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 Topic: Word! |
Awesomelyglorious
Replies: 5
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 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:57 pm Subject: Word! |
| Welcome back, I hate videos so I might not watch but still, welcome. |
| Topic: Philosophy of Mind |
Awesomelyglorious
Replies: 12
Views: 198
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:30 pm Subject: Philosophy of Mind |
| I think I am a property dualist. The mind is a separate entity that emerges from biological processes, and with activity caused by biological processes. |
| Topic: Oh crap. |
Awesomelyglorious
Replies: 25
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 3:41 am Subject: Oh crap. |
| Economics deals with the interactions of valuable goods and services and how they self regulate to promote the operations and welfare of society. The current crisis is a loss of belief in the value of ... |
| Topic: Oh crap. |
Awesomelyglorious
Replies: 25
Views: 369
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 3:20 am Subject: Oh crap. |
| The problem is not economic theory, it's the criminal mind. A financial thug figures his criminal operations will game the system but not destroy it. But when the key operators are all thugs, the syst ... |
| Topic: Oh crap. |
Awesomelyglorious
Replies: 25
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 3:16 am Subject: Oh crap. |
Sounds like Mises in reverse.
Differences definitely exist.
Seems a bit vague, but Keynesianism always seems more concerned with fixing a problem than with explaining it.
Well, it is vague, ... |
| Topic: Oh crap. |
Awesomelyglorious
Replies: 25
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:20 pm Subject: Oh crap. |
What are some more mainstream analyses on the causes of the business cycle? My intro econ book only stated that business cycles existed and Keynesian policies attempt to smooth them out; it never at ... |
| Topic: Oh crap. |
Awesomelyglorious
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:59 pm Subject: Oh crap. |
you definately don't want to buy on price alone.
You need to look at the company, why their price is dropping, and what their current resources will do.
Buying low just to buy low can result in th ... |
| Topic: true nature of truth |
Awesomelyglorious
Replies: 60
Views: 840
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:34 pm Subject: true nature of truth |
| I disagree. In the definition of truth I gave earlier the word "or" is what makes truth subjective. I believe a verified and indisputable fact can be considered an objective truth. Mathematics and (so ... |
| Topic: Oh crap. |
Awesomelyglorious
Replies: 25
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:33 pm Subject: Oh crap. |
I will also admit to an optimistic bias.
i actually started putting money in via 401k stock funds. figured now is a great time to start putting money into the stock market...it's skimmed off my wee ... |
| Topic: true nature of truth |
Awesomelyglorious
Replies: 60
Views: 840
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:31 pm Subject: true nature of truth |
"The theory that truth is entirely subjective is known as relativism. Relativism is perenially attractive as a way of thinking about truth for a number of reasons. First, we have noted in ... |
| Topic: true nature of truth |
Awesomelyglorious
Replies: 60
Views: 840
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:15 pm Subject: true nature of truth |
hopefully it' not too late to respond to this,
but I think it's pretty straightforward why science holds up in any debate... it's just full of STUFF... try debating some guy who wants to live in ... |
| Topic: Oh crap. |
Awesomelyglorious
Replies: 25
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:08 pm Subject: Oh crap. |
the austrian system has been pretty decent so far at predicting what will occur.
It has, which is ironic given the anti-empiricist leaning of Austrian thought. You have to wonder, though, why very, ... |
| Topic: Oh crap. |
Awesomelyglorious
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:54 pm Subject: Oh crap. |
I haven't been paying much attention to the specifics. Here's what I would say about what is going on:
1) The economy will survive, this issue seems like nothing in comparison to the Great Depressi ... |
| Topic: true nature of truth |
Awesomelyglorious
Replies: 60
Views: 840
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 1:05 pm Subject: true nature of truth |
Well, I think it might actually come from subjective experience, I can speculate that our way of thinking may be be influenced by AS or similar things, after all, it goes according to our perception ... |
| Topic: true nature of truth |
Awesomelyglorious
Replies: 60
Views: 840
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 1:02 pm Subject: true nature of truth |
| AG, human emotions don't hold people back that much unless the person lets them. Which most people do, because they can't handle the truth. But just because you, or most, can't not get emotionally inv ... |
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