MarkPNeyer

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by MarkPNeyer 1y ago
If the material world produces ideas, then there is no truth and ideas can’t be wrong: it’s all just, like, your opinion, man. But if consciousness and ideas come first, the creation of the material world becomes a kind of game. The hard pr
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by MarkPNeyer 1y ago
You make a great point. People had no hope. This is why Hope is an essential survival strategy.
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by MarkPNeyer 1y ago
> Whatever one thinks of Marx's idea that objective reality is a middle class fiction, I don't think people would agree that those ideas are associated with the elite of Western civilization. Quite the opposite. Those are ideas
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by MarkPNeyer 1y ago
You are pointing directly at the philosophical bedrock of western civilization, something which most white collar elites implicitly believe but don't state outright. It shows up right away in the article: > ... quality is an inheren
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by MarkPNeyer 2y ago
> I genuinely don't know how someone can look at something like the dismantling of USAID as anything but an increase in "large pain". Maybe try asking people why they think it’s bad? Here’s people arguing it’s doing all ki
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by MarkPNeyer 2y ago
We’re watching the Protestant reformation 2.0 play itself out. The role of the Catholic church is this time being played by the technocratic establishment of NGO’s, academia and mass media.
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by MarkPNeyer 2y ago
There are many Christians who would happily to get in long arguments over which values are “clearly Christian.” If you really want to understand, it’s not hard. It just requires making an honest effort to try, without judging. And that’s wh
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by MarkPNeyer 2y ago
“Teams selecting leaders” or “randomly choosing the spokesperson” still gives rise to an explicit hierarchy, but in this case it’s not permanent and there’s a mechanism that prevents it from becoming permanent. The idea that you can avoid h
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by MarkPNeyer 3y ago
Vivek Ramaswamy argues that these actions are still first amendment violations because the government pushed corporations to do this, under something called “state action in private enterprise.”
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by MarkPNeyer 3y ago
Can you give an example of a principle that isn’t made up?
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by MarkPNeyer 3y ago
For some reason this seems really hard for people to accept: That religious people actually think there are consequences for their choices, even if no human being ever knows.
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by MarkPNeyer 3y ago
> That's not something done because zombie mothers will rise up to enforce anything. This was done in cultures where people really believed their deceased ancestors were watching them and judging their every move, and that in the fu
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by MarkPNeyer 3y ago
I can believe that being reminded of your convictions helps you abide by them, but this is only true if you really have convictions! If you think your being in power is more important than being honest, for example, then the oath your swear
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Hi, thanks for sharing - do you mind explaining what DI and NK mean? Thank you :)
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
My interpretation is that school is a not a great place to learn how to act in the real world. In particular, school is way more hierarchical and command-and-control than the real world.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
What about people who own and operate their own small business?
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Which country do you live in where you think they aren’t doing this?
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Your government is torturing and killing people on your behalf. Are you cool with that? Or is voting ineffective at stopping them?
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
What about a majority of people agreeing that adults should leave each other alone?
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
… which had an army bigger than Britain’s.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Replace “economic” with “political” and this is obviously a false equivalence. Historically, everyone dies. The right question is “which systems have produced the most new wealth for their participants” and there’s a clear obvious winner th
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
At the risk of saying something taboo here, it is the belief among lots of people that the system is totally fine except for one bad mechanism which has polluted everything. This bad mechanism is relative new, historically, as it came about
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
At what point did Wikileaks become the bad guys? Was this a change in their behavior, or a change in American political attitudes towards the role of journalism?
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Bitcoin is people striving for financial self sovereignty. “Crypto” is a bunch of people trying to get rich using some cool new technology they nobody understands. See how much bigger the second is than the first.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
> For someone who argues from principles I think this is actually what makes the last seen non-political to some people. In lots of cases, I think people don’t have abstract principles that guide their thinking. Their political ideals ar
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
How do you determine what does and doesn’t affect other people? At some level, everything anyone does affects everyone they interact with. You and I are affecting each other right now, in some small way. It seems like what lots of people do
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Any disagreement, if you pursue it long enough, reveals one of two things. : If participants are skilled communicators and can stay calm and listen to each other, what gets revealed is a different set of lives experiences. This is rare and
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself. Yeah, maybe the Satan worshipping thing is off the rocker. But a known pedophile ran a pedophole tape party island that lots of wealthy powerful men were at, somehow none of them got charged and the guy
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
We had a mouse problem once. The ended up being a small hole drilled in the side of the house to install a cat5 cable for a security camera. The hole couldn't have been more than 1.5 cm in diameter, and it had a cat 5 cable running th
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
There’s always a trade off between “cost” and everything else. If you’re wealthy enough they cost doesn’t really matter to you, regulation is fine because it leads to higher quality experiences in general. But if you’re not as wealthy, savi

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