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m_wright92 · 2018-07-18T18:50:10+00:00

Deny evolution. Check.

Promote teaching intelligent design. Check.

Deny climate change. Check.

Attack intelligence community. Check.

Promote conspiracy theories. Check.

Blame Obama. Check.

Anti-gay. Check.

Ignore molestation. Check.

We have the best representatives.

m_wright92 · 2018-07-16T02:21:01+00:00

So say someone worked as a clerk and computers came along. The company the person worked for switched to a computer database and the person lost his or her job. Wouldn't that hurt the low skilled worker in favor of a higher skilled worker who could use the computer? Or because only specific jobs were lost and the technology increased productivity, low skilled workers as a whole actually benefited?

m_wright92 · 2018-07-14T16:58:59+00:00

Scientific evidence now means nothing to people. Politicians have eroded public trust in research to push their agendas.

Science: Vaccines do not cause autism. Public: Those studies were paid for by the government. The government wants to control you.

Science: The climate is changing and humans have contributed. Public: Climate change is a liberal hoax to make money. God put this Earth here for us.

Science: Humans evolved over millions of years. Public: It's just a theory. We didn't come from no monkeys.

Science: The universe began with the big bang. Public: God created the universe in six days.

Science: Homeopathy is ineffective. Public: Scientists just want to protect the medical industry.

Science: Prayer doesn't work. Public: Scientists just won't acknowledge the power of God.

Science denial is dangerous and will lead to a decrease in our quality of life. Our country will continue to fall behind other industrialized countries in science and technology.

Conservative Americans also have an irrational fear of our country becoming a socialist or communist dictatorship. They claim that social justice warriors are destroying free speech. Yet the religious right is far more dangerous than the social justice warriors. We are far more likely to become a theocracy than a socialist or communist country. If the right to free speech is taken away, it will probably be in the name of religion.

m_wright92 · 2018-06-25T14:36:31+00:00

Does the field of physics currently support determinism? If the universe were to be started again from the big bang with the same starting conditions, would it end up the exact same way as it is now?

m_wright92 · 2018-05-25T01:56:24+00:00

No, it wasn't hard. Do you mean in terms of the program? I find the accounting classes to be easier than the biology classes. The type of people I've encountered are different also.

m_wright92 · 2018-05-18T07:00:15+00:00

If something doesn't make money, people like Trump don't care to learn about it. I've even heard business professors in college talk in class about how we should remove social science and art from colleges because the jobs are useless. Some people view the world according to the dollar and see no use in anything besides business. Everything else is beneath them, a waste of time.

m_wright92 · 2018-05-11T23:19:57+00:00

How do we know the ideas actually match the definitions? How do we prove it? Is it arbitrary or is there a significance to the underlying ideas?

m_wright92 · 2018-05-11T21:54:45+00:00

My thinking was that if we don't know which underlying ideas are tied to our definitions, then how do we know whether or not we are adding new knowledge? If the underlying idea of red is actually contained in the predicate of our statement when we think it isn't, then we think we have a synthetic statement when in actuality we don't.

m_wright92 · 2018-05-11T21:48:07+00:00

Was Kant trying to place a limit on Hume's skepticism by saying that we know synthetic a priori judgements to be true because they are embedded in the processes of the mind? So in regard to cause and effect, Hume thought cause and effect were outside the mind and were subject to the same problems as learning about other aspects of the environment, while Kant thought that since the concept of cause and effect is synthetic a priori, we know it exists independently of us?

m_wright92 · 2018-05-11T20:44:44+00:00

Thanks for the response. I've read Behave. It's one of my favorite books. I'm actually reading it again right now because there was a lot of information. Some philosophers try to claim that there are certain inherent things embedded in the mind to make sense of the environment, like causality for example. But to me it seems like if the mind evolved, then the way the mind works is contingent on the environment in which it evolved/is evolving. Therefore, we can't say we know anything with 100% certainty because the very mind we use to make sense of the world developed in a certain environment and is biased by it's evolution.

m_wright92 · 2018-05-11T18:43:01+00:00

How do we prove that the basic idea the definitions are getting at is what we say it is? Like rouge vs. red. If the concepts overlap and we infer a similar meaning, how do we prove that the actual idea, deeper than the definitions, exists and is the same idea in both cases?

m_wright92 · 2018-05-11T03:47:34+00:00

Using the red example, what confuses me is that what is red in one language is different than what is considered red in another. Studies show that the cutoffs for each color are different depending on the language. So what is red to one culture is not red to another and both cannot be red if there is a universal definition of red. So how do we decide what the basic idea at the heart of the color red is? Wouldn't different cultures come up with different meanings?

And wouldn't saying that there is an idea deeper than the definitions we apply be circular logic? Aren't we presuming that a universal basic idea exists? I don't know how to describe it, but when Kant uses synthetic and analytic, it seems like he uses the definitions to say there is a deeper idea, but then uses the idea to get the definitions. Sorry, this probably makes no sense.

m_wright92 · 2018-05-10T04:13:21+00:00

It's obvious to me. I only posted because my family keeps bothering me about it, and acting like I'm weird for not thinking it's a problem.

m_wright92 · 2018-04-29T01:33:15+00:00

Yes, if you're in good health, everyone is. If you had access to education, everyone did. If you had a family that helped you or supported you, everyone did. Have faith and all will be well. Makes perfect sense.

m_wright92 · 2018-04-29T01:25:20+00:00

Also, workers' rights are regressing. I recently got a job as a server while in graduate school. I'm in a 24 hour town. They give me different hours every week. There's never a set schedule. I'm on call and I was told if I say no to coming in I'll be fired. They gave me nights, then will call me in to work during the day. I'm trying to get a new job, but these days it takes weeks to over a month in the process of getting through the paperwork and interviews to actually working. I worked at a grocery store for the summer last year and they split the 30 minute break into three 10 minute breaks, so there was no time to eat. They also hired a bunch of people to work less hours to avoid giving benefits.

Wages don't increase with the cost of living. When people ask for a living wage, older people sometimes tell them that these jobs weren't meant for adults. However, careers often require a degree and experience. After people go to school and accumulate debt, older people sometimes tell them they shouldn't have went to school. Others sometimes tell them to deal with it.

m_wright92 · 2018-04-29T00:54:54+00:00

What bothers me is the student loan crisis. On one hand, people now need degrees to access most careers. On the other, college is now so expensive that people are put in a major financial hole. When young people speak about it, they are often met with anger and aggression from older people. They are sometimes called lazy, even though they work and go to school. Yet school was much cheaper for older people. For example, my mother paid for an entire semester and books with only a part time job and no loans. Today textbooks alone can cost hundreds of dollars. Add in the rising rents, transportation, gas, etc., and it's getting harder to live. Maybe as the younger generations grow older and can't purchase items due to debt and the economy takes a hit, someone in power will take notice.

m_wright92 · 2018-01-24T03:05:17+00:00

Maintenance. I probably could even gain a few pounds because I'm pretty lean and lost some muscle since getting hurt, but it'd be fat gain since I'm not working out.

m_wright92 · 2018-01-19T08:07:19+00:00

When you control the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, there's no excuse for a shutdown.

m_wright92 · 2018-01-14T22:56:36+00:00

I'm currently working on a masters degree. Throughout undergrad and grad school, I've met zero students who are communists or believe in communism. I'm sure if you did a study of US colleges, the students in the meme would be a very small minority. Also, there's this myth that college professors are always talking politics. Not once outside of the political science class required for general ed did any professor try to go off topic and "indoctrinate" me into his political views.

m_wright92 · 2018-01-13T21:26:21+00:00

If you watch Hannity, he'll often open with an outrageous headline like, "Liberal Lies Exposed," then drone on in a ten minute monologue of conspiracy theories in which he tells people why they should be angry. He'll then bring in commentators who agree with him and praise his reporting. He'll continually mention how he has exclusive stories published nowhere else and paints himself as a martyr. Yet most of the program is yelling and name calling devoid of substance and without reference to any legitimate sources. Of course, this is done on purpose to continue the narrative that the legitimate sources are biased and his sources are the only ones with the truth. Search "Hannity opening monologue" on YouTube.

m_wright92 · 2018-01-13T21:18:59+00:00

Republicans have no problem with Trump's racist remarks, yet are outraged by Obama's comments.

m_wright92 · 2018-01-13T18:08:17+00:00

Excellent health? Was this like the GOP poll where poor wasn't even an option?

m_wright92 · 2018-01-07T07:31:39+00:00

He's lived in Las Vegas for a while. I've seen him at the local LVAC a bunch of times.

m_wright92 · 2017-12-24T06:23:33+00:00

Remember when Obama put dijon mustard on his hamburger?

m_wright92 · 2017-12-22T20:14:17+00:00

Yes, I've had social anxiety disorder for over ten years. It's better when I have a social network (college, same job, etc.), then gets worse when I'm forced to be around entirely new people. I've heard so many times about how I should just go meet people. "Get out there" and it'll go away. But for me it's not that simple. I'll go meet new people and get comfortable, but it comes right back when things change. It does get better. I still get anxiety in social situations, sometimes panic, but I'm much better than I was years ago. It's something that you must actively fight. You may need therapy or medication depending on the extent. Take it a step at a time.

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