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Old 02-27-2019, 01:16 PM   #5176 (permalink)
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Navigating energy descent will likely require that we take the best of liberal world views like openness to ideas, enthusiasm for change, and tolerance of differences...
I'd say those views and behaviors are important to adopt at all times.
Liberalism - Wikipedia
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty and equality. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles*, but they generally support civil rights, democracy, secularism, gender equality, racial equality, internationalism, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and free markets.
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a. A political theory founded on the natural goodness of humans and the autonomy of the individual and favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority.
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The Antifa movement is a conglomeration of autonomous, self-styled anti-fascist militant groups in the United States. The principal feature of antifa groups is their opposition to fascism through the use of direct action, harassing right wing extremists both online and in real life.
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Yep, all these scientific ideas slowly build to a peak then come crashing down.
BS.
Your dark matter was never a fact. It was the UFO of the universe, the Unidentified Mass.
Much like the celestial epicycles.

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Deferent and epicycle - Wikipedia
Deferents and epicycles in the ancient models did not represent orbits in the modern sense. Claudius Ptolemy refined the deferent-and-epicycle concept and introduced the equant as a mechanism for accounting for velocity variations in the motions of the planets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle
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