How Radical Muslims Will Get Nukes They will simply vote themselves in and take over the UK and its arsenal of nuclear weapons.

An example that people choose their beliefs based on the social group they identify with, not based on rational criteria. What makes the social group believe a certain set of beliefs is they are often founded on a schizoid typal personality who has contradictory beliefs.
It is not radical Muslims that are a problem as oppose to normal Muslims. It is the whole "meme" The difference between a Catholic nun and  radical Muslim is in what they believe in. Not amount of fervor they believe in it.
See this how-radical-muslims-will-get-nukes

the past has gone from potential to no longer existing at all.

Heidegger saw this in a metaphysical kind of sense. He thought this is indicative of the idea of coming into being. The past is the potential which gives birth to the present. Dr Kelly Ross  thinks of this more in the sense that the past has gone from a mode of possibility into necessity.

But I myself have not yet had time to delve into these interesting approaches. I am just mentioning them for points of possible exploration.

The thing here that is curious is that the past has gone from potential to no longer existing at all. Instead of it going from potential into actuality, it passed from potential into actuality into nothingness.

I think that this indicates what Kant was saying about time-it is an unconditioned reality. When pure reason ventures into that area it produces contradictions. The past is the most necessary. It can no long be changed. But it also is the most non existent.

Nature makes the choice."

(1) Free will and Quantum Mechanics with Henry Stapp see min 33:44 "Nature makes the choice."
[Which is locality.The observer is Nature, not the experimenter nor the electron.]


(2) That is straight Neo Platonic thought--the observer is the Logos--not the individual.
(3) What the individual sees is  representation of reality. Pixels on a screen. What do the pixels represent? Hermitian matrices on a Hilbert Space..

That is a kind of matrix that stays the same if you flip it over and every "i" you turn to a "-i." And the Hilbert Space simply has a linear inner product defined on it.

The hermitian matrix is really a tensor. It has different values according to which direction it is pointed. So it is not a vector. But it might be made up of lots of vectors (forces whose value depends on direction). [Think of a corner stone in a building. At a single point the stresses and strains with will be different depending on direction.]
Anyway--these are the things that are real. What we see are merely representations. As Kant said the dinge an sich is hidden. But Schopenhauer thought there is only one real Ding an sich the Will. The rest of reality is a representation of that Ding an sich.
 (4) And that brings us to Hegel that there is a hierarchy with each level being a representation of the previous one. [Not thesis anti thesis synthesis which appears no where in Hegel and is not even an accurate representation of his thought. Rather he thought the concept internally had some self contradiction in potential that needed resolution. Not some anti thesis coming from without.]

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Alt Right

Private property, limited government, individual rights to be left alone from government interference,  the stopping of the importation of Muslims into the USA are good ideas. The Alt Right is correct about these things. But when they throw antisemitism into the mixture, I have to draw a line.

the religious world

In the religious world,   the obedient people who go to school and memorize zombie nonsense, then go to official positions of power and recite more zombie nonsense, and finally socialize with other people like them, get the most money. In theory they have the most children; reality seems to be mixed, on that point. But either way, the religious world, is selecting for these ideologically-correct conformists. When another century passes, if our the religious world, has not snuffed itself , all that will be left will be people be pleasant, dependent on the system, and anything wider than that will be a mystery to them.

[Not everything is zombie nonsense, but most of it. This comes from the zombies in power. No wonder the religious world since it became separated from the Jewish People has never produced one single original thinker. Not one new idea, not one noble prize. not one single contribution to the Jewish people or anyone else for that matter.]

Kant

"Concepts, or predicates, are always universals, which means that no individual can be defined, as an individual, by concepts." (Kelley Ross in his essay on universals)

This brings out a point that דע אלהי אביך ועבדהו [What Kind David said to his son Know the God of your father and serve Him] has to be by a different kind of knowledge.



This may seem like a small point, but it is not. Reason in its most expanded form perceives only universals. Hume made a mistake thinking that it only can perceive contradictions. And he built on this idea his entire book. See the Essay by Bryan Caplan which goes into detail about Hume's misunderstanding. From where did Hume get mixed up? Elementary High School  Geometry. Though he never says it, but this is clearly the source of his confusion. He saw Euclid had a few self evident axioms, and could build his vast and complex system on these alone and by the principle of contradiction. Hume concluded that that is all Reason can do. Clearly he was confused. Reason can do much more. It can know universals. But that is the limit.
Knowing an individual even by an infinite number of adjectives- still means one does not know the individual.
It is a different kind of knowing. Different in quality, not different in quantity.