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by laotzu 11y ago
"Those who speak do not know, and those who know do not speak" -Said the guy who wrote the Tao Te Ching
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This reminds me of an old zen tale: >There is a Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. “Such bad luck,” they said sympathetic
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And those places could theoretically be programmed into the VR system which would allow for visiting places you can only imagine.
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Seems like you are saying the same thing, if the law is to be considered a liability.
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Well that is obvious after 2008. Last I checked there are around 5 vacant houses for every homeless person in America. According to anthropologist David Graeber, the real original (pun intended) meaning of the phrase "real estate"
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What's a free market?
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>Totally unlike the situation described in the article, I can assure you that Americans have all the freedom in the world to criticize the government. I'm assuming you have not studied what happened to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., th
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There is no such thing as 100% security. Maximum security prisons are an example of this fallacy.
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Marshall McLuhan suggests an alternative theory as to the primary motivation of violence. He claims that violence is a quest for identity: >"All forms of violence are a quest for identity. When you live out on the frontier you have
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>We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite
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The universe
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>For the past 3500 years of the Western world, the effects of media–whether it’s speech, writing, printing, photography, radio or television–have been systematically overlooked by social observers. Even in today’s revolutionary electroni
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>It’s true that many governments have been set up during such storms; but in those cases it was the governments themselves that destroyed the state. Usurpers always create or select times of disturbance and public fear to get destructive
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>silicon valley doesn't produce much hardware (evidence for this being true? obviously we hear a ton about software, but what about tesla, intel, nest, apple, google, etc?) Consider the amount of hardware that a modern smart phone r
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It may be that the core problem of production is one that was already solved by hardware at the end of the industrial revolution. Software can now be used to solve the 2nd part of the problem, which is distribution. >In technology's
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>If someone thinks that jobs need to be created through artificial means to keep people busy and give them some money, then that person has a rather dim view of human potential One of the 3 main goals of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 i
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Professor: What do you mean when you say "I"?
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>I must state clearly that my teaching is a method to experience reality and not reality itself, just as a finger pointing at the moon is not the moon itself. A thinking person makes use of the finger to see the moon. A person who only l
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Yes.
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I'd call it emotional strength rather than emotional armor. In any case I wholeheartedly agree with standing up for people who are having a hard time. But simply censoring and covering up the darkness will only cause it to fester and g
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Don't you think they'd find it insulting that you are holding them to a lower standard?
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>I sincerely believe our society would be improved if people could live how they want, provided they harm no one else. That may be but an insult is not harmful unless you accept it personally. When you accept an insult you are the one hu
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This is known as the victim mentality, and it is not so strictly limited to higher education as is stereotyped. The victim mentality is a social engineering tactic commonly used in mainstream media which has cascading effects on all levels
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Sincere question: why should you not accept it? >Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. -Epictetus To answer your question, we should accept it becau
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The Gift of Insults, an old zen tale: There once lived a great warrior. Though quite old, he still was able to defeat any challenger. His reputation extended far and wide throughout the land and many students gathered to study under him.One
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I'd recommend Critical Path and Grunch of Giants by Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983). Fuller was the former president of the Mensa society and claimed that a universal income became technically feasible in the 1970's. Critical Path:
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As a proponent of a universal income, I think that's where a lot of the debate fizzles out, and rightly so. Developing a UBI within the status quo framework of centralized government and the dollar (another highly centralized social in
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>Unless, of course, they're kept alive by force. Which has increasingly been the case since the 70's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailout#Cases
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There is also the fact that the monetary system is not a zero sum game for its users. Hence the perpetual indebtedness to central banks as we see with all major nations. Professor Franz Hörmann of the Vienna University of Economics explain
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>Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. . . . I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them

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