New political parties of the centre right are a doubtful proposition. The recent history thereof has not been good. The Australian Conservatives being the most recent and a particularly perplexing one: What the heck was that all about? It seems to me that there are three problems facing a new party, aside from that of …
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Here’s a problem: How do you know if something is true? What is “true”? This is a pressing and common problem. If someone makes a claim about a technical field of which 99% of the population has little understanding, how do people tell if the claim is true or not? For this purpose I define …
Two Types of Ethical Theory or Why I don’t augment my income by rolling drunks DrBeauGan In a work in the Jeeves and Wooster saga, Bertie is given a book to read by Florence Craye in order to improve him. It is called Types of Ethical Theory, and Bertie gives an extract. If you google …
Something occurred to me at the zoo once.At the penguins.Penguins are basically identical. Interchangeable.You’ve seen one penguin, you have seen them all. If you could be in the brain of one penguin, it would be an identical experience to being in the brain of any other high – pressure projectile pooping stupid penguin.But:What if we …
You know how at the end of WW2 the Americans did an intense program of de- Nazification?We’re going to have to do the same thing at the end of this war.An intense program of de- stupidfication.We’re going to have to teach these idiots actual history, logic, maths, civics, from scratch.It will need to be a …
In order for evolution to be proven true it must demonstrate one thing: That the information containing an adverse trait disappears from the entire population over time. There being two competing ideas: Darwinian evolution: the population is shaped by evolutionary forces. Design: the variations are designed into populations by God in order to make the …
A friend put me onto this video on blackouts. In the face of covid, riots and possible grid instability, one wonders if our new high rise urban centres are about to become terminally unfashionable: http://bit.ly/timesvideonewsletter
Being locked down and underemployed, I was at a loose end. I therefore decided that, as all the existing proofs of God’s existence I had up until then read were hopeless, to attempt to formulate a new one. Herein follows a preliminary draft of that which occurred to me. I have no idea if these …
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