[ExI] Religious Idiocy Triumphs Over Science Yet Again

[John Clark]

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015  William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:

​>> ​
>> 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.
>
>
​We? I don't feel the least bit guilty because I wasn't alive back then.
And I have no doubt that the history of ​
American aborigines
​ from 16,000 BC to 1492 AD was at least as bloody and unjust as that of
the Europeans. The Noble Savage never existed.

 John K Clark ​







> bill w
>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 10:17 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
>>> Behalf Of *Dan TheBookMan
>>> *…*
>>>
>>> ​are ​Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Ted Cruz, world class ignoramuses
>>> all. …  John K Clark
>>>
>>> Donald Trump: graduated from Wharton school of business, became a
>>> self-made multi-billionaire.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> >…If inheriting millions makes someone self-made, then I guess
>>> "self-made" is a useless term now…Dan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I grant there was plenty of luck involved.  Lucky is good.
>>>
>>
>> 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
>>   Sample my Kindle books via:
>> http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/
>>
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