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Saturday 4 April 2020

The stupidity of Western philosophy compared to simple peasant wisdom



1:00  Bertrand Russel's History of Western Philosophy
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Western-philosophy
2:00  Wisdom
3:00  Universal education
4:00  Deductive reasoning
5:00  God is all-wise.  Wisdom > Cunning
6:00  Epistemology, ontology and what is consciousness
7:00  Christianity is kaput and democracy is dementia.
8:00  Truth, Logic and Morality
8:30  Denial
9:00  Jews and Muslims
10:00  No kaddish without the minyan, all over the world.
11:00  Dr Neil Ferguson
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000h1fk from 1:15:00
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8163587/PETER-HITCHENS-Great-Panic-foolish-freedom-broken-economy-crippled.html

Professor Neil Ferguson was one of those largely responsible for the original panic. He or others from Imperial college have twice revised his terrifying prophecy, first to fewer than 20,000 and then on Friday to 5,700.

He says intensive care units will probably cope. And he conceded a point made by critics of the panic policy – that two-thirds of people who die from coronavirus in the next nine months would most likely have died this year from other causes.

He tried to claim that the shutdown of the country had led to this violent backtrack, claiming that it was ‘social distancing strategies’ which had brought about his amazing climbdown. How could he possibly know either that this had happened, or that it would happen, or that there was any connection between the two?

It is very hard to see by what means he could know any of these things. Could he have softened his stance because of the publication early last week of a rival view, from distinguished scientists at Oxford University, led by Sunetra Gupta, Professor of theoretical epidemiology? It suggests that fewer than one in a thousand of those infected with Covid-19 become ill enough to need hospital treatment.

The vast majority develop very mild symptoms or none at all. Millions may already have had it.

https://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/frederick-forsyth/1264336/coronavirus-latest-UK-death-toll-boris-johnson

We do not know how many have already had a mild dose, recovered and with their new immunity could face the world again and be a danger to nobody. The new kit could tell us that in minutes.

So did a panicky government accept the most luridly violent prognosis from Imperial College of a national holocaust and on that basis destroy the economy? We shall certainly know in the end.

If two million eventually catch it and 30,000 die? That would be 15,000 more than the winter flu toll - tragic but not a national crisis. And 15,000 as a percentage of our national population of 67 million is a small fraction of one percent. Too optimistic? Maybe but if Oxford is right and Imperial College wrong, government figures are haywire.

And a last salvo at official forecasting. During the foot-and-mouth epidemic we were told to slaughter six million beasts in the national herd - and did so. Later it was confirmed not one of them need have died. It was all rubbish.

12:00  Jews and Muslims
14:00  The Ten Commandments
15:00  Jews, Christians and Muslims being punished for disobeying the rules of God.
17:00  Western philosophers
18:00  Philosophy graduates
19:00  Kant and Hegel
20:00  Totalitarian Christianity
21:00  Tertullian
22:00  Noahide laws
23:00  Spacepan, libertarianism and the non-aggression principle
24:00  Marx
25:00  Mein Kampf
26:00  The international casino that is the Stock Market
27:00  Cultural Christians
28:00  Christians have been duped for 2000 years.
29:00  Christian on Christian persecution in the Old World and then the New World.
30:00  Forcible conversion to Christianity
31:00  Antisemitism, Islamophobia and xenophobia
33:00  Every problem has a solution. The cure is already there.
https://radicalisedrabbi.blogspot.com/2020/04/in-shadow-of-corona-virus-kabbalistic.html
34:00  Motor neurone disease
35:00

https://radicalisedrabbi.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-significance-of-minyan-and-kaddish.html
38:00  Hypothetical Supreme Authority
39:00  Secular Koranism, JF and Stefan Molyneux
42:00  The rule of law is written in scripture.
44:00  Sweden
46:00  Matriarchy
47:00  South Africa
53:00  Five world religions
56:00  Teshuvah
What Does the Term "Teshuvah" Mean in Judaism?
https://www.learnreligions.com/what-is-teshuvah-2076801

Step 1, Regret. Realize the extent of the damage and inwardly adopt of feeling sincere regret.
Step 2, Ceasing.  Immediately stop the harmful action.
Step 3, Confession and restitution. Verbalize the mistake and ask for forgiveness, either from God or from the wronged party. If possible, the wrong must be righted through compensation. If the sin is against God, acts of charity may be considered as restitution.
Step 4, Resolution. Make a firm commitment not to repeat the sin in the future.

58:00  Sackcloth and ashes


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