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  1. Quintessence

    Who will win the debate?

    Yeah, various political scientists will be doing their analyses for a long time to come - that's not something that can be done on the ridiculously rapid pace of the modern news cycle. A few months from now there will be a good analysis of it, maybe, for those who are into that discipline...
  2. Quintessence

    Who will win the debate?

    Which media outlets? Obviously, the ones that lean one political direction are going to declare their favored candidate the winner. The more impartial outlets won't be interested in simplistic declarations of "winners" and instead do deep dive analyses with the consultation of experts.
  3. Quintessence

    Let’s create a new and improved Political Compass test!

    It wouldn't be. I don't doubt there are dozens upon dozens of metrics the discipline uses to make assessments, as it is with any other field of study. I'm not a political scientist and I'm not interested in looking into it, but it sounded like you were. This could be a legitimate, properly...
  4. Quintessence

    Let’s create a new and improved Political Compass test!

    Recommendation - work with a political scientist at a university. You know, experts who know the field and what's what.
  5. Quintessence

    Judge dismisses Christians' lawsuit to stop teaching evolution in Indiana schools

    :facepalm: Someone need to teach them that religion =/= Christianity (or religions of the Bible) and that theism is hardly incompatible with accepting biological evolution. Maybe that's what needs to be in classrooms.
  6. Quintessence

    To what extent should we push back on religion?

    As much as I dislike stickipedia these days, they do a vastly better job than many places at outlining the nature (or lack thereof) of religion. It's most definitely culture, for example - that's one thing that's not in dispute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion It's all the rest of it...
  7. Quintessence

    Using AI for writing?

    I don't agree with your assessment here, but this isn't really a debate area so I'll leave it at pointing out you're grossly underselling how important cooperation and altruism have been throughout human history and societies. Maybe because I work in service I just don't get this cutthroat...
  8. Quintessence

    Using AI for writing?

    This compulsion to "improve" and "do things faster" is part of the problem in some ways. Culturally, the United States could deal with a heck of a lot more of "be satisfied" and "do things slower." Less fixation on product, more fixation on process. A major factor in declining mental health...
  9. Quintessence

    Public education sucks

    To add, while I don't follow high school education trends super closely since I work in higher ed, I do pay some attention to it because it trickles up to us eventually. One of the things that is being reported on is how the pandemic lead to an uptick in chronic absenteeism. We are seeing this...
  10. Quintessence

    Using AI for writing?

    There is only one way I have used so-called AI for writing and it's not me using it, personally. I teach a class that has some writing components and I use a platform powered by AI feedback that teaches students to become better writers, critical thinkers, and learners. This is the correct...
  11. Quintessence

    If God asked your for anything you wanted.And said he would give it to you what would you want?

    Nothing. I'm not interested in supernatural magic solutions to problems that I personally identify... but aren't actually (or necessarily) problems for someone who has different feelings and values about reality. I'd be inflicting tyranny or problems on someone. No thanks, I'll pass.
  12. Quintessence

    Can a person not believe in the God of Abraham and be a Christian?

    It's not my place to define another's religious traditions, but my understanding is acceptance of the Abrahamic god is... sort of one of the baseline requirements for being any sort of Abrahamic adherent, whether Christian, Muslim, or Jew. They are explicitly (mono)theistic religious traditions.
  13. Quintessence

    Public education sucks

    This is huge to keep in mind. The OP reads like a tract from another country entirely when compared to my own experience in the system.
  14. Quintessence

    Underpopulation crisis.

    As difficult and unreasonable as it is to do, let's ignore the ecological and environmental ramifications of this for the moment. Let's pretend that somehow the earth has infinite resources, that the flourishing of other species doesn't matter, and that exponential or perpetual growth of humans...
  15. Quintessence

    Most Religions Believe In An Afterlife

    It tells ya that the continuity of life after the death of one particular biological organism is readily observed by everyone. It tells ya that humanity in general understands cycles of life and death for biological organisms with or without the detailed information about the process the...
  16. Quintessence

    To what extent should we push back on religion?

    Certainly - humans aren't all honky dory. Of course anything humans do isn't honky dory. I guess I'm not the warsome type, so I don't go looking around for stuff to "push back" against. It's just not my thing. More live and let live, less looking for trouble. That's a young kid's game.
  17. Quintessence

    To what extent should we push back on religion?

    That's entirely my point - that's what I said in the rest of the bit you didn't quote. If you push back on "religion" you are pushing back on human beings. You may do harm to actual human beings. Say, hypothetically, someone decides to "push back" on my religion. What does that look like...
  18. Quintessence

    To what extent should we push back on religion?

    Well, yeah... it becomes coherent when you start talking about a specific cultural notion. But just "culture?" That's not coherent. Pushback against statism, a specific aspect of culture? Coherent. I suppose that's the jist of my objection - gotta get specific. Neither "culture" nor...
  19. Quintessence

    If science is so great why hasn't it solved all of humanitys problems ?

    What was wrong with what I said?
  20. Quintessence

    Is God Material Or Immaterial

    Depends on the god. Some of them are physical and material, some of them are not. Some of them are both and neither, too. Theological conceptions of the gods are diverse like that. :blush:
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