I struggled with this. To me this makes more sense as "delusion" rather than "illusion". "Delusion" was an option at the time, so he actually chose "illusion" which makes less sense to me.

I feel so lucky to have gone from birth to death (almost....lol) never having been caught in or drafted into a war. As a student of history, and even the present.... I feel so lucky.

Spirit of "humanity", not any one group....

This quote was written in the 60's. We really spend our lives reading now... a lot of us...😁...so, upping the quality would be good. I'm trying to contribute to that....

AI: Rwanda, 1994. 100 days. 800,000 dead. The weapon was radio. The ammunition was language that stopped calling people people.

This could have been said better. Yes, good government should preserve universal human rights.....

You could have totally different rules for killing in a constructed situation where all the parties maintain consent in the process. But, I consider this a detached state of war. It's not equal to the notion of emergent justice. It's a captured degradation.

I have an embroidered patch on my work laptop bag that says, "Do nothing forever." Radical capitalists hate this one trick....

Sometimes it's true....

For sure religion's creator is a cartoon character, but, I wouldn't do what Dawkins does here either....if there was a first cause it could just be a force of some kind, or maybe we're being "first caused" every moment....

I haven't gone seriously down the anarchism rabbit hole yet. I think it's paradoxical though that you have to form groups to break up groups...but there's all kinds of versions....

All you religious apologists trying to justify pluralism to justify your particular universal...you collapse into relativism or smuggle in universality...every. damn. time. Face it, universality is. That's it.

Universality comes from a single affirmation. Destructive mentalities often times use paraconsistent logic or just opportunism leading to collapse or chaos. Purity tests are an example of this....

I mean...there is delusion....

I'm tempted to say all life is sacred...but, do we neeeeed ticks.....

Truths can be verified and potential truths falsified, but, we should remember that I can make a statement that is true in the moment I make it, but can't be verified or falsified, but is still true but not known. That doesn't justify everything, and truths under this condition are subject to the Hitch slap: That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

I don't know, I think this truth is mostly the exception...we're pretty hardcore these days..."Science shows no mercy!" 😁

What's crazy is...through willing agents, ideas cause physical reality the way physics alone causes in reality. So, ideas cause...and through agency are like objects?

🤷‍♂️smh

I did start a no kill pact (NKP):

https://civilsimian.com/no-kill-pact

Same holds true with objective morality. Science and objective morality use the same facts, yet one is science and one is morality in the end...goals are subjective....

This is what captured religious people (in modern times) would have you believe. Throughout history life has been a battle, but if that were to change....