular motives, justified to the common people in religious terms so as to generate popular support. Today in our more secular age, ruling...
  9. Yazata

    Unisex restrooms

    At home it's normal. In public places, I don't like it. My main objection is that it's other people trying to shove their own social-change agendas into my life, and making me conform to their will. I don't like the aggressiveness of it. It's all about power and public demonstrations of power...
  10. Yazata

    Is this a valid question ?

    It looks like an interesting and arguably even important theological question. I don't think that 'validity' applies, since strictly speaking validity is about whether or not conclusions follow logically from premises in an argument or proof. Your answer or some supposed objectively correct...
  11. Yazata

    Shakespeare too sexual for Florida’s schools?

    The Florida law prohibits inclusion of "sex education"/porn (whether gay or straight or whatever) in early elementary grades curricula. If I recall correctly, kindergarten through third grade. Shakespeare is typically taught in high-school English classes, so the law wouldn't seem to be relevant.
  12. Yazata

    Buddhist Wisdom

    Dutthatthaka Sutta Sn 4.03 Translation by Thanissaro Bhikkhu https://accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.4.03.than.html There are some who dispute corrupted at heart, and those who dispute their hearts set on truth, but a sage doesn’t enter a dispute that’s arisen, which is why he is...
  13. Yazata

    What godless means

    So what's a 'god'? Estro Felino seems to be defining the word to refer to whatever an individual/community takes to be ultimate -- in the metaphysical sense of most real, in the moral sense of most valuable, and in a more psychological sense as most fulfilling in the eudaimonia sense of the...
  14. Yazata

    No escape

    Well sure, assuming that a deity exists, that existence wouldn't seem to depend on whether we believed or not. But whether or not we are "stuck with him" would seem to depend on whether the initial assumption of the deity's existence is true or not.
  15. Yazata

    Today's youth... What is the problem?

    I think that it's largely a school problem. These kids couldn't do simple arithmetic in their heads because the schools they attended never taught them to do it. I wouldn't be surprised if the same kids were largely illiterate when it comes to reading and writing as well. Schools don't teach...
  16. Yazata

    What godless means

    I think that there's value in thinking of 'God' as 'that which is highest', around which personal and collective life might be oriented to give individuals and societies a sense of purpose and meaning. The problem then is identifying what is, or should be, highest. The theist would argue that...
  17. Yazata

    What godless means

    That might describe me, I guess. I'm not convinced that reality has any message or plot, as if it was a movie or a novel. It just is. Yes. I'm not an atheist (though I probably am in your sense) but I am inclined to think that whatever meaning and purpose our individual lives have (or our...
  18. Yazata

    Free Speech and Rules of Conduct Inside Establishments

    Thank you for that. I can imagine a crowd of atheists entering a church service and arguing with the clergyman and parishoners. And I can imagine them being physically removed, not because there is anything wrong with their atheist beliefs, but because the manner of expressing those atheist...
  19. Yazata

    Free Speech and Rules of Conduct Inside Establishments

    A problem there is deciding who in our contemporary culture-wars is doing that. If Christianity is to be anything more than "anything goes" and "believe whatever you want", then some interpretations of it might arguably be called "false". I guess that part of the issue there is rudeness. I...
  20. Yazata

    No one can serve two masters

    I'm not sure that I want to agree. For one thing, what is "serving God"? Do we really know whether a 'God' even exists? Does 'God' really will us to behave in certain ways? How does one know what God's will supposedly is? How does one avoid extremes in that regard, such as ISIS launching a holy...
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