Listening to the latest podcast this morning, from Oslo if memory serves.

Hanno comments on Nov 18, 2019:

It starts with people not understanding the difference between a postulate/hypothesis and a theory. In common language we use the word theory when we actually mean postulate or hypothesis. Therefore the general public does not appreciate what goes into turning a hypothesis into a theory in the scientific method process. Anthropological Climate Change is a Hypothesis. Where as the Gravity, Evolution, Relativity etc are all theories. Very big difference. Much confusion caused by politicians and media who pretends Climate Change has reached Theory level, when it is at best a model.

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Hanno comments on Nov 16, 2019:

It is called Double Speak... Orwell did not just make the stuff up. He observed it and explained in his books.

There are MILLIONS of undocumented migrants in South Africa.

Hanno comments on Nov 16, 2019:

In 2005 already Dep of Home Affairs reported that there were over 20 million more legal entries into the country than legal exists out the country between 1995 and 2005. So from just legal immigration, there are over 20 million people not accounted for. Then you add the non legal entries. The current claim of a total population of 54 is nonsense. It is at least 80 million. And they wonder why Eskom and public water is collapsing.

Powerful sculpture.

Hanno comments on Nov 15, 2019:

I know the Stanford experiments showed otherwise, however, at some point the soldiers who did this had to think at some point... what the hell am I doing?!?

SHOCKING: ‘Kill All Jews’ at NYC Subway Station Sickening antisemitic graffiti found at the ...

Hanno comments on Nov 13, 2019:

It always fascinated me how EVERYBODY hates Jews. And also how history repeats itself. I mean, they have been hated, hunted or killed by communists, capitalists, Christians, Muslims, the far right and far left, blacks, whites, asians, homosexuals... the list just goes on. It is a very dark time that only 75 years after the holocaust we somehow forgot and it became acceptable to be anti-semetic.

"In the late 500s BC, the military dictator Aristodemus took over the Greek colony of Cumae.

Hanno comments on Nov 13, 2019:

The boys today who still have father figures in there lives and are taught personal responsibility will be the leaders of tomorrow and the enemies of tyrants. Raise your boys well!!

Well this is a great way to spread truth 😜

Hanno comments on Nov 12, 2019:

There were written text in that poster?

Trigger warning

Hanno comments on Nov 12, 2019:

They have all been hired to boo Trump at sports events... They are not “really” employed... I mean, surely Trumps policies can’t be working... or are they?

Trigger warning

Hanno comments on Nov 12, 2019:

You mean teaching people to be responsible for their own lives and futures and not blame others? Wow! How irresponsible is that! ... then we can’t exploit them if they build their own countries and economies .... where is my next $5 t-shirt gonna come from?

Interesting point..Short and sweet. [youtu.be]

Hanno comments on Nov 5, 2019:

True that... the most self obsessed, selfie taking people I have met were all loud socialists. All big climate changers , yet lives ridiculously consumerist lives.

[youtu.be] Ian McGilchrist, "What Happened to the Soul?

Hanno comments on Nov 3, 2019:

Souls do not exist. Never have and never will. You can replace “soul” with “ life purpose “ or “meaning”, yes, that is important and must never be lost. But a soul as a seperate thing that exist into eternity, no. We should be honest and call things what they are. Soul = made up BS. Life Purpose = vital for each one of us we need to contemplate and evaluate throughout our lives.

Premise: The best argument for trans competing with their choice gender is that after hormone ...

Hanno comments on Nov 2, 2019:

You only have to look at the specific cases. Mediocre male athletes become champions as soon as they trans. They have the right chemical make up, yet they are champions. Statistically that is simply not possible. The changes from womb to the age 12 already sets boys in a different class. The following 12 years are even more important. Sure, transgenders become weaker, however they still have a significant advantage over real woman. All you are doing is destroying woman’s sport. Replacing beautiful woman with ugly men... who wants to watch and support that?

Portland Antifa Gets Nearly SIX YEARS In Prison For Clubbing Dude With Baton - YouTube

Hanno comments on Nov 2, 2019:

In NZ the sentence would have been 3 months home detention. And people wonder why we are both one of the most peaceful and most violent countries at the same time.

In a room full of people, who all spout the exact same thoughts, it’s a sure bet an extremely ...

Hanno comments on Oct 30, 2019:

I wonder if Trump, even with his overblown ego, understand how important it is what he is doing and how it is changing the world. Unbelievable that a man I used to dislike and laugh at so much in the past has became so important for everyone of us... non-Americans included. We are watching very significant history unfolding in front of us and Trump will become one of the most important historical figures of the 21st century. It is vital he wins 2020.

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Hanno comments on Oct 26, 2019:

There is an “open” class and anyone can compete in that class... this is today known as “men’s” this and “men’s” that. So any man or woman or transgender can compete with men if they want to. Then we have special classes, “woman’s”,and you need to be a woman to qualify, “deaf” and you need to have certain level of hearing loss and “paraplegic” with divisions for various limb loss. We have even special classes for low IQ people. Why not a special class for transgenders? Economics will dictate how popular it will be. This may sound sexist to say “woman’s” is a special class, but it is.

Humiliation..the beginning of wisdom ?

Hanno comments on Oct 24, 2019:

Humility is the beginning of wisdom... not humiliation!

Swiss industrial giant linked to corruption at South African state utility.

Hanno comments on Oct 24, 2019:

The problem being, if you are not corrupt, you have no chance of doing business in modern day South Africa where the government is involved.

If you think that electric vehicles are new here is some history for you the first production ...

Hanno comments on Oct 24, 2019:

It never cease to amaze me how ingenious people are, while at the same time how we still use the same basic concepts from decades and centuries ago. Thank you for sharing that. Almost 200 years of electric motorcars and still we have not succeeded in making it really work. On the other hand electric trains and trucks have been very successful very quickly.

I like where this gal comes from, and her being from Russia originally gives her words against ...

Hanno comments on Oct 24, 2019:

Contrary to popular believe, many “conservatives” are not against transgender people. We believe people should have the right to believe what you want and do as you please as long as you do not hurt others or yourself. It is when you decide your rights are more important than mine or your belief is more valid than my belief (or in my case non-belief), that’s when the problems start.

Well some of us have the rest still think.

Hanno comments on Oct 23, 2019:

I often ask myself that question... how much do I actually think? What are the basis of my thinking? Jordan Peterson describes this very well: Critical thought is having two opposing ideas in your head at the same time while fully understanding that both ideas could be wrong. The first time I did that when I was 19 and then again when I was 32. The second time I solved the problem. It took me three years and was very painful, however changed my life. Now I try to practice it whenever I can. It is still painful sometimes as the internal conflict and created dissonance is tough to deal with. However without it you cannot get an understanding of the problem and never grow.

Hey! Beto! If the Trump administration was really a reincarnation of The Third Reich, do you think ...

Hanno comments on Oct 23, 2019:

Don’t let facts get in the way of a good story...

A practising attorney confirms that this is true: More accounts of South African police ...

Hanno comments on Oct 23, 2019:

I recently advertised an engineering position here in NZ... there was a FLOOD of South African applicants. Amazing quality, white, black and Indian professionals, all desperate to get out. I sadly could only take one.

Bernie felt the burn...

Hanno comments on Oct 23, 2019:

Really enjoyed that discussion... I was wondering how long Rafael was going to keep it up before realising you cannot fix stupid.

New Zealand appears to be descending into a nonsensical radical-leftist police state and even our ...

Hanno comments on Oct 23, 2019:

Ignoring the ignorant twit below... yes, it is amazing how my countrymen are being conned by the comrade. NZ has almost no gun crime... until the Australian import did his thing... now suddenly we have a right wing extremist culture and need to disarm the public. ALARM BELLS! There are no right wing extremist in NZ! News hub spent weeks trying to film one. Eventually they found some mentally ill loner with a swastika tattoo... complete harmless loser. Still they paraded him on national TV.

New Zealand is moving towards a police state under a radical-leftist government [linkedin.com]

Hanno comments on Oct 23, 2019:

Ignoring the ignorant twit below... yes, it is amazing how my countrymen are being conned by the comrade. NZ has almost no gun crime... until the Australian import did his thing... now suddenly we have a right wing extremist culture and need to disarm the public. ALARM BELLS! There are no right wing extremist in NZ! News hub spent weeks trying to film one. Eventually they found some mentally ill loner with a swastika tattoo... complete harmless loser. Still they paraded him on national TV.

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Hanno comments on Oct 20, 2019:

I loooovvvveeeddd Hitchens. His death was a big blow to the world.

A little truth.

Hanno comments on Oct 20, 2019:

The exact same is happening here in NZ.

03 October 1685: The Dutch East India Company decides to send French Huguenot refugees to the Cape ...

Hanno comments on Oct 20, 2019:

I do not understand the point you are trying to make? The French refugees coming to South Africa was a very good thing even from the viewpoint of the Koisan. You are trying to say refugees is not necessarily a bad thing? Or that it is a good thing all together. Or only a good thing if the refugees are white?

Those of a certain age may remember this conversation from the first show of The Beverly ...

Hanno comments on Oct 20, 2019:

A lot of (predictable) unhappiness about the religion comment. Faith is in essence believing something without evidence. Bible is very clear on that and other religions imply that as well. Else it would just be mainstream truth we all know and live by. And that is the issue I think Edge is trying to raise here. Ideology based on believe with no evidence is just your own religion... and you are about as useful as a religion extremist who believed his personal faith trumps anyone else’s or actual facts. If you take offence to that then maybe you need to think about what you believe in and why. We accept this from religious people because they state that in all honesty. We do not from non religious people as they claim not to do so. Edgework is trying to show the hypocrisy of the left inasmuch they claim not to believe without evidence, yet everything they do shows believe with no evidence.

A powerful part of Jordan Peterson’s teaching is his challenge — in the face of unfairness, pain...

Hanno comments on Oct 18, 2019:

I think the issue is two fold: 1. that a small group of people got very rich doing very little (property investors who ride a property boom etc), and then talented people who became disproportionately rich (actors and sports people etc). This created the illusion that anyone and everyone should be that rich for doing little, not just the lucky few who planned ahead or the extremely talented. China has created a lot of consumables at very low cost by utilising very cheap labour. There is now a disconnect between the actual value of things. Everyone is addicted to cheap goods made in an unsustainable way. Similarly fertiliser and herbicides/pesticides made food very cheap and we live easy luxurious lives without realising it. The concept of a hard days labour has all but disappeared. It has been replaced with unrealistic expectation. No one understand how much actual work goes into giving us the great lives we live today. And some one still has to do that work.

It's sad.

Hanno comments on Oct 16, 2019:

If you leave the trolls win. I have a suspicion one of the more obvious trolls here is actually trying to stop people from posting and discussing here... it is more sinister than just trolling. It is a direct attack against free speech.

We are using elite minds to explain the obvious.

Hanno comments on Oct 16, 2019:

I am a PhD scientist and I have been wrong plenty of times. Most “PhD” scientist are wrong even about “obvious” things. It is often the most “obvious” things that are the most difficult to explain... especially the “obvious” things we believe to be true that just is not true at all.

Simon Wilson interviews Jordan Peterson Im a Kiwi but i am gerting sick of the patronizing ways ...

Hanno comments on Oct 12, 2019:

Aargh! Just finished local elections here in NZ.... seeing then loonies being elected... have little hope...

Tens of thousands of kids mounted a one day climate strike across Canada today, causing massive ...

Hanno comments on Sep 28, 2019:

Just the total disrespect kids have for adults these days. We would never use that language in front of adults... now it is cool. Meanwhile back in China children have respect, they go to school, they become educated and will lead the world while the West “emancipate” its youth. How stupid are we?

German Parliament discusses potential child abuse of Greta Thunberg. [youtu.be]

Hanno comments on Sep 28, 2019:

In NZ parents are now in a battle to outdo each other. Front page news this week was an 8 year old girl “organising” climate change strikes. Who seriously believe that? Blatant child abuse, however our minister for, Arden , does nothing.

"The once-notorious British man about town Imran Khan, formally Great Britain’s most notorious ...

Hanno comments on Sep 27, 2019:

Warminster, youve got this one completely wrong. I know the USA and Canada no longer plays cricket, however you need to know Imran Khan is afamous Pakistani cricket player and has always been a strong Muslim, like most of the Pakistan team. Hence the cfact that India and Pakistan rarely play each other even though it is a religion in both countries. He was never a British man about town.

How regurgitating leftist alarmism made me a superstar ⭐️ [business.financialpost.com]

Hanno comments on Sep 26, 2019:

It tells you of the average intelligence of your average punter out there. Very very low. We live in a world where independent critical thought is considered extremist. Our universities leading the way to dumb our young people down so that they can be sheep.

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Hanno comments on Sep 26, 2019:

The only people who criticised Peterson were the usual assortment of trolls and dead beats we should all ignore. Every adult here, whether they agree or not with Peterson, have empathy, or at least sympathy for his situation. Most admire him for his honesty and doing the right thing.

Let’s assume.

Hanno comments on Sep 13, 2019:

Just now having semi automatic buy back in NZ. Costing us $100s of millions of tax payers money and people loosing heirlooms and a whole sport destroyed. Will have zero effect on crime or terrorism as no illegal or unlicensed guns handed in. The gangs and drug dealers all keeping theirs and the law abiding citizens getting screwed. All done so our esteemed leaders can feel good about themselves while doing nothing good at all.

Feds: Nearly 900 Migrants with Mumps Disease Arrived in U.S. Last Year

Hanno comments on Sep 9, 2019:

Why do you feed trolls? You know he had never put any defendable argument forward and is only here to troll. Ignore him and all his comments. There are some here to have discussions with and learn from. HiQ not one of them...

So Bernie is in favor of population control.

Hanno comments on Sep 6, 2019:

The estimated sustainable population without fertilisers are about 2-3 billion if we use our agricultural land optimallly. Eventually that will be the world population, does not matter what political ideologies we follow. And we will run out of cheap fertiliser eventually. And no, there are no alternatives.

Modern social justice

Hanno comments on Sep 4, 2019:

SJW are not a joke. They are at the forefront of the propaganda war fought by those who want to destroy that what made Western, Japanese and South Korean civilisations great. That what used to make the Arab civilisation great in the Middle Ages and what every other successful civilisation share in history. That is personal responsibility, family, hard work and respect for others. SJW wants all the rewards of that, but none of the effort it requires. Because they are either too lazy, stupid or indoctrinated to succeed, they need to break down those who do, so that they can feel better about themselves and there shortcomings are not so glaringly obvious to everyone. SJW are used by those who want to control and force their views and ideas on everyone, while they know they cannot defend their views in honest discussion. You laugh and ridicule at them at your own peril. The harm they are doing is very real and will only get worse. Talk to young University students and see how close minded they have become. They are the future leaders and completely unable to think critically.

Madebyjimbob: Moral relativism offers no basis on which to make moral value judgments.

Hanno comments on Aug 22, 2019:

Objective absolute morals and duties does not exist. Morals, like all human inventions are subjective. 200 years ago slavery was morally acceptable. Today it is not. 100 years ago sex with pre 18 yr old was a acceptable. Now it is not. In some parts of the world above two examples are still considered moral. Other parts not. Subjective to the believes and standards of that part of the world. My morals are different to yours and they are subjective to what we believe etc... You prove the point by claiming that absolute morals require a higher being... hence until you can prove the existence of a higher being, there are no absolute morals. And yes, my morals are just as valid as yours, since they are both subjective.

An interesting assessment by Dr Peterson brought to his attention by someone he debated on the ...

Hanno comments on Aug 4, 2019:

I am a huge fan, however this is my biggest criticism of him. Focusing so much in one religion, he disenfranchise a very large fraction of people. Considering how important his message is, this is very unfortunate. He does state many times he does not believe in gods, however he come over as very Christian-centric. I wish he could use other religions or think-schools more. I know he is a big fan of Taoism and use it a lot in his works. Myself, I am Christian rooted and studied other religions only superficially, so what I am asking is not fair I know. I would just want his message to be be more accessible and acceptable to the billions if Hindi and Muslims of the world.

CNN, reaching new heights of stupid.

Hanno comments on Aug 3, 2019:

The West, Capitalism, Free markets, personal choice and the accompanying personal responsibility, have been too successful. Socialism, Communism, group think and group responsibility has failed everywhere. Marxist proponents have nothing to argue their ideology. Therefore they have to create issues such as these to recruit children at universities. Just the other day a jr lecturer at a EU University tried to explain to me how all the worlds problems can be laid at the feet of Western society, especially white males. Once we started to discuss it became clear she had no actual understanding of cause and effect and were completely ignorant on basic history.