Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I don’t find your response persuasive. You gave no good reasons to accept your evaluation of Biden, Trump, the autocratic Democratic governors you seem to admire, or left-wing Vox’s “balanced” assessment of the crime bill. Yo…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. “Roderick your personal political tastes do not give you Israeli citizenship any more than you can vote in Russia b/c of your socialist leanings. … Making an abracodabra declaration does not pull rabbits out of…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. “Since when does the Torah permit a ‘sacrifice’ by dedicating it upon a cross rather than an altar?” mosckerr, I think you are barking up the wrong audience here. No one in the present conversation…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. The founding fathers of America limited the voting franchise to White land owning males. Roderick your personal political tastes do not give you Israeli citizenship any more than you can vote in Russia b/c of your sociali…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. As an atheist – praise God, I do not believe any any God. Who am I? Yet I, its the first word of all belief systems including: “I don’t worship any of these gods”. You have embraced a belief syst…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. The 1st word of the Torah בראשית contains a רמז/hint. Meaning words within words. בראשית … אש ברית. The first Book of the Torah addresses the subject of the Avot cutting brit “alliances” with other nat…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Germany initiated to European Civil Wars. Prussia no longer exists as a German state. Today Prussia, its part of Poland. Post WW2 the Allies unilaterally expelled some 15 to 18 million Germans from Poland and the Czech …

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. A large number of Balestinian refugees live scattered across the planet. The Arabs have learned to pronounce the letter P. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. We Jews, meaning myself in this conversation, endured g’lut/exile as a people for well over 2000 years. Prior to 1948, the Israeli Independence War victory over 5 invading Arab armies, Jews endured the stateless refuge…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. This is a good summary of the Trump trainwreck on COVID-19, but it’s just a summary. It’s worth noting that whatever criticisms one might make of Bush or Obama, both of them took pandemic readiness seriously. To…