Posts made by JohnAllenson

Alien 1

Predator 2 or Alien 2  (Two ways for Bill Paxton to die.)

Avoid Freud for those who think Jung.

Alien or non-Alien science fiction

So,
1/  Objectivists are Minarchists but not all Minarchists are Objectivists.

2/  The Torah and the Talmud are enormous works.  Is there a more specific question that you'd like to see than just 'Government'?

well, one example is in Shoftim - Moses' instructions to judges (Deuteronomy 16:19)

19.  You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show favoritism, and you shall not take a bribe, for bribery blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts just words.

What you are describing is called Minarchism.  One of the main proponents was Ayn Rand.

I tend to support political theories and analysis based on Jewish tradition.  What does the Torah say about legal systems?  What does the Talmud say about the obligations of a Jewish citizen in a non-Jewish state?  What is in the public sphere and what is in the private sphere?

Wisdom

Science or humanities

I recommend people here give episode #9 a check.

! The main character played by Seth MacFarlan's character has a relationship with a male character played by Rob Lowe.  Another gay romance drives the main plot.

Does the Homosapien know?
ABBA vs Peter Shelley

There's a lot of varience in this.

Government is the expression of a Nation.  What areas does the Nation think their government should be regulating?  Does the Nation want a State religion?  Is education private or public, national or regional?  Is the government responsible for employment levels?  How about infrastructure?  Does the Nation wish to have international clout or does it prefer to be left alone?

Myself, I think the ideal is for people to be able to immigrate/emigrate freely to choose what type of society they want to live in.  If you want to wear a niqab then move to Saudi Arabia not Canada.  If you want the freedoms of Canada the respect the responsibilities of Canada.

A well-studied group of people who have no native language was in Quebec.

There's a large contingent of people whose parents are immigrants from countries that speak neither English nor French.  The language of the playground and school is French.  The parents want the children to speak English - to give them more opportunities in the USA - so they speak poor english around the children.

So, the children don't learn a language that the parents are fluent in.  They don't get re-enforced in French.  They don't ever learn a fluent English.  They speak less than 1 language.

Science.  Accurate histories are difficult ot find.

The Orville or Star Trek Discovery

It's a process - I came out to my best friend when I was 14 (1975), I came out to my family when I was 17 (1978), I've been functionally out to EVERYONE since I moved back to Canada in 1986 (I was 25).

I'm at a Sci-fi con this weekend.  I get to discuss my opinions.
Around people who don't understand what I'm talking about.  I'd rather not give a half hour lecture so they can get the context.

Pun or satire

There are men who write m/m.  some stuff is pretty good.  (I like Jamie Fessenden)

Well, back to language in the US.

Making English an official language and banning other languages is not going to pull the country together.  If anything it's going to worsen conflicts between English and non-English speakers.

As to Common Culture, what common culture?  They still can't come together on the cause of their Civil War more than 150 years ago.  There's a big split between rural and urban cultures - I know people who are still bitter about the Rural Purge of 1970 when the tv networks cancelled a slew of popular programs with rural settings to cater to an emerging urban audience.  Bipartisanship and 'common courtesy' have functionally vanished in American politics.

Moderation and tolerance could bridge some of the disagreements.  But at the moment, shrill polarization and disrespect are the hallmarks of media branding.

I've been both.  I had more health problems when I was skinny so fat.

coffee or tea

Absolutely that language stands in for other things:  the loss of sovereignty, having the land you live on transferred from a state where you are the majority to a state where you are a minority - which includes the severing of communities.  (The Druze - who speak the standard Arabic of the region - are divided between Israel and Syria.  Children may never have met their grandparents due to the border being drawn by outsiders directly through their community.  That builds resentment.)

My country, Canada, avoided having a civil war between French and English but previous attempts to ban those languages in public angers people.  Even when they happen to be fluent in both languages.

As to Wales using a lot of English words; English vocabulary is about 45% based on words directly or indirectly from French.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_French_origin.  It certainly doesn't indicate that people are going to choose to give up English in favour of French.

To be candid.
The difficult part isn't deciding to have a kid or not.  There are worse reasons to want to have a kid and better reasons none of which would honestly last until you get the kid weaned.  The only thing that matters is your reponsibility when you have a kid.

The USA has never had an official language.  In practice, the government uses English.

Knowing the history of other countries that have tried to impose a majority language on INDIGENOUS populations (Not immigrant populations but populations that predate the formation of the USA) trigger separatist movements and massive resentment.

Some examples:  Kurdish in Turkey, Catalan in Spain, Welsh in the UK, Arabic in Israel, Tamazight in Algeria, Tamil in Sri Lanka, Breton in France, Swedish in Finland.

New Mexico (surprise, surprise, surprise) used to be a part of Mexico like the majority of the Southwestern states.  The people who were living there when the USA took over have descendents who still speak Spanish.  There's also French speakers in Maine and Louisiana in the same situation.  Hawai'ian WAS banned in Hawai'i and there's still a lot of resentment.

It's Hyperbole.  He's making a polemic argument rather than trying to give a dispassionate description.

It's a very long discussion in Christian thought "how can the Church be in the World but not of the World".  One of the issues that started the Anabaptist tradition was the accusation that the Roman Catholic Church had become too immersed in questions of political power and wealth thereby turning away from the spiritual focus of a connection with Christ.

But no, there is no risk that Christmas is going to be cancelled this year.

I've heard versions of this joke from North Africa.