dimreepr

Do you/people fear him?

A neg seems inappropriate in this context: Imagine Putin as a scared little boy, why wouldn't he think power trump's fear; my mate is bigger/biggest and stronger than you... Every bully is a scared little boy; and every man knows, you can't douse a flame with fire...

How about fear? Is that a mental illness? If someone like Putin learns to fear, is he mental or ambivalent?

Hunt for the Wilderpeople A witty examination of us and our world today, also Perfume, although the book goes into much more detail, which explains it much better...

You need to get a perspective, our common ancestor used to eat slug's, which is the worst kind of burger; the only pattern they examined was not found by looking to the star's...

What's really scary, is how easy it is to be made scared of a label 'fundie christian', 'musies', 'buddhist' et al; and the Armageddon we're persuaded to unleash on "THEM" to protect ourselves. Which leads to another interesting question, why does a prepper, prepare? They're wealthy enough to store food, build extra shelter and spend so much time "training", that it seems illogical that they wouldn't actively seek the disaster they seek to avoid...

Who knows??? But it was the same question deliberated after WWII and we know where that lead; eventually everyone sees who the arsehole is... Politics is never a binary question, how can it be when so many people are involved? Indeed, but equally there must come a point when it's prudent for him to do so, that comes with every conflict; win or lose...

Indeed... What makes you think that a pacifist doesn't fight?

It's easy to say "keep fighting" when you're not the pawn being used in another's game of chess...

I think they would be very proud of reducing half of Germany/Europe, to a small part of Ukraine, without another world war. Indeed, although I'm not sure what they could do, even if they were aware of the domino.

Indeed, unfortunately I think that means we need to accept a partial annex of Ukraine (and by we I mean Ukraine). Which is a very fine balancing act, give Ukraine enough support/weapon's to repel his army, but not enough to enable them to encroach on what he considers Russian territory. No wonder the diplomats make a good wage...

You know what they say "if you build it, they will come." Have a nice game. What list? Don't touch the fire, because it hurts; define hurt and how would it's elimination benefit other's? Or, that other question, how can we use fire? That won't hurt anyone?

Only that it's a foolish question...

Indeed, building a road/canal/railway is always a leap of faith; because it's not like we can't get there, without them... It's only serendipitous after it's built; a dragon's den of an opportunity... 🧐 It reminds me of an old truism, "never gamble with more than you can afford to loose"...

Our DNA is unique, but within the confines of being a human, which makes us all both the same and different; our DNA teaches us, as a baby, to suck on the teat proffered, what it contains is irrelevant, experience teaches us what will sustain us, ie. water over milk. My point being, it's not our DNA that makes us unique it's our life experience that makes us different; that basically answer's both the topic questions. For instance, my goal in life is to, litterally, aquire enough for tomorrow today (which includes a long walk and/or an hour or two working) and spend the rest of the day loafing... 😉

The god of the gaps argument in reverse, one day the money I spend will be worth spending...

All humans are human and uniquely mapped genetically, which makes us both the same and different; it's our life experience that sorts the wheat from the chaff... I'm not sure what logical fallacy that is, perhaps a non sequitur; I'm sure some of the more learned membership can put a name too it. What God/creator have you had direct contact with, to be so sure he/she/it exists? My money is on <insert religion here>... If you agree that the bible's of this world is written by humans, and I'm sure you have (if not in this thread), then the guidance and truth you seek is from your human sibling's... BTW what religion is your favoured flavour? Because the answer's across your thread's, is very contradictory. 😇 It is, unfortunately people get in the way... That goes for politicians too, the only difference is, politicians only want it for themselves; so they twist a truth into a lie or a lie into a truth; they're not interested in teaching for the greater good...

This is just a rehashing of the old question, "if a tree falls in the forest and no one's there to hear it, does it make a sound?". You're over thinking it... It depends on who's doing the thinking, for instance: A trained philosopher/scientist would, probably, score the highest, because they're fully aware of the potential that their own bias can skew the answers. A drunken Trump supporter mid-rant would, probably, score the lowest... The rest of us are somewhere in between...

It usually takes a war, of some sort, and it's always a better outcome without guns.

Why do you think I wear a tin foil hat; hint, it's not a bike...

It's not all about guns, sometimes a paper cut is more painful...

The thing is, here in blighty were only 25 steps behind that culture and 'the coming storm' will affect us all; we can't blame the culture we're apart of, only the value we put on revenge...

Perhaps he meant the observable universe, you know these student's, some of them miss a word or two. And??? The only problem is, as with all complex signal's they degrade with distance and so become indiscernible from the background noise, at some point; if so it is entirely supernatural to somehow see the object...

We haven't had a discussion with the OP...