The General Political Thread

[McPero]

You live longer without chemotherapy than with failed one.

[McPero]

Like a physicist trying to explain quantum physics to 5 year olds.

Peterson is not that good of a philosopher,  pretty overrated and his obsession with Christianity is weird.

[Edwin]

Like a physicist trying to explain quantum physics to 5 year olds.

Nothing to see here but fair and neutral journalism from our tax-payer funded BBC. Move along, bucko.

Also, don't forget to pay your TV licence lest you want to be raided by the CID.

[McPero]

Like a physicist trying to explain quantum physics to 5 year olds.

Nothing to see here but fair and neutral journalism from our tax-payer funded BBC. Move along, bucko.

Also, don't forget to pay your TV licence lest you want to be raided by the CID.

xd

[Kore]

Like a physicist trying to explain quantum physics to 5 year olds.

Peterson is not that good of a philosopher,  pretty overrated and his obsession with Christianity is weird.

If he dismantled feminism in front of feminists he's automatically a good person!

[McPero]

Like a physicist trying to explain quantum physics to 5 year olds.

Peterson is not that good of a philosopher,  pretty overrated and his obsession with Christianity is weird.

If he dismantled feminism in front of feminists he's automatically a good person!

He is definitely on the good side, but many people view him as some Jesus, which isn't healthy and he himself wouldn't want them to see him that way. 

[William]

[Riddlez]

Just read that John McCain is discontinuing his brain cancer treatment.

https://www.facebook.com/6179724269/posts/10156152358034270/

He's passed now.

[McPero]

Just read that John McCain is discontinuing his brain cancer treatment.

https://www.facebook.com/6179724269/posts/10156152358034270/

He's passed now.

Uff cancer treatment seemed to be very effective in this case (probably not, probably he just knew his time has come). What happens now is he replaced?

[Duuring]

The governor of Arizona appoints a (Republican) replacement who serves either until a special election in 2018 or until McCain's term is up, in 2020. It's rather late in the season for a special election + primaries, and the Arizona seat is not very safe at the moment, so the replacement will probably serve until 2020. There's a good chance his wife will be appointed.

[Toffee]

RIP to McCain. I didn't agree with him on some things but he was a great servant of his country and gave so much for what he believed in.

[McPero]

The governor of Arizona appoints a (Republican) replacement who serves either until a special election in 2018 or until McCain's term is up, in 2020. It's rather late in the season for a special election + primaries, and the Arizona seat is not very safe at the moment, so the replacement will probably serve until 2020. There's a good chance his wife will be appointed.

Medieval country xd

[Duuring]

Correction, McCain's term is up in 2022 but elections might be held alongside presidential and other elections in 2020. It's pretty much up to the governor.

[Riv]

Like a physicist trying to explain quantum physics to 5 year olds.

Peterson is not that good of a philosopher,  pretty overrated and his obsession with Christianity is weird.

He doesn't call himself a philosopher? I wouldn't necessarily say he's obsessed with Christianity either, it's more so that he's interested in the archetypes within the bible itself, thus, he speaks from a psychological stance. If you watched any of his Biblical Lectures you would know that the Bible is more than just religious rambling, it provides psychological significance and an understanding of Western culture.

[McPero]

Like a physicist trying to explain quantum physics to 5 year olds.

Peterson is not that good of a philosopher,  pretty overrated and his obsession with Christianity is weird.

He doesn't call himself a philosopher? I wouldn't necessarily say he's obsessed with Christianity either, it's more so that he's interested in the archetypes within the bible itself, thus, he speaks from a psychological stance. If you watched any of his Biblical Lectures you would know that the Bible is more than just religious rambling, it provides psychological significance and an understanding of Western culture.

He doesn't but he criticizes post modernist philosophers as if he was one. I've seen people that study philosophy say that he actually doesn't understands post modernist philosophy. Bible itself is mostly just a religious rules. It is actually mostly ancient Greek (Aristotles) and medieval (Thomas Aquinas) philosophers that influenced Western culture. For example Thomas Aquinas read Aristotles works and used its philosophy to apply it into Bible. He took plain words from Bible and explained them with help of Aristotles. Every time you take a book you can find some deep meanings if you look hard enough and want to find them. For example there is debate whether Jesus claimed that homosexuals need help or is their way of life equally normal to life of heterosexuals. Theologians of course took something that Jesus supposedly said and explained it as if here he meant that homosexuals need help, even though those words could also mean the opposite, they explained it as it fit them the most or what they believed it meant.
You could take a garbage book like Harry Potter and find archetypes that define Western culture if you really wanted to see them.