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Pabst, awww, I like Ron Paul. However I can say that I'm able to distinguish between different issues and say that I support the views of different people on different issues. Unfortunately, Ron Paul seems not so trustworthy on issues which are linked to religion...

Please, divulge any information on crazy religious people in this thread... They seem to be coming out of the woodwork everywhere in US politics.

Actually, it would be a step forward for Sarah Palin, and she's pretty smart... Correctly, most other women would be taking a step back, though... :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_science

That just goes to show how dangerous religions that demand obedience and work through introducing fear and guilt are... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_Dei http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt_society

Yannis, you're welcome. Your other post still begs the question: I really couldn't say as to the motives of the stranger... could you? (Yannis, please don't chicken out of answering again.)

Fractals, you are a lucky person to have progressively less to think about, closing off your sphere of interaction and thought. I on the other hand, find that there is an explosion of knowledge when I dig into it and ever a thirst for more... A fundamental philosophical difference...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/09/iraq.secret/ "The War Within: Secret White House History 2006-2008," Woodward disclosed the existence of secret operational capabilities developed by the military to locate, target and kill leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgent leaders. Are...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_Dei "Work of god" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

nutmeg, I agree that we are used to the distractions, but what do you think about the role or function of distractions, especially in important decisions like a democratic election? :)

Yannis, I won't push you on what you mean about "truth", since the last thread on that got deleted even here - which is pretty rare for this forum... :D However, on bivalence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_bivalence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat...

Some references http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiscience http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Republican_War_on_Science http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Americanism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pejorative http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_controversy :p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_of_truth :D

Since around 1983 in my early teens, after I first learned of Prolog programming, and then in 1987 of Object-oriented programming, I have been working on shaping a philosophic direction and theory - strengthening it so that it is very capable akin to a "theory of everything". The purpose of...

Obviously, both Obama and McCain chose vice-president candidates from mainly populist reasons. Reasonably, one can argue that Obama may have considered practical reasons and administrative strengths to his candidacy, while McCain obviously considered mainly the emotional issues and...

Do you guys think that there are many distractions in politics, and why do you think there are distractions introduced or contributed? Not everything is strictly a distraction, but does have some bearing on a decision process. However, if you are presented with so many variables that you are...

Lucrum and Yannis, about the dogshit example, I agree with Lucrum... About the oxygen mask I would help as many as possible. Why did I answer like this? Well, it is not about morals - which are derived from religion, poses authoritative control over your actions and demands obedience...

Lou Dobbs always was pretty smart and had a very "sharp pen". However, he became extremely nationalistic around the Iraq invasion and no doubt CNNI got tons of hate-mail.

cabletrader, no problem. :)

Currency as a "value metric" - "worth" - reflects the economic reality represented by a nation/area. It can be pegged to e.g a commodity or basket of commodities. Bartering and production shows that an economy can change and not necessarily have to change using exchange rates of currencies...