#AllStarTrek Yahoo! Called it!

Tom took his instructor for stomach churning ride, or woulda been if not for the inertial dampeners.👍
#StarTrek #StarTrekVoyager #NaturalLaw

Am I watching Avatar?
#AllStarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #VOY #NaturalLaw @allstartrek

Before Adam betrayed Christ in the Garden, there was an implied understanding of the Four Natural Laws that govern the universe. These laws are:

Do Not Lie.
Do Not Cheat.
Do Not Steal.
Do Not Deceive.

The Ten Commandments are built upon these laws.

https://www.chirho.consulting/blog/natural-law-and-the-ten-commandments

#apocalypse #endtimes #naturallaw #tencommandments #christianity

https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2023/02/important-information-from-alex-jones-and-mark-passio-natural-law-the-law-of-freedom-your-birthright-3789021.html #freedom #markpassio #alexjones #naturallaw #selfsoverign

Paris is completely oblivious to all the drama going on because he’s too busy taking his pilot’s exam.

#AllStarTrek #StarTrekVOY #StarTrekVoyager #NaturalLaw @allstartrek

Why would you just walk into laser beams?

#AllStarTrek #StarTrekVOY #StarTrekVoyager #NaturalLaw @allstartrek

Well so much for avoiding cultural contamination!

#AllStarTrek #StarTrekVOY #StarTrekVoyager #NaturalLaw @allstartrek

Seven is hiding her crush on Chakotay very well. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say they were two platonic colleagues.

#AllStarTrek #StarTrekVOY #StarTrekVoyager #NaturalLaw @allstartrek

Paris has to go to pilot school!

#AllStarTrek #StarTrekVOY #StarTrekVoyager #NaturalLaw @allstartrek

@martyp @allstartrek

Hi Marty! Sunday through Friday we have a watch party starting at 8PM Eastern. We start with the original series then TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT. So Voyager is on at 11:00 Eastern.

I try to post the schedule sometime before 8:00 so you know what episode we’re watching.

Another way you can see what episode we’re on is to check our hashtags. We usually embed the episode titles as a hashtag. Looks like #NaturalLaw is Voyager’s episode tonight.

Hope you can join us! Don’t forget the hashtag #AllStarTrek so we can follow along. Also join our group @allstartrek for updates!

A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:

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Law is the highest reason, rooted in nature, which commands things that must be done and prohibits the opposite.
[Lex est ratio summa, insita in natura, quae iubet ea quae facienda sunt, prohibetque contraria.]
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/58759/

#quote #quotes #quotation #law #naturallaw #nature #reason

I don't much care to hash through the politics of identity, protocol or academic positions around things in a large way because I see a world in dire circumstances. I took to the land in 2020 because I was trying to prevent the imminent suicides of youth who, already disconnected, were disconnected even more by lockdowns. We are past a point of no return for many things. My interest in arguing is minimal. #LandBack and #FoodSovereignty as life preserving efforts. #NaturalLaw as the mechanism.

I find it hard to classify Peter Coffin politically. On the one hand, I think their critiques of capitalism are spot on. But they'll be chugging along, making a cogent point, when all of a sudden, they say something that is not only wrong but sounds like corporate propaganda.

Here's their documentary on #overpopulation and #degrowth

https://youtu.be/OW8vkUY93i8

At one point, in this very long documentary, they say, that renewables do not provide consistent energy, and therefore, if we were to rely on them as our only source of power, people would die. (It's at about 90 minutes)

But here's the thing...That's wrong.

To the best of my knowledge, that's not true. When I was developing my own political outlook about ten years ago, I read dozens of studies which indicate that a 100% renewable energy infrastructure (across all industries) would not only meet but exceed global energy demand.

Here's one

http://energywatchgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/EWG_LUT_100RE_All_Sectors_Global_Report_2019.pdf

Here's another

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910

Here's a meta-analysis of 180 peer-reviewed papers, most of which insist that it is both technologically and economically feasible to meet global energy demand with 100% renewables.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544219304967?via%3Dihub

There are dissenting opinions, yes. I would be remiss if I didn't mention them. But if you look deeper, you'll find that a lot of these dissenters have ties to other energy industries.

And I'm not suggesting that we simply turn off all the nuclear plants tomorrow.

This is not some anti nuclear energy rant. I think there's a lot of potential in #thorium technology. At least as an interim power source. Possibly as a long-term option.

https://youtu.be/tHO1ebNxhVI

But any nuclear technology inevitably generates radioactive waste, which can be devastating if not stored properly.

Renewables will generate waste too. Just about every human endeavour does. But that waste is far more manageable.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544219304967?via%3Dihub

So if 100% #renewables is feasible (and the evidence suggests that it is), we should keep that option on the table and develop synergistic strategies. Now, what does that mean? Well, when most people think of renewables, they think wind and solar. And those would definitely be part of the equation. But people rarely mention the other options: wave, tidal, hydro and geothermal. The latter offers enormous energy potential.

A synergistic strategy means that you use all of these options together and you tailor the energy grid for each geographic region. You don't make solar panels your primary method of energy generation in the Yukon (which gets very little sunlight in the winter months). But in Arizona? That's a great place for solar.

Now, of course, there are obstacles. I'm not trying to make this sound like we can just snap our fingers and make clean energy infrastructure. But the key here is that our best scientific minds agree that these obstacles are surmountable.

Throughout the video, Peter equates "reducing consumption" with "killing poor/disabled people." The argument they make pretty much verbatim goes like this.

Humans need energy to survive. So, if we reduce energy consumption, people are going to die.

Except no one is advocating for that. Maybe Jason Hickel is. I haven't read his book. (He wrote Less is More). And Peter did include some cringy quotes from Hickel.

But when serious people talk about a reduction in consumption, we're not talking about leaving poor people to die.

Overconsumption is caused by the inefficiencies that are baked into #capitalism. Capitalism is an engine for turning natural resources into crap that sits in a landfill. Why? Because of cost efficiency and profit maximization.

Cost efficiency is not true efficiency. Real efficiency is getting the most productive output for the least energy input. Cost efficiency is making the most profit for the least cost. These two things are not the same.

Take phones, for instance. Phones could be modular and durable. In other words, if a single part breaks down - like one chip on the circuit board - the one part is repaired or replaced while the rest of the phone remains untouched. But creating phones like that costs more. And reduces repeat purchases.

Apple, Samsung and Motorola go out of the way to squash the repair market. They want to make it easiest to just replace the entire phone when a single part breaks down. That's why phones no longer have removeable batteries. Because if you have to pay for a new battery (which will be harder to find if your phone is a few years old) and for the maintenance of taking the phone apart and installing the new battery, you'll probably just buy a new phone.

That's what maximizes Apple's profits. Companies have to generate cyclical consumption to stay in business. That's the overconsumption we're talking about. Not basic living essentials like water and power and food.

Speaking of living essentials, let's look at housing. In 2019 - the last time I checked - the US Census Bureau reported 545 000 homeless Americans. Quite a bit, right?

In the same year, the Department of Housing and Urban Development reported 13 million permanently unoccupied houses. Permanently unoccupied means nobody lives in them. They aren't being used as somebody's summer home. They are literally just sitting there untouched, functioning solely as an asset on someone's balance sheet.

That's the overconsumption we're talking about. Not only do we have way more houses than we actually need, the people who do need them can't live in them.

Why are we, as a society, making so many unused houses? Because that's how developers make a profit! Profit is the problem.

Profit = overconsumption.

That's what we're talking about: harvesting natural resources that go into unused products, many of which find their way into landfills. Throwing out perfectly usable products that could repaired. Tossing used parts into landfills even though their components (gold, copper, cobalt, tin) are still perfectly usable and could be extracted.

No serious person is talking about "getting back to nature" or "shutting off the power and going primitive" or "leaving disabled people to die."

Anyone who advocates the latter is someone you should absolutely stop listening to.

#NLRBE #NaturalLaw #ResourceBasedEconomy

#postcolonialism has an implicit #NaturalLaw perspective in the sense that it covers a diversity of cultures without being directed by any one of them.

To use it for social justice in modern cultures, natural law must be universal, which is in a sense atheistic, although historic religious versions are particular to those religions.

The perspective of universal rights is implicit in democratic multi-cultural societies because it must cover the diversity of the culture. It takes activism to get rights and takes activism to keep them.

Because a consideration of rights is at the root of any legal system, it's curious to me is that there are so few natural law #socialists and that the concept is unknown to the US #left.

To manage a happy loving relationship between #anarchists and #socialists it takes a universal perspective, as it does between any two faiths.

The nemesis of the natural law perspective is moral relativism that shifts moral perspectives depending on what you happen to believe. It sucks to me that most people are #moral relativists when it's only universal natural law that actually defends them.

#Marxism is famously morally relativist in contradiction to the necessity of a universal moral perspective to cover the diversity of modern cultures. Marxism could adopt a natural law perspective and still be Marxism, but conventions didn't evolve that way.

#Marx taught us to spot contradictions. The moral perspective of US #Marxists is generally incompatible with a #postcolonial perspective.

You'll only see it if you see it.

#Beauty, #truth, and #compassion are not separate things but aspects of a single whole for which one component has no meaning without the others. If you don't have #love and truth in your #art it's not beauty.

Everyone knows the relation between truth, compassion, and #justice when they are falsely accused.

For art to serve beauty it must also serve compassion and justice.

#NaturalLaw #MoralReasoning

I #Question if the #Reason so many #Believe the #2020 #Presidential #Election was #Stolen is due to what the #DNC clearly did to #BernieSanders during the #Primary

Seems like #Political #Karma

#President #Trump #Biden #Republican #Democrat #Independant #Socialist #Libertarian #Reform #Greens #NaturalLaw #Constitution #PoliticalParty #FreeElections #Free #SocialJustice

@RadicalShiba

Why are leftists not concerned with the social science of moral development?

There's a wealth of insight that relates to society and politics in that research.

Lawrence #Kohlberg is to moral development what #Marx is to #socialism, but leftists never heard him .... or the concepts of moral development and natural law.

Morality is not hard when you realize it's based on the instincts of the body. Every generation must learn how to manage their needs and instincts from the previous generations. The gist of #naturalLaw is that the instinct for compassion is meant to be at the root of legal systems.

Marxists of this age ignore legitimate social science. If it's not science, it's fiction.

I'm sure you'd find some insight looking into the concept of moral development stages.

When two people of different faiths fall in #love it isn't either #faith that governs that love but #nature. That is the essence of the #NaturalLaw #moral perspective.

In the #USA we say fear is a basic #emotion but Natural Lawyers see #compassion is The Basic Emotion that accounts for survival and continuance.

No compassion, no social animal, no cooperation, no technological evolution. In that sense it is the basic emotion that makes us human.

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Please be aware that Right-Libertarians did to the concept of #NaturalLaw what they did to the concept of #Anarchism: invert the meaning in a way to promote the opposite #principles and #values. If it's not based in compassion, you know it's the fake version. Compassion to right libertarians is what a stake in the heart is to a vampire.

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A significant aspect of #NaturalLaw is a focus on the #instincts and #needs of the #human #body. The perspective is rooted to the instinct for compassion that accounts for survival and continuance.

The function of #compassion to #humanity is the same now as it was from the first #generation, and will be to the last. Compassion is natures logic.

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All people have the same response to false accusations because we instinctively know the relation between #Truth and #Justice. That particular capital T Truth is not dependent on opinions or cultural interpretations, but is a universally human Truth.

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#antifascist #antiracism #anticapitalism #classwar

#linguistics #culture #postcolonialism

This was an exciting and educating journey, but it likely didn't help with my thinking about #autonomy.
Should read more on #NaturalLaw, though.

#Philosophy

RT @Luc_phil_ger@twitter.com

So, this will be most of November. Any suggestions on articles and books on #autonomy. Especially in #bioethics and/or compared to other fields in #philosophy.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Luc_phil_ger/status/1587768869921472512

Right-Libertarians did to the concept of #NaturalLaw what they did to the concept of #Anarchism: invert the meaning in a way to promote the opposite #principles and #values.

The basis of #NaturalLaw are the #instincts and #needs of the #human #body. The perspective is rooted to the instinct for compassion that accounts for survival and continuance.

The function of #compassion to #humanity is the same now as it was from the first #generation, and will be to the last. Compassion is natures logic