benny

A minority can represent the population as a whole as long as this minority is randomly chosen.

Work, not unlike God, has only a virtual existence but one of infinite historical and political significances.

My mom has a dancing floor in her basement.

Shaking and waving one hand is not working.

The citizen assembly was a group of 160 people selected nearly randomly to reflect British Colombians and to exchange views in a non-partisan manner in order to form a common will.

Kings and queens are not working, not stressed and not in fragile unions.

You will be "cured" by replying to my posts.

A literal interpretation of a (sacred) text is stickiness towards its written code.

Decreased stress in a population is linked to decreased healthcare costs.

Stoned eyes are really the non-violent resistance to the greedy eyes of advertisers.

This court case was not science vs religion or ignorance, it was the hate or hubris of a science teacher vs respect for all students: Farnan's lawsuit had cited more than 20 inflammatory statements attributed to Corbett, including "Conservatives don't want women to avoid pregnancies – that's interfering with God's work" and "When you pray for divine intervention, you're hoping that the spaghetti monster will help you get what you want." In an April 3 tentative ruling, however, (Judge ) Selna dismissed all but two of the statements as either not directly referring to religion or as being appropriate in the context of a class lecture, including the headline-grabbing "When you put on your Jesus glasses, you can't see the truth." http://www.ocregister.com/articles/corbett...84-farnan-selna

What you have to understand is that the B.C. Citizens’ Assembly was much closer to what a people is than whatever number of isolated individuals you can aggregate together.

Never ask again to a deliberative assembly to deinstitutionalize itself through whatever representative mechanism (STV, FPTP, etc.). Deliberative democracy is fundamentally an all-encompassing procedure to get rid of representative democracy.

You can be converted too by the same "cure".

- Believing findings from a renowned Canadian university is legitimate form of innocence. - If labor would really be a necessary metabolic activity, hunger would be a thing of the past.

- University of Toronto produces knowledge. - I said labor is bad because it is deceitful.

So long!

Smoke more then.

- I am innocent until proven guilty. - Because is and ought are different.

Is it ridiculous or not?

Here lay the superiority of religion over science. Religion knows better than science that no community (and scientific community is no exception) can be built where there is almost nothing to talk about. Think for instance at what our society would be like if economists (a kind of scientists) who appears in mainstream media would differentiate too much between actual knowledge and unsupported beliefs.

To find my belief not ridiculous, you have to share this belief somehow. So, your explanation of the presence of inverted commas on "cured" is not reasonable. By believing something not reasonable, you are showing yourself close to your "enemy".

- Truth rather. - You have to.

- Neo-Kantians have an edge. - One has to feel responsible.

Fundamentalism is sticking to the code (genetic, legal, etc.).