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u/treebombs · 0 pointsr/AustralianPolitics

\>faith, by definition, is a delusion. It is belief in something without evidence, reason or logic, the practice of wilful delusion

In response to this I'd make the point I initially made, which is that to pretend that getting rid of religion produces some kind of ideological vacuum, a faithless existence, is naive. Whatever we believe, we believe by definition with incomplete evidence. We aren't God ourselves, and until we are, we don't know what's really going on out there. The scientific method is a beautiful tool for understanding the world around us, but we can only scratch the surface with our experiments and observations. The more we learn, the more we understand how incredibly vast and incredibly complex the universe is. Why does the scientific method even work? Why are there regularities, abstract objects, mathematical truths? Why is there order and structure in the universe?

My own faith isn't simply based on wishful thinking, but also a collection of arguments and evidence I find convincing, including a defence of God as the basis for any system of objective morality--you can find excellent resources to help you understand where people like me are coming from at

https://www.reasonablefaith.org/

or

https://www.rzim.org/

or by ordering Tim Keller's book "The Reason For God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism"

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594483493?ie=UTF8&tag=booresbytimke-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1594483493.

I hope that you might find in these resources answers for some your questions, or at least a broader understanding of religious faith.

u/Rollei75 · 0 pointsr/AustralianPolitics

>You can't reason from an accounting identity lol.

Standard five sector model of the economy.
https://www.princeton.edu/wwac/academic-review/files/512Notes.pdf

http://www.tutor2u.net/economics/reference/measuring-national-income

http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/arose/macro2.pdf

How many sources would you like for this?

Here's the original book if you like:
https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Original-1948-Paul-Samuelson/dp/0070747415


>Government is less efficient, not more.

A real world free market system should more efficient then. Please demonstrate.





u/choofyuppy · -5 pointsr/AustralianPolitics

>Literally nothing you have said is a factual statement. You’re just regurgitating the exact same talking points the OP mentioned. All bluster, zero substance.

“men should stop raping women” - Sarah Hanson Young. For a party who prides itself on gender equality, they sure know how to conflate all men into the rapey category. Replace "men" with another noun in public and see how it sounds, you'd probably be dragged into the human rights court.

>You “read some books” did you? Which ones exactly did you read, and which parts of them are you citing to support your tirade?

https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Common-Sense-Economy/dp/0465002609

https://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Freedom-Anniversary-Milton-Friedman/dp/0226264211

Give them a read, maybe you'll grow up.

>Also, you can fuck right off with your jingoistic “traditional Australian values” bullshit. Unless you’re an indigenous Australian, you have no more claim to what constitutes traditional Australian values than anyone else living here. We are an egalitarian nation, a nation that believes in fairness and a “fair go”. That sounds a lot closer to Socialism than the capitalist welfare state you’re batting for.

Didn't take long to go from "Indigenous Australians" to "Socialism" - so I won't take you seriously from here on in. Also, don't pretend like Australia is the only country that has been conquered and had it's culture changed by the conquers, it's pretty much happened to every piece of dirt on the planet...

>On the subject of “capitalism and markets”, no one in Australia hates fair competition more than the LNP. Government grants with no tender process? That’s not capitalism. Massive tax breaks and government subsidies for the fossil fuel industry? That’s not capitalism. The Greens would welcome a level playing field, where neither fossil fuels or the renewables industry got any government money. Would you?

Assuming I support the LNP. Assuming I support croney capitalism > free markets. Assuming I support subsidies at all. Assuming I don't support a level playing field that comes with free market capitalism. Pretending like the Greens even support a level playing field, because they don't support the idea of letting the market decide between renewable and fossil fuels naturally (even when renewables are winning the race, naturally, no thanks to big government, rather individuals and big tech).

https://greens.org.au/platform/renewables

"Under our plan, a set percentage of electric vehicle sales by car manufacturers will be mandated so that fossil fuel cars are transitioned off the road, and the cost of electric vehicles will be significantly reduced so more people can buy them sooner. "

https://greens.org.au/platform/public-ownership

"The Greens believe electricity, banking and the internet should be run as essential services, putting public good before corporate profit."

Totally a level playing field /s

Hitler, Marx, Lennin, Napoleon (totally not tyrants) loved Nationalizing things too and history shows it worked wonders /s

I better Venezuela to that list, nationalising everything there went exactly to plan /s

>I’m predicting you have nothing coherent to say and crawl back under your rock after some pathetic insults and a half-arsed assertion of victory. Surprise me.

Speak for yourself. Go take a long hard look in the mirror.

u/sand313man · 1 pointr/AustralianPolitics

Watch the lecture I attached, where a top philosophy professor is interviewed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwW9QV5Ulmw&t=1652s

Dr. Stephen R. C. Hicks (www.stephenhicks.org), Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, Illinois, USA, Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and Senior Scholar at The Atlas Society in August of 2017 (http://bit.ly/306ggDQ), and decided that it was time for an update. Dr. Hicks received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Guelph, Canada, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. He has published four books, translated into sixteen different languages: • In 1994; 2nd ed 1998 The Art of Reasoning: Readings for Logical Analysis (co-edited with David Kelley, W. W. Norton & Co., 1994, second edition 1998). • In 2010, Nietzsche and the Nazis • In 2016, Entrepreneurial Living (co-edited with Jennifer Harrolle) The remaining book, published in 2004 and expanded in 2011, Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, has been particularly relevant to our discussions. It’s available at Amazon.com (https://amzn.to/2Jh4Uro) but also in pdf form on Dr. Hick’s website (http://bit.ly/2MaI9rH). I found it very helpful when trying to understand the intellectual roots of the ideas that appear so dominant in today’s universities.

u/PhysicsIsMyBitch · 3 pointsr/AustralianPolitics

The Guardian's reprint of this piece has the following addendum:

>John Pilger’s investigation into the coup against Whitlam is described in full in his book, A Secret Country (Vintage), and in his documentary film, Other People’s Wars, which can be viewed on http://www.johnpilger.com/

And his book on Amazon links to a Publishers Weekly review that says:

>Pilger's strong tone may alienate those who don't already agree with him, but he backs up his contentions with careful documentation.

Again, it encourages you to buy the book to find out more, as does his article. But it gives some credibility to it. Could be an interesting book.

u/0ldgrumpy1 · 3 pointsr/AustralianPolitics

https://www.amazon.com/Republican-Brain-Science-Science-Reality/dp/1118094514

The Republican Brain, the science of why they reject science and reality. An excellent neuroscience science book, worth a read. Explains why they can't understand the simplest concepts by thinking they are clever and logical.

u/darkaceAUS · 1 pointr/AustralianPolitics

>Um no, YOU made that comparison not me

Umm I compared a singular mine to a singular building.

>It is also ironic that you say this because every time I hear a denier comparing fossil fuels to renewables, they do the same in reverse. ie: compare decades of coal infrastructure to what renewables have done in the last 5 years

You're using renewables in a positive way over the last five years? Wow.

>If you had, you would have seen that the article was based around an Ernst Young report (linked in the article) based on their modeling of 50% renewables by 2050. You would have also seen that they predicted "tens of thousands of jobs created".

That's not how the economy works. Here you go, Krugman for you. Replace trade with renewables:

https://hbr.org/1996/01/a-country-is-not-a-company

>Try again dude.

I agree. Here you go:

https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Microeconomics-Mankiws-Economics/dp/0538453044

u/nucknuckgoose · 2 pointsr/AustralianPolitics

Lots of books been floating around for last few years about that line of thinking, I read this a few years ago. I think semantically/by definition, true altruism can't exist, but that's a pretty depressing notion.

u/Veganpuncher · 1 pointr/AustralianPolitics

I was finally convinced by Alan Bullock's book. The parallels are just too similar to be coincidence.

u/SemanticTriangle · 4 pointsr/AustralianPolitics

Go read A Magnificent Catastrophe, about the US election of 1800. The kind of lies that were told about Thomas Jefferson then by the Federalists pretty much exactly mirror the bullshit the right slings at the left now. Nothing new under the sun.

u/zurc · 1 pointr/AustralianPolitics

A bunch of fairy land assumptions counts as science these days? How's lowering tax rates working out for Kansas?


https://www.amazon.com/Lies-Damn-Statistics-Manipulation-Opinion/dp/0393331490

u/anoxiousweed · 1 pointr/AustralianPolitics

You need a ladder to climb out of this rabbit hole you've found yourself in. If ladders ain't your thing, perhaps try a book? Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect

u/mrbaggins · 5 pointsr/AustralianPolitics

>You proved my point exactly, that media is biased.. thank you. They intentionally paint her as such, yet you can’t find any work she has done (without it being completely edited) - aka a primary source.. which can reasonably paint her as such.

>Name one thing, together with primare source footage that mandates her being far right or white nationalist.

She backs "Defend Europe" which is a white-identity/white-nationalist group, and has been arrested in work with them.

She wrote and published this book. from it's own back cover: "Southern is a Right-wing activist"

Her Allah is gay leaflet was the spark that got her denied from entering the UK, which was a trip to meet up with the English Defense League, which is very clearly "far right"

Bunch of fun ones in this video

@4:00 "the Alt-right calls me alt-lite, the alt lite call me alt-right"
@7:29 "I'll be going out and doing some postering for the "It's okay to be white movement"

I can't check further on this 18min video right now, but I'm sure there's more. And this is her talking, not being "busted" so it's only her side, talking to someone on her side.

She's staunch anti muslim, anti lgbt and anti feminism. That's pretty damned clear to me. I don't call anyone fascist or neo nazis, and focusing on the few people that do go that far just undermines your own arguments.

She IS racist. She IS bigoted.

u/PBRStreetgang67 · -17 pointsr/AustralianPolitics

Never, never, never.

Regulating the media is, literally, the first step towards fascism.

Every dictator who has ever lived has made control of the media his first goal. Don't let the people hear any voice but yours. George Orwell knew it, Philip K Dick knew it, Ray Bradbury even judged the temperature at which it would occur.

The Master himself only mentions it casually as it's such a well-known trope in geopolitics. It's a given, a basic, first-order tactic. And here is the ABC, our national broadcaster demanding that our democracy, for which hundreds of thousands have fought and died, immediately accept their dominion over the distribution of information.

I've been a long supporter of the ABC as a reliable news source, but, today, I am finally giving way to the Liberal claim of ABC bias. Anyone who advocates for censorship of the press is my enemy.