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Oh okay that clears it up. In other posts he made the argument that even scientists have at least one base assumption that must be taken on "faith", so I was quite baffled in thinking he was also...

What is he saying here?

https://twitter.com/langdaleca/status/903339741298520064



Is he saying something like scientific observations show fundamental assumptions are true due to transitive...

It appears that the argument is that because the individual companies suck*, because the government is regulating away competition in favor of these suck companies, because the government can't be...

Yes, gouging happens when there is a lack of competition. We should investigate why there is a lack of competition in his area and solve for that.

I don't want to get too deep into it, but the basics are that Oliver discussed how ISPs differentiating prices to different customers is a bad idea. He then explained how that *could* be a way to...

It's only funny if you're inside the bubble. It goes both ways. I find it useful to know what each of the different echo chambers are saying.

The facts are cherry-picked and the interpretations of them are filtered through a bias. The delivery is "look at these silly people being silly; we know better; here's a quip." This isn't...

I was referring to his audience. Apparently that's only allowed when the messenger is snarky and supercilious.

John Oliver and gullible. Rich.

I know you hate it when I do this, but you make some very good points.

I figured (hoped?) my comment about ego would spark this sort of response.

I don't know anything. I question everything all the time constantly. I do this to such a degree that I am confused...

The absence of this helps explain the fervor found in secular religions, of which Marxism is probably the best example. Man can leave religion but the religiosity of the human mind remains. We've...

A common claim among believers -- and it's one I can attest to from my past experience as well: sometimes when a person wants to do something they believe is wrong, the one thing that stops them is...

As crass as it is, that stems from the idea that it is actually true that without certain institutions, humankind is damned. Religious people believe that certain ideas have been necessary for the...

That would be. The idea is that if people have internal moral constraints it doesn't need to be set as policy on the societal level. Somebody has to do the policing. In a postmodern society, the...

"If people feel morally accountable to God, then we don't need a lot of police, we don't need big government. Government rises in the West as God diminishes in the West."

It's an interesting...

I think this is a concept religions toy with yet don't have a handle on so their messages are ambivalent.



It might, we just aren't sufficiently advanced enough to get there. Or it might not. ...

Thanks.

I think I'll take advantage of having access to somebody who understands science better than anybody I know (you), and ask the question: how does "science tells us what is, not how to be" not an...

They survived. My hypothesis is that the archetypes and the morals that are widely distributed and prevalent in old literature that developed over millions of years exemplify ideals that humankind...

An essential ingredient of our old moral stories is that they work. The archetypes have been passed down for many thousands of years, possibly because their lessons stand the test of time.

As to...

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I'd like add that I don't think the church or even church traditions appropriately represent God. They try to. But I can think of two examples I think they get grossly wrong: (1) idolizing God,...

Since time is precious, check out this one if you want something shorter. It's 7 minutes. A brief summary of the story of the snake in the garden and what it might mean to the core nature of...

An example of how the old stories are every bit as relevant today as they were is Harry Potter. The most popular books of our time, and they're a close retelling of some of the most fundamental...