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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
But even when a Christian church is the official church of the State, they are still distinct entities, as opposed to the Islamic model.
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
Church offices aren't hereditary and church lands don't belong to individual clergy. Time and money are necessary to scholarship, but not sufficient.
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
Yes. Other religious orders tend to solve problems by inflicting organised violence on a victim. Christianity did this for a while until they realized their faith is based on a sacrificial victim. It's also rooted in a deep distrust of
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
I think you're unfairly circumscribing the OP's viewpoint since many Catholics also view Christianity as overthrowing an old order (the headship of Adam, the violence of Rome, the rites of blood sacrifice). I don't think cont
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
Two problems with this analysis. Christianity was rapidly growing before its adoption by Constantine, specifically among slaves and the underclass as it offered hope to the downtrodden. Resemblance to Hellenistic cults are superficial. Seco
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
The West was also not very interested in the rest of the world except to conquer, prior to the development of the modern worldview between Bacon and Newton. This was a singular event that marks the sudden rise of the West in power and knowl
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
I'm as excited about the achievements of the Islamic Golden Age as the next guy. It certainly helped lay the foundation for the scientific method, just as the achievements of Classical Greeks did. It's just that it was over befor
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
There was a Byzantine Dark Age in the 7th and 8th Centuries where perfume lived under the rubble of previous cities hiding from Arabic and other invaders. The Roman aqueducts went into disrepair and people went back to drinking from wells.
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
Rome had slaves but it wasn't the cornerstone of their economy. The idea that the life in each generation should be more advanced and efficient than in the previous simply hadn't been invented then.
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
Islamic civilization was never very curious about the outside world other than militarily. There is a famous story about Galileo's telescopes being sent as a gift to a Muslim ruler to observe the planets. They didn't see any point
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
I'm well aware of potential cognitive biases based on the arc of personal experience and I think I've accounted for that above. Meanwhile you've addressed zero of my objective points. You're a troll.
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
I got that from your previous comment. I don't think it means the city is the same in 2018 as it was in 2005 or 1985. I'm talking about specific structural differences that don't have anything to do with when I got here (e.g
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
I'm curious if you want to make a substantive point, please go ahead and do so without waiting for my complete biographical details.
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
No. Culture moves in waves. You hit the right part of the wave and it's a great ride. Time it just wrong and you wash out, but you might still have fun, especially if it's your first time out and you don't know what a good wa
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
Jerry Rubin as far back as his 1970 book "Do It!" criticized the capitalists co-opting his image of the counterculture (a "revolution" in toilet paper!). I do think there was another wave of interesting people in the 90&
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
I visited SF prior to 2005 and had a general impression it was very Bohemian with a strong underground scene. To some extent I consider the city today a capitalist parody of this former self, where you can stand in line at "Ramen Under
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
The idea of SF as "culturally European" was largely a piece of self-mythologizing, rather than a legitimate comparison. SF saw the rest of the US as the homeland of mindless consumerism (with the exception of their leftist intelle
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
From 2005-2010 the city had a very positive vibe: we're the most European city in America, we love good food, we have a balance of artists and people who support the arts. Now it's overcrowded, overvalued and overcapitalized. Rath
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by loggedinmyphone 9y ago
How about Rachel Carson or Louisa May Alcott? Sorry if this is off topic, but I find it fascinating how American history is increasingly viewed through the lens of race relations.
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by loggedinmyphone 9y ago
I'm pretty sure the comment you responded to was sarcasm, given the prevalence of red light districts in the Netherlands.
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by loggedinmyphone 9y ago
That depends on the game and how the site is implemented. It could very well collect or infer that data.
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by loggedinmyphone 9y ago
I dislike advertising and I'd love to see marketing move from a "push" to a "pull" model, where consumers ask for information about products they want. It's not easy to see how we get there. Defending the right
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by loggedinmyphone 9y ago
I can't comment about the other two posters, but I'm still waiting to hear how a law making it illegal to make inferences about people's behavior could possibly work. It sounds like the poster didn't think about the sugg
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by loggedinmyphone 9y ago
Off-topic bilingual pun: In Japan, Nissan cars are considered female. As they say: each Nissan she go.
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by loggedinmyphone 9y ago
Sounds dodgy. If I give you a free refill to see how you react, I go to jail?
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by loggedinmyphone 9y ago
I see, so the problem is that the data sharing is opt-out instead of opt-in? This seems reasonable, although I'd be concerned about a law where J. Random Codemonkey puts up a free game on his website and gets prosecuted for selling the
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by loggedinmyphone 9y ago
Just so I understand, the suggestion is that collecting and profiting from user information be illegal? I'm not necessarily opposed to that but it's certainly radical. Might be easier to just stop using services that do this.
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by loggedinmyphone 9y ago
But the user's friends did consent to have their data collected and sold when they joined the social networking site.
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by loggedinmyphone 9y ago
Are you proposing a law against trying to manipulate people's moods?
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by loggedinmyphone 9y ago
The author's suggestions are fairly ridiculous. It's as if he can't fathom the idea people could use something other than Facebook. Quote: It could be regulation; it could be anti-trust legislation to break up those tech gian

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