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David Quinn wrote:This thread has certainly brought some interesting things to the surface.......

I'm intrigued to learn I have such power over your feeble mind. Gunna have me some fun with that .....

I agree with Diebert, you're a philosophic troll. Go write a book.

Just out of more than passing curiosity, Diebert, why are you here?

You call that 'substance', Diebert? I lack time right now, but for the benefit of others here's the context of the Schizophrenia statement. People can judge for themselves whether you're employing it faithfully to support your 'examples'. http://theabsolute.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4440&am...

This is an interesting insight into the money behind the Trump campaign. Of course, as we know, the monied nature of US politics is a problem across the parties, but this is a little different, I think. Robert Mercer & the Dark Money Behind Trump and Bannon's Radical Vision: https://www.youtube....

I would like to see some proper evidence of this. Can you point to some specific examples? I've already mentioned very recent examples of such witch-hunting in this thread. I'm not going to mention them again as I believe you are currently unable to process them. You've offered accusations (some of...

Hey Ryan, Good to see some of the old folk crawling out of the woodwork again. :) It seems to me that this whole issue between Kevin & David boils down to the following question – What is more of a threat to wisdom/survival of the species? 1. An unstable narcissist being the leader of the most ...

Hey Guys, I couldn''t help myself with this one - I know its been awhile - It seems to me that this whole issue between Kevin & David boils down to the following question – What is more of a threat to wisdom/survival of the species? 1.An unstable narcissist being the leader of the most powerful...

I have to say, I'm seriously inclined to return this to the 'old forum'. The 'new forum' is being run by mediocre intellects. There's nothing inherently wrong with the DSM criteria for mental disorders or illnesses. They are reasonably practical for their context, which is the statistical norms of ...

Not a single one of those is actually analogous to the Obama 'birther' saga. Not even close. In what way, besides that Obama actually became president, the hyperactive media and perhaps his foreign, Arab middle name, first used by the Islamic prophet? Anyway, you're declaring things again without a...

Not a single one of those is actually analogous to the Obama 'birther' saga. Not even close.

Kevin has become extremely touchy about being defamed We live in an age where the authoritarian left are constructing actual lists of non-believers who are to be excluded from society, whom they seek to deny employment, whom they seek to block from all social media, and hidden from search engines. ...

Psychoanalysing people in itself is indicative of delusion, because the categories of modern psychology were created by deluded people. Anyone who uses those categories as the primary metric for determining whether someone else is deluded cannot be a sage. In the realm of psychology, a sage should ...

This is long [1:09:56 - skip to 3:20] but very interesting. Well, it's interesting if you're on a similar page to David and me regarding Trump. Otherwise you'll probably just see it as an exercise in confirmation bias.

Chris Hedges: The Rise of Trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na_jAtxpmiI

29 Signs of a Psychopath (the word seems to have only been mentioned once in this thread, by David) Now, Matt, don't try to psychoanalyse someone or you'll earn the ire of Jupiviv. Curiously, Trump also ticks every single criterion for Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Without trying to formally d...

David, Civil forfeiture is one of those barely known insanities of American policing and jurisprudence. Jurisdictions across the country have been raking in the dough for a long time now. The statement about the Supreme Court potentially making it illegal was pretty funny. With Gorsuch on board that...

Kevin is perfectly fine. Just don't mention the War (Gamergate). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW0

I appreciate the sceptical and cautious tone of this, along with the desire to actually be fair to Trump, but I don't find that the state of play warrants that caution. For me it is not remotely accurate to say Trump hasn't done much yet. The negative or positive quality of what he's done is, obvio...

Without Trump actually having done anything much, (it’s been hardly 3 months) we can’t know with any serious resolve whether Trump’s presence will be a net positive or negative. I appreciate the sceptical and cautious tone of this, along with the desire to actually be fair to Trump, but I don't fin...

Kevin Solway wrote:Do you see how this isn't going anywhere?

Oh, most assuredly :) So, other than this stuff, how are things going in Taswegia?

I don't know where I stand on drone attacks. I am undecided on my personal view of the efficacy and ethics in the sense that I can't tell if they're worse than any other shit powerful nations do. Are *you* being obtuse? Yes, you are! I wasn't aware that "worse than any other shit" constit...

His current statements about politics have no connection to reality, are platitudinous and factually vacant. If something I have said has no connection with reality then you should be able to demonstrate what that is. Every mitigating statement you utter regarding Trump, every statement you make th...

It should also be noted that both Dan and David continually brush off excellent counterpoints from others that illustrate Trump is not much worse, if at all, than his predecessors. Can you provide an example of what you're describing as an 'excellent counterpoint'? Here's one . To which you respond...

I'm happy for this thread to remain here (non-sticky), since I and a few others have made some good logical points that are not merely speculative about things in the empirical world. That is utter bullshit from an absolute point of view, which is a view you have twice invoked to try and diminish o...

The core of ignorance is not Donald Trump and addressing ignorance is way more fundamental than proving some issue with his personality, his emotional make-up or the contemporary ideology of those surrounding him. For me there are times when the philosopher, or at least this one, decides that he ca...