Victoria 3
Swedish Marxism simulator?
Saeculum
joined 2 years ago
I don't know, I think it's cool right up to the point where you get people whose lives you are responsible for killed.
It was mostly American troops doing the dying at least. They had fewer vehicles, got unlucky in terms of the German positions and supposedly refused to take advice from the British and Canadian forces because the commander was a notorious anglophobe.
Life peers have the closest thing to no political power at all. The Lord's only purpose these days is to delay legislation and force review of bills.
They're not football teams, what do you mean support?
Give 'em a bit of champagne, they'll eventually calm down and go to sleep. (Do not do this)
Idealism. Claiming that ideas are the root cause of a great deal of the world's problems is the opposite of materialism.
Magical thinking is a behaviour, not an idea.
Marxism is itself a religion that demands taking a lot on faith (revolutionary optimism is faith; belief in revolution is faith; belief in an eventual better world in the future? Faith.
It is absolutely not faith, Marxism is a series of conclusions drawn from evidence.
indigenous religions/spiritualities are materialist in that they are methods of describing and organising empirically obtained information, disregarding theology which no longer holds true to investigation.
Spirituality cannot be materialist. Methods of describing and organising information that assumes something beyond what is observed is fundamentally not a materialist approach.
Magical thinking in all its forms should be mocked. It is harmful to the thinker, dangerous to the people around them and is the root cause of a great deal of all the world's problems.
I don't begrudge our religious comrades their faith, but I do not have it, and to someone without faith, all religion can seem to be is delusion.
We all work toward the same goal, so it is important to be openly polite and cooperative, but I am never going to treat any claim of gods or spirituality with private respect, and nor should people be obliged to withhold their opinions while amongst the like-minded.
Is this a materialist analysis
Materialist analysis has never treated religion very kindly.
It's best done privately, so as not to alienate our religious comrades.
Still, if it's wrong to make fun of the religious, it's wrong to make fun of this. It's the same sort of thinking.
Sun's only about ~100 million miles away.
My grandfather was one of the most intelligent people I ever met, he was eloquent and very well read. He did well enough in his O-levels that his school strongly recommended he proceed to higher education. Unfortunately for him, he lived on a farm in rural Wales with seven siblings, and was forced by his parents to drop out of school at sixteen.
He spent the rest of his life as a agricultural worker, which, don't get me wrong, is an important and perfectly fine career, but it always struck me as a waste of potential.
The decision here to effectively deny education to certain children is criminal.