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How Capitalism Erodes Democracy
cava comments on Jun 28, 2018:
Capitalism emphasis is on self interested consumption, and not on citizens exercising mutual interests. Voters become enamored of politicians that appeal to their own self-interest, and not those who struggle to present the interests of the whole. The major party's choice of candidates is based on wealth and not ability, we don't like either candidate but we have little choice or say in who runs [I'm an independent in Florida I can't even vote in a primary]. Ultimately it is the capital in capitalism which exsanguinates democracy.
Up at 2am.
cava comments on Apr 9, 2018:
Did you have a post apocalyptic dream?
Some More Thoughts About The Reality Of Space PROOF THAT SPACE IS NOT A THING If space were a ...
cava comments on Oct 28, 2018:
I agree, space is not a thing. Space & time are how we intuit the world, without these "intuitions" there would be no world. Our need to order the world, to have coherent experiences, rests on our ability to represent the world in time and space. Defining these terms is problematical because they are the way we construct the world.
Looking to move towards the Florida Atlantic Coast this coming August.
cava comments on Apr 22, 2018:
The further south you go in Florida, the further north you get.
Do you feel are intrinsic moral code could be more complex then only natural selection would ...
cava comments on Mar 22, 2018:
If I understand you, moral code is the product of natural selection?
Is ignorance bliss?
cava comments on Feb 18, 2018:
You have a funny way of askig the question. You start by referencing studies that say that the more intellectual a person is the "more likely they are to suffer from depression and other issues", then you ask ..."do you feel that the idiom is true". I was expecting you to ask if you thought this idiom were true. To ask if one feels something like this is true suggests emotional intelligence, which is different, more complex in some ways (in my opinion) than cognitive intelligence. I don't feel or think that it is true.
I subscribe to the Buddhist belief that there are many paths to the top of the mountain.
cava comments on Apr 12, 2018:
Is there a prize on top?
CEO Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will Rank News Outlets By Trustworthiness | HuffPost
cava comments on May 2, 2018:
Maybe they will use Cambridge Analytica to do up the questionnaires. :)
Sarah Abdallah on Twitter: "Tulsi Gabbard: The CIA was using American taxpayer dollars to provide ...
cava comments on Mar 16, 2019:
Tulsi Gabbard is the real deal, unlike most of the other Dems candidates, excepting Bernie.
Michelle Obama The portrait by Amy Sherald was unveiled yesterday in Washington.
cava comments on Feb 14, 2018:
Looking at some of Amy Sherald other works such as: https://I.pinimg.com/736x/e0/5b/03/e05b033dfdced13291e735db3b218a7c--the-map-black-art.jpg Here is what the MET has to say about 19th Century Folk Art [quote]They are characterized by sharply defined forms, neatly organized compositions with clearly defined spatial arrangements, some with an almost mathematical precision and symmetry, generalized lighting, equal attention paid to all areas of the canvas, an absence of expressive brushwork, and an overall flatness and linearity. A current, compelling theory about the look of folk portraits is that they matched the face of the neatly and geometrically farmed agrarian landscape. In any case, it is important to recognize that folk artists worked according to criteria set by their rural clientele. As a group, the portraits describe socially reticent sitters eager to record a likeness but shy of declaring personality and emotion. Elements of pride and class status are apparent but circumspect. Portraits record lasting traits and conditions (some are even memorials to the dead), rather than transitory mannerisms and situations.[/quote] Anyway, Sherald's work reminds me of a sophisticated version of folk art.
Why Rural America is So Pissed Off "It seems to me that many of these people haven’t been left ...
cava comments on Mar 13, 2018:
Well in many rural communities there is only TV, and ya'll know watching TV does. Actually, a record number small towns in the East and South are on the decline, but there are some small towns in the West that are thriving, attracting millenials.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
cava comments on Jan 9, 2019:
The link to Sulla didn't work. Strong epitaph.
Alcohol, even one drink a day, increases stroke risk, study says
cava comments on Apr 5, 2019:
I have a glass of wine with my dinner and I don't plan to change that practice.
Happy 420 day May the nation follow
cava comments on Apr 20, 2018:
Celebrating it latter at a local craft brewery....cheers!
Tennessee Natural Marriage Defense Act seeks to abrogate SCOTUS ruling on gay marriage.
cava comments on Feb 12, 2019:
Lock them up!
I really don't get all this Isreal on a pedestal bs.
cava comments on Apr 24, 2019:
I don't trust any of the people in this article. Blair and Bush ought to be standing in the Hague for crimes against humanity by starting a bogus war, with no United Nations support...fuck them and anyone else that lead us here including Harper, Biden, Clinton, et al. Sure you can say keep your own house in order, and I think we are in the process of trying to do that (the Muller Report and all the subsequent investigations), but how we can stand with a country as racist as Israel, is beyond my understanding.
Bill Maher, Trump’s “Got Away with Treason” [YouTube]
cava comments on Mar 30, 2019:
Clinton's dog.
Last poem for the day: Percy Shelley's Ozymandias.
cava comments on Aug 21, 2018:
Great poem. I especially like the way it was used to introduce an episode of Going Bad.
Does the end justify the means?
cava comments on Jan 25, 2019:
"Is it alright to hurt a few in order to help many?" Your questions are broad. Do you mean like a train with no brakes coming down the tracks to a junction box which is controlled by some one who now has two options, allow it to proceed along its regular course and thereby run into an another train with hundreds of passengers on it, or send it over to the other set of tracks where four boys walking and would surly be killed if the train were diverted.
Happiness has proved elusive.
cava comments on May 31, 2019:
During the 18th & 19th centuries, 'The Good' with all its theocratic over tones became 'the goods' of a consumer driven society. The utilitarianism master principal: "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong." reshaped the world in its 'scientific' approach to measure happiness, which has seriously messed western civilization up. Sickness became part of an economic model, as in not available to work, and not in terms of suffering. The reliance on scientific measure smoothed out particulars in favor of universals. Mental capital became a reality in western culture and it led to a toxic and cruel positivity, with its piles self help books. Psychoanalysis became measurable with the introduction of CBT, and Freud was dropped in favor of chemical imbalances [big pharma's role in DSM].
My favorite love song lyrics - If We Were Vampires. Yours?
cava comments on May 15, 2018:
Beautiful sentiments in this song. "People want to live forever for the same reason they want a non-politician to be president, because they don’t know what that means. If we had a permanent time on the earth, we wouldn’t have the motivation to pursue anything. Time is a limited commodity, and if it weren’t, I’m not sure we would work up the courage to love anybody or to make art. If you have limitless time, you can always say, ‘I’ll say that tomorrow; I don’t need to do it today.’" Michael Jason Isbell
Trump just attacked Syria! Get ready for WW3
cava comments on Apr 14, 2018:
"Bombs won't save lives or bring about peace." Jeremy Corbyn
How to Be Happy (Ep. 345) - Freakonomics Freakonomics
cava comments on Sep 19, 2018:
"Yet in this Utopia, not all is well. According to a study published in the journal Social Science & Medicine, the Nordic countries have disproportionately high rates of Intimate Partner Violence against women. In the Nordic countries included in the study, an average of 30 percent of women, or just under one in three, had experienced IPV, compared to an E.U. average of 22 percent. This phenomenon, dubbed the “Nordic Paradox,” has many people perplexed. “We are sort of amazed, puzzled by the find of that kind of data,” Enrique Gracia, professor in the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Valencia, told the HPR. Why would women be victimized more in countries that try so hard to alleviate the oppression that they face?" I did not see any definitive answers to this 'Nordic Paradox'. http://harvardpolitics.com/world/the-nordic-paradox-gender-equity-and-sexual-assault/
Everyone is agnostic.
cava comments on Apr 28, 2018:
Knowing that you absolutely lack certain knowledge is absolutely certain knowledge.
I'm in first chair on the plane with Kanye West whatever he says is fuckin bloody brilliant old ...
cava comments on May 8, 2018:
Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote an interesting article in the Atlantic "I am not Black, I am Kanye" subtitled "Kanye West wants freedom--White Freedom" Coates talks about his life, his small celebrity and contrasts it with the celebrity of Michael Jackson and Kanye West. "It is often easier to choose the path of self-destruction when you don’t consider who you are taking along for the ride, to die drunk in the street if you experience the deprivation as your own, and not the deprivation of family, friends, and community. And maybe this, too, is naive, but I wonder how different his life might have been if Michael Jackson knew how much his truly black face was tied to all of our black faces, if he knew that when he destroyed himself, he was destroying part of us, too. I wonder if his life would have been different, would have been longer. And so for Kanye West, I wonder what he might be, if he could find himself back into connection, back to that place where he sought not a disconnected freedom of “I,” but a black freedom that called him back—back to the bone and drum, back to Chicago, back to Home." https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/?utm_source=atlfb
So, if baking a wedding cake is a form of participating in a marriage, isn't manufacturing a gun a ...
cava comments on Jun 6, 2018:
There are a number of wins for the LGBT community in Kennedy's Masterpiece Cakeshop decision. This from the Atlantic, which seems to hit the most salient points: "On Monday, a majority opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy listed the reasons why this case turned out to be a lemon. First, is what the couple asked for—a cake for a private celebration—really “speech” or “free exercise of religion” at all? Second, the record was unclear whether Phillips refused only to bake a cake with a “wedding” message or refused to provide any cake at all for Craig and Mullins’s celebration. Third, the events occurred before the Court’s decision, in Obergefell v. Hodges, that same-sex couples have a right to marry. Thus, Phillips in part based his denial on the fact that, at the time, Colorado did not permit same-sex marriage—that “the potential customers ‘were doing something illegal.’” Fourth, as Justice Kennedy pointed out at oral argument, the record was muddled by anti-religious statements made by state officials who considered the case below." https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/the-court-slices-a-narrow-ruling-out-of-masterpiece-cakeshop/561986/
Peaceful protests (such as take a knee movement in the nfl) should always be LEGAL!
cava comments on May 26, 2018:
"You have to stand proudly for the National Anthem or you shouldn't be playing. You shouldn't be there. Maybe you shouldn't be in the country," Trump said recently. This rule won't stand https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/5/25/17394422/nfl-knee-kneeling-labor-law-kaepernick-free-speech-protest-owners
We as humans trying to figure out where we came from is a little absurd, the cockroaches been ...
cava comments on Mar 23, 2019:
Maybe other creatures experience of life is rewarding to them in a species sort of way like enjoyment of their instincts, ways that we can't know or experience.
The Psychology of Anti-Semitism
cava comments on Nov 5, 2018:
Peter Glick;s paper is excellent. One of the problems we have in the US is labeling people as anti-Semitic because they don't support Israel's actions in the Mid-East. Some pro-Israeli factions aggressively attempt to brand people like Linda Sarsour, as being anti-Semitic and these factions succeed in smearing her name in the press. These factions are trying to dissuade women from taking part in the Women's March because Sarour was co-chair in 2017. See following: https://nypost.com/2018/11/04/dont-join-this-years-womens-march-unless-youre-good-with-anti-semitism/
[youtu.be]
cava comments on Apr 17, 2018:
Very nice, they sampled minimalist recording, added rock texture, and very dystopian lyrics.
Republican Nominee: God Is A White Supremacist, Jews Come From Satan | Michael Stone
cava comments on Oct 14, 2018:
If " Jews are descended from Satan" And Christ was a Jew Then Christ was descended from Satan
Is this true?
cava comments on Jun 5, 2019:
The child initially does not separate it self from others, it is only upon achieving reflective self-consciousness that an ego is formed, during the 'mirror stage' as the infant begins to understand its separation from others.
Too many levels of irony to address.
cava comments on Feb 23, 2019:
"A total of 84 farms in the upper Midwest filed for bankruptcy between July 2017 and June 2018, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. That’s more than double the number of Chapter 12 filings during the same period in 2013 and 2014 in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana." https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/27/18114566/trump-trade-war-china-farm-bankruptcy
Much of what we call wisdom consists in balancing the conflicting desires within ourselves,  and ...
cava comments on May 1, 2018:
All of life seeks homeostasis, perhaps there is wisdom in nature. Leo Strauss in his discussion of Aristotle claimed that "Aristotle is the founder of political science because he is the discoverer of moral virtue."
Is Wolff right? [twitter.com]
cava comments on Apr 20, 2019:
Fredric Jameson “it has become easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” The dynamism of the market can't be lost. I believe that capitalism can be rehabilitated by mandating moral compass. into corporate structure, along the lines Elizabeth Warren has suggested.
How America's Largest Local TV Owner Turned Its News Anchors Into Soldiers in Trump's War On The ...
cava comments on Apr 2, 2018:
Sinclair is dangerous. He required his media anchors to repeat his manifesto word for word, like in 1984, and they did and I don't think it is joking manner, it is very fascist demonstration of our press and the powers that can sway easily them! I think this threatens our democracy. If he can tell his anchors what to say, then what kind of news do you expect and how will you make your decisions? https://youtu.be/8AKdXu1taqs
So, I posted last week about Pantheism. Has anyone looked it this?
cava comments on Mar 5, 2018:
I responded to a similar post a few days ago... https://agnostic.com/discussion/31595/what-are-your-thoughts-on-pantheists-panentheists-deists-and-unitarian-universalists?aid=242033
Wisconsin's "Unborn Child Protection Act" [rewire.news]
cava comments on Feb 13, 2019:
I read up on Wisconsin's Cocaine Moms (mentioned in the article)...WoW it Draconian to the max https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wisconsins-dirty-secret-about-the-treatment-of-pregnant_us_58efdd88e4b0156697224d94
The existing/non existing Universe
cava comments on Oct 3, 2018:
Doesn't the Pope subscribe to the Big Bang...then there was light... better ex nihilo nihil fit
Prevail and vent About the element That's relevant poetry bars
cava comments on Jul 31, 2018:
Sun sets lazily while blue shadows merge. Relevance, temporary
The tail wags the dog [rt.com]
cava comments on Sep 28, 2018:
Netanyahu pandered nuclear conspiracy against Iran for as l can remember. Here he is with his line of BS that was part of the groundwork which lead the US into war in 2003. He is doing it again! https://youtu.be/nN1HOVLf4C0 Also: "Arguing that Israel is and can be both a Jewish national state and a democracy, Netanyahu said that every Israeli citizen has the same individual rights. He called criticism of the recent law declaring Israel a Jewish nation-state “downright preposterous.” These criticisms are hypocritical, inappropriate, and the “same old anti-Semitism with a brand new face,” Netanyahu said." J Street a liberal advocacy organization in the United States dedicated to promoting American leadership to end the Arab-Israeli and Israel-Palestinian conflicts peacefully and diplomatically. Its president and founder, Jeremy Ben-Ami, harshly critical of the nation-state bill and Netanyahu's government said: "It was born in sin, its only purpose is to send a message to the Arab community, the LGBT community and other minorities in Israel, that they are not and never will be equal citizens. Two months ago we celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, where it was written that the State of Israel 'will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or gender.' Today Netanyahu's government is trying to ignore those words and the values that they represent."
Philly Taco Bell Workers Fired After Video of Center City Attack Surfaces - NBC 10 Philadelphia
cava comments on Mar 7, 2019:
There must be more to this...it is hard to believe that the attack was completely unprovoked, regardless, it was an assault and the termination of those involved makes sense.
Ok people, OK Go! If you haven't watched at least a dozen music videos by the band "OK Go" in your ...
cava comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I like the video, I especially like their thanking State Farm Insurance for making the video possible "Cause if your mind don't move and your knees don't bend Well don't go blamin' the kids again" Determinism's power (your mind don't move and your knees don't bend) over chance (kids dancin) even if it were 68 takes.
Finchi's Theory of Relativity: We are all one eternal being.
cava comments on Mar 28, 2018:
Does he play Parcheesi?
Do animals have "souls"
cava comments on Apr 8, 2018:
I think that the "soul" is social construction. No animal creates social meanings anywhere near the level needed to create a "soul". A better word might be spirit. Spirit as a dynamic whole, the affirmation of all we have derived, learnt, remembered, shared. Its dynamism works in our life in concert with others...this is its affirmative effect I think. Spirit's construction starts on day 1 and never ends until we end. I don't think that Spirit, as a 'thing' is possible to demonstrate because it is constantly changing, only partial view points are possible.
Aristotle once said ( Nicomachean Ethics, 1094 a 1) : "Every art and every inquiry, and similarly ...
cava comments on Jul 22, 2018:
"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim." Aristotle's conception of the good (here) is that of instrumentality. "The function of a knife is to cut. ----- A good knife cuts well." Instrumentality is related to utility, the greatest utility is the highest good. I am not convinced that this is a satisfactory definition of the Good. Instrumentality's conception of honesty can cut the innocent effectively but cruelly.
I'm seriously thinking about going on the DASH diet . Anybody have any advice ?
cava comments on Apr 10, 2018:
I have a friend that is using it to help lower his blood pressure, he said it is fine, but he was surprised by the strength of the herbs in dash, so use it sparingly. You can always add more.
Just curious: If we in this organization were told the Constitution is being re-written and we at ...
cava comments on Apr 28, 2018:
All are responsible for acting towards others in such a way as each would wish others act towards them.
Now and then I'll get this massively intuitive flash of insight, and then, it's gone.
cava comments on Apr 6, 2019:
If inspiration is a kind of perception, it is a perception shaped by the structure of our unconscious. Inspiration depends on our experiences as we have unconsciously arranged them. Some psychoanalyst think that the unconscious, similar to consciousness, is linguistic with its own grammar. I think Picasso was right: “Inspiration does exist but it must find you working.”
Microscopic grass ?
cava comments on Apr 18, 2018:
I suck up water though my smiley channel as well.
Life is what happens while you're trying to get where you want to go
cava comments on Jul 12, 2018:
https://youtu.be/Lt3IOdDE5iA "Before you cross the street Take my hand Life is what happens to you While you're busy making other plans" In life you need people you trust, who love you, so that you have firm support for the things that happen when you least expect.
"What's made up in the head is the fiction.
cava comments on Aug 8, 2018:
Fiction is a broader category than myth. Myth's are are a form of fiction. Campbell is quoted out of cotext. Fiction, whether myth, play or what ever is a product of the imagination.
Our money/currency system in the U.
cava comments on Nov 15, 2018:
"Fiat money is currency that a government has declared to be legal tender, but it is not backed by a physical commodity. The value of fiat money is derived from the relationship between supply and demand rather than the value of the material from which the money is made." The user trusts that the government's minted currency has exchange value. The government can print as much money as it wants, so it can pay off any debt, however the more currency in crculation the less valuable its currency can become....inflation. Some countries have tried to print their way out of debt only to find their currency became virtually worthless. Modern Money Theory suggests that governments enter into debt with instruments such as bonds in order to control the amount of money in the economy, which is supposed to effect inflation, but the government could have just as easily created more money, assuming that the issuance of additional capital does not impair trust in the value of the government's minted currency.
Short? No problem.
cava comments on Apr 16, 2019:
nice wok around it
Is Time A Concept Or A Thing?
cava comments on Mar 16, 2019:
Space describes the relationship between things. The relationship between things changes, which describes time. These relationships exist regardless of whether or not we exist.
We have all heard people say there's evil in the world.
cava comments on Mar 24, 2019:
Well it does not exist in the same way as my desk, but how about the idea in my head, in our language, it exists there.
Responsibility naturally falls on those who care the most.
cava comments on Apr 26, 2018:
"Responsibility naturally falls on those who care the most. It is only by accepting one's responsibilities that a person can bend reality to their will." I like the idea that "Responsibility naturally falls on those who care the most" care is a mood, a felt attitude, a way of responding to what happens in life. Looking at the possibilities and determining which action you ought to do, rather than which is the easiest or even which is the most beneficial. "It is only the bending of one's reality that can turn the struggle of acceptance into the acceptance of struggle." We all have to confront a shared world, how we do that is dependent on many factors, and the result of our confrontation is our take on reality, since no thought, idea, feeling or expression is real for us beyond what we think about it. Our free acceptance of any rule, law, tradition is only possible if we care for what it entails and accept its determination as how we ought to act.
I am an occasional poet... Anyone else out here loves to write poetries???
cava comments on May 1, 2018:
I like Haiku because: Haiku thoughts pin point aesthetic intensity, Drunk's sun arising
Lana Del Rey - Burning Desire - YouTube
cava comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I enjoy her music, especially the way her voice meshes with her lyrics, and her outlook. My favorite of her's is "National Anthem".
John Bolton: Trump Sanctions On European Companies "Possible" Over Iran | HuffPost
cava comments on May 13, 2018:
It ought to be interesting to see how the EU proceeds, pragmatically there is very little choice for European companies, the US economy is 10 times the size of Iran's economy.
How do you use the word 'belief'?
cava comments on Apr 3, 2019:
I don't know that all beliefs can be asserted, nor that the assertion of a belief is equal/same as that belief.
If a conjoined twim commits a crime, then what happens to the other attached twin?
cava comments on Nov 21, 2018:
If they are conjoined then they are responsible for their joint actions, and all we can do is look at the consequences of those actions. I don't think there is a way to prove intent.
“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a ...
cava comments on Sep 24, 2018:
Bertrand Russel, Shaw's friend, said that "Shaw, like many witty men, considered wit an adequate substitute for wisdom.' Shaw was no teetotaler, and he had a tremendous line of BS
Meditate To medicate The present sake To elevate poetry bars
cava comments on Mar 19, 2018:
Aptly describes my experiences with sake... this transcendental medication elevates the spirit in anticipation of its just desert , Salmon Teriyaki...Kanpai!
Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist explains why there is something rather than nothing.
cava comments on Dec 24, 2018:
"Why is there something rather than nothing?" Because we think. [I tried to listen to his podcast but his presentation style drove me nuts, more side notes than I could take]
Why does christianity have a trinity? A father, a son, and the holy ghost?
cava comments on Oct 10, 2018:
I think the Gnostic conception of the Father, the Mother and the Son is more logical. Mathew states that the Holy Ghost impregnated Mary. So perhaps understanding the necessity of the Trinity, the substance of God is the necessity of understand why the Holy Ghost & not the Mother are part of the Trinity.
What makes us, our movements, from what we feel ie emotions,from,what we think,what we feel from ...
cava comments on May 15, 2018:
"...it is the firing of the neurons,ie the interactions of the nuerons in the brain that makes what we think and what actions we do and thus what makes us." I think this is backwards, that what we think causes neurons to fire, and our our body to move, that it is not the neurons firing that causes thought but that thought causes neurons to fire.
God existing or 'existing' or just thinks he 'exists'?
cava comments on Nov 20, 2018:
According to Matthew, Mary was impregnated by the holy spirit. Circumcision was part of the covenant g made with Abraham. "The first covenant was between God and Abraham. ... You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. Genesis 17. God promised to make Abraham the father of a great people and said that Abraham and his descendants must obey God" This suggests (a la Freud) that the genesis of civilization was a traumatic (or primal) event, which is recognized in the continuance of the circumcision ritual.
Shrimp and grits
cava comments on Aug 24, 2018:
Nice shot. I like the clarity, the color saturation and the uncondtructed form. Low country cooking, one of my favorites.
I hate "Thoughts and Prayers" - to me it means "I do not care enough to actually do anything about ...
cava comments on Jan 30, 2019:
Sounds like Little Marco's response to the killings of innocents in Parkland FL.
To me if your religious you don't deserve the title scientist & I don't trust your expertise.
cava comments on Mar 26, 2018:
While scientists are more skeptical than the public as a whole there are still a lot of scientists who express some religious affiliation: "Nearly half of all scientists in the 2009 Pew Research Center poll (48%) say they have no religious affiliation (meaning they describe themselves as atheist, agnostic or nothing in particular), compared with only 17% of the public." What a person personally believes, does not necessarily effect the public work they have trained for and do.
Does Evil exist?
cava comments on Mar 14, 2018:
Nietzsche who coined "God is Dead" wrote a book "Beyond Good & Evil", but we are not there yet.
Can’t go a day without hearing Dems/ Pubs hurling insults towards one another.
cava comments on Jun 14, 2018:
The people who "make a country great" are the same people are responsible for whom we elect. The vulgar divisiveness of our Rulers filters its way down to control the norms which govern its Subjects.
We are the manifestation of what we perceive ourselves to be.
cava comments on May 4, 2018:
I think we are the manifestations of what others perceive us to be.
What is your response to evil and suffering?
cava comments on Jun 1, 2019:
"You want, if possible - and there is no more insane "if possible" - to abolish suffering. And we? It really seems that we would rather have it higher and worse than ever. Well-being as you understand it - that is no goal, that seems to us an end, a state that soon makes man ridiculous and contemptible - that makes his destruction desirable. The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far?" Nietzsche
Where do you think our morals come from? what brings about improvements in them?
cava comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Well, I don't think man is by nature social, rather nature forced man to be social to avoid death. It is therefore not something that man by nature is inclined to, rather man is compelled by nature to be social. Nature provides this end only negatively. Man conquers nature because it compels him to do so and the result is freedom and responsibility. Loosely based on Aristotle, also pointed at by Hobbs & Nietzsche.
Sleep and Dreams: Some Random Thoughts Why Sleep?
cava comments on Nov 9, 2018:
Perhaps we don't sleep, rather we automatically change or lower our level of awareness and allow our minds to wander.
Values from facts?
cava comments on Sep 25, 2018:
"where do we get our sense of how to act, our evolutionary history, an agreement amongst people?" Language has evolved, it carries along in it a history of valuations which affect how we think about and value what we find in the world. Language is shared which enables the sharing of the values inscribed in it.
Thoughts on Jordan B Peterson's distinction between religion and ideology?
cava comments on Mar 30, 2018:
https://youtu.be/_KP_G4VB0UI
Don’t bless me if I sneez :)
cava comments on Jun 27, 2018:
Gesundheit
Trolleyology can be very fascinating to think about
cava comments on Feb 23, 2018:
I am not a fan of utilitarianism as way for an individual to live, however I think it does have a role in public policy. The advent of autonomous vehicles (unlike the Trolley) will mean that choice is taken away from the driver by the software that directs the vehicle. These cars are on the road now, but in the not to distant future they may be the only way to travel on major roads. The car will have its ethics built in... :)
I wasn't sure what category to post this in, so I am putting it here.
cava comments on Apr 9, 2018:
https://youtu.be/KqxjRzzGn8k
Too dumb to realize that you have to solve the problem at the source, not just deal with the ...
cava comments on Apr 6, 2019:
He's gone beyond the farm, that's for certain.
Massive study of Australia's gun laws shows one thing: they work
cava comments on Feb 18, 2018:
I certainly don't have the answers but consider that Australia's population is around around 25 million and the US population at 320 million. There are around 300 million guns owned by Americans and guns have played almost a mythological role in American history. Stricter gun ownership laws may help lower gun related death in the US. Looking over some of the information, those states with the toughest gun laws appear to have the lowest number of gun related incidents in the nation.
Richard Dawkins : Why atheists are not as rational as some like to think [theconversation.com]
cava comments on Sep 28, 2018:
"When you ask atheists about why they became atheists (as I do for a living), they often point to eureka moments when they came to realise that religion simply doesn’t make sense." The Dawk is more cogent: https://youtu.be/AzzB_cRw3AA
Mourning doves are among my favorite species bird.
cava comments on Jun 11, 2018:
I like most birds, but I am not a fan of mocking birds or cardinals. Mocking birds because I lived near one for a while. It always sang at night just as I would get comfortable with one of its melodies it would change the tune making it hard to get to sleep. Cardinals are noisy little critters and I had one terrorize the windows on my house over a couple of weeks. It kept on crashing into the windows...I went outside with a broom and then a hose trying to scare it away, but not such luck...it finally did stop, I think it must have based its brains out against the one of the windows. Mad little fucker.
How can we indeed
cava comments on Sep 6, 2018:
"Stronger" is a funny word in this quote, because without human existence it has no meaning.
How many lies was I taught in school?
cava comments on Mar 24, 2018:
And how do you assess the school system where you live in Portugal? Is it the same as the schools where you were raised. You can be the difference, you can explain and help your children separate out truth from fiction. Parents have an important role in helping their childer to learn how to differentiate fact from fiction, working with the coopertation of teachers.
There is no such thing as a 'humble' opinion.
cava comments on Jun 26, 2018:
Conventional use...like to abbreviate it to IMHO
Anyone else falling hard for Pete Buttigieg?
cava comments on Apr 9, 2019:
The guy has a brain, which would be a sold improvement over current status. The problem I have with him, Beto and other candidates that have not really outlined their policy statements, it's nice to hear very abstract terms about our democracy, but we need to hear where they stand on multiple domestic and international issues.
So, what does everyone think regarding the possible Technological Singularity, how will it turn out ...
cava comments on May 19, 2018:
I side with Hawkins and Musk, it's not going to be too good for humans.
Sort of shakespeare ? [youtu.be]
cava comments on Mar 27, 2018:
Looks more like Kafka to me.
I was at a coffee shop (OK, Starbucks) when the guy next to me starts telling me about all this ...
cava comments on May 12, 2018:
I am boycotting Starbucks and Waffle houses at the moment.
Let's discuss the conflict between individual rights and the greater good.
cava comments on Jan 30, 2018:
What's the "greater good" for whom and how do you find that out. Suppose that you were a British Intelligence officer in France working with the French Resistance. They have a prisoner, and they plan to kill him regardless of what he might say. You ask to speak to the prisoner to see if you can gent any useful information out of him. You ask the prisoner some questions and he tells you that he will not answer any of your questions unless you can guarantee that he will be taken to UK as prisoner of war: Do you lie to him for the greater good? Or does your integrity stop you from lying? In fact this happened... the British Officer didn't lie to the prisoner.
Humanism is practically a religion-esque ideology. Prove me wrong!
cava comments on May 8, 2018:
Why? Western Culture has Abrahamic values embedded in every facet of its culture.
Dabs are good.
cava comments on Apr 2, 2018:
Very pure THC/grass, I vape the oil from time to time varies with strain. 80/85%?
Neil Young's "Country Girl" care of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. [youtube.com]
cava comments on May 2, 2018:
Saw them in Boston at the Fleet Center (TD Garden) around 2000, they were fantastic. Young has done a lot of superb work on his own. I also really like Young's latest backup tour band, Promise of the Real.
Interstellar facepalm. Reagan rides a dinosaur. Did he have a movie like that?
cava comments on Mar 26, 2019:
Republican's level of thought on a sustainable future.
A new study suggests that the formation of complex societies came first and that the beliefs in such...
cava comments on Mar 27, 2019:
"When did big moralistic gods enter the scene?." Maybe the entrance of big moralistic gods had to do with the introduction of local deities by war into new subjugated communities, as a new stabilizing ideology. I think war was the driving force behind the transformation of local god into the big time, for example how the Romans adopted several gods from Greece. The first million population communities were in Egypt around 100 BC and then Rome in 1 AD (I didn't see any other this early).
Powerful poem by Pulitzer-prize winner Rita Dove.
cava comments on Aug 12, 2018:
Sorta like an intimate newsreel, looking at the separate frames of a life..."ticking and ticking away".

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