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Raw_Power on The Problem Of Apostasy

2012-07-29T20:30:28.858451+10:00

More importantly, it forces constant, exponential economic growth. Jormungard has to grow faster than he eats himself, or the world collapses.

Raw_Power on The Problem Of Apostasy

2012-07-25T08:54:27.379257+10:00

I got bogged down in the section on the development and spread of torture by electricity.

I thought it got too ugly for you and you just gave up in disgust at the senseless brutality.

Raw_Power on The Problem Of Apostasy

2012-07-25T08:53:34.335223+10:00

You mean that "actual democracy" would be better than "representative government"?

Raw_Power on The Problem Of Apostasy

2012-07-22T09:20:00.873443+10:00

Actually, starting a lobby with the goal of legalizing apostasy sounds like a good idea...

Raw_Power on The Problem Of Apostasy

2012-07-22T09:17:40.223599+10:00

You mean in terms of Body Horror?

Raw_Power on The Problem Of Apostasy

2012-07-22T09:15:49.597849+10:00

Seeing improvements in ways that are immediately tabgible is very encouraging and motivating.

Raw_Power on The Problem Of Apostasy

2012-07-22T09:14:30.273505+10:00

People do have an astoundingly aggravating ability to compartimentalize these things, though: see "Outside The Laboratory".

Raw_Power on The Power of Positivist Thinking

2012-07-20T23:11:45.664668+10:00

Privileged Rituals of Thought?

Raw_Power on The Problem Of Apostasy

2012-07-20T16:42:45.935714+10:00

Thank you for helping me remember what it felt like to think that way. The Dark Side Will Make You Forget indeed... :P

Raw_Power on The Problem Of Apostasy

2012-07-20T04:05:09.618415+10:00

Well, I absolutely agree with all that you just said. But still, knowing what sentences the judge can dole out is important. The problem with mob-rousing stuff such as apostasy... or Frankenstein-monster raising, or being Black, or a Hugonot, or an adulterer, depending on context... is that you could easily be subjected to "mob justice", and there would be impunity for your murderers: Pontius Piwatus keeps his hands cwean, and evewyone is happy (the dead can't compwain).