dimreepr

I'm not trying too, that's a French thing...

My point is, you think you're ism is superior with nothing more than an empty assertion, the very definition of banging you're head against a brick wall... 😉

I think you've missed the point of an 'ism'...

Even more repellent, why would the English adopt a French word? It should be flushed down the loo...

As always the fundamental question is, who's going to pay? The liberal's just want us all to pay 'our' bit towards 'our' advance, and the conservative's think they've already paid enough, with their blood, sweat and tears. The old industrious mouse parable and why it's missunderstood...

Inflation exists bc we all insist that growth is essential and then we all make bets and the house wins, until it doesn't... 😉

It's not even significant, education... Some things are better left unsaid, for example "being down and out in London and Paris"

The modern world, eh, we all need each other but no one wants to pay the taxes... 🙄

Science is a product of philosophy, in fact I think it could be argued that science has become anti-philosophy (edit. which is just another philosophical POV). Philosophy is just a way of thinking, that seeks to eliminate our own biased perception's in order to seek the truth of humanity, science seeks to eliminate humanity from the equation.

Which direction, is correct???

The liberal's are the people that accept they're human and have little understanding of those who ask, bloody stupid question's;"We'd rather be right, than effective"...

The perception of wealth depends on many thing's, not least of which is our relative comfort; we're willing to accept hardships, so long as that guy does too...

Maimonides, Aquinas, Spinoza etc. do you question their philosophical credential's? You're conflating the student and the teacher, theologies object of study is the bible, which contains a god, but is widely assumed to be written by people...

Lest we forget, has been forgotten and replaced with the latest iteration of the Hitler youth, that are now pentioners...

What makes you think it's not ? For a very large number of years, it's been a very effective and practicle philosophy for large swathes of the populous in every society on earth; what do you consider theology to be? Indeed, we all need a little magic from time too time. 😉

Is there a number you'd be happy to validate???

That too has it's nuances, which is worth remembering... 😉

This has gone wildly off topic but OK. Frequency of delinquents is exaggerated by wealth, bc the poor don't matter; what you're refering to is the relative impact on society, which has always been twisted, in many and varied direction's sometimes it strength and sometimes it's piety; but it's never 'my' fault... 😉 I was gifted, recently, an Amazon gift card; did I refuse to spend my Bezos Dollar's? No, I bought a lovely bottle of single malt whisky and I enjoyed every sip; but don't judge me...

Did he really??? What a clever bugger...

Wouldn't it be great, if we found a way to get along If it takes a bully, who am I to argue...

Just google something like "does poverty cause crime" or something about the differential of educational expectations of the poor v the not so poor; add in wealth expectations and the needle really spike's. Indeed, but don't you think that a guy/bogeyman that they genuinely fear, to piss off, who tells them to "sit the fuck down and shut up" and they do as they're told; wouldn't help our society?

In the words of Stephen Fry "The rise of the right is the lefts fault, bc we'd rather be right than effective"... And I hate myself for admitting it, but Trump does have 'everyone's' attention...

No, you're not going to hell unless you place yourself there. 😉 To re-write the bible in a way that relates to our "scientific age" would mean we'd have to invent a believable bad guy; and that inevitably mean's a certain amount of woo. We need a way to stop the people who don't fear the law, from doing whatever they please; they tend to be the poorest among us (and so less educated), so wheeling out the Socratean spiel about, what damage you do unto others, you do too yourself, is pointless. We need a "bad man" that they respect and believe in, to stop them from doing the stupid shit that they'll live to regret... In this context, 'the religion of nothing' is more of an invite to fear nothing, which seems more like satan worship. 😝

So much bullshit and so little awareness of the depth... 🙄

You're forgetting Maimonides and his influence on Thomas whilst misrepresenting what enlightenment actually means. You should read a lot more... Then, maybe, you'd have a better understanding of where and how you're wrong... 😉