(originally comment on Dan Carlin’s “Common Sense” show no. 298)
Hi, Dan,
I have been amused by your plea for the intelligent discussion. I am persuaded there is a platform for the increasingly intelligent discussion, which is even more interesting in that it is more successful more depth it …
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Read MoreI just have to mention a fascinating interview on EconTalk about the climate change. More than the particular climate science (about which I know nothing and care less and less), I found it fascinating confirmation of the dictum attributed to C. S. Lewis (but now I cannot find a proper …
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Read More(comment on the blogpost on The First Things)
I think problem of yours (and the author of the article, how much I look up to him otherwise) is that you don't distinguish between the role of the state and morality. I don’t believe, that purpose of the state and …
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Read More(my comment on the EconTalk show on banking)
@John Reisink
I am afraid the reason is that we don’t have that much choices.
Which leads me to the issue which I am quite surprised nobody discusses at all (what am I missing?). As I understand the dim archaic past …
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Read MoreI have been reading Tim Bray’s blogpost on how he started to work in Amazon, and I got ignited by the comment by len and particularly by this (he starts quoting Tim):
“First, I am totally sick of working remotely. I want to go and work in rooms …
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Read More(Dan Carlin on his discussion board made some comments on the Ukraine situation, this is my reply.)
Dan wrote:
Moving NATO right next to Russia isn't just threatening to them, it seems like a betrayal of what we told them after the USSR fell.
Can you hear how incredibly patronizing …
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Read MoreIt is a sad day today. … Or let’s start from somewhere else. I have grown up in the Communist Czechoslovakia. I remember that moment, I was probably something around seven years old, and I was sitting on the floor of our living room and thinking where to hide a …
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Read More(On Dan Carlin’s discussion board somebody asked about fascism. After he got reference to some basic texts and Wikipedia, I felt compelled to write down couple of thoughts which have been busy in my mind for the last couple of months.)
In the mainstream history (and literature) fascism (and …
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Read More(odpověď na diskusi na Facebooku)
Nejprve technická poznámka k dlouhým komentářům na Facebooku. Psát je v tomhle okénku Facebooku je utrpení (navíc není možné vložit konec řádku), lepší je to napsat vedle v nějakém normálním textovém editoru a pak copy & paste. Nebo ještě lépší je udělat to, co dělám tady …
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Ahoj, Dane,
strávil jsem teď pozdněvečerní chvíli čtením Tvých článků duchovních i politických a chtěl bych Ti moc poděkovat. Většina mi jich moc potěšila a i když se vším nesouhlasím na 100 %, tak jsem musel s překvapením konstatovat, že mám pocit, že se …
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Read MoreOh well, I tried to avoid falling into trap of commenting publicly all the stuff I have no clue about, but I cannot avoid thinking about politics, when I have finally found Richard Roth’s quotation on pain:
According to the Franciscan priest Richard Rohr, spirituality is not for people …
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