"It isn't real democracy when the government gets total control with only 30-some percent of the popular vote."
While democracy is rule by corporations, there are BETTER and WORSE corporate parties that have negative effects on everyone. It just means it's a lot of hard work to change the world.
Ummm the real science has been done and it's overwhelmingly in the favor of climate change. The idea that "two sides" are equal is bullshit, the same way you wouldn't treat a creationist who believed the earth and life was 6000 years old on an equal level with evolution of life on earth.
The idea that "both sides" deserve consideration is just fucking nonsense.
"And you use it as a time to get angry at people who believe in God."
When people believe in gods that can't invent wireless camera phones and used the most inefficient method to communicate "his" message regardless of religion (christianity, islam, etc). People have every right to look down at believers in old gods with their ancient texts (which are full of errors).
If gods of our ancestors were so all powerful, why do they seem to have a messaging problem? Note that there are over roughly 30,000 different sects of Christianity alone. If a divine being fails so badly at communication, it's 100% certain that the person claiming that failure as evidence of divinity is gullible and lying to themselves.
Unfortunately enough, science says we're monkeys... in that the human brain decides via emotion, not systematic conscious reason, by unconscious processes embedded in the brain. So this is why everything goes to shit...
... free 2 play games are lower quality than real games. Even league of legends has hugely less content than warcraft 3 and starcraft 1 did with user made maps, etc. Most of the "new" heroes are mere reskins of stats. The fact is free 2 play is just feudalistic theft model of gaming where you pay to get fucked and never own anything. The problem is kids and the masses don't know any better and are ruining gaming by feeding these unethical companies.
The whole model relies on the userbases illiteracy and stupidity when it comes to technology, so in no way are free to play games "a fair shake". It's just good old american hustling conning tech ignorant suckers out of their money.
You have no clue what you're talking about. The bottom 80% of Americans are competing over 5% of the money in the economy. Americans are bloody ignorant of just how unequal their society has become. Not only that it's a class project (despite americans distate for the idea of class war). The research bears this out in spades.
Also the elites fear political awakening, hence the NSA despite you wanting to 'do its job' it IS doing it's job FOR THE ELITES (aka preventing social change).
"Maimonides postulated that you can't say anything definite about God"
God is just an undefined word in human language, it is a composite of a human being + magic. That's all god is, it is the ultimate 'tribal leader' it is imaginary and hence natural. It derives itself from the natural world (human psyche + magic). This is why ancient gods all have human qualities. So yes you can definitely say definite things about the "gods" of the past, since all words are derived and composed from the natural world. The problem you have is that you don't know enough science about how the language systems in the brain work and how it composes statements. Consider a Unicorn, technically "unicorns don't exist" but that statement is in fact meaningless because the Unicorn DOES exist, it is a composite of the concept of horse (drawn from the natural world) plus horn (aka a horn shape, idea drawn from the natural world of other animals).
So unicorns *do exist* in the sense that natural idea horse + natural idea (gemetric relation pointy edged shape called horn) = unicorn.
The way you naturally think in language obscures the reality of how concepts are conceived in language, if we go back to the original human being who first coined the concept of god we can put our modern selves in his place and see how he is deriving the concept from the natural world, first deriving it from his own psyche + the unknown (aka non scientific world, so he just plugs in "magic").
The problem is most people don't know that their brain is a simulation, it is a mere representational space created by unconscious processes they don't understand. So the mind REALLY doesn't live in reality to a large extent. Most people are not fit or educated enough to understand themselves or much of their worldview.
"You gullible idiots really think matter and giant 'big bang'"
Something eternal can exist and not be god, I know you find that hard to fathom. You're hung up on the idea of "creation" and "destruction" the reality is human concepts and idea's break down when dealing with nature. You're reasoning from the concepts you've derived from human sized world (aka models your brain developed to deal with human sized world). William James sidis thought the universe was similar to a circuit and that we are on one side of the universe and there is a universe that mirrors ours going in the opposite direction. The point being that those who espouse God usually always have an idea of who/what god is and a book with teachings that go against what we know about the universe.
William James Sidis, the animate and inanimate (for those interested).
"The Bible is actually quite encouraging of knowledge, even showing something of a kickarse attitude towards deliberate ignorance."
Except the biblical god was not smart enough to invent cellular camera phones and save us all. Inefficiency is opposed to a loving god. Omnipotence is contradictory to inefficiency.
Religious people can't think straight to save their lives. If the bible god was hired at a business for saving mankind, and he chose the worst and most inefficient method to communicate his message. Anyone with a brain would have fired the bastard. AKA if you're god is inefficient, he can't be omnipotent nor loving, and hence you're god can't exist.
"I still don't understand why people drop Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, but stick with Jesus. Hasn't everybody read The Emperor's New Clothes?"
"Indeed. I shouldn't be, but am quite amazed with how people abuse their votes, and WILLFULLY put ignorant imbeciles in congress. And then don't even have enough shame to rectify the mistake."
... the problem with buying a small SSD is that you'll just want to upgrade anyway later. So you should just take the plunge and get a reasonably sized SSD so that you can run common intensive apps off the SSD. Traditional HD's are just for storage/movies/big stuff. Most people only use a few common programs at a time so having enough space on an SSD for things you use frequently is a must. It just makes your life that much easier and you won't have to upgrade until many years later when program sizes or some new tech forces the issue.
... of money a long time ago. How money interacts with the law (concepts of property) is what's at issue. Money acts as a substitute for the earths energy and resources. The problem comes when you add rules to the game and add in exploitation, greed and the whole nine yards.
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"It isn't real democracy when the government gets total control with only 30-some percent of the popular vote."
While democracy is rule by corporations, there are BETTER and WORSE corporate parties that have negative effects on everyone. It just means it's a lot of hard work to change the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://www.princeton.edu/~mgil...
"Democracy is far from a perfect system, but it beats the hell out of whatever's in second place."
http://www.princeton.edu/~mgil...
"There's no room for real science."
Ummm the real science has been done and it's overwhelmingly in the favor of climate change. The idea that "two sides" are equal is bullshit, the same way you wouldn't treat a creationist who believed the earth and life was 6000 years old on an equal level with evolution of life on earth.
The idea that "both sides" deserve consideration is just fucking nonsense.
"I don't get it, after reading the comments here, why is there so much resistance accept that man is causing climate change?"
See the science on human reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"This is why its better to have elections"
http://www.ted.com/talks/lawre...
"And you use it as a time to get angry at people who believe in God."
When people believe in gods that can't invent wireless camera phones and used the most inefficient method to communicate "his" message regardless of religion (christianity, islam, etc). People have every right to look down at believers in old gods with their ancient texts (which are full of errors).
If gods of our ancestors were so all powerful, why do they seem to have a messaging problem? Note that there are over roughly 30,000 different sects of Christianity alone. If a divine being fails so badly at communication, it's 100% certain that the person claiming that failure as evidence of divinity is gullible and lying to themselves.
http://religioustolerance.org/...
Elites fear awakening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"I don't get it, are politicians born stupid or have their parents dropped them on their head (repeatedly) while they where young?"
Elites fear awakening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"IMHO, he should be ashamed of himself."
Unfortunately enough, science says we're monkeys... in that the human brain decides via emotion, not systematic conscious reason, by unconscious processes embedded in the brain. So this is why everything goes to shit...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
... free 2 play games are lower quality than real games. Even league of legends has hugely less content than warcraft 3 and starcraft 1 did with user made maps, etc. Most of the "new" heroes are mere reskins of stats. The fact is free 2 play is just feudalistic theft model of gaming where you pay to get fucked and never own anything. The problem is kids and the masses don't know any better and are ruining gaming by feeding these unethical companies.
The whole model relies on the userbases illiteracy and stupidity when it comes to technology, so in no way are free to play games "a fair shake". It's just good old american hustling conning tech ignorant suckers out of their money.
"such as the outrageously high unemployment rate"
You have no clue what you're talking about. The bottom 80% of Americans are competing over 5% of the money in the economy. Americans are bloody ignorant of just how unequal their society has become. Not only that it's a class project (despite americans distate for the idea of class war). The research bears this out in spades.
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesa...
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesa...
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesa...
"Yes."
Except the NSA is just an extension of imperial america and the rise of china, see here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Also the elites fear political awakening, hence the NSA despite you wanting to 'do its job' it IS doing it's job FOR THE ELITES (aka preventing social change).
Zbig 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Zbig 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Actually the main problem I see with this is how ineffective it makes the NSA."
You assume that the NSA's real job is to "deal with enemies" and not enhance the profits of those who benefit from the NSA's existence.
"Maimonides postulated that you can't say anything definite about God"
God is just an undefined word in human language, it is a composite of a human being + magic. That's all god is, it is the ultimate 'tribal leader' it is imaginary and hence natural. It derives itself from the natural world (human psyche + magic). This is why ancient gods all have human qualities. So yes you can definitely say definite things about the "gods" of the past, since all words are derived and composed from the natural world. The problem you have is that you don't know enough science about how the language systems in the brain work and how it composes statements. Consider a Unicorn, technically "unicorns don't exist" but that statement is in fact meaningless because the Unicorn DOES exist, it is a composite of the concept of horse (drawn from the natural world) plus horn (aka a horn shape, idea drawn from the natural world of other animals).
So unicorns *do exist* in the sense that natural idea horse + natural idea (gemetric relation pointy edged shape called horn) = unicorn.
The way you naturally think in language obscures the reality of how concepts are conceived in language, if we go back to the original human being who first coined the concept of god we can put our modern selves in his place and see how he is deriving the concept from the natural world, first deriving it from his own psyche + the unknown (aka non scientific world, so he just plugs in "magic").
The problem is most people don't know that their brain is a simulation, it is a mere representational space created by unconscious processes they don't understand. So the mind REALLY doesn't live in reality to a large extent. Most people are not fit or educated enough to understand themselves or much of their worldview.
Check out the science:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"I am constantly amazed at how naive the average American voter is."
Don't be, see the science:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
... this is why obama is not on your side:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"You gullible idiots really think matter and giant 'big bang'"
Something eternal can exist and not be god, I know you find that hard to fathom. You're hung up on the idea of "creation" and "destruction" the reality is human concepts and idea's break down when dealing with nature. You're reasoning from the concepts you've derived from human sized world (aka models your brain developed to deal with human sized world). William James sidis thought the universe was similar to a circuit and that we are on one side of the universe and there is a universe that mirrors ours going in the opposite direction. The point being that those who espouse God usually always have an idea of who/what god is and a book with teachings that go against what we know about the universe.
William James Sidis, the animate and inanimate (for those interested).
http://www.sidis.net/ANIMConte...
"The Bible is actually quite encouraging of knowledge, even showing something of a kickarse attitude towards deliberate ignorance."
Except the biblical god was not smart enough to invent cellular camera phones and save us all. Inefficiency is opposed to a loving god. Omnipotence is contradictory to inefficiency.
Religious people can't think straight to save their lives. If the bible god was hired at a business for saving mankind, and he chose the worst and most inefficient method to communicate his message. Anyone with a brain would have fired the bastard. AKA if you're god is inefficient, he can't be omnipotent nor loving, and hence you're god can't exist.
"I still don't understand why people drop Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, but stick with Jesus. Hasn't everybody read The Emperor's New Clothes?"
Learn the science:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Indeed. I shouldn't be, but am quite amazed with how people abuse their votes, and WILLFULLY put ignorant imbeciles in congress. And then don't even have enough shame to rectify the mistake."
See what science has discovered about the brain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
>The little boost you get from all your apps on an SSD just isn't worth $600. T
500GB SSD's have dropped below $400 quite a few times on sales.
... the problem with buying a small SSD is that you'll just want to upgrade anyway later. So you should just take the plunge and get a reasonably sized SSD so that you can run common intensive apps off the SSD. Traditional HD's are just for storage/movies/big stuff. Most people only use a few common programs at a time so having enough space on an SSD for things you use frequently is a must. It just makes your life that much easier and you won't have to upgrade until many years later when program sizes or some new tech forces the issue.
... of money a long time ago. How money interacts with the law (concepts of property) is what's at issue. Money acts as a substitute for the earths energy and resources. The problem comes when you add rules to the game and add in exploitation, greed and the whole nine yards.