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by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Dec 22, 2019 8:40 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418112

Re: Trump

Trump has, irrefutably, been impeached. It's a FACT . The only 'deception' is in the minds of the ignorant and GOP and MAGA confabulists. However, then Noah Feldman, a Harvard law professor is another ignorant confabulist. Since he was also one of three constitutional scholars to testify in favor o...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Dec 16, 2019 6:54 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418112

Re: Trump

You've just changed the meaning of " being instrumental" into having a possible role or influence. Being instrumental can connote either an active or passive role. Also, neither I nor your article mentioned a *possible* role. Cambridge meaning of instrumental in English: If someone or som...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Dec 15, 2019 9:42 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418112

Re: Trump

Thanks Dan, for the effort writing it all down! It's more than I expect these days. I don't know how to address those questions without invoking the broad picture, which for me is pretty much the whole point. Since invoking "broad pictures" appeals to a deeper sense or intuition, there's a...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Dec 14, 2019 6:52 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Defining Racism
Replies: 36
Views: 51165

Re: Defining Racism

The existence of categories/distinctions called "race" are not what is being denied here. Rather, it's the a priori unscientific judgments that motivate the most common applications of them. So you now say that categories/distinctions based on common descent or heredity do play a role wit...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Wed Dec 11, 2019 5:18 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418112

Re: Trump

Okay, fair enough. This is exactly what I'm trying to find out. Kevin responded to David saying that exact phrase, which I used as a starting point. But you mentioned "facts" around the coverage of Trump & "regime". To simply ask "which facts" seemed a bit too much ...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Wed Dec 11, 2019 12:33 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418112

Re: Trump

I'm making an objectively true observation that any rational person would agree with. ....the bare facts are ultimately agreed upon . Dan, maybe a stupid moronic question (to use your baby language) but could you summarize these bare facts? Not all of them but lets say the top 3 on, I guess, the &q...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Tue Dec 10, 2019 7:24 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Oneself in relation to philosophy & relativity
Replies: 5
Views: 19296

Re: Oneself in relation to philosophy & relativity

Abstract reasoning has little to do with philosophy. Mathematics is no philosophy. Plotting a complex, ritualistic perfect murder ain't either. From wikipedia: " Abstract objects have no physical referents, whereas concrete objects do. They are most commonly used in philosophy and semantics.&q...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Dec 09, 2019 7:16 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418112

Re: Trump

The only claim it debunks is that the bill itself inaugurated mass incarceration, which is not the same as having no role. You've just changed the meaning of " being instrumental" into having a possible role or influence. That's how you win arguments these days? Throughout history, founde...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Dec 08, 2019 6:51 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Defining Racism
Replies: 36
Views: 51165

Re: Defining Racism

Race concepts do not and have never played any well-defined role within credible scientific work on human genetic diversity. Thus, attempts to "justify" race concepts with scientific findings on human genetic diversity that occasionally partially overlap with race concepts necessarily req...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Dec 08, 2019 4:16 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418112

Re: Trump

I’m a Zen guy (....) bodhisattvas don’t deal in personal smears and personal attacks. They neither give them, nor receive them. It’s not how they operate. Their minds are always focused on something much higher. That's just asserting how you'd like it to be! But the human being "David" mi...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Dec 08, 2019 4:09 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418112

Re: Trump

I don’t know anything about Abby Martin and have no interest in her. Her role in this video was simply to facilitate the airing of Hedges’ views. Aside from this, she is irrelevant. So that’s half your post dealt with right there. Admittedly, she does have nice legs. Sometimes, context is everythin...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Dec 08, 2019 3:09 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Abortion
Replies: 48
Views: 85970

Re: Abortion

Before your time here, the forum known as "Worldly Matters" was called the "The Brothel". Originally, there was only the one forum here - namely, Genius Forum - but after a while "The Brothel" was created for the purpose of siphoning away all the threads that did not d...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Dec 08, 2019 2:28 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Defining Racism
Replies: 36
Views: 51165

Re: Defining Racism

Anyway, the problem/contention is precisely this baseless assumption that racism both historical and current is separable from bad faith attempts to justify race concepts scientifically. But it's exactly that assumption you're failing to back up. Why even bother asserting it again? As if that means...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Dec 08, 2019 2:11 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Oneself in relation to philosophy & relativity
Replies: 5
Views: 19296

Re: Oneself in relation to philosophy & relativity

While abstract reasoning - the doing of philosophy - is usually necessary (...) once one receives wisdom of the infinite, wisdom of oneself, abstract reasoning must be transcended. It's actually the doing of philosophy which would engage in full transcendence of our earlier fantasies, illusions, ab...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Wed Dec 04, 2019 6:19 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Defining Racism
Replies: 36
Views: 51165

Re: Defining Racism

Anyway, the problem/contention is precisely this baseless assumption that racism both historical and current is separable from bad faith attempts to justify race concepts scientifically. But it's exactly that assumption you're failing to back up. Why even bother asserting it again? As if that means...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Wed Dec 04, 2019 4:33 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Defining Racism
Replies: 36
Views: 51165

Re: Defining Racism

Jup, please don't modify or make up sentences when you want to use the quote button. That is fraudulent and cannot be allowed even as joke. If you read back you'd see I was first addressing racism , not races. Then (local) population , not races. Then genetic variance , like seen over a continent, n...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Tue Dec 03, 2019 4:31 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Defining Racism
Replies: 36
Views: 51165

Re: Defining Racism

Skip, any difference with diaphragms probably is gene expression, meaning that other factors influence its development during pregnancy and birth. And it's way more likely. Many differences between people's features between regions and countries can be explained pretty well looking at access to educ...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Dec 02, 2019 6:35 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418112

Re: Trump

acceptance of any prohibitions on speech at all = recognition of need to mitigate risk of abuse. So you have already abandoned your own claim: "nothing would prevent the abuse" is exactly the type of risk that free-speech advocates are, well, advocating. You wrote actually "nothing w...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Dec 02, 2019 6:10 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418112

Re: Trump

He holds Biden responsible for the large prison population (mostly debunked in the world of facts ). That link says: We found many factors drove mass incarceration, including trends in the states that predated the 1994 law. But the law was in sync with those trends and may have encouraged them. You...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Dec 02, 2019 1:21 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418112

Re: Trump

Another interesting discussion by Chris Hedges, recorded three days ago, where he gives his latest thoughts on the Trump administration and the state of the world more generally. Still as perceptive and direct as ever. Highly recommended. Chris Hedges & Abby Martin: No Way Out Through Elections...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Dec 02, 2019 12:26 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418112

Re: Trump

Free speech advocates not acting in bad faith allow restrictions on speech in instances they consider to be unequivocal abuse of it e.g. sedition, incitement to violence, libel. They're just unwilling to extend the exact same reasoning to instances of bigotry and misinformation damaging the lives o...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Nov 30, 2019 10:08 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418112

Re: Trump

... how can the right to free speech exist in a meaningful sense if it does not also grace its bearer with the duty of speaking honestly without any regard for life and happiness? It can't, because nothing would prevent the abuse of this right towards dishonest and self-serving ends at the expense ...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Nov 30, 2019 10:04 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418112

Re: Trump

Diebert: The deeper psychological issues have little to do with politics but more with alienation and fractioning within the nation states of old. And even deeper than the alienation and fractioning within the states of old is the psychological-existential alienation and fracturing of the notion of...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Nov 30, 2019 9:42 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
Replies: 80
Views: 223614

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.

I've been reading about DMT trips. There's threads full of people saying they experienced things that are completely indescribable by language. They pile on the superlatives and say the words still fall completely short of a faithful description. What is the relation between that and enlightenment?...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Nov 30, 2019 9:42 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
Replies: 80
Views: 223614

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.

....when you awake to it, its nature is fully revealed. An extraordinary understanding that knows no bounds is suddenly apparent. And yet "everything that we experience and know is a momentary construction" as you stated earlier. You then continue with suggesting what very much sounds lik...