Comment on Calibrating your probability estimates of world events: Russia vs Ukraine, 6 months later.

Sat, 30 Aug 2014 20:45:15 GMT

All remaining German WW1 reparations were cancelled in 1932, and were under moratorium since before then.

Didn't know that, thanks.

Could you point out what was deranged about it, exactly?

"The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature. Only the born weakling can look upon this principle as cruel, and if he does so it is merely because he is of a feebler nature and narrower mind; for if such a law did not direct the process of evolution then the higher development of organic life would not be conceivable at all."
"the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew."
"For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes in its outward structure? ...Here, too, we can learn by the example of the Catholic Church. Though its doctrinal edifice, and in part quite superfluously, comes into collision with exact science and research, it is none the less unwilling to sacrifice so much as one little syllable of its dogmas... it is only such dogmas which lend to the whole body the character of a faith."

And so on.

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