[ExI] Religious Idiocy Triumphs Over Science Yet Again

[William Flynn Wallace]

My proof will come with California’s high speed rail project: paying off
various religious and native groups will become steadily more expensive as
more track is laid.  spike


Religious groups, no.  But our American aborigines, yes.  We have a giant
guilt complex regarding them which is fully justified.  OK, so they were in
the stone age when we came but that doesn't justify the slaughter or the
broken treatises. bill w

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 10:17 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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>> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
>> Behalf Of *Dan TheBookMan
>> *…*
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>> ​are ​Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Ted Cruz, world class ignoramuses
>> all. …  John K Clark
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>> Donald Trump: graduated from Wharton school of business, became a
>> self-made multi-billionaire.
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>> >…If inheriting millions makes someone self-made, then I guess
>> "self-made" is a useless term now…Dan
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>> Using John’s numbers, he inherited 40 million, now is about 4 billion.
>> That’s 100-fold increase, when the stock market increased by about a factor
>> of 20 to 25 in that same four decades.
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>> I grant there was plenty of luck involved.  Lucky is good.
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> The luck of what? Connections with those in power that one can influence
> with a quite large inherited fortune? Also, what is the use of his
> particular business acumen here? So he can take a huge fortune and make it
> bigger. Why should such a man be given any power over others?
>
> And, in this particular discussion, would you say he's a good judge of
> what direction scientific research should go?
>
> By the way, I know one person who inherited approximately $1200 from his
> parents. He's made a six figure salary for about a dozen years. Would you
> say he's on the same level of Trump?
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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