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I thought this was a pretty good term. Religious, fundamentalist, zealous faithfulness to the Magastani party line.

fify. There's no evidence Jesus had a degree of any kind and practiced (super) natural healing.

The cabinet was put together for loyalty, not for competence. They are a Sanhedrin of Magistanies.

I remember that episode. I also like accidentally demonic Christian album covers from the 70s, such as...

There are a few songs that we play in church that if you take the lyrics one particular way instead of the way the writer intended, we're all Jesus' gay lovers. The More I Seek You I wanna sit at your feet Drink from the cup in your hand Lay back against you and breath, feel your heart beat...

The one on the left is blasphemous. The one on the right is why I no longer identify as an evangelical.

As I keep pointing out, "inflation close to zero" means that prices are still rising, just more slowly. We weren't promised that prices would rise more slowly, we were promised that prices would come down.

I see them in my neighborhood, and sometime in the middle of town, all the time.

Of course they are more divisive, that really isn’t the point we are discussing. We are discussing how we form them, the epistemology.

Ethics has both a deontological and consequentialist basis. But the point of ethics is to do the morally correct thing, what one ought to do. Normative ethics is morality.

I truly believe this 12 years will be remembered as the Trump-Biden era.

The opposite happened with her latest album. It was called "Trad-wife". But an opinion that is more stubborn is still just an opinion, and they are all grounded in emotion, our identity, and social pressure. Why do Swifties abandon Swift because of a particular song or album? Emotion, identity...

Opinions aren't based on intuition and social norms? What is a moral judgment but an opinion about a human interaction? Ethics is opinion about what you ought to do. Ethics is morality. Hippocrates radically changed the social norm.

I believe this is true regardless of the form of government or economy. There is no way to set up a government or economy where someone won't seek money and power. It just doesn't work that way.

You can do the same thing with almost any opinion that someone holds. "Why do you like Taylor Swift?" The individuals would become dumbfounded to explain themselves. The ultimate answer is "I just do." You will get very few in=depth explanations. Opinion: Fleetwood Mac Rumours is the greatest...