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Additional unskilled labor is not of benefit to the American people commensurate with the social costs of mass immigration. Unskilled laborers and the children of unskilled laborers are statistically more likely than skilled laborers or their children to commit violent crimes or abuse the welfare s...

This where Q says "I've thought about what happened next for years" does not seem to match up with this where we're taken out of flashback mode and Rillcreek talks about the sword replenishing itself "In hours, not days". Or are we talking about a double flashback where old man Q is telling the sto...

Open Book links and comments on a recent foray by the scientism advocates to raise atheistic jihad. Somewhere along the way, a forum this month at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., which might have been one more polite dialogue between science and religion, began to rese...

[...unWARP!!!] Good evening. Well, first, I'm just wondering: is the "Another Flame War" strip's punchline allegorical, or does Ben, and by extension, Lily, have a forum like this one? And if he does, what's the subject? :D Now, speaking about customatisation, wouldn't he need a Larger Than Average...

capnregex wrote:

Wayfarer wrote:My goodness, does Ralph ever have us constantly suspicious!

You shouldn't blame others for your own Paranoia.

I thought that it was the very essence of paranoia to do exactly that.

Ah, recursive paranoia, a delightful spiral into hell.

And for the blue blooded it was a reality. There was so much inbreeding among the noble familly that genetic sickness started to be common. At the end of the feudal period, most noblemans was cursed of familly illness. As Londo Molari said, "When the family tree becomes a familly bush, you can't hi...

I read it since years and I have not problem to see Dominic beated up. It's karma. When you do that much bad pun, you beg that a lord Siegfried Gunther Aern Damaske Von Callan enters in your life and punish you. And for some reasons, I'm almost sure that he'll come back again. Il n'est pas le genre...

I heard about this just a couple weeks ago, even though it purportedly got a lot of press at the time. If the draft ever passes (which I optimistically doubt), I may never vote for a majority party candidate at the national level again. The Draft is a third-rail topic in politics, as no doubt the D...

I heard about this just a couple weeks ago, even though it purportedly got a lot of press at the time. If the draft ever passes (which I optimistically doubt), I may never vote for a majority party candidate at the national level again. The Draft is a third-rail topic in politics, as no doubt the D...

The question is, when they see just how little danger he poses, will they cease to be generous to him? Well, if the parents want to drive him out, at least he'll have advocates among the children. So Quentyn's little lux action there would have been a bad move even at home? Boy, that was more fooli...

Perhaps you might want to read the man's biography before you condemn him to your ghetto category of "people with a deep religious view". The man was a medical doctor, a scientist (chemist), and a philosopher of science. His son won the nobel prize in chemistry in 1986. Yes...and? Believe me, being...

Did they not peer review back then in the Proceedings of the Royal Society? This was published research and that presumes that it wasn't just some madman's crackpot ravings. A testable result that passed peer review and would have revolutionized its field if true yet was not only dismissed, but nob...

If you honestly believe god will send me to hell for not believing in him, say it! That's an important facat of your belief, not something you can handwave away with "Oh, but you didn't ask!". By filtering everything unpleasent out of what you believe, you turn what your saying from a statement of ...

With regards to bashing of Christians, in my opinion it's mostly that all Christians are receiving the backlash against the Extremist Christians who give the rest a bad name. Solution I would see is for the more sane Christians to be more vocal about their sanity and the extremists' lack thereof. (...

At the same time, the world is not black and white (as implied in this comic, and as stated by Ralph on a couple occasions on these forums) My way or the highway. With me or against me. I'd be willing to bet most of you in here weren't with me OR against me (at least until you read this--now I'm su...

First thing might be to stop using made-up terms like "illegal immigration". Immigration is a legal process, so if someone is in a country illegally then he is NOT an immigrant. He's a trespasser, or an invader, but he's no kind of immigrant. I'm sorry but illegal immigrant is a term of art. You ma...

I'd agree with you, TM, but this could only be an improvement in that department. Euthanasia is close to being as badly handled as abortion. As it is, there are many, many documented cases in which the patients have full brain waves, but the hospital just decides that they won't pay for it, so they...

Luna's got a pretty good breakdown so far - I'll add this: Polyani is a post-modernist loon, from the looks of that document. Lysenko pretty much destroyed Soviet biological research with his nonsense. If he'd been given enough time to do the same to physics and chemistry, there would never have be...

Meh. You HAD to know I'd respond to this one, didn't you? Polanyi makes a mistake very common to people with a deep religious view which takes precedence over any other way of doing things: he makes the assumption that the basis of any belief or way of doing things is equal to religion. Unfortunate...

A useful article that covers a lot of what's been hashed around this forum but at a far, far higher level. I strongly recommend reading the underlying pdf article from Michael Polyani, especially if you're one of the more scientifically oriented readers on the forum. Among other things, it realisti...