You talk as if Communism isn't about greed and materialism, but it sells the illusion that everyone can be(and should be)middle class and live that lifestyle, it doesn't get any more materialistic than that.
Marxism, once you undress it of its hippy trimmings is just banditry and plunder. Always those that fall for romanticism though, same reason why obama got in.
That is the more conventional problem there. I personally air towards guilds and municipality based election of a technocratic parliament, with absolute, yet finite and clearly defined roles. Economically the state only intervenes when the private syndicate fails to reach decisions.
It's not an absolute free market but i'd argue it's more free than the current system, and also answers the problem of Socialism.
Fair point, there are many thick people in the world that is what Socialism is for, but how do you trust the integrity of a government formed by a political party?
It's just sometimes I read Zionist's posts and you'd think Judaism doesn't have its fanatics too. Although I do appreciate the reasons behind the defensive nature of Zionists, nonetheless it only seems to lead to blind support for palestine from the would-be neutrals, especially amongst my generation.
Fair points, overall I do support Israel. I just feel the key point is to understand that there will be Muslims, that perhaps have goals that are closer to your own and some within your own people of which you have little in common.
I hear the Orphodox community is roughly around 10% of Israels' population, which you're right is only small but also, so I hear, they are a very active minority.
Exactly, Reagan(like Margaret Thatcher)crushed the Unions in the 80's, but in doing so he crushed their respective productive industries aswell, and now we are paying the price for consuming much and producing little over the last three decades.
Excessive borrowing is the only way you can finance such an economy with an imbalance of consumption over creation, for how can a nation afford to buy goods if it is not selling goods of equal value? It simply can't, that is the root nature of a trade deficit.
Every major recession proves the Mercantilists were correct in many of their economic principles.
Fair enough. I hadn't read any other posts I was just refering to faith healers themselves, and the ignorant being those who believe the faith healer has an intrinsic ability to heal them.
I think if you understand and are at peace with yourself, then you'll perform better at whatever it is you do, and I suppose that would hold true in regards to your health aswell.
Actually I was making a point that science is to a large degree speculation. Darwin practice coming from Goethe theories, and Newton coming from Copernicus.
If you now believe something different due to Hawking's research, then your previously held scientific opinion, by your own admission, is false and wrong just like the Theists are themselves, is that not the case?
We are to the universe as plankton is to the sea. There are things much bigger and brighter than ourselves but it has no direct concern to us, or us to them.
Attaching any reason for the universe or life itself will always remain in the realm of the metaphysical. Metaphysics although sometimes discredited, is the foundation of all scientific thought. I can't think of a proven scientific breakthrough, which hasn't been hypothesised through reason and experience beforehand, either by them or another.
Darwin and Newton for example, everything they proved had been thought(through use of metaphysics)by philosophers long before they were even born.
Maybe it will be a thing of the past, but in ages gone by the importance of religion has fallen only to arise again.
Ancient Rome for instance, after enjoying centuries of unquestioned superiority began to lose its faith in both god and other spiritual/cultural concepts such as patriotism and adopted more individual and self-gratifying beliefs and ethics. To me that bears a striking similarity to the West today, and look what happened to Rome.
I predict that Atheism gives way to Nihilism and all its manifestations, and with that society will divide and ultimately collapse itself, and new religions(or new life to old religions) will form as the next age emerges.
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RE: COMMUNISME OR KAPITALISME ?
You talk as if Communism isn't about greed and materialism, but it sells the illusion that everyone can be(and should be)middle class and live that lifestyle, it doesn't get any more materialistic than that.