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Alternative suggestion: Offer free ethical dating classes to members. Advertise on the r/incel forums. You'll get tons of new applicants.

The Freemasons is an industry organisation, like the National Association of Jewellers. Most of these organisations are about networking, giving each other tips about job opportunities. However, these days, any old organisations are looked up by the media and paid thinkers in modern governments...

These days, many disagreements revolve around such accusations. The wokeness battles that She-Hulk might have fought, had already been won at this point. It might have been better if they'd made She-Hulk bisexual, trans or non-binary, as she has male and female attributes. Playing on both...

Programes about lawyers are one of the most reliable: Legal Eagles, LA Law, Suits. Considering that the President and VP of Marvel Studios are both listed as running the show, and that the show has a dozen writers, and the lack of quality stories, they were probably looking for a cash cow.

For some reason, She-Hulk has never been a popular character, not in films or TV. Surprising, because Hulk is popular, super-powerful women are popular, purple-skinned girls like The Purple Girl are popular, but not She-Hulk. Don't know why. So if this version is unpopular, it's not exactly...

Then why not either change the rules to make cheating quite hard, or change the rules so that cheating is legal? Then why ban cheating at all? Then why is chess considered a game of strategy, when it's really a game of memory?

Most people keep regular contact with those who make regular contact with them. If you want friends to contact you every week, then you need to make the effort to contact them every week, and then they'll usually do the same. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. You learn just enough to...

Choosing to take one topic very seriously (like climate change), but not taking another topic very seriously (like IQ), would be an example of people's values affecting what they do with the data. If someone has a particular quality, say, being good at economics or medicine, then they might be...

There are no serious political implications. Research is just data. It's what people's values say they should do with that data, that turns research data into their prescriptions that dictate how the world should be organised. If people hated Jensen's idea so much, then he was most probably...

From an emotional POV, you're both right. It's wrong to torture a baby for fun. It's wrong to enslave a person. From an intellectual POV, you're both wrong. Has torturing and killing babies ever been considered moral? What about babies of slaves and captives in wars? In the Roman Empire, it was...

Free will of the virus to infect people. Free will of yours to act as if there's no pandemic being talked about on TV, without anyone noticing. If knowledge doesn't change your will, then nothing that is added to your memory, nothing you think, changes what you do, and then you just do the...

What about all the chocolate that was made with child slavery? What about using prisoners as slave labour? What about sweatshops where expensive leather outfilts are made? Why are permanent workers called "wage slaves"? Besides, you're judging a document written in the time of the Roman Empire...

Double post.

Isn't that what the theory of evolution says? That the most successful organism is replicated in the species in its environment, until it becomes the dominant type of organism of its species in its environment? If the company's favourite employee is a minority, a woman or LGBT, then it...

Sure, as long you tell them exactly what you do and don't want upfront, and stick to it, i.e. be consistent. That may be part of your problem. Then why not ask them?

No, because complete free will would be the freedom to do anything, which would require omnipotence. Complete lack of free will would mean we could predict what everyone did in advance, which means everyone knew that the pandemic was going to happen 10 years ago. Good answer.

Australia was considered a Western nation because until recently, 99% of them were either people from Britain or descendants of people from Britain, who also carried and established technology, culture and infrastructure that was eerily similar to Britain, except that it was much hotter there...

Keeping it short: I already took that into account. But your claim doesn't make objective sense. It only makes subjective sense, if we assume that almost everyone in the world already does all the things that JP advises, and it would be considered abnormal and a sign of extreme mental illness...

If you don't have proof that something is true or false, then you don't know if it's true or false, and you need to treat it as though you don't know if it's true or false, or one day, you'll discover that it's true when you treated it as if it was false, or you'll discover that it's false when...

Yes. People used to enjoy watching them together on TV. I still watch TV. Gameshows and sitcoms are shown much more often now, than they were in the 80s and 90s. The difference is that nowadays, most people no longer watch TV together. Yes. Like gameshows and sitcoms, it was fun to watch...

According to Agent Smith, The Matrix was based on the 1990s, because humans wouldn't accept a perfect world.

That's why I hyper-focussed on claiming that people like JP is a daddy figure. My INTP intuition drew me to this issue. When I get drawn to questions like this, that is normally when I get much greater understanding about how things really work that most people, and usually come to an...

I heard that many times in regards to therapy. It seemed to make sense at first glance, and many people said it. I just accepted it unquestioningly. Now, I know that "people" are often wrong. So I'm questioning it. Do you have a solid logical proof that it must be true? Do you have solid...

It's what my last group therapist said. Everyone in my group raved about how she had massively transformed their lives for the better, including violent men, depressed men, depressed women, and women who would get frustrated a lot by the men in their lives. I've never seen or heard of such a...

If the shoe fits. Then they're asking why you and others who express such sentiments, claim to value things like logic, reason, rationality, evidence and science, when you don't actually use those things when you can. It's like a preacher who preaches fidelity but cheats on his wife. Would you...

What's the point of anyone talking with you, if the only time you're willing to reach agreement with other people, is when you are confident you will get your way? It's not going to be good for other people long term, because you hold them irrational when they don't agree with you, but don't...

You set the rules here: I'm just following your example.

I commend that you have a sense of reason and justice within you. It's still not reasonable to talk like that. It might be understandable in those posts in which you were arguing with someone taking a more extreme position. But you didn't seem to be doing that in post #6 of this thread...

That you think that it's reasonable to make bland abductive statements that imply extreme condescenscion. 1) Such as saying that they must be looking for a "daddy figure" which makes them sound childish, when you could have used a non-judgemental term like "male role model". Was it necessary to...

If they are seeking out a parental figure, then they are seriously lacking in information which parents are supposed to impart. Teachers are in place of the parents (in loco parentis), which means that public education includes anything that the parents are supposed to teach their kids, but...

You wake up. Your beloved Chani says to you "Tell me of your dreams, Usul..."

There wasn't always a police force. If without a police force, people like Sir Robert Peel hadn't questioned if police forces could hold people to be morally accountable for their actions like rape and murder, then we wouldn't have a police force today. The right to a trial was bitterly fought...

I described one of their possible reasons for choosing someone to follow. Admittedly, that isn't how some woke liberals describe them. But since woke liberals aren't the ones doing the choosing, how woke liberals would describe them is irrelevant to their reasons for choosing JP or anyone else...

In that case, they're seeking male role models like a teenage girl wants a boyfriend. If there are no good ones around, they'll still take a bad one home. So the only sensible choice is to make sure there are plenty of good male role models around. He's popular, because he's one of the...

Western governments changed the school system. Modern society is designed with the average person in mind. Kids who grow up having to make their own dinner and their own amusement, become adults that find it easier to live alone, than most people would. Studies into neuroplasticity in older...

We HAVE reasonable evidence for indeterminism, from the double-slit experiment. When we fire a laser through a set of slits, and we don't know which of the slits each photon went through, the photons form a wave pattern, which is what happens with indeterminism. Then when we add to our...

Towns and cities are designed by urban planners. The urban planners have to design it for someone: these days, they tend to design towns and cities assuming the thought processes of the average person. So the further someone is from the average person's thought processes, the more existing...

To have evidence indicating causality, one must show that in a given situation where A can happen and A can not happen, whenever A happens, B happens, and whenever A does not happen, B does not happen. If A and B are pre-determined by C, then A and B happened because of C. Thus, there is no...

Then either: 1) Causality exists => free will does not exist => choice does not exist => making decisions of moral consequence is impossible. 2) Causality does not exist => making decisions of moral consequence is impossible. Ergo, whether causality exists or not, in all situations, making...

Your point was that people who prefer vanilla to chocolate, sometimes choose vanilla over chocolate, and sometimes choose chocolate over vanilla? That choices are not pre-determined? It's circular reasoning, "A => A". If A is true, then A => A and so A is true." If A is false, then A => A and A...

Rephrasing = "saying the exact same thing in a different way". So if you're rephasing "there is no free will", then you're saying "there is no free will => there is no free will."

"Always"? How many people in the world have a favourite food, and have eaten nothing but their favourite food for their entire lives?

"If you choose vanilla over chocolate, you have to want vanilla more than chocolate" requires that choice of vanilla over chocolate is pre-determined by some other factor, like that you want vanilla more than chocolate => this statement is only true if you assume that there is no free will when...

My above post doesn't require a precise meaning. In maths, your reasoning must have steps, that you can follow and explain to anyone, in such a way that each step follows the other, where everyone agrees that if the previous step is true, then the next step is definitely true as well, for every...

Nothing is very useful, that reveals how to objectively detect desirable qualities in people. Like being logical. Before people saw being logical as being desirable, people were happy to say that only INTPs were logical. Once people perceived being logical as being desirable, it seemed as if...

Make sure you don't take over from someone who pilfers the till, or you might find that your till is short at the end of your shift, and you can get blamed for someone else's light fingers.

There's something about her smile that has my brain imagining her saying "That's a tight fit." :laugh: I wonder what that says about me.

The "books" that we read, are the sources of information that we have access to. A deity's "books" that it reads, are the sources of information that the deity has access to. If the deity is omniscient, then it knows everything. Even if not, if it's a deity like Athena, the goddess of the hunt...

Ti requires a lot of sustained mental effort. As Edison pointed out, there's no shortage of things that people will do to avoid sustained thinking. So high-quality Ti is very rare. Same for programming, in that 90% of it is about crossing the Ts and dotting the Is. In that case, become a...