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Peter Cohen (Panpiper): 49, Male
CA

Hometown:: Montreal

About Me:: Bookworm, martial artist, repentant psychic, dried out drug addict, paramedic, pseudo-apostate libertarian, debater, knife maker, SCA basher, professional gamer, speculator, pornographer, and nascent social commentator. ...and I want an uncomplicated life.

Gender:: Male

Issues that matter to me:: Extropian transhumanism, sustainable AND sustained economic, technological and human growth, individual freedom both social and economic, peaceful civil disobedience, science and scientific philosophy.

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Libertarian Debate available online (soon to be on Gravel2008 Youtube channel)

Added a post Apr 10

I doubt that the failure of Real News to cover the Libertarian convention has anything to do with bias. I am quite certain that they would very much like to cover alternative parties every bit as m... Read More »

Tagged: debate, gravel, libertarian, mike

Gaea and the Human Race

Started this discussion Feb 3

The price for installed electrical generation capacity by solar voltaics is dropping by 40% a year. Within four to seven years, solar power will be cheaper than coal! Two years after that, it will ... Read More »

Tagged: gaea, limits, growth, sky, race

The cause of most problems is the "Mania of Growth" !

Added a reply Feb 3

Dan Kustudich, Sir, and I do not use such an honorific lightly, I believe you to be a man of genuine good intention, very intelligent, educated and experienced. It would not surprise me at all were... Read More »

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How is it that existence exists?

I contemplate the situation where nothing exists and then, there is us and the universe we perceive and I ask; How is it that something exists? Can it be that something can spring from nothing?

The glib answer from those of little imagination is to assert that there cannot be nothing, that where nothing exists there is still a god. I assert that that is a good answer for monkeys, not philosophers. It simply avoids the conundrum by refusing to ask how that god exists. Note that I do no…

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Posted by Peter Cohen on January 16th, 2008 at 10:49pm — 1 Comment (Add)

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At 12:14am on January 20th, 2008, Peter Cohen said…: Don't believe a thing I tell you. Verify everything. I try hard to be right but I am not infallable. If you find me to be in error as to a fact, PLEASE tell me about it. I do not like to be wrong.

Opinions are another matter. My opinions are always right. ;-)