James Davie @explicus

James and Juliette Davie, married at age 20 for 31 years, parents of 6, grandparents of 12, French-born, worked as lawyers, history and art buffs, retired. explicem.tumblr.com Scotland, United Kingdom Joined December 2008

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James Davie @explicus

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Political map of Northern Europe

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2 weeks ago

THIS IS OUR FINAL POST: Thanks for @X. Greetings. To Elon Musk, together with the wealthy college-educated businessmen, or rich college dropouts, and others who had downplayed college education, shame on you. But it’s not too late to stand with James Reid in defense of education. gla.ac.uk/media/Media_16… An excerpt: “If automation and technology is accompanied as it must be with a full employment, then the leisure time available to man will be enormously increased. If that is so, then our whole concept of education must change. The whole object must be to equip and educate people for life, not solely for work or a profession. The creative use of leisure, in communion with and in service to our fellow human beings, can and must become an important element in self-fulfilment.” —James “Jimmy” Reid, Rectorial Address, University of Glasgow, Scotland, April 28, 1972. When this speech was reprinted in the New York Times, it was described as 'the greatest speech since President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address'. It was delivered upon his election as Rector of Glasgow University. 28 April 1972, Glasgow University, Scotland.

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@EmmanuelMacron Drive 5hrs from Los Angeles, California, USA to Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Drive 5hrs from Marseille, FR to Portovenere, Italy. Drive 5hrs from Marseille, FR to Terrassa, Spain. Drive 5hrs from Strasbourg, FR to Pilsen, Czechia. Drive 5hrs from Strasbourg, FR to Innsbruck, Austria.

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“God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.” —William Shakespeare, Hamlet – Act 3, scene 1, lines 155-156.

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What would Shakespeare say to the idolatrous or the idol worshippers?

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“Speak of me as I am … Of one that loved not wisely, but too well.” —William Shakespeare, Othello – Act 5, scene 2, lines 402-404.

Joseph Seibel @interspersus

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What would Shakespeare advise divorced couples to say to one another?

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How did the Enlightenment Philosophers get educated? Ask @elonmusk

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France

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a year ago

What topics do you regularly discuss with your friends?

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2 weeks ago

Elements of the Philosophy of Right (Hegel) On the Pleasure of Hating, Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners (Hazlitt) Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (Goethe) Journals (Emerson) The Epicurean (Moore) The Last of the Mohicans (Cooper) The Mohammedan System of Theology (Neale)

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Name 7 authors and the books you and your spouse discuss all the time.

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Elon Musk is a Christian and a physicist. Christianity and science are not inherently in conflict. The existing harmonious relationship between the two can be seen as cooperative, with both offering insights into understanding the world and God's creation.

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2 weeks ago

No doubt.

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@videbis @explicus Consider those highly skilled and efficient workers, the life blood of the assembly plant. Consider the owners’ security detail, who are required to be strong, competent, and disciplined—trained in martial arts, weaponry, combat, and rescue. Those with college degrees earn more.

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3 weeks ago

F. A. Hayek: “If government has the exclusive right of coercion this will often mean that it is alone able to provide certain services which must be financed by coercive levies. This ought not to mean, however, that the right of providing such services should be reserved to government if other means can be found for providing them. The current distinction between the public sector and the private is sometimes erroneously taken to mean that some services beyond the enforcement of rules of just conduct should be reserved to government by law. There is no justification for this. Even if in given circumstances only government is in fact able to supply particular services, this is no reason for prohibiting private agencies from trying to find methods of cdn.oujdalibrary.com/books/602/602-… 388 LAW, LEGISLATION AND LIBERTY providing these services without the use of coercive powers.

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How is “Taxing the Rich” appropriately assailed?

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“Welfare, however, has no principle, neither for him who receives it, nor for him who distributes it (one will place it here and another there); because it depends on the material content of the will, which is dependent upon particular facts and therefore incapable of a general rule.” —Immanuel Kant

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3 weeks ago

The Emergency Banking Act (1933) that was to stop bank failures and stabilize the financial system —legalized the shutdown —allowed federal officials to reorganize troubled banks —permitted the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) to invest in bank capital —expanded the Federal Reserve’s ability to issue currency, creating a legal framework for rebuilding the banking system during the 1930s. —part of FDR’s New Deal “would not pass today.”

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3 weeks ago

@explicus On 3/6/1933, FDR signed a proclamation that ordered a Bank Holiday, a moratorium on all banking operations in the U.S., which closed every bank in the U.S. On 3/9/1933, FDR convened Congress in a special session to address the BANKING EMERGENCY, known as the Hundred Days Congress