Once upon a time, there was a young man who wanted to know who was running the world. The people around him told him to go ask the politicians, since in theory those were the ones in whom authority over the world had been invested. So the young man went to the politicians and asked them, "Do yo...

There is some suspicion that the confirmed death toll might be an undercount by a factor of 4 to 5 (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-01/coronavirus-italy-shows-we-may-be-underestimating-death-toll and https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/coronavirus-death-toll-americans-ar...

Aren't the Elohim the spirits of the trees that once formed the One Forest? No, those were supposedly the Viles. How the Dead of the One Forest were able to cross over into Life, long before the breaking of the Laws of Life and Death, is also never explained, although to be sure the belief that the...

One of the most ill-explored situations in the Last Chronicles is the fate of the Elohim prior to their safeguarding in Jeremiah's fane. Like, the Worm isn't especially fast and seemed pretty consistent in its approach to the Land, so how come so many stars started disappearing along the way? The El...

I've been waiting for this prophecy to come true, and it seems as if it did in the most peculiar way: "When the apocalypse comes no one will not know it as anything but ordinary even in its finality. Especially in its finality." I'll let interested posters look up the source on their own t...

I spoke too soon, btw. There was a minor prison riot in my area, over the pandemic situation. O Irony, if only I did not nearly worship thee so much...

The history of disease is nearly irrelevant Diseases have a lot of commonalities on various levels. For the most basic example, they're usually caused by microscopic things (bacteria, viruses, prions, mutating cells).* If they spread in this or that way, they can be compared to each other insofar a...

Personally, I can imagine few things being more indicative of the US government as the Antichrist regime (if we go to futurism prophecy-land) than this "Jerusalem is the capital" thing. This sounds so much like the theoretical treaty-with-Israel that I almost died of laughter on the inside...

The same panic industry that said we'd have no ozone layer by 1988, that we wouldn't be able to go outside due to acid rain by 1995, and that the polar ice caps would be gone by the early 2000s are trying to scare you with this. Or maybe none of those things happened because people woke up and did ...

That is why Statists (usually Liberals, Progressives, Socialists, and Communists--groups that favor a large, centralized, and power government that has a lot of control over daily life) want people to be unarmed and afraid. Shooting people is messy work to clean up and it is difficult to spin gunni...

100,000 I'm giving as an order-of-magnitude number, something we can round up or down to. It hearkens to a theory about how many people in the US are believed to have died from one of the two flu situations last century that I linked to articles about. Keep in mind, 100,000 is not a remarkably high ...

I'm going to pop in with a particular historical perspective (in case no one has done this in particular). Now, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957%E2%80%9358_influenza_pandemic and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu seem like good analogies with our current situation, except we can expect t...

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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a great intro/overview of the subject. I'd also recommend Conway and Guy's The Book of Numbers since it shows how Cantor came up with the expression "2 to the power of aleph-zero" in the first place (it wasn't originally the powerset operation as...

NOTE: The title is something of an anachronism, I believe, since Jacques Derrida is the one who coined the phrase "transcendental signifier," which the second part of the title is named after. _____________________________________________________________ Scene outlines: Edith Arendt is a ...

Thank you Wosbald. And I agree that the Protestant polemics, here, are suspect in many ways. Moreover, as the Michael Severtus(sp.?) case showcases(!), Calvinism can lead to Christian-tinged atrocities, too, re: heretics. I will also say that, though the Inquisition gets a bad rap as the medieval Ca...

I argued pretty vigorously with Fisty...though it's a position I didn't always hold...saying that while time is highly connected to/contingent/dependent/intersectional with space, it is a different KIND of thing. Partly because:: There ARE physicists out there arguing for the reality of time... I'm...

I dont kmow why I should, you haven't sited a single source except your opinion so far. Um, Matthew White, R. J. Rummel, David Stannard, and David Plaisted, are the ones I've cited by name so far. I could also quote Hannah Arendt and Noam Chomsky while I'm at it. And many others besides. 100k to 1 ...

I realize the philosophy subforum on a fantasy-book forum is not the best place to peddle my own theory of Big Bang physics, but here goes (I am under time constraints so this will be unfinished for the time being): Kairogenesis The concept of kairogenesis--creation by time--explains the cause of th...

270 million people have been killed by Jihad for Islam. OK, so when you make claims like this, you really ought to cite your sources. I have been studying the statistics of democide for 17 years and no number of that magnitude has been even hinted at in the thousands of sources that I and other res...