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Russia has still not elaborated on the sources of these unexplained fires.
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Hey, I've gone tribal! That's my story and I'm stick'n to it!In a working society, the thought must be held in stasis until a fact comes in. Entrenched in the public mind is pure argumentum ad populum. It’s perfectly possible to fully cage Vladolf in provables, so let’s not use propaganda.
No. Intellectual hygiene. “Don’t believe a thing unless you are pretty damned sure it is true.”Moral perfectionism
I look at it in scientific and evolutionary terms and this is heavily weighted by my personal experiences with meditation and Buddhism, particularly Buddhist psychology. Much of it has to do with the effects of tribalism, in the past most churches were local and like a village they represented a community within a larger society and often provided social services to their few hundred members.No. Intellectual hygiene. “Don’t believe a thing unless you are pretty damned sure it is true.”
This is hard to do, and I fail often and hard. But the thought just struck me: the above pronciple plays poorly in religious communities, and they’re getting a steady indoctrination into the idea that believing something gives it greater reality. Poor intellectual hygiene being actively encouraged by those who have declared themselves our arbiters.
The evangelicals especially use emotioneering to sink the faith home, which is a characteristic of a cult.
I disagree with the bolded. For almost all of our history, those hierarchical communities did not run on sharing and caring. (This is the exact hinge on which utopian ideologies fail.) They were based on privilege and slavery. The removal of slavery (which is still not complete) is a new phenomenon.I look at it in scientific and evolutionary terms and this is heavily weighted by my personal experiences with meditation and Buddhism, particularly Buddhist psychology. Much of it has to do with the effects of tribalism, in the past most churches were local and like a village they represented a community within a larger society and often provided social services to their few hundred members.
We humans form hierarchical communities based on social ranking that are for the most part caring and sharing. Without pernicious influences like bigotry and other stupid social division, liberal democracies become more humane, inclusive and just. However the effects of tribalism are both positive and negative and are deeply rooted in human nature. Humans band together and organize to face threats and challenges, real or imagined, we always have. Ukraine exemplifies many of the positive aspects of tribalism and Russia it's worst. As Churchill said, you do your worst and we'll do our best. There are neutral perspectives that sit above it all, but that is difficult to do when one is under real or perceived threat. In this circumstance it also requires amorality to remain neutral about atrocities.
Snake Island for the Russians is gonna be a lot like those Pacific island outposts the Japs held in the in WW2, cut off and allowed the whither on the vine. They have troops there, but their offensive capabilities have been destroyed and they are basically bait for Ukrainian missiles and drones when they try to resupply or evacuate. I imagine the same applies to their cut off forces in Transnistria, they can't resupply them or reinforce them.
Ukrainian Military Says Drone Destroys Russian Landing Craft Near Snake Island In Black Sea
The Ukrainian military says it has sunk another Russian warship in the Black Sea near Snake Island, declaring that a missile launched from a Bayraktar drone struck a Russian landing craft.
“In the waters of the Black Sea, an enemy landing craft of the type Serna was destroyed," military spokesman Serhiy Bratschuk said on his Telegram channel on May 7.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said an armed Bayraktar drone also destroyed a missile defense system on Snake Island, a small islet under Russian control.
The ministry posted what it says was a video of the ship sinking on its Twitter account.
"The traditional parade of the Russian Black Sea fleet on May 9 this year will be held near Snake Island -- at the bottom of the sea," the Defense Ministry said.
According to GlobalSecurity.org, a Serna-class craft is a high-speed air-cavity patrol boat designed for the transportation and disembarkation of troops on an unprepared shore.
The report of the warship sinking could not immediately be independently confirmed and it was not clear when the incident occurred. There was no immediate comment from the Russian military.
On May 2, General Valery Zaluzhny, commander of Ukraine's armed forces, said the Ukrainian military destroyed two Russian Raptor boats near Snake Island.
In the May 7 announcement, the Ukrainian military said the Bayraktar drone strike had also destroyed a Tor-M2 antiaircraft system that was being delivered to Snake island.
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Ukrainian Military Says Drone Destroys Russian Landing Craft Near Snake Island In Black Sea
The Ukrainian military says it has sunk another Russian warship in the Black Sea near Snake Island, declaring that a missile launched from a Bayraktar drone struck a Russian landing craft.www.rferl.org
I was speaking in terms of our evolutionary history, before agrarian civilization formed us into larger more impersonal communities. However these propensities still have great sway over our personal and social behavior and are the simplest explanation for phenomena. Almost all community organizations have a humanitarian aim or adopt one, I'm not talking about the fear driven mobs of bigots either. There are other factors like greed (social status and ranking) not just bigotry that cause problems in societies, even social statues breeds bigotry and the rich believe they are actually better than the rest. These are the ills of maladapted humans to civil culture and structures, it is a messy process!I disagree with the bolded. For almost all of our history, those hierarchical communities did not run on sharong and caring. (This is the exact hinge on which utopian ideologies fail.) They were based on provilege and slavery. The removal of slavery (which is still not complete) is a new phenomenon.
Sonce you are describing speculation on our prehistory, I disagree still.I was speaking in terms of our evolutionary history, before agrarian civilization formed us into larger more impersonal communities. However these propensities still have great sway over our personal and social behavior and are the simplest explanation for phenomena. Almost all community organizations have a humanitarian aim or adopt one, I'm not talking about the fear driven mobs of bigots either. There are other factors like greed (social status and ranking) not just bigotry that cause problems in societies, even social statues breeds bigotry and the rick believe they are actually better than the rest. These are the ills of maladapted humans to civil culture and structures, it is a messy process!
Slavery is a product of tribalism, as well as human greed.
Now evolutionary psychology is a hot topic of debate! Like all science nothing is settled, there is just a preponderance of evidence and almost anything can change with a new theoretical construct that fits the evidence better than the competing one.Sonce you are describing speculation on our prehistory, I disagree still.
Maybe do a study of the 300 year cycle?Now evolutionary psychology is a hot topic of debate! Like all science nothing is settled, there is just a preponderance of evidence and almost anything can change with a new theoretical construct that fits the evidence better than the competing one.