On the Nature of Things | Forum

People change their beliefs quite easily, their behaviour with great difficulty, and their personality not at all. The religious fundies of today were marxists or fascists a generation ago

A communist is someone who wishes the SU would have succeeded, or a Democrat or most people from the left. The reason is that while technically some people on the left may not be communist they never did one darn thing to stop them. They are then like the street people from the Matrix, eventual pro...

Man, people need to start learning that the appropriate time to start those adventures is March or May. Put me out there without any training whatsoever, and I'll last longer...of course I'll do it in July. ;p Rannoch Moor is such an awful place that you could easily die of hypothermia in August, l...

Typhoon wrote:
Back then many Western pundits considered it a given that Japan would soon come to dominate the global economy eclipsing the US.

Many people in Japan held similar beliefs about the innate superiority of the so-called Japanese way.

Now they hold such beliefs about China...

I know little or nothing about people in Mexico with or claiming direct Maya descent and continuity with their religious traditions, but I have read a number of Western experts on Mayan history, archeology, and Mayan religion, and all of them say the same thing: there is no basis for the 2012/apoca...

Merry Christmas to all! Happy Winterval! Felix Saturnalia! Have a great Solstice (actually that was four days ago) Those of us who live in dark Northern climes need a midwinter party time, and has been so since time immemorial (the Christians just co-opted it). Nothing wrong with that. And for any ...